Cucoo

4 hours ago, julian-wolf said:

My partner and I are going to be staying in Italy for 5 weeks this coming April. We're in the phase of starting to iron out concrete plans, and I'd love to get any input from folks who know the country!

The rough plan is to stay in Florence for around 10–14 days, then somewhere on the Ligurian coast (maybe Genoa or Levanto) for 20–25 days. At some point we hope to spend 3–4 days in Sicily, as my partner has some ancestry there. Beyond that, we're open to just about anything.

Some particular areas where it would be great to get some input:

• Places that are known for specific crafts, and that still stand up to their reputations. We'd be glad to go out of our way to find good glassware or ceramics or (of course) textiles or leather goods.
• Other things to do around greater Tuscany? I've spent some time in Florence, but haven't explored the surrounding area much at all. We won't have a car, but are happy taking trains and walking.
• Restaurant recommendations in Florence, in particular! Really, though, any food related recommendations anywhere. My partner and I met through the farmers' markets here, and are both really passionate about agriculture, fresh food, good cured meats and cheeses, fancy meals, coffee and wine and aperitifs and digestifs…all the things Italy's known for doing well.
• Thoughts on towns or neighborhoods that would be particularly nice to stay in in Sicily or Liguria?
• Any cities or regions that would be worth staying in for 2–4 days? We're looking forward to doing a few day trips from our main home bases, but are also open to the idea to doing longer jaunts to any cities that are worth exploring a bit more.

In Tuscany the area around Bolgheri and Castagneto Carducci is great, bot towns are great little gems. They're located a short drive down from the Livorno/Pisa area and totally worth a stay. You should get a rental car and just go on a road trip down to Sicily!

8 hours ago, MJF9 said:

I never even knew keyboards were a thing!

@Cucoo good to see you're still around... 

Thanks! Pretty cool to see so many of the old gang still around

6 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Wait.. what?.. you’re replacing the keys on a modern keyboard with something akin to an Acorn Electron keyboard we had in junior school? .. Just to get a reassuring clackerty-clack sound when you type?

Sorry, I haven’t got the time to fall into a wormhole today but this will bug the shit out of me if I don’t get clarity on the subject ??

 Mechanical keyboards are a rabbit hole like many other enthusiast hobbies... it's not just about loud and clacky. People are enjoying different things, personally I like a tactile feel without an actual click best, and I'm even starting to lean towards silent switches. But sometimes a vintage looking and sounding loud beast of a keyboard is great fun. It's a bit like enjoying different denim weights  

Then there's different form factors, keyboards with screens or knobs or both, and thousands of keycap sets in every style and color imaginable. One of the reasons of my dive into this world was when I saw this set with Japanese sublegends, I liked the look and that was that...

Oh by the way, just today I got delivered a denim usb c cable! No chainstitch though

12 minutes ago, unders said:

@Cucoo My eldest son is massively into keyboards and switches too. Every birthday and Christmas over the past few years he’s added to his collection. His goal is to get the loudest, clackiest keys he can find - we can hear him through the whole house!

I ask him how many keyboards does he need. He responds how many jeans do I need. Little sod. 

 I've been on that loudest fucking keyboard you can manage journey too. My home-office-adjacent wife is not amused  But only a little while until she wants her own custom keyboard! (Just like she will want her own pair of Japanese denim any day now!)

There's actually a keycap set "inspired by Japanese Denim" by GMK called "indigo" but it missed the major opportunity of showing some fading instead of just all blue keycaps, so even with the selvedge line on the enter key I'm not interested ^^

On 1/15/2024 at 3:32 AM, shredwin_206 said:

Also where’s some of the other guys who used to post a lot? 
@Cucoo, 

Oh don't you worry, I actually still have sufu open in one of those tabs that I never close! Boy was I confused/happy about that notification icon!

