Ms. Dancy's Trains

My good friend Leighton Dancy recently travelled to the time warp of a town that is Galveston, TX to photograph the abandoned railcars of this once stately city. Long ago the capital of The Republic of Texas and one of the busiest ports in the nation, Galveston was all but destroyed by a hurricane in 1900 and never fully recovered from the storm. The natural disaster remains the deadliest in American history. So, I don't know when these trains stopped running (I'd imagine probably not until the 50s), but in many ways they've gone the same way of the city that began its deterioration over 100 years ago. Beautiful work Leighton.

Norse Projects Photos

Season in and season out, Denmark's Norse Projects is one of the more easily recognizable lines in men's clothing. It's all navy and white and horizontal-striped. Very nautical-influenced. But this ain't about the clothes. It's about the images that accompany their website and look books, etc. etc.. I don't know who the photographer is, but the images he / she captures are unique as Norse's line of clothing.

Back from NYC

The food portion: Oatmeal from The Ace. Pork sandwich and thick-cut bacon from Char No. 4 on Smith St. in Brooklyn.

Bigger Than Giants

I saw this fellow's work during Austin's E.A.S.T. show this year and just got around to looking it up online. He says his name is Ryan. That's all I know. Except that he's talented. Bigger Than Giants.

Pedro Ramos

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Life's a Beach

Man About Town starring Kilian Martin | Autumn/Winter 2010 from Atelier Franck Durand on Vimeo.

Anastasia Cazabon

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Home Again

Two weeks. Man, that's too long. That's just no good. I used to pride myself on updating this damn thing every day of the work week, but between STAG and the holidays and life in general, I've drifted off course. I guess that's just the way it is.

But here's a new one. Michael Muller (of the great blog In The Choirs) spent 30 some odd hours at my house the other week shooting products for STAG. While he was at it, he snapped a bunch of shots of my house. They both ended up featured recently on The Scout, but here are some extras - and I think they look better in the slightly larger Blogger format as opposed to the small slideshow form that The Scout employs. Thx for the shots Miguel.

Dazzle

"Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, extensively during World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II. Credited to artist Norman Wilkinson, it consisted of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other.

At first glance Dazzle seems unlikely camouflage, drawing attention to the ship rather than hiding it, but this technique was developed after the Allied Navies were unable to develop effective means to disguise ships in all weathers.

Dazzle did not conceal the ship but made it difficult for the enemy to estimate its type, size, speed and heading. The idea was to disrupt the visual rangefinders used for naval artillery. Its purpose was confusion rather than concealment. An observer would find it difficult to know exactly whether the stern or the bow is in view; and it would be equally difficult to estimate whether the observed vessel is moving towards or away from the observer's position." - Wiki

And then of course there are some artistic variations.