OS Country | Saturday Morning in Senigallia…

TIMBERLINE LODGE

OS Country | Dinner with friends

chowdah

OS Country | Landscape

Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker

Writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn. He talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash.

director-producer KEEF
director of photography JOSHUA KRASZEWSKI
editor MATT SHAPIRO
music MICHAEL TRAINOR & NATHAN ROSENBERG
music produced at THE DOG HOUSE NYC
sound recordist ROBERT ALBRECHT
re-recording mixer NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY
assistant re-recording mixer JOHN GUMAER
gaffer ADAM ORELLANA
title design MANDY BROWN


special thanks
JOEL BUKIEWICZ & CUT BROOKLYN

thisismadebyhand.com
cutbrooklyn.com

Made by Hand / No 1 The Distiller

Breuckelen Distilling Company, the first gin distiller in Brooklyn since prohibition. Founder Brad Estabrooke talks about starting from nothing and the imperfect process of perfecting a craft. His experience bears a lesson for us all: knowing you could fail brings you that much closer to success.

director-producer KEEF
director of photography JOSHUA KRASZEWSKI
editor MATT SHAPIRO
title design MANDY BROWN
music ROMAN ZEITLIN
sound recordist ROBERT ALBRECHT
re-recording mixer NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY

special thanks
BRAD ESTABROOKE & BREUCKELEN DISTILLING CO.

thisismadebyhand.com
brkdistilling.com

OS Country | Christmas Barbecue

Race. Alla conquista del Polo Sud | Oct.16th - Mar.18th | Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy

Race to the End of the Earth tells epic tale of leaders, challenges and consequences

 Race to the End of the Earth recounts, one hundred years later, one of the most stirring tales in the annals of Antarctic exploration: the contest to reach the South Pole. This exhibition focuses on the challenges that the two leaders — Roald Amundsen on the Norwegian side and Robert Falcon Scott on the British — faced as they undertook their separate 1,800-mile journeys from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf to the South Pole and back.

OS | Sirolo, Monte Conero, Marche, Italy

OS | Sunrise, Senigallia, Marche, Italy

OS Trip | Favignana, Sicily, Italy

Tonnara Florio Visit

In ancient times Favignana was called Aegusa, meaning “goats’ island”. The present name is derived from Favonio, an Italian name for the foehn wind. It was colonised by the Phoenicians, who used it as a stopping point on their trans-Mediterranean trading routes.

The island was fought over during the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage. On 10 March 241 BC, a major naval battle was fought a short distance offshore between the two powers. Two hundred Roman ships under the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus met and decisively defeated a much larger Carthaginian fleet of 400 ships, with the Romans sinking 120 Carthaginian vessels and taking 10,000 prisoners. So many dead Phoenicians washed ashore on the northeastern part of Favignana that the shoreline there acquired the name “Red Cove” (Cala Rossa) from the bloodshed. The Romans took possession of the island under the terms of the treaty that ended the war.

Under Roman rule, the islanders adopted Christianity by the 4th century AD, although (judging by inscriptions dated to the 1st century BC they appear to have retained at least some Phoenician culture. In the early Middle Ages, Favignana was captured by Arabs and was used as a base for the Islamic conquest of Sicily. The Normans subsequently took possession of the island, and built fortifications there from 1081. Under the Aragonese rulers of Sicily, Favignana and the other Egadi Islands were hired out to Genoese merchants and in the 15th century the islands were granted to one Giovanni de Karissima, who adopted the grand title “Baron of Tuna”.

The plentiful tuna fish found offshore were first exploited systematically under the Spanish from about the 17th century onwards. Facing severe financial problems from their ongoing wars, the Spanish sold the islands to the Marquis Pallavicino of Genoa in 1637. The Pallavicini substantially developed the economy of the island, prompting the establishment of the modern town of Favignana around the Castello San Giacomo. In 1874, the Pallavicino family sold the Egadi Islands to Ignazio Florio, the son of a wealthy mainland industrialist, for two million liras. He invested heavily in Favignana and built a major tuna cannery on the island, bringing prosperity to many of the inhabitants. Tuff quarries were also opened with stone being exported to Tunisia and Libya.

The islanders had a much more difficult time during the 20th century. Favignana’s economy slumped between the two World Wars and many inhabitants emigrated to the mainland and abroad. The tuna fishery also declined with the rise of factory fishing after World War II. However, the island’s fortunes were turned around by the advent of tourism from the late 1960s onwards.

OS Trip | Sirolo, Marche, Italy

Hans Steiner

MUSEE DE L’ELYSEE, LAUSANNE (9th Feb 2011 - 15th May 2011)

Chronique de la vie moderne. Steiner was part of the golden age of Swiss photojournalism (1930s and 1940s), this exhibition has the dual aim of showing the most representative and the most attractive of his images and of offering a contemporary perspective on a historical subject; with an emphasis on Steiner’s modernist vision of society.

If you watch movies backwards is a blog that tells us how famous movies would become if they where told backwords.

For example: “If you watch Back to the Future backwards, it’s about a boy who leaves his cool family to travel back in time to break up his mom and dad only to return back to the present and enjoy an obnoxious family.”

Enjoy it!

Espresso Solo | Concrete Espresso Machine for Lavazza by Samuel Linski

Concrete, ideal for building homes and roads but is it good enuf for a coffee machine? Tough question to answer, but apparently we can take Shmuel Linski’s help on this coz he’s designed one. The rugged appeal and the delectable cracks in its form; Espresso Solo looks smoking hot in this cemented avatar! Shmuel has kept the project simple, the machine makes only espresso: short and long. A chamber for the beans and an outlet for water are all that it features. No fuss, just solid love for caffeine and irresistible forms!

Spot 2011 Bmw serie 6 cabrio. Girato a Senigallia (Italy)

TUBE celebrated scuba diving culture bringing a new design aesthetic to water sandals. TUBE is inspired by acquatic scuba gear translating into visual and functional design elements.

WAVE SKIING

Chuck Patterson is a former pro Freeskier, a professional Waterman, and one of the most fearless humans we’ve ever met. After a brief experiment with skiing on waves several years ago, Chuck’s passion for the idea was re-lit after watching Mike Douglas and Cody Townsend ski the waves of Maui in 2009. In January 2011, Chuck followed the biggest swell of the year to Maui, to see if he could see if he could successfully ski Pe’ahi or ‘Jaws’ — one of the most powerful waves on earth.

L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo
The bird with the crystal plumage

Music by Ennio Morricone