Future Vintage

This thought provoking piece, aged to perfection, about how a couple of 21st centurty gadgets from two iconic US brands become 'vintaged'. Although we are used to the worn aesthetics of everything from natural dyes to plastics and how their colors fade and their surfaces erode - we have yet to appreaciate what might happen to current materials - in this case worn silver paint revealing black injection molded plastic.

American Rustic

There's a cool article with slideshow in the NYTimes about early 20th Century design that articulates well what is an aesthetic focal point right now for American Vintage.

a simpler, more rustic and American-inflected style that is more general store than taxidermy-appointed lodge, and that emphasizes objects that are well-made, durable and useful: wire storage baskets, machine-age metal tools, leather couches, canvas bags, colorful woolen blankets and interiors made of barn wood.

Christmas Time is Here

Mayer Hawthorne, sometimes referred to as a Throwback Soul Artist, or as described by the NYTimes as if the last 20 or 30 or 40 years of pop music hadn’t happened- isn't quite as easily compartmentalized as it might seem. He follows up a collaboration with Snoop Dogg with a smooth cover from the Charlie Brown Christmas Album. He says of his upcoming album you're going to hear more of my affinity for Steely Dan and the Beatles and the Byrds and the Hollies and the Doobie Brothers -- probably some Public Enemy and N.W.A too. Totally dig this guy- the Green Eyed Love Classic Remix is awesome.

Mayer Hawthorne - Christmas Time Is Here by Mayer Hawthorne