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From The First Pirate Astronaut

Andreas Smaaland

Japanese brand beautiful people has teamed up with Tricker’s on a classic suede Brogue Boot for Fall/Winter 2012. The heavy winter boots come with a thick Vibram outer sole and clean tonal suede uppers in overall three colorways. They are easy to wear and match and will be a great companion for the coming months.

beautiful people x Tricker’s Suede Brogue Boots is a post by David Fischer on Highsnobiety.

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Italy’s Slam Jam has teamed up with Asics again and presents a new version of the popular Gel Lyte 3 running shoe. The sneaker with a perforated premium leather upper, reflective asymmetrical Asics stripes and a silver sprayed grey sole that is a nice contrast to the yellow/green colorway. The sneaker will be released December 2012, more info should follow soon.

Slam Jam x Asics Gel Lyte 3 is a post by David Fischer on Highsnobiety.

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Fresh seafood from Tsukiji

June 2nd, 2012 in Futako-Shinichi, Tokyo

Lionel Hirlé et Grégory Ohrel nous proposent de découvrir en exclusivité sur Fubiz, leur clip non officiel du titre Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas in Paris. Jouant avec talent sur l’échelle des acteurs ressemblant au duo de rappeurs mais aussi sur des doubles expositions, le résultat est à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.

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Miss you… by Benoit Courti 

Last month, we shared behind the scenes photos of some of Hollywood's most action-packed films, but missing from the bunch is one of the most followed action-spy film franchises of all time: Bond. James Bond. British photographer Greg Williams has had the good fortune of having a spot on the set of the Bond films since 1997, documenting the action and downtime when the cameras aren't rolling.

Williams' series known as Bond On Set feature photos from three separate Bond films—Die Another Day, Casino Royal, and Quantum of Solace—that include two leading Bond men in Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. Also making an appearance in the series are famed modern Bond girls Halle Berry and Olga Kurylenko. We get to see these stars lounging on set, reading their scripts, training, rehearsing, and even goofing off a bit. There's something voyeuristic about it all, like we're sneaking in on something really exclusive meant for VIPs like Bond himself.

The series Bond On Set is available across several books by the same title, filled with pictures to feed the devout cinephiles' hungry eyes. The next book installment of the series, titled Bond On Set: Filming Skyfall, is due out on October 1, 2012.

To truly understand modern car culture, one must embrace the past — and nowhere is automotive history more rewarding and jaw-dropping than the 18th green of Pebble Beach at the annual Concours d’Elegance. The Pebble Beach contest is the great grandson of 17th century French Aristocracy carriage parades during down sweltering Parisian parkways. Eventually, horses gave way to horsepower and the Concours d’Elegance (“competition of elegance”) became a car show of sorts for proud French drivers (we can easily imagine them with berets, calf-skin driving gloves and pencil-thin moustaches).

Today, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the pinnacle of automotive excellence, and the end of a week of classic car activities in the Monterey area. So when we got the chance to attend the 62nd annual event, which raises more than a million bucks for charity, we grabbed our camera and iPhone, bow tie and suspenders, and set off for Carmel Bay to see the 200 pristine vehicular specimens dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

Our photo essay begins after the jump.

Quickly, however, what seemed like the most impressive car we’d ever spotted was overshadowed by an even more amazing specimen.

The Concours encompasses races at Laguna Seca featuring 1920s Bugattis and Porsches, auctions that include a 1968 Ford GT 40 going for $11 million, parties at night and Ferrari motorcades during the day — but everyone comes for Sunday morning, when the best of the best are on display for judging.

The day began under characteristic coastal fogginess as the cars arrived one by one at 5:30 a.m. (up by 4:30 a.m., you’re welcome) in the tradition of “Dawn Patrol.” After about two hours the army of cars and a grip of motorcycles were in position for judging. Various celebrities — including the famously car-obsessed Mr. Jay Leno — and thousands of others in ascots, seersuckers and more hats than the royal wedding were on hand to see concept cars, Rolls-Royces, Duesenbergs and other entries across 20 classes.

At first, viewing the cars was manageable and we took our time picking through the chromed and leathered beauties. Quickly, however, what seemed like the most impressive car we’d ever spotted was overshadowed by an even more amazing specimen. Is this what being at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show after party is like?

One of our favorite highlights from this year’s show was a collection of Mahraja — Indian royalty — autos. From cars built to hunt tigers (yeah!) to vehicles that looked like swans (yikes), this special class of vehicle was strange and unique. The Concours d’Elegance is a bucket list experience and a must for anyone who appreciates motoring history. Rather than the usual snapshots, which you can see strewn across the hundred of automotive sites, we instead aimed our lenses on angles and colors that captured the eye.

Shades of Concours Photo Essay

For more, visit Gear Patrol.

Focus sur Arran Gregory, un illustrateur et sculpteur qui place les animaux bien souvent au centre de ses œuvres. Cet artiste londonien a imaginé des sculptures très réussies d’animaux en utilisant des matériaux comme le verre. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

Magazine: Arena Homme Plus
Editorial: Rick Owens Portrait
Photographer: Nick Knight
Stylist: Panos Yiapanis
Model: Rick Owens

Friend and photographer Navid Baraty just shared with us his great shots of the hundreds of people that gathered in Times Square early Monday morning to watch NASA's rover Curiosity make its Red Planet touchdown. The unprecedented event was a dramatic moment in the rover's eight-month journey through space where it had to travel 350-million miles to reach its ultimate destination. Curiosity is the most high-tech rover NASA has ever designed and at 1:31am it stuck its landing.

New York City's Times Square broadcast the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory Mission live on a giant LED television screen.

When we asked Baraty what it was like standing in the middle of Times Square, witnessing history being made, he told us this, "It was so awesome being there and experiencing everyone so collectively captivated in science and exploration. Everyone was anxiously looking up at the screen to watch the latest images, people were sharing headphones and hurdling around each others phones to hear the broadcast (that was the only way to hear the audio). Times Square would erupt into cheers after each stage of the Curiosity's final descent. Once it landed, people chanted 'Science, Science, Science!' and 'NASA, NASA, NASA!'

"It was definitely one of my most memorable nights so far in NYC."

If you didn't see this video of NASA celebrating the Mars rover landing, make sure to check that out, too. It is guaranteed to give you chills.

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Designed to overcome the overly loss of space between the cylinders of beer, Heineken Cube optimizes storage all along the chain: from manufacturer to consumer.

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Heath Ledger as the Joker skate boarding over Christian Bale as Batman while they take a break on the set of The Dark Knight.

You can all quit your lives now. Single greatest picture in the history of pictures and internet.

best fucking picture ever

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Alan Guzman