Cattelan Italia Lamps

Castor. Designer: Studio Kronos. Manufacturer: Cattelan Italia.
Flag. Designer: Emanuele Zenere. Manufacturer: Cattelan Italia.

Four Squares

Simonnot Godard linen pocket square.
Alexander Olch linen "pocket round."J. Press linen pocket square.
J. Crew linen pocket square.

Mikael Kennedy Photography

Mikael Kennedy twice maxed out his credit card buying Polaroid film when the company announced it was stopping production. You're thankful he did. His images include everything from moody impressions of misty landscapes to ambling, contemplative figures.

Kennedy's Polaroids can be viewed on his blog, Passport to Tresspass or, if you are in New York City, at the Peter Hay Halpert Gallery, which has assembled an exhibition of 500 Polaroids entitled Shoot the Moon.

Some of Kennedy's non-Polaroid photography can be viewed in a collection called The Odysseus, which chronicles the varied perspective of a solitary, wandering character. Kennedy describes the series as "a journey through the vistas of America...for a renewed vision of the land, a vision that carries both the excitement and isolation of exploration."

Ribena

More than a thirst-quencher, more than a source of Vitamin C, Ribena has been dazzling the taste buds of Commonwealth youths since 1936. This concentrated blackcurrant juice drink has been there after rugby, cricket, and netball contests. You drank it before trotting off to school in the morning. Mum packed it for summer outings on the boat. In short, had Zeus possessed the stuff on Mount Olympus, he would have never tasted ambrosia again. Ribena is the true nectar of the gods and, though it is not entirely clear whether it confers ageless immortality, each time you taste the sweet cordial, you are sipping from the goblet of your youth.

Mach 5

Hawaii brothers Mikala (regular-foot) and Daniel (goofy-foot) Jones would be rippers riding lunch trays. But they're discerning humans: they ride Campbell Brothers Bonzer surfboards. Here they are riding 5-fin models and demonstrating that there is nothing "weird" about blazing speed and radical turns.

Black Thought

Beach Formal

Geoffery Chadsey

The following statement by Philadelphia-born artist Geoffrey Chadsey was taken from the catalogue of his first solo museum exhibition at The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. For more on that 2007 show, read the review in Art in America.

“I draw fantasized photographs, a take on an original that is cross-bred with disparate sources to create images of androgynous, miscegenated, intergenerational fraternization. Hip-hop meets Google meets family album meets Internet chat-room. The drawings are covers and mash-ups of casual snapshots, professional portraiture, celebrity framing, and erotic posing: people performing selves for the camera and the computer. What comes out is monstrous, in Frankenstein’s sense: uncanny, an unfamiliar from familiar sources. In the past I was more concerned about rendering an image that remained photographic, convincing. Every year, I push the plasticity of the drawing further. Now, as the pencil becomes wash, the drips become prevalent, the colors more saturated, and the spaces stretched to the point where perspective starts to fail and fall flat, I am thinking more like a painter. Which is to say, the images are starting to accommodate more compositional whimsy and improvisation. It is time for things to exist on the page that do not have a direct correlate to an object seen or captured by a lens.”
-Geoffrey Chadsey, 2006.


Teen Band, 2000. Watercolor pencil on rag vellum. 56 x 33 inches.
Jam, 2006. Watercolor pencil on mylar. 42 x 70 inches.
Comforter, 2000. Watercolor pencil on rag vellum. 70 x 33 inches.
Murder Dog Circuit Party 2, 2005. Watercolor pencil on mylar. 36 x 27 inches.
Snoop, 2005. Watercolor pencil on mylar. 42 x 25 inches.
Boys In The Band, 2006. Watercolor pencil on mylar. 42 x 52 inches.

Martyn Bal

British menswear designer Martyn Bal has designed at Dior under Hedi Slimane, Versace, and Burberry. You are not surprised, then, that the mark of his eponymous label is impeccable construction and clean lines.

Bal describes his work thusly: "Like a Swan, the attributes of the MARTYN BAL Man always have an edge; an effortless beauty that tolerates no preening, resilience created by the softest feathers, and a wild nature easily tamed by love."