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30 Minutes with Liad Cohen, Lomography General Manager and Chief of Retail

We tend to believe that technological advancement in the last 20 years has changed the world mostly for the better. Still, the waning of film-based photography is the worst causality in our books resulting from the collateral damage of the digital age. Thanks to a passionate community of shutterbugs and the style elite, however, analogue [...]

Perpetual Luster

Unique and utilitarian vintage timepieces, qualifiers that are in like a raging tsunami, are rarely embodied better than a classic Rolex with dive strap. Granted, one of the biggest hurdles when purchasing a vintage timepiece is not just finding solid product, but identifying a trustworthy procurement source. Worse, the two in tandem are practically rarified [...]

What's In Your Suitcase?

The LP Converter Table is an unexpected product spied on a recent visit to Restoration Hardware. The LP Converter Table comes housed in a 1960′s-style vinyl suitcase that not only plays your old LPs, but lets you rip them into MP3s using your computer’s USB (B to A) input for burning to CDs or play [...]

A Guitar Amongst Guitars

This week’s fixation: a guitar. Not just any old guitar, mind you. A rarity amongst rarities, this completely original 1959 Les Paul is completely original from the hardware, case and key, and paperwork; its all new, right down to its gorgeous signature flamey finish. For more information, contact the venerable high-end audio retailer Vintage King [...]

My struggle to keep the insatiable desire to be an early adopter in a perpetually advancing world of technology and a contrasting appreciation of the slower, more deliberate pace of analog products is nowhere more evident than in the realm of cameras. Sure, I love(d) my Nikon D90, but I also love my Canon AE-1 [...]

Don't Take Away My Kodachrome

Before Photoshop. Before Canon Digital ELPHs or Digital Rebels. Before Sony Mavicas,or Nikon Coolpix cameras. Before all of these photographic marvels of the digital age, there was film. Yes, film. You know, smelly canisters, 1 hour developing (which was fast, mind you), pain-in-the-ass loading, film. Recently passed the last official day Eastman Kodak cranked out [...]

New Brand. Vintage Craftsmanship.

Nestled in Berkeley, California’s Gourmet Chetto, resides an unassuming loft. It’s the home of Twig & Fig, an artisan company dedicated to creating unique letterpress stationery. Founded in 2003 by Suzie McKig and Serge Vigeant, the crew of of Twig & Fig base their operations around a 1974 Heidelberg Windmill Lettepress (the last of its [...]

Vintage Cruiser

We’re suckers for good looking restored trucks, and in our patrolling of the web, we find some gems. This Cool Cruisers of Texas Restored FJ60 Cruiser is one of them. A quick history lesson on the FJ60. The FJ60 was available during the years 1981-1987 powered by a 4.2 liter inline 6-cylinder engine (135 horsepower, [...]

Shake It Like A Vintage Polaroid Picture

By Gear Patrol Reader Michael Grady If you’re a gearhead like me, then you’re always about the next best thing, but sometimes it’s important to take in the goodness of vintage. And this doesn’t just apply to style and decor, but to electronics too. This weekend, or next, skip the digital camera (gasp), spend a [...]

A Coffee Table Fit for Daniel Plainview

If you appreciate vintage over modern, then you’re likely to take a look at the Vintage Furniture Factory Cart, sold by Restoration Hardware, and immediately want to build an entire room around it. Personally, I’ll take restored vintage over modern (though I prefer a nice mix), but this piece is entirely too unique not to [...]

Sure, digital is nice. It’s convenient, fast and cold. Yes, cold. When it comes to digital cameras there’s never that touch of oversaturated and grainy goodness you get from imperfections in film. It’s the difference between a picture and a photograph. If you’ve got a digital camera then by all means keep it. It’s perfect [...]