Thursday, January 31, 2013
Perfect Snowshoe Day on San Jacinto
Ellen has a great trip report and Sally supplied the pictures
http://mtsanjacinto.info/viewtopic.php?t=3992
San Jacinto
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Ellen and I headed up to San Jacinto Peak from the tram today. We started out in Microspikes and switched to snowshoes higher up when the snow got really good. Check out the pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/100947735931229008274/TramToPeak02?authuser=0&feat=directlink  |
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GANT BY MICHAEL BASTIAN - ROCK(S)WELL
GANT presented the latest Michael Bastian collection inside one of the artist studio at The Art Student League in New York City. The setting was a perfect one for the Bastian and GANT to showcase their “Stockbridge” Fall 2013 collection. Inspired by the illustrations of Norman Rockwell and the town of Stockbridge, MA where the artist lived, the GANT by Michael Bastian collection is a back to roots collection of garments that reflect the everyday wear of the subjects of Rockwell’s paintings. (check the GANT by Michael Bastian lookbook @ Selectism)
Cranberry white chocolate cookies.
I don't know about you guys, but I have been spending a lot of time in my kitchen this month. Actually I have been spending a lot of time at home in general. Maybe it's the cold weather that is forcing me to hibernate, but either way I kind of like it! Especially the fact that I have had the chance to test out some recipes that I've been meaning to try! The other day my good friend, Sigrid, came over and brought me the most delicious cookies that I instantly needed the recipe for. They are cranberry white chocolate chip cookies and they are absolutely to die for! Next time you have the urge to bake something, give this recipe a try. It's simple and it seriously won't disappoint.
YOU WILL NEED:
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup dried cranberries
3/4 cup white chocolate chips
3/4 cup oats or macadamia nuts (whichever you prefer!)
***
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
With an electric mixer, cream the butter and both sugars together until smooth. Then add the vanilla and egg. Sift together the flour and baking soda. Spoon the flour mixture gradually into the creamed sugar mixture. Stir in the cranberries, white chocolate, and oats (or nuts.)
Drop by heaping spoonfuls, about 2 tablespoons, onto the prepared baking sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake one sheet a time for 12-15 minutes or until lightly golden. Let cool then enjoy!
***
original recipe found here.
Happy baking! XO, Stef
Thumb Tripping (1972)
An awful picture that only comes alive when it succumbs to lurid extremes, Thumb Tripping is a road movie in which neither the travelers nor the journey is interesting. Michael Burns plays Gary, a sweet-natured college kid who drops out of mainstream society for a summer of hitchhiking in Northern California and thereabouts. He soon hooks up with Shay (Meg Foster), a spaced-out hippie chick, but for the first 20-ish minutes of the movie, nothing happens. Gary and Shay mill around small towns including Carmel, occasionally getting hassled by the man, and they camp in a seaside cave with other hippies. (There’s literally a five-minute scene in the cave during which the four characters discuss the virtues of soup as a dietary staple.) Then the movie shifts to a series of episodes revolving around the weird people who give Gary and Shay rides. The best sequence features Bruce Dern as Smitty, a quasi-psychopath who threatens the kids with a knife; although Dern is typecast as a violent nutter, he’s so vital he almost makes the movie seem purposeful. Almost. Michael Conrad, later of Hill Street Blues fame, plays a horny trucker eager to get into Shay’s pants, and the final major characters are Jack (Burke Byrnes) and Lynn (Marianna Hill), hard-partying drunks who lead the heroes through high junks such as bar-hopping and skinny-dipping. Thumb Tripping is beyond pointless, not only because the story never goes anywhere, but also because the lead characters are twits. Gary’s an inactive cipher who simply watches things happen, except when he’s demonstrating squaresville hang-ups, and Shay is such a reckless wastoid that it’s bizarre we never see her drop acid. As for the acting, Burns is fine in a nothing role, Foster’s icy-blue eyes are as striking as ever, Conrad is effectively sleazy, and Byrnes and Hill are awful—hyper and screechy from their first frames to their last. Worst of all, the movie lacks a point of view: It’s neither a celebration of the counterculture lifestyle nor a condemnation, and since Gary’s just a visitor in this world, it’s not a docudrama, either.
