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Stephen King's house on 13th street in Bangor, Mai...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
HDV Spotlight : Old Hollywood Classics
Bergerac in CognacAtticus in Tiger EyeDeWinter in OnyxOld Hollywood Classics Eyewear is an homage to the classical style of the eternal stars from the Golden Age of American Cinema. Designed in adoration of the passionate life expressed artfully in flickering celluloid, and in nostalgic reverence of dramatic characters that forever live in the hidden dream history of Hollywood. Designed...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
A 100 Year Old Tradition
Ever since the dawn of photography, civilization has not been able to repress the drive to pose cats in humanoid scenarios and take their pictu...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Back to the Grind
Optician neutralizing a lens on the lensometer, 1920.Medieval optics chart: Demonstration of adjusting vertex distance and diopter power for hyperopic and myopic vision correction.Lens grinders leaving the American Optical Factory, 1946.Lensometer ad, 1977.Early progressive lens designImages courtesy of the Optical Heritage Mus...
Monday, October 24, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Wayfaring Aengus : W.B. Yeats
Master Magi of the Pince-Nez : William Butler Yeats in 1911I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped...
Thursday, October 20, 2011
How To Wear : Dressing for Your Demon Lover
Isabelle Adjani in Possession (1981)Blood splattered brunettes take refuge in a traditional navy blue A-line dress with Victorian detail, a testament to her spiritual purity despite recent heathen distractions. Accent with upswept lucite butterfly sunglasses with soft gray gradient.Oh, what to we...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Introducing Snake and Mongoose Eyewear
Hotel De Ville Presents : SNAKE AND MONGOOSE EYEWEAR Don "the Snake" Prudhomme vs. Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen made racing headlines throughout the 1970s for their gritty racing feud and nitro-burning ambition, a dragstrip drama which played out at the infamous Lions Drag Strip in the industrial backwaters of Long Beach, CA. There in the pits of gravel and asphalt, these top fuel dragsters redefined...
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