carhartt vineyard -yes related

This vintage Carhartt overalls poster hangs in Brooke and Mike Carhartt’s home. Mike’s great-grandfather, Hamilton Carhartt, founded the company in 1889 in Lexington, Kentucky, originally to supply quality, durable overalls for railroad workers. Two generations ago Mike’s uncle took over the clothing company and Mike’s father went west, to California.
-via Inside Santa Ynez Valley

Mike Carhartt, who spent his formative years roping cattle and riding horseback on his family’s Alamo Pintado ranch, has now turned winemaker. Though Mike and his wife, Brooke, no longer run the dairy and cattle operation begun by his father in the late 1950s, they do continue to farm family land on the old Rancho Santa Ynez. Instead of hay, however, the couple grows wine grapes for the Carhartt Vineyard they planted in 1996.

eventually -buckshot brogues

Joe Casely-Hayford [creative director of Gieves&Hawkes] experimented with shoes and shotgun shells until he found the perfect buckshot pattern. The resulting pattern was transferred to a computer which then adapted the asymmetrical pattern to left and right shoes. It debuted in the F/W06 line.
-via refinedrougue

Saved search; know what I mean...

robin hood gardens -or every brutalist structure for itself

Trailer: Robin Hood Gardens (Or Every Brutalist Structure For Itself) from Roger Low on Vimeo.

Robin Hood Gardens (in the East End of London) - a concrete eyesore or masterpiece in Brutalist architecture? The controversial housing estate, built in 1972 by Alison and Peter Smithson, is under threat of demolition by a local council keen to cash in on the sky-rocketing value of land. Opposed to the move are a powerful architecture lobby who see the building as a key moment in the development of architectural thought. Caught in the middle are the building's residents, mostly of Bengali origin, whose opinion is, unsurprisingly, absent from the debate.

To use a phrase once used to decribe the Barbican; "all the ambiance of a mugger's urinal". Flickr set from JoesephBeuysHat shows more.

toms taking off

Picked these Friday then another couple of pints tonight. #gangbusters.

sacco's bowl haven

Sacco's Bowl Haven in Somerville MA was recently reopened/reimagined/rescued by Flatbread Pizza. Others have reviewed it (read) -but I hadn't seen anyone geek out on the details that do it justice. Pretty fantastic conversion. See flickr's of the old Sacco (which we loved too) over here.


They recently completed some more changes inside (custom wooden benches for the bowling lane, repurposing the old formica booths as booths for the dining area, custom shelves for the shoes, tweaking the old Sacco's lighted outdoor sign -that will be back up soon.

Impressed by the level of thought that is being taken w/ the suppliers. Local to the hilt. I think you could eat a pizza, drink a beer and a shot, then have dessert all on a 100-mile diet. I went in at 9am to get these so no foody pics... but prices are low and the bowling is more than an afterthought -it gets packed. Just like the old days...

Reclaimed bowling lanes for the bar, v nice, but the stacked wood underneath takes it to another level...
It is hard to find a beer here that isn't from N.E.
Old leader board sign repurposed as beer list.
Nantucket, Gloucester, Gloucester, Gloucester.


The old bowling seating reconfigured as booths.
Pretty much want to live in this picture...

fridays are tie days -i need professional help

I needed help to pull off this little project. I can sew on a button w/o self-harming but that is about it. I have enlisted some skilled help to see what a bowtie would be like if made out of #4 canvas... with the blue ticking(?)/line guides left in. Envisioning this as the sort of thing you might wear w/ a work shirt while at the head of a parade. At a county fair. While driving your dad's tractor.

ETA couple of weeks.