Thumb Tripping: LAME
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
CAMPUS BY NICK CLEMENTS
Nick Clements is the man behind, a "must read" magazine called Men's File. For his latest issue
he shot a story called "CAMPUS - Ivy Style Today". Inspired by brands like GANT with it's Yale Co-Op collection and Gant Rugger, Nick Clements re-enacted the campus lifestyle in the 50s and 60s. In Men's File 8 we just see a teaser of his upcoming book Campus which will be released in the early summer of 2013. If I see those pics I can't wait to have the book in my hands. The models are wearing Gant Rugger & Gant Yale shirts, furthermore items from Ralph Lauren and McGregor just to name a few. Great job Nick.
A Playlist for a Cozy Day Inside!
The lovely Erin Propp just had her cd release party here in Winnipeg, but don't worry, you can check
out her website and listen to her angelic voice here.
The Mechanic (1972)
Taken solely for its surface pleasures, The Mechanic is a handsomely made thriller with an unusual amount of detail given to the preparations hitmen take before doing bad things—at certain points, it almost seems like a documentary. Combined with enigmatically tight-lipped performances by star Charles Bronson and supporting player Jan-Michael Vincent, director Michael Winner’s clinical approach makes for a unique (and uniquely nihilistic) viewing experience. Yet learning about the film’s origins adds interesting dimensions. Writer Lewis John Carlino, who based the script on his own unfinished novel, apparently envisioned the story with a gay angle, exploring the dynamic between an avaricious apprentice and a world-weary mentor. Alas, overt references to this approach were excised, and in fact the apprentice and mentor characters are portrayed as being aggressively heterosexual. Given these behind-the-scenes negotiations about thematic content, however, it’s possible to watch The Mechanic simply as a he-man story—or to look deeper for something kinky beneath the surface.
In any event, Bronson stars as Arthur Bishop, a methodical killer who makes his murders-for-hire look like accidents. Around the time he accepts an important contract from a group of organized criminals, Bishop inherits an unlikely trainee, Steve McKenna (Vincent). Among the most interesting elements of the film is a pair of mirrored scenes featuring these men with the women in their lives; Bishop’s girl is a prostitute (Jill Ireland) whom he pays to simulate a personal bond, and McKenna’s is a troubled hippie (Linda Ridgeway), with whom McKenna plays insidious mind games during the movie’s darkest scene. (Revealing exactly how Bishop and McKenna become allies would require giving away too much of the plot.) About half the picture takes place in Europe, where Bishop and McKenna fulfill a challenging contract, only to realize they’ve been set up for a double-cross. The betrayals pile up until an unusually hard-hitting ending.
Winner, a frequent Bronson collaborator, shoots the film with precision, accentuating physical environments that convey more about characters than the characters themselves are willing to say; he also stages action expertly, creating tension against a grim backdrop of pervasive hopelessness. His careful treatment of brutal material gives The Mechanic a strange kind of macho integrity—and because Bronson and Vincent give such contained performances, it’s possible to project interesting psychological implications onto their blank faces. So while The Mechanic isn’t high art by any measure, it’s not a mindless thrill ride, either.
The Mechanic: GROOVY
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Comunicato Stampa FIVL
Il 2013 del volo libero targato Italia non poteva cominciare meglio.
Dopo la recente vittoria della nazionale di deltaplano ai mondiali in
Australia, ecco un nuovo esaltante successo dal Sud America, precisamente
dalla Colombia, dove Nicole Fedele di Gemona del Friuli, campionessa europea
in carica, e Aaron Durogati di Merano hanno conquistato la Coppa del Mondo
di parapendio (PWCA 2012) rispettivamente femminile e maschile.
Dietro Nicole si sono classificate Laurie Genovese (Francia) e la giapponese
Keiko Hiraki, mentre Durogati ha battuto Michael Maurer (Svizzera), Russell
Ogden (Gran Bretagna), il colombiano Julian Andres Carreno Colonia ed il
nostro Luca Donini di Molveno (Trento), vice campione del mondo in carica.
Settimo un altro trentino, Jimmy Pacher. Pur essendo una competizione
individuale, la Coppa del Mondo usa stilare anche una classifica per nazioni
che ha confermato la Svizzera prevalere per una manciata di punti su Italia
e Francia solo all'ultima prova.
Quale teatro della finale PWCA, dopo una serie di appuntamenti in tutto il
mondo, è stata scelta Roldanillo, una cittadina del dipartimento di Valle
del Cauca nella parte centro-ovest del paese, tra la Cordigliera
occidentale, quella centrale e la fertile valle attraversata del fiume
Cauca.
La competizione ha raccolto 139 piloti provenienti da 27 nazioni e si è
svolta nell'arco di due settimane. Nove le giornate di volo convalidate con
percorsi tra i 77 ed i 130 chilometri, mentre una decima è stata annullata,
causa le cattive condizioni del tempo. I piloti hanno sorvolato talvolta la
valle, altre il costone che la fiancheggia e dove a quota 1775 metri era il
decollo di Los Tanques, prima di raggiungere gli atterraggi di Zarzal,
Tulua, Obando o Cartago, secondo i percorsi decisi giorno per giorno. In
generale è stata una finale impegnativa per l'alternarsi di sole, pioggia e
forte vento, con l'aggiunta a sorpresa di una giornata dominata da un grande
incendio nella valle che ha creato un'immensa cappa di fumo e qualche
difficoltà ai parapendio, mezzi senza motore sostenuti in cielo dalle
correnti d'aria ascensionali.
Il circuito di Coppa del Mondo riprende con l'edizione 2013 il prossimo
febbraio in Sud Africa per poi passare in Brasile ed a seguire Francia,
Serbia e Turchia.
Gustavo Vitali
Ufficio Stampa FIVL (AeCI-CONI) - Federazione Italiana Volo Libero
http://www.fivl.it/ - 335 5852431 - skype: gustavo.vitali
Foto
http://www.gustavovitali.it/pagine/comfivl/pwca-colombia-27-01-13.html
per ulteriori informazioni sulla COPPA DEL MONDO di parapendio contattare:
Alberto Castagna - castagna (AT) telemako.it - 348 7375753
Sito ufficiale: http://pwca.org/
Tutti i comunicati stampa FIVL all'indirizzo:
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DON'T CRY OVER SPILLED MILK, HAV-A-HANK
When I was in Florida, last December, I stumbled into a J.Crew Store and saw a great display
filled with handkerchiefs of HAV-A-HANK. My eye was caught the 50s inspired boxes. I couldn't resist and bought the pink one for just 12 bucks. These hankies are made in Greenville, SC for Japanese brand Anonymous ism, Hav-A-Hank hankies are crafted of brightly colored, dip-dyed cotton with traditional bandana print and in a smaller size that's perfect for using in place of a pocket square. Carolina Manufacturing has a long and proud history in the textile and retail industry. Founded in 1947, when they provided an assortment of products to dime stores, pharmacies and various retail outlets. They quickly, became a leading manufacturer of men’s handkerchiefs under the Hav-A-Hank national brand.
The Horsemen (1971)
Macho and savage, The Horsemen is a sports movie for only the hardtiest of viewers. Set in modern-day Afghanistan (circa the early ’70s), the picture concerns the brutal sport of buzkashi—think polo, but with longer playing times and with a headless goat carcass in lieu of a ball. Exploring themes such as male identity and primitive codes of honor, The Horsemen is mildly fascinating as an ethnographic study, but it’s not an easy film for Westerners to embrace. Even though The Horsemen relies on certain clichés that are common to most sports movies (and most stories about fathers and sons), the picture is so thick with virility that it’s a sonnet to manly suffering. In The Horsemen, the best man isn’t the one who wins, per se; it’s the man who endures the most pain in the pursuit of winning.
Based on a novel by Joseph Kessel and written by the formidable Dalton Trumbo—whose previous collaboration with Horsemandirector John Frankenheimer, 1968’s The Fixer, was just as tough and uncompromising—the movie revolves around a young man trying to win the respect of his unyielding father. Jack Palace, wearing a mist of old-age makeup over his leathery features, plays Tursen, a retired buzkashi player who makes a humble but respectable living tending horses for a wealthy landowner. After grooming his son, Uraz (Omar Sharif), to become a buzkashi champion, Tursen places a huge wager on Uraz’s performance in a match, only to watch Uraz lose. Never mind that Uraz suffers a broken leg; broken pride is all that matters here. Much of the film comprises Uraz’s excruciating quest to rehabilitate his body for a return to the game, and since this is a merciless Frankenheimer film, the cure is far worse than the disease.
The Horsemen looks amazing, with cinematographers André Domage, James Wong Howe, and Claude Renoir conveying the stark majesty of the Afghan landscape—to say nothing of the ferocious action during buzkashi matches. Unfortunately, neither Palance nor Sharif is sufficiently expressive to deliver all of the subtle nuances inherent to the material. They convey a certain undeniable primal intensity, and each has affecting moments, but the film would have benefited from performers with broader emotional palettes. Faring even worse than the male leads is beautiful Leigh Taylor-Young, cast as a fallen woman who enters Uraz’s life. While she looks blazingly sexy with her long, dark hair and smoky eye makeup, Taylor-Young is merely ornamental to a story that’s all about men and their animalistic drives to impress each other.
The Horsemen: FUNKY
Awesome Scenic Places Around the World
These were googled from Places To See Before You Die
http://list25.com/25-places-you-have-to-see-before-you-die/
http://www.boredpanda.com/amazing-places-to-see-before-you-die/
http://list25.com/25-places-you-have-to-see-before-you-die/
Monday, January 28, 2013
A little update.
Despite the crazy cold temperatures (-40's (Celsius) all week long) we managed to stay warm and have a pretty fantastic past week! Now that things are slowing down a bit after Christmas, we've had a bunch of time off, and have spent it baking, making pots of soup and organizing our homes! Here's a sneak at what we've been up to...
We finally got our front window replaced at the shop, so we had a lot of fun re-doing displays, and jazzing up the shop! We added that white cabinet for our housewares, and just changed everything up, and it feels great!
In other news...
We were over the moon when we got an email from H&M, one of our favorite stores contacted us to be featured on their website! You can read the little blurb over here on their lifestyle section.
Not only were we featured over at H&M this week, but our shop, The Lovely Closet was featured on one of our all time favorite magazine's website-Frankie! You can take a closer look over here!
Also, a few weeks back we booked our flights back to Bangkok for April! 10 more weeks until we leave!
What have you cats been up to lately?
What have you cats been up to lately?
xo
Erin & Stef
People Are Awesome Viedeos
These are action packed videos from youtube which include mountaineering and stunts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VevYjjwQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKXsLFKYqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5tKK7Hyl0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VevYjjwQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKXsLFKYqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5tKK7Hyl0
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The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
Amateurish, boring, and clichéd, this low-budget creature feature is built around special effects that wouldn’t have passed muster in 1957, much less 1977. Yes, The Crater Lake Monster employs the rickety old technique of stop-motion critters poorly superimposed onto normal live-action footage. Yet while true stop-motion masters such as Ray Harryhausen employed the process to fill cinema frames with armies of supernatural beasties, the makers of The Crater Lake Monster merely present a single dinosaur. Amazingly, the poorly executed stop-motion shots of the prehistoric killer are the best parts of the movie, because the filmmakers also use silly mock-ups of the dinosaur’s full-sized head for close-up shots in which interchangeable characters are eaten. Grade-school kids putting on a pageant could have generated more impressive visuals. The story, which loses interest after about a minute and a half, begins when archeologists exploring caves in rural Oregon uncover ancient drawings suggesting a dinosaur lived there up to the time of man, contrary to scientific theories about how long ago dinosaurs went extinct. Then a meteor falls in a lake and cracks open a long-buried dinosaur egg, after which the newly born creature immediately matures into a full-sized carnivore that lives underwater—except when it ventures onto land to eat people. None of this makes any sense, and every aspect of The Crater Lake Monster is as inept as the storyline. The acting by a slew of no-names is terrible, the dialogue is wooden, and the thrills are warmed-over silliness borrowed from an infinite number of better movies.
