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Bloody Butchers, Bad Dogs and Model Prisoners
Fresh Meat: These gory Eva Herzigova shots by Mario Testino have us hot, hungry and a little bit scared. [The Photography Link] Curb Your Dog: Some horrid pooch went and peed on our beloved Natalie...
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A Few of Our Favorite Things
London-based Monocle (which, we hasten to add, is not a lifestyle magazine) has posted a front-of-the-book-style roundup that bears no resemblance to lifestyle journalism whatsoever. Titled “Things to...
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The Wild Side
Whether it’s Africa or flight attendant training school, the subject often makes the photographer. And as subjects go, brothels are a pretty good one…as long as you keep the kids away from the coffee...
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Tall Boys
It’s hard to overstate the appeal of a very tall beer glass. It’ll help you master your pouring and you won’t have to suffer through foamless pilsners anymore, but the real fun is bringing a bit of...
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Marketing the Void
Advertising tends to traffic in generically comforting scenes—a sun-dappled Dr. Pepper-equipped picnic, for instance—but you can’t stay on the bright side forever, and occasionally things get...
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Keeping it Surreal
We ran across this highbrow Volkswagen spot from the same dour German ad house that brought you the suicidal calorie. The tagline is “Absurdly low consumption,” but again, we didn’t expect things to...
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The Art Boom
The latest in our series of things that will get you arrested when you pick them up from the post office, this German-made porcelain grenade is intended as a Christmas ornament, but the political...
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Clearing the Mind
Doping has been a known staple of Soviet sports since the famous Drago-Balboa fight, but lately even chess has come under suspicion. Der Spiegel (via Neatorama) is seizing on Grandmaster Vassily...
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Grab Hold
If you were wondering about the legacy of those Tom Ford ads…we might have something. The German exotica shop Condomi must have decided their old bags weren’t eye-catching enough, so they designed...
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Left of the Dial
We’ve had a love/hate relationship with the radio for about ten years now, but it’s still one of the best ways to tap into the musical zeitgeist. If only the FM dial were a little less crappy… The...
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The Ghost of Colas Past
As Pepsi recently discovered, the world of soda bottle design can get pretty contentious, so it’s worth remembering what it looks like when it’s done right. Afri Cola was a German, Jolt-style caffeine...
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The Streets is Watchin’
Street art has always been a bit too politically prickly to fit in with the web 2.0 crowd…but that’s no reason to stop trying. After all, populism is populism, and if street artists managed to make...
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A Very Bad Man
Ladies and Gentlemen, this man is an asshole. Our old friend Jared Paul Stern just filed this dispatch from the world of unimaginable wealth. He’s tasked with the world’s richest asshole, and we have...
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Mad World
The 1960s advertising world may be taking a temporary vacation from the zeitgeist, but we couldn’t help noticing a familiar item in the latest catalog from Germany’s aptly named Wormland label. That’s...
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Meanwhile, Back at the Lab
Edison-style inventing keeps a pretty low profile these days, but there’s still a lot of would-be Qs out there, and they’ve got some ideas to show you. The James Dyson Awards (hat tip to The Awl are...
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Eastern Promises
Not all German cars are created equal. To anyone weathering the sea change after the wall fell, the Trabant was the brightest symbol of clunky East German industrialism. It boasted a ridiculously...
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The New Briefcase
If you’ve been adventurous enough to join in for Bike to Work Week, you may have noticed a slight problem: it’s damn hard to bring a briefcase along on one of those things. Most baskets aren’t large...
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Camera Man
This picture from Europhotoblogger Markus Schwarze proves the old rule: A good camera can make up for a lot of frumpiness. And the suspenders don’t hurt either.
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The Reentry: December 5
It’s been a busy few days, so you might have been distracted from some of the recent news—like the newly discovered spy software in your phone, the Russian elections and the enormous WWII-era bomb...
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Dempsey Stewart Disagrees With Your Opinion of Drake
via Fashion Gone Rogue, Christopher Ferguson Making Time: Jason Heaton digs into the best German watch brands out there, raising questions of whether Pforzheim is too silly of a name to be a real...
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Test Driving Klaus Kinski’s Cologne
Ladies and gentlemen, Klaus Kinski has a cologne. Twenty years after his death, the intense German actor’s estate has unveiled Kinski the Fragrance, an olfactory tribute to the star of Aguirre,...
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The Madness Is Spreading
A lot happened over the weekend—and not just the near-fatal damage to your March Madness bracket. We’re thinking of St. Patrick’s Day chaos in Canada, a new German president and, perhaps most...
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The New International Men’s Shops to Know
In our grand tradition of keeping you up to date on the international men’s shop scene, we’ve scoured the globe for the newest openings in your regular haunts—you know, Shanghai, Berlin, the usual....
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