wild dreams of a new beginning

FINE FOLK FLAGS

2012-02-26T14:58:00.001-08:00

NAUTICAL PULP

2012-02-26T14:37:00.000-08:00

A STAY AT EL COSMICO

2012-02-26T14:21:00.001-08:00

A FEW THINGS DUG OUT FOR SPRING IN SAN FRANCISCO

2012-02-22T11:50:00.001-08:00

SUNDAY NIGHT FLIK: THE MAN HIS WORLD HIS MUSIC

2012-02-19T14:24:00.000-08:00

BADLANDS

2012-02-18T10:34:00.000-08:00

SKANDI VEGA!

2012-02-17T14:00:00.000-08:00

Sans the dramatic score i suppose.

BLACK POINT MERCANTILE

2012-02-17T12:27:00.000-08:00

THE BEST OF NAUTICAL QUARTERLY: VOL. I

2012-02-16T10:00:00.000-08:00

XO

2012-02-14T17:14:00.001-08:00

LVC SPRING/SUMMER 2012 LOOKBOOK

2012-02-13T14:15:00.000-08:00

PASSAGE PLANNING: SAILOR'S DUFFLE

2012-02-12T19:36:00.000-08:00

GOOD GRAPHICS VOL. I

2012-02-12T18:51:00.000-08:00

Brought to you by just another unhealthy obsession.

FOUND: VINTAGE L.L. BEAN BACKPACK

2012-02-12T15:38:00.000-08:00

ONLY ONE ROAD LEADS TO THE BUNK HOUSE RANCH

2012-02-10T12:07:00.000-08:00

Texas Forever.

PILGRIM AND PYLES

2012-02-10T10:30:00.000-08:00

Big congratulatory kiss to Kacee and Aidan for the launch of their new style site, Pilgrim and Pyles. No one does style like these southern belles, click the logo to go see whats happening.

3 RESTLESS RIDERS

2012-02-05T14:39:00.000-08:00

DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

2012-02-05T12:58:00.000-08:00

Found these 19th centuryTexan poker cards on a recent trip through the south west.

SIX KAPITAL PATCHES

2012-02-01T18:23:00.000-08:00

FAVORITE: PERFORMANCE

2012-01-30T18:20:00.002-08:00

BIG SUR FOLK FEST; 1967 - ETERNAL BLISS

2012-01-30T18:20:00.001-08:00

NINE SIGNAL FLAGS

2012-01-30T18:13:00.001-08:00

I HOPE SHE'D WEAR IT AT THE ALTER

2012-01-30T18:12:00.001-08:00

KEMP COTTAGE, PROVINCETOWN

2012-01-30T18:03:00.003-08:00

LOVE:

2012-01-30T18:03:00.001-08:00

GEORGE WASSON SKETCHBOOK

2012-01-30T18:02:00.000-08:00

SAILOR'S TATTOOS

2012-01-30T17:58:00.002-08:00

FAVORITE: SCRAP VESSEL

2012-01-30T17:53:00.001-08:00

KON-TIKI

2012-01-30T08:20:00.001-08:00

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER

2012-01-30T08:19:00.001-08:00

DORIES!

2012-01-30T08:15:00.001-08:00

NEWFOUNDLAND BY SAM ABELL

2012-01-29T17:54:00.000-08:00

JITKA HANZLOVA'S FOREST

2012-01-29T17:43:00.001-08:00

BEACH BOYS PARTY

2012-01-29T17:42:00.001-08:00

This was filmed on Brian Wilson's birthday. I love this era Beach Boys,

when they had really developed into their own look.

WELCOME TO THE OVERLOOK

2012-01-29T17:39:00.000-08:00

A CROSS COUNTRY MUST: POSTING UP WHERE KUBRICK CREATED THE OVERLOOK.

