Happy Friday! This is the first week of our link round up. Have a look at what we're reading, viewing, and gawking at on the internet.
Eight men get fancy hairdos. We especially like the prom updos and Mother of the Bride. (The Bold Italic)
The United States has nothing on Europe when it comes to architecture. This video proves it. (Vimeo)
The neighbors just want to remind you that you're pretty good looking. (The Richmond Blog)
These snails are hypnotizing. (This Is Colossal)
Are they hot dogs or legs?
At a time when enterprise millionaires are wearing holey jeans instead of French cuff shirts, the idea of the working professional t-shirt makes sense. Pickwick & Weller was founded by three men with a shared frustration for how, despite the clothing's ubiquity in their industries, no one had really managed to make a t-shirt that was both comfortable, and congruous with the casual aesthetics of a Bay Area startup. For the moment, forget that one of those three men is famous t-shirt-wearer and startup investor Ashton Kutcher and focus on how they've made a $30 shirt that's better than anything you could buy for three figures in a Post Street boutique.
Ryan Donahue, one of the three founders and a veteran San Francisco graphic designer whose former employers include a nascent PayPal, thought of the t-shirt as a personal essential that should be made with the same precision as any other daily staple. "I think about what I use everyday," he says. "My laptop, my iPhone, jeans, and I wear a t-shirt everyday."
It was Renoir who said that a work of art "must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, and carry you away." Interviews with artists should have a similar effect. With "Artist's Statement," our interview series with prominent and upcoming visual artists in San Francisco, SF Weekly speaks to the people behind the art you see in the galleries, in the museums, and in the streets.
