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The Japanese shoe shine bar chain and shoe care brand Brift H, founded by the first world champion of shoe shining Yuya Hasegawa, is now part of the Japanese high-end fashion giant United Arrows. A great journey that started with Yuya being a street shoe shiner, and a testament to the importance the shoe shine industry has, not least in Japan. Yuya Hasegawa grew up in Chiba outside of Tokyo, …

David Kilgour - The Gas Station, New York City, June 18, 1992Good news! The Great Unwashed’s Clean Out Of Our Minds is getting a much-needed reissue soon. This band was the 4-track project of David and Hamish Kilgour following The Clean’s initial splintering. Killer stuff — but then, pretty much everything that the Brothers Kilgour touched is magic. Like David’s first solo LP, Here Come The Cars! That one has …

What are you up to this weekend? The boys and I have been admiring Halloween decorations in our neighborhood and brainstorming our costumes. (I’m going as the same thing as last year, haha.)… Read more The post Have a Fun Weekend. appeared first on Cup of Jo.

Wow, it’s October. For the last 18 years I’ve reviewed my life and posted an annual review around my birthday in May, and have done so for the most part rather promptly. Here I am over 4 whole months later, starting maybe my 10th draft of this damned thing, still at a complete loss for words around how to talk about what is happening in my life. To be honest, …

This is wild. AI is much more than just text generation. It has revived robotics with real dialogue. If this hits the market at sub-car costs, it’s a winner.Domestic goods changed the world forever, making washing and drying clothes and dishes much easier, as did vacuum cleaners and central heating but the gap remained between static tasks and mobile tasks. We still have to put out the rubbish, get things …

Dyfrig Morris, Rachel Bird and James Stirling in Baddies at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield. Picture: Jess Shurte The Baddies was reviewed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh where it continues until 20 October 2024. The tour continues until 12 June 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Julia Donaldson’s books for children are held dear by youngsters everywhere. Freckle Productions has a long, successful relationship with …

The TTABlogger is pleased to announce that Dorsey IP litigation partner and consumer survey expert, Michael Keyes, will provide my dear readers (and anyone else) with an entertaining webinar on "Avoiding Consumer Survey Pitfalls at the TTAB" on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 12:00PM - 1:00PM ET, 11:00 AM CT, etc. To register, please click here. Consumer surveys are on the rise at the TTAB. Whether they are being offered …

Against the fierce winds of Hurricane Milton, the valiant trash cans of the Transportation & Ticket Center stood their ground, their plastic armor shredded by the storm’s fury. Two brave souls fell, their sacrifice ensuring the survival of their comrades.// Walt Disney World, Transportation & Ticket Center, 2024[Source: Name Withheld Upon Request. Used by Permission.]

Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets The geological history of the Moon speaks of a time older than most of the Earth’s surface. The relatively small size of our satellite led to an accelerated geological demise dominated by progressive cooling over the last 3 billion years or so. However, the earlier history of the Moon likely featured global expansion …

Natalie Erika James (who delivered 2020’s impressively depressing RELIC)’s recent ROSEMARY’S BABY prequel APARTMENT 7A is commendably detailed and admirably respectful of its source material yet it lacks any punchy impact and for every fine, nuanced acting performance there’s a regrettably awkward dance number. As a huge fan of Ira Levin’s novel and Roman Polanski’s film adaptation, I have to admit it kept me reasonably entertained by stuffing me to …

There’s something raw about the new album from The Submissives. Despite being the band’s first foray into the studio as a complete ensemble, the sheen and shine of the studio environment do little to diminish the bands slightly frayed ends. That’s by no means a slight, as one of the band’s most endearing qualities is their wobbly, woozy aura of unpolished perfection. Echoing similarly sizzled post-punk heroes like Young Marble …

March 6 – 9, 1521 Incredulity, relief, thankfulness… all of these emotions and more swept through the ranks of sick, starving sailors in the wake of the cry from the Victoria’s lookout that he could see land off the starboard bow. With an energy they hadn’t known they had, the men ran, hobbled, or crawled to the starboard gunwales, eyes straining to see that which the lookout had seen. Magellan …

reframings on growing a creative business this post is about the integration and interdependence of three practices:making artsharing your work on the internet having a business & making money I’ll be reframing each practice as ART, ECOSYSTEM, and ALCHEMY work, and — in contrast to our ultra-compartmentalized, capitalist culture — I’ll explain how each practice is in deep, symbiotic relationship with each other. to embrace the interdependence of each practice …

oxidized metal covers the gas works in the park with the same name. the sky is blue with unnaturally orange clouds. i could not tell you why early settlers decided to build a dilapadating gas plant on the edge of lake union, but i’m sure they had a good reason. About a month ago, a delivery driver contracted with Amazon shared a post to a drivers’ forum on Reddit. The …