3 FROM THE ARCHIVES

2012-01-29T17:38:00.000-08:00

VINTAGE MAINE PLATES

2012-01-29T17:37:00.001-08:00

PASSAGE PLANNING: TELLTALE COMPASS

2012-01-29T17:34:00.005-08:00

FAVORITE: MEN AT SEA

2012-01-29T17:31:00.001-08:00

HOMEMADE TATTOO ART

2012-01-29T17:30:00.001-08:00

WHALES TOOTH SCRIMSHAW

2012-01-29T17:23:00.000-08:00

A PERFECT FALL LOOKBOOK; 1973

2012-01-29T17:16:00.000-08:00

HAPPY MONDAY

2012-01-02T18:16:00.000-08:00

WESTWARD!

2012-01-01T18:18:00.000-08:00

SOMETHING

2011-08-07T18:19:00.000-07:00

Tell me this ain't dreamland...

MUST SEE: UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US

2011-01-30T18:04:00.000-08:00

FALLEN ANGEL

2011-01-30T18:00:00.000-08:00

I just watched Fallen Angel, and man am i glad i ever made it westward.

THE C.W. MORGAN

2011-01-30T17:58:00.000-08:00

HOAG'S OUTBOARD

2011-01-30T17:56:00.001-08:00

In 1925 J.E. Hoag's 18 foot motorboat the Transcontinental set out from Astoria Oregon and ventured 5,680 miles to New York City by canal, lake, river and stream. Here is a surviving shot of the crew on their ship.

NAUTICAL PULP

2011-01-30T17:56:00.000-08:00

OLD MAINE POSTCARDS

2011-01-30T17:27:00.000-08:00

AN OLD SKETCHBOOK OF MORRED VESSELS

2011-01-29T17:57:00.000-08:00

SHIP IN A BOTTLE!

2011-01-29T17:55:00.000-08:00

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TOUGHEST FISHERY IN THE WORLD...

2011-01-29T17:51:00.000-08:00

...might be in Dutch Harbor

GREAT REPUBLIC

2011-01-29T17:47:00.000-08:00

NORTH OR SOUTH, ALWAYS ON TIME

2011-01-29T17:46:00.000-08:00

20,000 LEAGUES!

2011-01-29T17:41:00.000-08:00

Over 30 hours were spent underwater shooting for this film. Say what you will, but the imagery and complexity of some of these scenes puts 20,000 Leagues up there on my list.

GEORGE TOBIN SKETCHES

2011-01-29T17:34:00.000-08:00

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE STORY EVER FILMED...

2011-01-29T17:29:00.000-08:00

"is not yet over..."

KNOT TYING: TURKS HEAD

2011-01-29T17:28:00.000-08:00

UNCLE PETE'S BOSTON

2010-12-10T17:25:00.000-08:00

Your new favorite shop just opened at 125 Charles St in Boston.

BLEACH ON VINYL

2010-09-01T17:55:00.000-07:00

WEST END SUNSET

2010-05-16T15:47:00.000-07:00

I think I'll watch the sun go down over the White Mountains from PTLD's Western Promenade...

THE 33RD COMMON GROUND FAIR

2010-04-01T17:17:00.000-07:00

SOPHOMORE SPRING 10

2010-02-15T08:18:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite lookbooks from Spring 10 is from Sophomore. It captures the feeling of summer break in the 90's; the days of near- sighted wanderlust and learning how to play Nirvana songs on the guitar.

OF CITIES IN THE SEA

2010-01-30T08:17:00.000-08:00

TWIN PEAKS TURNS TWENTY

2010-01-30T08:16:00.000-08:00

To really celebrate, go pay a visit to one of my favorite blogs,

Twin Peaks Archive

THE BLESSING OF THE FLEET

2010-01-29T17:50:00.000-08:00

WATSON ATKINSON / CAFE REVIEW

2010-01-29T17:49:00.001-08:00

Local renegade tattoo artist Watson Atkinson recently designed the cover for ptld literary journal the Cafe Review. Needless to say Watson does more than tattoo.

THE MINERS' CABINS OF STURTEVANT FALLS

2010-01-29T17:49:00.000-08:00

Just outside Pasadena, there is a place called Sturtevant Falls, where old cabins from the '49 goldrush are maintained and situated at the waterfall that rushes through the valley there. I took a cloudy Sunday afternoon to find them the last time I was out West. No gold, though.

