The Hoody with a 10-year Guarantee.
Ordering one.
Funny thing is, we’ve always had the technology and materials for producing garments that can maintain a good condition for 10 years or more, but where would big business be without planned obsolescence?
Kickstarter promo video after the jump. Continue Reading…
Digging the idea behind these new (well, as of October last year) Levi’s jeans, made from recycled plastic.
Yeah you heard. It’s only 20 percent, of course – the rest being regular denim and so forth – but it’s an innovative way to re-purpose waste plastic.
Levi’s reckons we’re talking eight “12 to 20 ounce bottles per jean”, but also things like food trays.
Down with that. In the meantime, click through to It’s What I’m Into to Look At Those Fucking Hipsters.
Feeling what @DrunkPark and Melbourne’s @EdsThreds1 are putting out.
“Ed’s Threds has been created in memory of Ed Bonnin who tragically took his own life in 2009. The aim of Ed’s Threds is to help others. Each purchase will contribute to research into mental and emotional well being and provide opportunities for life changing experiences funded and supported by The Nettlefold Foundation.”
I love the ongoing Essentials feature at Hypebeast. They have influential people lay all of their ‘essentials’ out, photographing the set and describing each item.
For Australians, it can be cheaper to buy a return flight to the US and buy a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 6, than to buy a boxed copy here.
Not only are Sydney and Melbourne now among the top five most expensive cities in which to live, in the entire damn world, but now this. Continue Reading…
Damn Them Costumed Kids These Days…
I’m not nestin’ or nothin’, but with all the gear you can get for kids these days, I don’t know why every bub seems to be bouncing around in Tommy and Ralph when they could be rocking all this.
Check out this selection of youngsters dressed as various superheroes and, you know, food items. Continue Reading…
MiniDisc, We Barely Knew You.
It might surprise the average iPod and iPhone user to learn that Sony’s 20 year-old MiniDisc format is was still in production.
That all ended this week, with the announcement that production of the discs has come to a close. And, in fact, sales of Sony’s MiniDisc player range ended in 2011. Continue Reading…
Herschel x New Balance.
At last, a pair of NBs I’d rock. Herschel Supply Co. x New Balance. /end.
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