The weekend ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
We’re bringing you fall’s best burgundies, by the bottle, and taking a little bit off just for you. (And yes, there’s a magnum.) Plus, we’re getting you 25% off a sold-out collection of Swiss-made watches and 15% off exclusive, gallery-quality photos of Arcade Fire, Winehouse and more...
Sometimes you need a yeti-skin robe. Other times, you just need a belt. Both should be handsome and understated. Regarding the belt: here’s a new line of hand-sewn, antique-brass-buckled beauties crafted by the bootmaking experts at Chicago’s Oak Street. This seemed like the logical next step.
You haven’t made it until you’ve got proper Halloween coffee-table reading material. So we found this new book of eerie old photos of people in their costumes. It was compiled by an electro-industrial DJ and has an intro from David Lynch. Sounds about right.
Viral videos: the lifeblood of the procrastination economy. And now they’ve streamlined the process of watching them with this attractive iPhone/iPad app. It takes all the videos your friends post on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr and makes a curated channel out of them. How you lived without this, we’ll never know.
Ernest Hemingway once owned a camera. It was made by the German company Leica. That company also made a gun camera. It’s a rifle butt with a triggered telephoto lens. It is rare and old. Both items are up for bid this Sunday. Nothing more needs to be said.
When you look at a knife, you see a precision tool expertly crafted for the separating of food. These guys see a bottle opener. They take vintage knives that just aren’t cutting it anymore (sorry) and give them a second life. No word on lighters made from sporks.