SILENT BARN

2010-01-29T17:48:00.000-08:00

An art space/punk house somewhere in Brooklyn... I finally found this place the last time I was in town. Just so happens Liturgy was playing their homecoming show there that night, and I was lucky enough not to miss it.

OBESSESSION: TED LUCAS

2010-01-29T17:47:00.000-08:00

PORTS OF TRADE

2010-01-29T17:45:00.000-08:00

VINTAGE GHURKA NO. 48

2010-01-29T17:43:00.000-08:00

New to me: Marley Hodgson vintage Ghurka

No. 48. Handmade in CT.

YOU'RE NOT COUNTRY

2010-01-29T17:35:00.000-08:00

Jon Langford is country...

24 HOURS TO GO

2010-01-29T17:34:00.000-08:00

LETS START THIS WORK WEEK OFF RIGHT

THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME

2010-01-29T17:32:00.000-08:00

It's good to come home to Maine for the weekend while working in the city for Men's Market. Now its time to build a fire, open some Squall, and go play in the snow... Who's with me?

SURVIVAL: A WINTER CAMPFIRE

2010-01-29T17:30:00.000-08:00

So what if it's dark out at 3:30? My friend Sara and I say Maine winters are only what you make of them...

JAMES BUTTERSWORTH

2010-01-29T17:27:00.000-08:00

THE WYOMING

2010-01-29T17:26:00.000-08:00

The Wyoming was the biggest wooden ship ever built. A 6 mast schooner built by Percy & Small in Bath, Maine. A couple days ago the Maine Maritime Museum celebrated the 100th anniversary of its launching at the base of a life size sculpture you can see there.

THE AMDUNDSEN EXPEDITION; 1911

2010-01-29T17:21:00.000-08:00

The only surviving image from the 1911 Amdunsen Expedition to the South Pole was recently uncovered.

DAZZLE PLANS

2010-01-29T17:20:00.000-08:00

I recently had the chance to check out RISD's Dazzle Plans donated by Maurice Freedman.

PRESSED

2010-01-10T17:40:00.000-08:00

CAST OFF!

2010-01-01T17:27:00.000-08:00

Happy 2010!

WELCOME TO WILD DREAMS OF A NEW BEGINNING

2009-12-28T18:21:00.000-08:00

There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight
Beyond the ledges of concrete
restaurants fall into dreams
with candlelight couples
Lost Alexandria still burns
in a billion lightbulbs
Lives cross lives
idling at stoplights
Beyond the cloverleaf turnoffs
'Souls eat souls in the general emptiness'
A piano concerto comes out a kitchen window
A yogi speaks at Ojai
'It's all taking pace in one mind'
On the lawn among the trees
lovers are listening
for the master to tell them they are one
with the universe
Eyes smell flowers and become them
There's a deathless hush
on the freeway tonight
as a Pacific tidal wave a mile high
sweeps in
Los Angeles breathes its last gas
and sinks into the sea like the Titanic all lights lit
Nine minutes later Willa Cather's Nebraska
sinks with it
The sea comes over in Utah
Mormon tabernacles washed away like barnacles
Coyotes are confounded & swim nowhere
An orchestra onstage in Omaha
keeps on playing Handel's Water Music
Horns fill with water
ans bass players float away on their instruments
clutching them like lovers horizontal
Chicago's Loop becomes a rollercoaster
Skyscrapers filled like water glasses
Great Lakes mixed with Buddhist brine
Great Books watered down in Evanston
Milwaukee beer topped with sea foam
Beau Fleuve of Buffalo suddenly become salt
Manhatten Island swept clean in sixteen seconds
buried masts of Amsterdam arise
as the great wave sweeps on Eastward
to wash away over-age Camembert Europe
manhatta steaming in sea-vines
the washed land awakes again to wilderness
the only sound a vast thrumming of crickets
a cry of seabirds high over
in empty eternity
as the Hudson retakes its thickets
and Indians reclaim their canoes

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Wild Dreams of a New Beginning