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From Elsewhere

01/25/12 12:00PM

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The Art of Pesto

Kinfolk Magazine teamed up with the Etsy blog to bring you this super easy recipe for classic pesto.  We can't wait to try this!  We started drooling as soon as she grated the parmesan.  Luckily, it's time for lunch.

From Elsewhere



01/18/12 03:30PM

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GiftGoGreen

We're not sure our boss would like the idea of having slingshots at work but these Wooden Slingshot Catapults would be a lot of fun around the office.  Foot tappers, pencil drummers and loud talkers beware!  (We'll only use paper balls, we promise.)

From Elsewhere


01/18/12 10:30AM

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VHS Video Notebook

These VHS Video Notebooks from Mocha might be the best way to keep your thoughts private.  Label it "M.A.S.H. Reruns" and stick it between two old VHS tapes—we guarantee no one will pick it up.

From Elsewhere

01/17/12 03:30PM

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Fox River Mills

Fox River Mills is well known for their wool socks but I love them just as much for the warm winter gloves they produce. The ragg wool gloves (right) are staples in my winter wardrobe. They also produce a version with deer leather (left) enforced palms and fingers for extra durability. -Bob

From Elsewhere


01/11/12 04:30PM

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Hatch Show Print: Laura Baisden

Hatch Show Print created two really awesome posters just for us!  Here we talk to one of their designers, Laura Baisden, who gives us the lowdown on life at the shop.

Introduce yourself!
My name is Laura Baisden I work at Hatch Show Print, I’m a designer and printer here. Once we have a job, we see it all the way to the end. There are six designers, a couple of folks that work in retail, then Jim our manager.



Tell us about how Hatch Show Print got it's start.
In 1879 the Hatch brothers started this shop up and in that time there wasn’t a lot of country music going on so we were printing showcards and revival posters, or vaudeville and minstrel shows, then later traveling circus posters. Then in the ‘30s and ‘40s, country music started kicking in and that’s what we became known for. We started doing Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff and all of that, which transitioned into what we do now—mainly show posters for artists in all different music genres.

Are those prints long gone?
We still print some of those!  We keep our restrikes stocked up so when people come through Nashville and want an old Johnny Cash poster, we’ve got it for them. We’ve kept our tradition of printing custom posters for anyone that wants one. We print an average of 600 new jobs a year.

What is a typical day like for you?
You come in, make a pot of coffee and sit down with whatever jobs you’re working on. You decide what’s most important to work on (you juggle about four jobs at a time) and if you need to trim and count posters, that’s what you start with.  Otherwise, you might need to start sketching, typesetting or hop on a press and start printing. 


What's the printing process like?
The first thing you do is give the client a call and see what they’re looking for and then, you start to sketch out your ideas for the project. Some people have a lot of needs, you know? Some people need to have a rooster and it needs to be red and black, and so you have parameters. 

You made two posters for us, what were our parameters like?
You guys didn’t have any stipulations whatsoever, it was wide open, so it was fun but a little scary. Usually there’s a starting point, but there wasn’t even copy. I had a chance to get really creative and it was pretty nontraditional. We had tons of ideas but then six that were really pitched. Finally we narrowed it down to two and that's we went with.


Tell us about them!
On the Hair of the Dog, there was a sheet of pegboard that we mounted to a background block and just ran through a press. In printmaking, anything that has a texture will print. You can get creative and as long as it's a relatively level surface, it will print. So that’s fun.

For the Wanted poster, all of the colors in the background are pieces of type that are flipped over onto their faces, so I’m printing the backs of letters. It looks like bricks, or stones, but with woodgrain.

Who has been your favorite brands or musicians to work with?
Well I shop at Urban Outfitters so working for you was fun. I’m excited to walk in a store and potentially see it on a shelf while I’m shopping for sweaters, you know? We’re fortunate to work with the Ryman, which is our big music venue in Nashville. I got to do Fleet Foxes a little while ago, and it’s probably one of my personal favorites. But we’ve also done things for the Flaming Lips, Bon Iver, Alison Krauss, Bill Cosby…you name it. We do jobs that are all over the place. Like, we’ll do UO and Fleet Foxes and then we’ll do Chloe’s 16th birthday party. That was actually really incredible! It was like a birthday party invitation but it had three colors and it was really bright and had a circus theme to it. It was such a cool looking poster.

Any crazy print requests?
We get a lot of so-and-so will you marry me, maybe three times a year. Once a year, we do a Blobfest poster for a little town in Pennsylvania that hosts a showing of the cult classic horror film, The Blob. We have a blast trying to come up with new ways to pitch the same movie every year. It’s tongue-in-cheek, and they let us have a lot of freedom.


