Continuing GearCrave’s focus on all things fashion forward, we teamed up with the good people at Vintage Red to introduce their gear to you– our smart, discerning, fashionable reader. We hand-selected Vintage Red because we feel their gear is precisely relevant to today’s contemporary men’s style. We love bold texture screen prints on quality t-shirts. We love military style collared shirts. We love Spring-friendly dress shirts that fuse both trends together. In short, we’re excited about Vintage Red, and what they could mean to our wardrobe. Continue reading not only to learn more about the Vintage Red men’s style collections, but how you can win your very own Vintage Red gear from GearCrave.com.
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In it’s heyday, arcade gaming had it’s galaxies, and Los Angeles was one of the most magnificent. The games’ communal blue radiation and discordant 8-bit symphonies spilled across the sidewalks, boardwalks, and galleria food courts.
Today these classic machines, arguably the pillars on which the industry was built, have all but disappeared from public view. They have moved from the street into the houses, basements, and living rooms of people like Brian Saur.
Brian has 22 original arcade machines scattered across his house, self maintained and lovingly preserved. Periodically he opens his doors to hold video game parties for friends and family. GearCrave.com was lucky enough to be on the invite list so we sat down to find out more about what motivates someone to turn their family home into Los Angeles’ version of Funspot.
Where did your love for games begin?
I don’t know, I guess I have nostalgic roots as far as gaming is concerned, the stuff I tend to like is stuff I used to like and it evolves from there. I’m open to anything as far as the newest xbox and ps3 games or whatever, but there’s something really neat about older, simplistic stuff….There’s something zen about it, mastering something simple.
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All women love gifts, why not get yourself some bonus points by giving her a random present. Trust us it will be worth your while. This weeks gift idea is the book “100 Places every women should go” it highlights 100 special destinations and challenging activities — from diving for pearls in Bahrain to racing a camel, yak, or pony across Mongolia; to dancing with voodoo priestesses in Benin and urban cowboys in Texas; to taking a mud bath in a volcano off the coast of Colombia. Divided into such sections as “Places Where Women Made History,†“Places of Indulgence,†and “Places of Adventure,†this guidebook includes timely contact information, resources, and recommended reading. “Ten Tips For Wandering Women†features safety precautions plus pointers on haggling, packing, and staying parasite-free.
Buy: $12
There are few major studio releases this week, which can be seen as a good or a bad thing, depending on your tastes. We thought this would be a good excuse to pick DVDs that may get otherwise over looked. Two strong entries from the BBC, with Ricky Gervais in Extras Series Finale and rock your face fantastic State of Play, which is currently being remade into a movie with Russell Crowe. Anthony Hopkins Slipstream is an amazingly strange movie, and Criterion always reliable bring us The Last Emperor. Here is a list of all movie choices of the week.
Buy: 30 Days of Night | NFL Super Bowl XLII | Darjeeling Limited | Slipstream | Goya’s Ghost | Silk | Day Zero | State of Play | Extras | The Last Emperor |
Amazon.com offers the Tag Heuer Men’s Quartz Aquaracer Watch, model no. THCAF1111.BA0803, for $1,012.26 $1795.00 with free shipping. Thats a saving of 44%.
DWR is running a sale of 15% off on all its “office in a box” solutions most sets include at least a chair, desk, and lamp. Sale ends February 26.
The W Hotels Store, code Q96TE takes a whopping 40% off total purchases. Expires 02/29/2008
Buy: Tag Heuer 44% | DWR 15% | W-Store 40% |
If you have trouble getting all your tasks done during a day, you need to check out Vitalist.com, it is hands down the best task management solution on or offline. Faithfully following David Allen’s hugely popular method of Getting Things Done (GTD) it is a painfully simple way of organizing your days work into small manageable chunks. Their free account have no limitations on the number of actions you can create. Extra features such as additional projects, sharing, file attachments, and ssl secure data transmission, are included with their Basic and Premium versions for only $5 and $10 per month respectively.
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John Lennon photography books are hardly a rare thing, he is the most photographed member of the most photographed band in history. However there have never been pictures of him like these; Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon; taken by May Pang his Girlfriend from 1973 to 1975, these photos are a rare thing. Lennon said himself that these pictures captured him like none others.
Things I have learned in my life so far is an amazing book by Stefan Sagmeister. He transforms proverbs into typographic works accompanied by essays from design historian Steven Heller, Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector, and UK psychologist Daniel Nettle, revealed as a complex blend of personal revelation, art, and design–an eclectic mix of visual audacity and sound advice. The book consists of 15 unbound signatures in a laser-cut slipcase. Shuffling the sequence of the signatures will produce 15 different covers.
Buy: Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon
Buy: Things I have learned in my life so far
Buy: Sports Illustrated: In the Paint
In car PC’s were normally a dream of a geeky handyman, but the Navisurfer II has just made it a whole lot easier to replace a car’s stereo, GPS, DVD player, rear-view camera display, game console, communications center and even a wireless internet connection, all with one device. The first ever single din “carputer” is easy to install, with several modesl available.[jalopnik]
Buy – $578/$656
If the normal Rolls Royce is a little too mundane for you, and you are bored of the Maybach’s looks, contact Mutec and let them stretch your Phantom by one hundred and ten centimeters, remove the aligning doors and add a central partition. Enjoy the new four seat face to face configuration while still being having access to all the normal phantom options, including armor plating.
Buy – POA.