In short I'm still in denim, right now on wear day #423 in a pair of Sugar Cane Hawaii, I just went on to other obsessions At first it was photography and I spent ages and €€€ to build up a collection of vintage lenses to use on Sony full frame bodies, and after that I went down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole. Trying out switches and keycaps like I used to try on jeans and shirts!

Happy to see the board is still around and active  

Congratulations!

On 10/24/2019 at 6:07 AM, Nayuta said:

Hello everyone!  What do you think about the processing of captured images?  Because the color changes depending on the shooting time, weather, climate, indoor, outdoor, and camera type, it is difficult to take a photo close to the actual photo.  I don't think you need to do anything with the faded image of jeans.  And I don't do it.  It is difficult to take a picture.

Yeah, we should have agreed on light conditions for pictures, "only photos taken at ~ 5000 lux are permissable"

I think light processing is fine, since it's necessary to get similar colors between pictures. It's not really possible to make sure no one over-processes his pics unless you only allow RAW files being handed in with the judges developing the RAWs  

So no judges?

Damn, it's over.

Been enjoying my 20s very much although I still would've loved a bit more length - I've never really gotten used to the single cuff. It's always strange to wear heavier denim after these. Been wearing them most of the time besides a few 1-2 month stints in various LVCs. 304 wear days by now and 19 washes I think?

I'll take some pictures for the pic thread soon, and I'll try to post some in here as "what the jeans have been up to"

Iron Heart, TCB 20s, 70s

Rainy Saturday so we went to the new museum in town, the Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte (Centre of Bavarian History), since entry is free for the first few weeks after opening.

There's the Oktoberfest Löwenbräu lion in the foyer

And relevant to this thread - a short panel on Levi Strauss

The museum is worth a visit if you're ever in Regensburg.

^ seats from the '72 olympics

"Landesgrenze", this tree once marked a border crossing between east and west Germany

ice cream afterwards

11 hours ago, Paul T said:

the wider part on the right should be serrated, so dealers can tear off that strip to record what they've sold. I could only tell for sure with a couple more photos.

 I was once told that you'd tear off the strip and keep it for future reference to know what size to get when you go shopping for jeans! You never stop learning...

From last week

Mister Freedom / Lee 101 / LVC ('66) / Mister Freedom

I've had that Mulholland jacket for a while and I'm still not sure what kind of weather this thing is meant for. It's heavy, but not that warm, so it's kinda chilly for early spring mornings (especially in the arms that aren't corduroy lined like the body) but too warm once the sun comes out... at least it looks good

Scotch & Soda / Samurai / Bob Dong / Red Wing

Cut off my feet but didn't care enough to take another ^^

Scotch & Soda pea coat, TFH, LVC, RW

Bob Dong, LVC, LVC, Red Wing

Bob Dong, LVC, LVC, Red Wing

So I did 40° for the initial wash, with the highish rise the new '47 have been really tight after buttoning up but have stretched out for a comfortable fit after a few hours. I'm a big fan of the fit and I like the denim, too. Glad I sized up, TTS would have been unwearable.

We just booked the flight for our next US vacation so I was checking out parking at the MF store in LA, seems like Google caught the man himself  

Well that's interesting to know! As I said, I just haven't really noticed puckering like that along the outseams, so I was just curious.

40 minutes ago, ecsong187 said:

Weird. Never even looked or noticed the Puckering 

Sorry about that

Right, saw the non selvedge in the pics with turn ups after I posted. I don't know, they just look a bit weird IMO, no offense  

On 28.10.2018 at 12:55 AM, ecsong187 said:

^ What's up with those train tracks, how does it look from the inside? I'm just wondering about that puckering.

Please excuse my face.

Bob Dong N1 / Levi's sweatshirt / LVC '66 / Red Wing

The 1947 arrived and I'm glad I took a 31, here they are compared to a '76 in size 30 with maybe a month of wear, so all stretched out:

Gonna keep them. With the 20s contest jeans and both the '66 and '76 in my current rotation I'm debating if I should wash them yet, but what the hell, probably gonna throw them in the machine tomorrow.