“We at San Francisco Tweed constitute a rare breed of cyclist — ladies and gents who refuse to endure anymore spandex!”- from San Francisco Tweed community’s website-
Croquet, picnics and cycling: a bunch of mid 19th aesthetic lovers are taking over the streets of alcatraz’s city. Mainly interested in bicycles, the Tweed lovers preach for courtesy, good manners, through a community mainly based in England called The Chap. (Check out the british Chap Manifesto).
They argue that we’ve all “become the playthings of corporations intent on converting our world into a gargantuan shopping precinct”, but also that “Pleasantness and civility are being discarded as the worthless ephemera of a bygone age”. I guess it’s now the time for you to pick sides, drone-readers: cool or just conservative?
Filmed in 2006, german director Florian Gaag’s film
Booty shakers, you’re gonna love this.
The british band Fuck Buttons’s new video.
Massive layoff wave coming up in the typographe branch!
In the early 80′s in the UK, while Depche Mode and The Cure marry blackness for better or for worst with “New Wave”, the New York “No Wave” scene seemed to involve a much wilder scale of art types.
For those who spent the past few months locked in a cabin without any contact with the outside world, here’s two fresh news: