Affairs

Ace hotel is an inno­v­a­tive hotel chain based in Port­land, Seat­tle, Palm Springs and New York. The charm of the hotels is based on the cre­ative atmos­phere, art and design. But also their sup­port for the local com­mu­nity and cul­ture is admirable. By chance you may find a flea mar­ket, pop up shop (as with Open­ing Cer­e­mony), a pilates club or an exhi­bi­tion which are all very well curated. Or how about free hair­cut by the pool or break­fast served with Stump­town cof­fee. It’s all about the details from Pendle­ton blan­kets to cus­tom made bathrobes (by Wings+Horns).

Here’s a glimpse inside the Ace hotels:

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The renowned London-based pub­lish­ing house Hamish Hamil­ton has a monthly mag­a­zine out called Five Dials. This great lit­er­ary piece fea­tures a wide vari­ety of texts and inter­views by world class authors from the past to the present

As stated on their web­site, “Five Dials is best down­loaded, printed out and enjoyed (we hope) away from the com­puter”. We agree!

Down­load the issues for free here:

http://fivedials.com/fivedials

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“Come in and refill your dry goods, oils and house­hold products.”

Unpack­aged is a store in Lon­don sell­ing food with­out pack­ag­ing. This very sim­ple and hon­est approach “makes it easy for cus­tomers to do the right thing – the right thing for them­selves and for the envi­ron­ment.” The prod­uct selec­tion com­prises mostly of organic and envi­ron­men­tally friendly prod­ucts, mostly from local pro­duc­ers and suppliers.

Aside from the obvi­ous, the store serves the sur­round­ing neigh­bor­hood by pro­vid­ing an easy-going place for social gath­er­ing where the return­ing cus­tomers from around the block  bump into each other while pur­chas­ing their daily oat­meal and fruit. A kind of vibrant pos­i­tive buzz that might be sur­pris­ingly rare to find these days.

Here’s the idea as it is:

1. Remem­ber to bring your con­tain­ers* from home
2. Come to Unpack­aged and say hello
3. Weigh your con­tain­ers, then choose the prod­uct and amount you want
4. Take your goods home in your own con­tain­ers (if you for­get, you can buy reusable con­tain­ers here)
5. When you’ve run out, come back for a refill, sim­ple as that!

http://beunpackaged.com/

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Smash­ing glass bot­tles straight at the faces of your friends as way of recy­cling? Sounds like an excel­lent chan­nel for both blow­ing off some steams and doing green at the same time. That’s exactly what a NYC-based urban rede­vel­op­ment com­pany Macro-Sea has cre­ated with their lat­est project called Glassphemy, a huge steel struc­ture with bul­let­proof glass walls and touch sen­si­tive light effects.

Through the instal­la­tion, bot­tles col­lected from local bars turn into splin­ter rem­nants that can be used as mate­r­ial for new objects like tum­bler and other drink­ing glasses as well as com­pletely new inno­v­a­tive cre­ations com­posed in design con­tests. Need­less to say, the par­tic­i­pants are undoubt­edly hav­ing a blast not-normally related to recycling.

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A met­ro­pol­i­tan bicy­cle ride with a lot of style. Check out the pho­tos and read more from tweedrun.com.

Boys must have rules. Usu­ally these rules are passed on to boys by their fathers and grand­fa­thers, great grand­fa­thers, fathers-in-laws, uncles and so on. The book by Walker Lam­ond is an excel­lent col­lec­tion of these wise rules every Good Man, at all age, should know of. The book is full of advice from mod­ern gen­tle­men and fine men through­out the course of history.

The craze started in 2009 when the author, Walker Lam­ond, started col­lect­ing these advices in his blog.

“…as many of the rules are dis­til­la­tions of some uni­ver­sal lessons in ethics and eti­quette. I have made efforts to cull the clas­sics from the out­moded. After all, all that is old is good. How­ever, what I hope makes Rules For My Unborn Son unique is the inclu­sion of lessons drawn from my own experiences-the good, the bad, and the ugly.”

rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com

The Ride Jour­nal is an all encom­pass­ing cycling mag­a­zine based in the UK. It is focused on per­sonal short sto­ries and photo essays that “get under the skin and expose the pas­sion that flows through rid­ers veins”. With a min­i­mal amount of adver­tise­ment, the jour­nal is known for its strong visual style made pos­si­ble by a vary­ing ros­ter of artists, illus­tra­tors and photographers.

Issue IV is just out and includes con­tri­bu­tions from Mark Cavendish, Grayson Perry,Matt Seaton, Bran­don Semenuk and Joe Parkin among others.

www.theridejournal.com