Gabriel

thank you for your input, I went with the first suggestion (Lunarlon)

actually I never really liked the other soles but I was being undecided

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Don't know any of those but if you want a cheap place where Japanese is definitely spoken, Naniwa-ya is good value.

I got my trashed NSs exchanged in the Butler program!

Don't know if this has been posted yet but check it out

http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/2010/06/28/video-a-p-c-butler-worn-out-series-denim/

I just saw that and I like the idea; I think I'll bring my destroyed, 3+ years old, nothing-but-ocean-washed, badly repaired pair of NS to the shop and be politely told sorry but we can never sell that.

But who knows, I'm willing to try.

The concept reminds me of trading used Mickey Mouse comic books when I was a boy. You'd bring two you'd already read and the seller would give you a (kinda) fresh one.

Hello,

Question to branesplode or anyone: would all my daily stuff visible in the photo (15-inch MBP in sleeve, headphones in case, rather large film camera, and other small junk, plus maybe a magazine…) fit either in the 5.11 Rush 12 or Rush 24? They both seem suitable but I can't try them in person where I live, and I have doubts about size. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

anyone got dapper dan first issue?

yeah, it has a really cool look&feel, all black and white on bouffant paper or something like that; reminds me of 90s helmut lang ads (maybe it's the typography) except I think there's not a single woman in the whole issue.

no advertising.

not something I'm compelled to delve into, or come back to as a reference. I picked it up because it surprised me.

that's my in-depth review; curious to know what others think of it…

had money going stale on yookz:

That's true. However, although I don't know Barthes enough to have a relevant point of view, I suspect that he was talking about photography from the spectator's point of view and not as an intentional feature created by the artist, nor a cultural framework. Whereas in jazz it's the actual construct of the bop genre -- taking an often trivial popular theme, playing it once and then improvising for the rest of the track -- that establishes this curious dichotomy, making it at once intimate, personal and universal, timeless. It can seem hard to believe that My Favorite Things wasn't written by Coltrane but is an old Broadway song, the equivalent of a Beyoncé hit or something like that. Miles played a Cindy Lauper song. Yusef Lateef took a theme from a cheesy Hollywood movie and made it into a jazz classic. All this through re-appropriation and deconstruction and improvisation. This analogy with Barthes reminds me that jazz was the living inspiration that spawned post-modernism in visual art (of which photography played a huge part), which was probably never fully recognised by either parties.

My gut says the readership of Monocle is less stylish global-trotting "Economist" types but Esquire-ish new-media ad-ex types who want to feign international/political literacy.

Exactly my thoughts.

For all its "international-ness" it's very English, in its positioning, target, culture, humour, etc. Also very oriented towards boys in their 30s. Sometimes I suspect the articles aren't even meant to be read, like lorem ipsum.

I bought it every month for the first year but somehow got bored and stopped...

I thought everyone rented bars.

I'm dumb but — wtf is "human development"?

NJ ALL (rainy) DAY

What program is that? How does it compare to Linotype FontExplorer?

I have no idea, I just posted it for the font (it's new)

has this been posted?

edit: just read this page… instead of looking at photos only.

I agree oak stuff always looks better than Reality™

Still, the overall shape of these are maybe interesting.

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talking of Scandinavian jazz, Esbjörn Svensson died earlier this year, RIP…

this is written in a kind of phonetic/pidgin English

Anybody have these or try these? Whats the quality like?

they're shit in real life

I think it's the same font, basically a sans serif used in the London Underground that looks like Gill Sans. But I started to read a book about Eric Gill yesterday, and his mentor was Johnston, so maybe it precedes Gill Sans?!

Anyway Prof Monitoff I PMed you.

I don't know Ibiza, but if you end up in a crowd of sunburnt British football hooligans, and if you're not appreciating it, take a ferry to Formentera and stay there instead. It's one of my favourite places on earth. In August, it's bound to be packed with Italian couples on Vespas. But there are still nice places (avoid Es Pujols and the giant tourist places down on the South East part).

Jimmy, I guess you get the store catalog, not the one that's sent out to their customer list. Thanks for the pdf.

The cataloglet I received is designed by M&M Paris, comes with 8 pages of looks and a selection of products with prices, and a very awkward-looking "arty" poster.

I think I like the green pullover.

Beuys