Outside of his beautifully melodramatic feature comedies, Wes Anderson has kept busy creating product commercials for companies for years. If you’re racking your brain to recall any spots besides his American Express spot (by far one of his best, as he also stars in it), that’s because many of them ran internationally. One of his best is...
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Fred has this recurring fantasy where he flies home for the holidays, pulls up to his childhood home, and fishes his bags out of the trunk amidst a light snowfall. The warm glow in each window a flickering neon "vacancy" sign after a long stretch of flight delays. Floating into his old room, it's exactly how he left it in 1999. The plastic trophies, acoustic guitars, foosball table, love notes, and trading cards—all waiting for him like old friends. Here, the 17 year-old him never ages, immune to the years, months, and days. Weezer's Blue Album is on compact disc while My So-Called Life reruns (he secretly wanted to be Jordan Catalano) flicker on his television. Time just…stands....
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It is finished. The love letter Jack Carlson and I have been writing to the elaborately striped, piped, trimmed, and badged jackets, and the elite athletes and clubs to which they belong, is finally finished. What took three years, 237 athletes, and thousands of trans-Atlantic air miles to and from Europe can now be had in a 9" x 12 " coffee table book. Rowing Blazers is essentially a gentle curtain pull taking you inside the highly atmospheric boathouses, campuses, and trophy rooms of clubs around the world. In that same spirit, I will pull back a curtain of my own, sharing some of my favorite shots from the book with commentary you won't find in the 255 pages of Rowing Blazers...Read More
Last minute travel might be one of the greatest pleasures in life. One day you're on your couch channel surfing and the next, you're on a plane to Iceland, waking up to someone else's sun. It's magic.
We recently indulged in such an adventure...to Istanbul, though. Iceland will have to wait. "Istanbul in the summer" happened to be number 67 on our 101 in 1,001 list (a short-term bucket list of sorts—101 things to do and places to see in 1,001 days). That means we’re practically obligated to say "yes" when a list item presents itself. That's how the list works...you get to say "yes" before you talk yourself out of it...
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