I see value in classic brands who's style is impervious to the trends of high fashion and hold allegiance to more steadfast values. These brands are based around lifestyles and social pillars such as the outdoors/hunting, sailing, sports, and preppy tradition. The products these brands sell represent ideas and allusions that are impervious to trends.
Over the next few months I will post profiles of some of these brands, specifically focusing on pieces I like.
Here are some photos from French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. His photos of race cars, and early airplanes gained him the most attention but he was also a fashion photographer. I love how he captures people doing fun activities and try to include this in my own photography.
chutzpah. Here are a couple videos to remind the world of his greatness...
Note Seagal's limp wrists. He knows that his status as a worthy adversary is irrefutable and thus he has no incentive to run like a bad ass.
As an avid Blackberry user, I follow the next generation Blackberrys (The Bold, The Storm, and Javelin) very closely. On Halloween, Fortune Magazine reported Vodafone's very cheap pricing for the Verizon bound Storm. Engadget went on to extrapolate that the Storm may be priced at 99 USD. This conjecture on the Storm pricing comes shortly after another rumor about Apple dropping the price of the 3g Iphone to 100 dollars sometime in 2009. Will both happen? I doubt it, but expect to see Verizon to price the Storm well bellow the $199 Iphone in the $100 to $150 range. This is a new approach for Verizon. Historically they rely on the strength of their network to sell potential costumers not attractive hardware. In 2005, Verizon passed on the opportunity to have exclusive rights to the Iphone because they weren't willing to pay the heavy subsidies and monthly allowances demanded by Apple. I am sure Verizon has been kicking themselves for missing out on the opportunity to sell the Iphone and are willing to take some chances in the form of heavy subsidies to have a sexy, well priced phone this holiday seasons. It will be interesting to see how this plays out...
Here is a preview.
I left my job in New York in the summer of 2011 and moved into a camper. Since then, I have driven 100,000 miles around the west, surfing and camping. During the summer of 2014, I set up a home base in the Columbia River Gorge. These are some of my stories and photos.
