Marc Hare is on a one man quest to create flawless footwear, selecting only the best materials and insisting on the finest Italian production. The King Tubby was originally created by Marc as his ideal “blue suede shoe”, but last year he altered the shape to bring in more of a brothel creeper influence, with a thick high-density EVA foam sole.
This season, Marc has taken inspiration from August – the only month of the year he takes time off – and the washed out color of the luxurious leather upper is a tribute to that. Mr Hare wanted to capture an 80s surf vibe, reflected in warm sun-drenched colors. There is also an added accent of white around the lace box and contrasting tan around the welt.
There’s serious no words to describe how hilarious this video is and makes you look forward to see what the team from OFWGKTA will deliver from their show they have inked with Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. Enough typing, gotta watch this video again.
The latest video from The Dream get’s us all excited for the summer and warmer days to come this year. It’s been a while since we heard from the crooner but as this video proves, The Dream is sure to be heard through the summer as we look forward a new album.
The first in a film series on cities around the world, using gender as a lens to interpret each city’s identity.
“From the porthole I could barely distinguish her in the magnetic, all-encompassing night. When I was striving to, she was there, bathing in this particular evening amber light. Hong Kong was graceful and slender, a soft fine head of hair with dark highlights; a distinctively feminine silhouette. Her youthful visage was slightly obscured by sea mist, half-open shinny eyes sparkling like a set of mirrors locked on the nearby mountain. Her perfumes, her colours and sounds were responding to each other in my mind. Mildness of Victoria’s harbour, wild vegetation and the sound of high heels calling us into its protective streets. Hong Kong drags forsaken sailors to the extraordinary, the strange and the unexpected. Its ambassadors, wise and elegant women, pull the strings from avant-garde parlours. The city has a certain stubbornness that surpasses willpower and rather comes from a compulsive need to impose its own personal guidelines upon the world, a city that remains both very close and infinitely remote at the same time.
This is the truly feminine impression the city laid upon me.”
New upcoming brandekn footwear is is proud to announce a unique collaboration-shoe with one of Germany’s best known streetwear brands WEMOTO to present “The Birch”. Simply styled by the former adidas Designer Sheldon McKenzie ekn [i‘kin] means seed in old Osmanian and in modern Turkish. Connected to the values equality, freedom and brotherhood ekn footwear is the seed for the personal instantaneous responsibility for the world of every person.
Here we go again. The Super Bowl is over, and now it’s time for the real games to begin. You have a hefty task in front of you—choosing who’s most deserving of that little golden guy. With all the hype and buzz around, it’s easy to get confused. Here’s a little help.
Your friends,
Limité’s film staff
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Nominees: The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, War Horse
Dan Quitério—Hugo. For my money, Hugo is the best-composed film of the year—the imaginative performances, the vivid art direction, the crisp cinematography, the rich story—they all come together to provide the audience with a complex and colorful experience, all the while providing it with a lesson in film history without it feeling like sitting in a stodgy classroom. On top of that, the film provides some of the best use of 3D than any other film in recent memory—a format that surely isn’t going anywhere and was lovingly embraced by a true master of filmmaking in Martin Scorsese. No other film last year—except for maybe Midnight in Paris—has the capability of igniting the imagination quite like Hugo. This film reminds us why the film medium is so special.
Predicted Winner: The Artist
Stephanie Dawson—The Artist. I don’t think any of these films are as amazing or as groundbreaking as nominees in previous years. The Tree of Life is polarizing because of it’s “what?!” factor. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, and War Horse revel in their emotional manipulation of the audience. Moneyball and Midnight in Paris are better writing achievements than complete films. The story momentum in both Hugo and The Descendants keeps sputtering and the central stories change at least twice in each. The Artist is simple, enjoyable from the first frame, and just the right amount of “sweet,” and so it has my vote, unfortunately by default.
Predicted Winner: The Artist
Janice Perez—Midnight in Paris. I haven’t seen anything in a very long time that resonated with me on a very intimate and highly personal level the way Woody Allen’s darling of a film did. Maybe it stems from my being a dedicated Francophile, or probably because that film was a beautiful homage to art. Well, whatever the cause, I loved Midnight in Paris to the hilt for being a film that really brought my own fondest imagination to life.
The Shade Hotel is located a few blocks above the ocean in the hip, oceanfront town of Manhattan Beach. Check in here and you’ll stay in a hotel with the same style as the area in which it resides. Walk out the door of the hotel and in a few steep, downward facing blocks, you’ll find yourself at the beach where you’ll also feel you’ve joined the whole town.
Here in Manhattan Beach, the houses and apartments are neat and compact. The lots fall somewhere between small and non-existent. Luckily the big, wide, public beachfront functions as everyone’s backyard. Stroll on down (and I do mean “down” which didn’t work very well with my wedge sandals) and join the procession of dog walkers, joggers, bicyclists and outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and every type. Once you hit the beach, it feels like everyone is outside, happily claiming the spacious walkway, soaring seagulls and bright blue skies as their own.
It was my second day in Apalachicola and I was already happy. It didn’t take me long to fall for this shabby chic gem of a town is in northwest Florida, 80 miles southwest of Tallahassee. Looking for a place for lunch, we pulled into the dusty parking lot in front of Up the Creek Raw Bar. Set along the Apalachicola River (which looks more like a beachy bay than a river), the restaurant is upstairs in a nondescript wooden building and looked like a good spot to sample the area’s famous oysters.
Once upstairs, we found a big open room with long tables and a self-service counter where orders are taken. Outside, there was a long, lazy porch overlooking the blue water and bright green beach grass. Old fishing boats passed by with peeling paint and stories to tell.
Chef Brett Gormley
I liked this place even before I realized it was far more than its name promised. Given the local oyster bounty (90% of Florida’s oysters and 10% of the country’s come from Apalachicola’s waters), I expected to be offered one or two ways to eat the local favorites, maybe some clams, and some simple, good grilled fish. While prime examples of those dishes are certainly available here, there’s way more — so much more. In fact back in New York, I’m still dreaming of the fine flavors I enjoyed at Up the Creek, thanks to the amazingly talented chef Brett Gormley.
Iceland’s only distillery can be found in Borgarnes, a small village steeped in Viking history where Reyka is hand crafted and filtered through ancient lava rocks and made from the Icelandic spring water, Reyka captures a clean taste with a crisp, smooth finish.
Bitter Reyka
- Reyka Vodka
- Any Flavored Bitters
- Pour Reyka on the rocks with 2-3 drops of bitters
Read from Reyka’s master distiller Kristmar Ólafsson on how the vodka is made:
“Through its labyrinth of copper pipes, we distill a grain spirit made from the finest wheat and barley, then filter it through lava rocks to imbue a distinctive flavor. As the distillate starts to flow from the still, it’s my skill to know when to capture its heart – the purest part of the vodka – and ensure the heads and tails, which are just not good enough, never make it into the bottle.
The final stage is adding Icelandic water to bring our vodka down to 80 proof. Our water comes from the Grabok Spring, which runs through a 4,000 year old lava field. It’s purer than bottled water and you can drink it directly from the source.”
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds has released the video for “Near Light,” taken from his Living Room Songs EP, where he created and released one new song per day, for one whole week, recording and filming the whole process live. The video’s animation was done by Hong Kong artist Lam Ho Tak, who won last year’s Adobe Design Achievement Award. Working completely alone, the label didn’t hire the director – he simply felt moved enough to craft a short film.