The Crater Lake Monster: SQUARE
Lonnie Dupre Aborts Denali + People are Awesome Videos
Lonnie Dupre retreats on Denali because of high winds
People are awesome videos from youtube (on the following blog)
2F2013%2F01%2F27http://www.explorersweb.com/offsite/?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneworldendeavors.com%%2Fhigh-camp-descent%2F&lang=en
http://lonniedupre.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VevYjjwQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKXsLFKYqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5tKK7Hyl0
People are awesome videos from youtube (on the following blog)
2F2013%2F01%2F27http://www.explorersweb.com/offsite/?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneworldendeavors.com%%2Fhigh-camp-descent%2F&lang=en
http://lonniedupre.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VevYjjwQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKXsLFKYqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5tKK7Hyl0
Sunday, January 27, 2013
June-uary
Hi folks! Remember me? I guess it has been almost a month since my last blog post, but who's counting? Get ready for a lot of photos, climbing talk, thoughts on life, and if you're lucky a window into the sould of god himself. Aww, just kiddin'.
Steven on Sunshine Slab.
Oh…my…god. Ai dios mio. People have come and gone over the last two months like I knew they would. Some of them have been very special people. Jon, Josh and Mary, Kevin, Jimmy, Justin, Rob, Ian, Glen, Aimee, Lydia
Steven on the warm up, Sads 2013.
We had some serious weather blow through near the end of December and the beginning of January leaving the Happys, Sads, and Milks covered in snow.
It’s the year 2013 and we are all still alive. I know, amazing. It’s a thought that doesn’t escape my mind and a fact that I feel very lucky about and ponder as I walk in the sun and the dust up a steep hill. Why re-hash 2012 when I can just say this about it: movement. Here in Bishop movement is key. Hemmingway compared Paris
I did it! Hooray! Finally sending Aqautic Hitchhiker.
Lawnmower Man, so epic.
Steven putting down one of the finest problems on the planet, Morning Dove White.
Warming up on PowPow in a very cold and snowy corridor.
Had to get real old skool for this one and bust out the Kemp jersey on Kung Fu Grip. I don't think I can say it enough, this IS the BEST problem in the world.
I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to live in a place like this and actually enjoy the natural wonders it has to offer. I feel even luckier to have been able to share this place with so many good people that have been drifting through; some staying for quite a while, others here and then gone offering small windows into other worlds and lives filled with adventure, beauty, and movement of their own. Every single one of them responsible for a crucial piece of inspiration that has been incremental to piecing together movement inside of a game I like to play called bouldering.
Holly on the heinous rock-over of Kung Fu Left.
Lololololoooooola!
Ty trys out his martial arts skills on Kung Fu Grip (did I mention already that this is the best problem in the world?)
Ty casually flashing Anti Hero.
Daniel stares down the last hold of Los Locos. I was lucky enough to put this behemoth down in two sessions last week. What an amazing climb. It kind of transcends numbers, names, and any kind of objectification or quantification we can put on it. Put the grade out of your mind and just climb this thing!!
Ty just crushed this rig! Acid Wash Right Stand.
Taking a repeat burn on Acid Wash Right.
Holly on Son of Claudius Rufus. So close! Last day and this girl just brought it! It was awesome hanging out with Ty and Holly. Super genuine, good hearted, and funny people. Can't wait to see them again.
Next time for sure Holly.
The Gleaner. One of the coolest features out of an overhang to a sinker pcoket jug. Toe hook for the realness!
Go Granny Go Right, yes, its that good.
Is that He-Man?? Steven puts down a true legend of a boulder problem, Moonraker. For a boulder that doesn't have a top, this is one of the absolute most underrated and fantastic hard lines in the milks. SUPER PROUD!
Steph and I have been living here in California now for almost three months. Steph has really found her niche at Mammoth Mountain as a full time ski instructor. She’s actually gotten really good at skiing, something she just recently picked up before Christmas. Very impressive. I just accepted a job at the mountain operating ski lifts, setting up out of bounds fences, making sure people and small children are safe, pretty remedial stuff but better than the current job I have now as a grocery stalker at Vons.
The weather has been hot lately. It’s the dead of Winter and we are experiencing blue skies and high’s in the mid 60’s almost every day for the past two weeks now. It’s very nice to warm up in this kind of weather but extremely hard to project anything that relies on friction which is basically everything I would like to try. But we press on. I know, it’s a hard life down here getting a full %1,000 of the daily value of vitamin D where the hardest decision I have to make on a daily basis is whether or not to go climbing or skiing, or just stay in bed and re-grow my skin.
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