When it comes to car design, what’s on the inside matters. Each car company is on a similar path—to make the interior a sleek, inviting space with creature comforts and increasing bits of technology at the driver’s fingertips. Leather seats … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Design | Tagged adrian van hooydonkm bmw, auto, bentley, bmw, design, life and times, mulsanne, raul pires | View Commentsmobilerider.embedVideo(2416, 42062, ”, mr_videowidth, mr_videoheight, ‘osmf’, {extras: ‘muteOn:0,autoplay:0,continuous:0,vs:1′}); Life + Times catches up with composer Toro y Moi at Videology in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as he discusses the influences of film scores on his two albums, Causers of This (2010) and … Continue reading
Posted in Music | Tagged brooklyn, horror films, life + times, music, toro y moi | View CommentsIf you can believe it, the players in the National Basketball Association weren’t always walking billboards for sneaker companies. Once upon a time, players didn’t have sneaker contracts. There were no sneaker commercials. And Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Converse and every … Continue reading
Posted in Sports | Tagged adidas, basketball, kobe bryant, lebron james, michael jordan, nba, nike, shaq, sonny vaccaro, sports, vince carter | View CommentsTucked neatly into the northern coast of Africa, Muscat, the capital city of Oman strikes a breathtaking balance of coastal bliss by being situated on the Gulf of Oman and between arid, dry desert sands. On its outskirts, it’s flanked … Continue reading
Posted in Technology | Tagged auto, bentley, cars, continental gt, life + times, muscat, oman, technology | View CommentsElegantly coiffed Brooklyn artist George Lewis Jr. performs music that seems as if it’s only been intended for one person: himself. The bedroom-pop delights of his debut as Twin Shadow, titled Forget—produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor (and released on … Continue reading
Posted in Music | Tagged brooklyn, castles in the snow, chris taylor, george lewis jr, grizzly bear, life + times, music, twin shadow | View Commentsmobilerider.embedVideo(2416, 42283, ”, mr_videowidth, mr_videoheight, ‘osmf’, {extras: ‘muteOn:0,autoplay:0,continuous:0,vs:1′}); Regarded as one of the most influential artists to come from the subway art scene, Lee Quinones has done everything from racking paint to having his work featured in galleries. Here, he … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Design | Tagged art, design, graffiti, hip-hop, lee quinones, life + times | View CommentsAfter upsets in Los Angeles and Orlando, a heartbreaking foul call for Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks in Boston, and an historic first postseason win for the Memphis Grizzlies, one constant emerged from the NBA playoffs’ opening weekend: The Chicago … Continue reading
Posted in Sports | Tagged carlos boozer, carmelo anthony, chicago bulls, daren collison, derrick rose, indiana pacers, memphis grizzlies, shaq | View CommentsPiaget is the 140-year-old manufacture of the some of the world’s finest mechanical movements. The brand, which in its earliest stages of life built only movements for some of the finest watch brands, began creating their own timepieces in the … Continue reading
Posted in Style | Tagged life + times, philippe léopold-metzger, piaget, time pieces, watches, yves piaget | View CommentsWhen a new, much-hyped device is released, there’s often a good segment of the market whose sentiment is to “wait for the second one.” Regardless of the frenzy or demand created around a product, these people are the ones who … Continue reading
Posted in Technology | Tagged blackberry, life + times, playbook, reviews, rim, technology | View CommentsWe’re finally here. After five-and-a-half months and 82 games, we’ve arrived at the 2011 NBA Playoffs. The casual fan says it’s the only time that really matters, the die-hards think it’s the perfect culmination of a season full of transactions … Continue reading
Posted in Sports | Tagged andrew byum, basketball, brandon roy, dwight howard, gerald walllace, kendrick perkins, luol deng, manu ginobili, rajon rondo, shaq, sports, tim duncan, udonis haslem | View Comments ← Older posts Newer posts →