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The Standard Relay: Rabbit Island, Tiny Chi-Town, Red Wing Shoes, Brooklyn Cruiser, & the Quoddy Workshop

Posted on August 22, 2011


Rabbit Island - 

This is a bizarre story about a little island in Lake Superior purchased by a few guys who had a vision of building a small artists collective and shelters on the island. That being said, they’ve got a pretty rad site and they have an architecture competition going on currently. I know at least several of you who are architects so consider adding this one to your portfolio.

 

Tiny Chicago -

I’m sure for at least some of you this will be the first tilt-shift video you’ve ever seen, so enjoy it.

 

Red Wing Shoes Amsterdam - 

To commemorate their anniversary in Amsterdam, Red Wing Shoes has put out a video of shots of the store. Pretty well done, worth a glance. They also used the opportunity to announce the launch of a (new?) online store coming soon.

 

Brooklyn Cruiser - 

I should have just written this up when I had the chance last week but decided to sit on the article until today. It’s been getting buzz all over the internet for it’s sharp looks but mainly it’s ridiculously reasonable price. You can check out the article in Gear Patrol by clicking here.

 

Quoddy Video - 

The workshop behind the legendary footwear. If you’ve heard of them or have any interest in the manufacturing process of fine goods, you should check this video out.

The Standard Relay: Wilco, Pencils, and MS & Co. revisited

Posted on August 15, 2011

Good morning. This is the start of a weekly amalgamation featuring collected articles from around the web. 

 

MS & Co. Revisited -

A while back we took a look at the MS & Co. Selvedge Denim Sleeve for the iPhone. While we were aware of the other products they had available at the time, all sleeves for various gadgets or glasses, they now have a line of shoe bags using interesting materials. It’s worth a look and they garnered themselves a writeup in the Free/Man blog.

 

Wilco "The Whole Love" 

Releasing September 27th, 2011 – The Wilco camp dropped this video a few days ago to promote the new album, “The Whole Love”. The new sound can be described as “interesting“. Let the cacophony ensue and watch the video.

 

1950's British Synthesizer Found in Barn - 

Making a long story short, Daphne Oram created a synthesizer in the 50’s that involved painting readable notes for the machine to transcribe into music onto 35mm  film strips that were fed into the synthesizer itself. The thing was lost for many years and has been discovered sitting in a barn in rural England. Check out the well-shot and hauntingly soundtracked video. (via Engadget).

 

How Pencils Are Made - 

A seriously boring topic made pretty dang interesting. Staedler makes incredible writing instruments and this video depicts just how the process happens with their simple pencils. (via Cool Hunter).

 

After Hours Update:

I wanted to point out that our friends over at Hammarhead Industries, whom we wrote about last week, got a nice writeup on Cool Hunting after this post was published this morning. You should give it a look by clicking here.