What's your favorite print of all time?
That’s really hard! There’s a lot of people that I admire whose prints I like more than my own, because that’s the way it goes. Bryce McCloud a long, long time ago did this poster for Gillian Welch. It’s of a big steam ship and all these shoes are floating around in the water. It’s a really beautiful poster. Brad Vetter who works here—he’s my peer but he’s been here a lot longer than I have so I love a lot of the work that he does—his Flaming Lips poster is probably one of my favorites. Of what I’ve printed, I would have to say either the Fleet Foxes or the Gillian Welch (at the Ryman) posters were my favorite.

Last but not least, tell us about the pets at the shop!
None of our animals are very typical. Huey is our really fat cat, we love him but he’s majorly overweight, he’s like 18lbs. He is 12-years-old he’s been in this shop almost as long as we have. We got Maow, who’s a tiny little orange cat, because we thought Huey was lonely. She does not like people—she runs away from everyone. Then we have a dog, a terrier. He’s a rescue, he barks a lot and had kind of a rough puppyhood. When we got him we had to retrain him to like people, so he has to stay back behind the counter but he’s really cute and we’re working with him.


Have you ever made any posters for them?
Yep! We have two posters about the cats. There’s one that Agnes, an illustrator that worked here a while ago, carved of Huey and Maow.  The other one is “Cat Has Claws” which we made because people didn’t seem to understand that cats could scratch them if they didn’t leave them alone. Maow’s kind of the reason we made it, because people kept trying to pet her. We’re like, “Sorry! She’s a work cat, she just likes to climb shelves.”

From Los Angeles

01/10/12 11:30AM

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Let It Be Beautiful

Elizabeth Barker and Laura Jane Faulds are re-writing all of The Beatles songs as short-stories or essays, and then publishing them over nine volumes in the Let It Be Beautiful book series. Judging from quotes such as "I looked like a Richard Kern photo, which was the best thing I had going for me, which is barely even better than NOT looking like a Richard Kern photo," we think this is going to be a project that strikes a very entertaining balance between sweet and sarcastic. 

From Elsewhere



01/05/12 10:30AM

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Sketch.Inc Nesting Dolls

Rebecca Kemp sketches, paints and makes clay brooches for her Etsy store Sketch.Inc.  We were immediately drawn to these hand-painted wooden Nesting Dolls, which put a modern spin on the classic matryoshkas.

From Copenhagen



12/29/11 03:30PM

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Norse Projects x Hestra Gloves

Norse Projects and Hestra have joined forces to bring you these extra warm deer skin gloves with removable lining. As nice as the normal black and brown are, the rubber-glove-yellow ones are our favorite!

From Portland



12/28/11 01:30PM

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The Good Flock Papoose

Will someone please tell us that this Papoose by The Good Flock comes in adult sizes?  We just want to bundle up in that awesome Pendleton wool print and sleep the day away.

From New York



12/21/11 03:30PM

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Feltraiger

NYC-based brand Feltraiger has some super nice duds coming out in their SS12 Collection, Pompous Circumstance. Seriously, how rad is that raccoon camo print?  We're excited to see this brand grow, and for the flagship store opening this March so we can try everything on!

From New York

12/19/11 10:30AM

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Phillip Lim Smoking Slippers

I've totally been on the hunt for the perfect smoking slipper to strut around in for months and while my search has yielded no winners yet, this Phillip Lim calf hair pair may just be my dream come true. X - Jen

From Philadelphia


12/14/11 11:30AM

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What Would Veronica and JD Want?

Veronica Sawyer and Jason Dean (JD) from the cult classic Heathers are your typical high school couple.  They get slushies, play strip croquet and kill the most popular kids at school on the weekends. We know, we know. That doesn't seem normal. But they completely deserved it!  With friends like Heather Chandler, Heather Duke and Heather McNamara, who needs enemies?  So, if Veronica and JD inherit five million dollars the same day aliens land on the earth and say they're going to blow it up in two days, we think this is how they would spend it.


Veronica would definitely appreciate this notebook; we can just hear her reading the cover in her most sarcastic tone.  Plus, she needs something to draft her future suicide notes in.

They could use a new coffee mug for JDs infamous "wake-up cup full of liquid drainer."  Plus, Veronica can tell a Heather how beautiful she is again without even having to say it.

It may be a little flashy, but we think Veronica would enjoy this '80s sequin blazer.  We're just not sure if she would wear it to prom or to hell.

In a land of swatch dogs and Diet Coke-heads, JD is a complete outsider—especially in fashion.  Since the bomb blew up his last coat, we think he'd like this leather jacket as a replacement.  It's no trench, but it's definitely big enough to keep a gun in (one that only shoots blanks, of course).


With cool guys like JD out of her life, Veronica's the new sheriff in town.  We just think she might like to reminisce about all the good times they had with these Stackable Initial Rings.  (Well, we would anyway. JD may have been a mass-murderer but he was still a mega-babe. RIP!)

From New York


12/08/11 10:10AM

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20 Years of Built By Wendy

Wendy looks back on 20 years of Built By Wendy with a scrapbook that traces the line from its beginnings in Kansas to her move to NYC and eventually her own shop on Centre Market Place. Highlights include Thurston Moore, Bananarama, Robin Tunney and lots of '90s goodness. Wendy is seriously a rock star!

From Los Angeles

Weetzie Bat as imagined by Wildfox.

12/07/11 10:30AM

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What Would Weetzie Want?

Francesca Lia Block's early '90s series of young adult novels, Dangerous Angels, are unforgettable. With a dreamy Los Angeles landscape and a cast of characters with names such as Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby and My Secret Agent Lover Man, Block plunged her readers into a world that tread a smokey line between reality and fairytale. 


Weetzie as imagined by Autumn De Wilde and Shirley Kurata for Paper Magazine. 

Weetzie Bat was a punk pixie who believed in wishing on pink cars, slam dancing in mosh pits, wearing whatever she wanted, and supporting her best friend Dirk no matter what. Here's what we think Weetzie would wish for this December—in addition to My Secret Agent Lover Man, of course. 

A perfect place to keep the keys to Grandma Fifi's cottage. 

Rose-colored glasses, for seeing the world through...

Weetzie was both a wild fox and a little lamb.

Fancy dresses best accessorized with a rubber chicken.

Comfy creepers are a must for a night of slam-dancing, otherwise you'll never make it to Oki-Dogs afterwards. 

Rubber chicken! Slinkster cool.

And for those, like us, who wish that there were an infinite number of Weetzie Bat books, Block's Weetzie prequel, Pink Smog, comes out in January! Lanky Lizards!


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From London


11/25/11 09:30AM

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Toast Cable Knit Short Socks

How warm do these Cable Knit Short Socks from Toast look?  They're made from 100% lambswool and look 100% like the kind of socks we would never take off.

From New York

Gillian Anderson in the 2001 film-version of House of Mirth. 

11/22/11 12:24PM

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Party Girl: Lily Bart

In honor of our party theme this month, we're taking a look at some of history's notorious party girls. Here, meet Lily Bart.


The heroine of Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth, Lily Bart might have been the first modern-day party girl. The story takes places against the backdrop of New York high-society in the 1890s. Long before Carrie in Sex and the City, before Mary in Party Girl and even before Holly Golightly in Breakfast and Tiffany's, Lily Bart was the prototypical single girl in New York, the last one at the party when everyone else has moved on. 



For the past 11 years, the lively and beautiful Lily has been a fixture in the fast crowd and on the social scene. Though once wealthy, a series of misfortunes changed that, a situation worsened by gambling debts that she has accrued. Lily decides that her only way to escape the fate that is rapidly closing in on her is to find a wealthy husband.

Author Edith Wharton

Lily's plan for finding one is to say yes to every social engagement she's offered, but she soon finds that she can no longer afford the fashions that she once considered so important. "If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it," she says. 


But now, at 29 Lily's beauty is fading, and she's forced to come to terms with the fact that "younger and plainer girls were being married off by the dozens." It doesn't help matters that, in the past, Lily turned down several marriage proposals because she considered the suitors weren't good enough for her. "I have been about too long," Lily complains, "People are tired of me."


Sadly, The House of Mirth is not a story that ends happily ever after and Lily never does find her prince, and it's a true tearjerker. 

But, in no way should that keep you from going out tonight, and you're probably going to need something to wear.



From Philadelphia


11/18/11 02:00PM

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Native Union Pop Phone Handset

Laying in your bed gossiping on the phone with your girlfriends just isn't the same without a handset.  These Native Union Pop Phone Handsets will make you feel like you're still using a landline without having to worry about your mom listening in from another room.

From New York




11/16/11 11:00AM

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Marais Suede Wedges

Not being one for huge heels every day, these cute Marais suede wedges may just be the perfect go-to heel for me. They look unbelievably perfect on and from jean shorts to flowing skirts, they will class up anything you pair them with. An absolute essential. X - Jen

From Philadelphia

11/14/11 11:00AM

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Movember: UO Mo Bros

It's 14 days into Movember and the guys around here are starting to look a little hairy.  Take a look at some of our Mo Bros around the office from the past two weeks, along with little Albert who is showing his support for the team!




From Philadelphia

11/10/11 03:00PM

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Man Man "Piranhas Club"

The video for Man Man's "Piranhas Club" makes us want to be kids again.  We can't get over how cute the Cry-Baby kid is, he's already a little heartbreaker.  We just hope he can stay out of juvie long enough to graduate from the first grade.