While the adults in the house enjoy a bit of sparkling this Summer on the terrace, be sure the young ones are not left out. We recommend any variety of sparkling apple juice which should be readily available from most grocery stores. But if you want them to feel a bit more luxurious, find something special like Bom Pommillon and order it from Colette so you can tell them it came special for them from Paris.

Ah yes. Memorial Day weekend in the USA! That means food. And beer. Lots of it. Rogues Gallery properly prepares us for the coming long weekend with the announcement of their Squall IPA. “Developed hand in hand with Sam Calagione and the master brewers at Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware. The collaboration brings together the hard-worn New England port town perspective of Rogues Gallery and the artisinal brew-mastery of Dogfish Head.” In some regard, I would have assumed they would have brewed locally but 750ml champagne bottles are good from all ends, including Delaware. Here’s hoping there’s a bottle coming my way this June.

Look for a small run of Squall IPA shirts at their online store.

This is clearly not men’s centric but how could we pass up Lady Dior and he forthcoming 6minute video adventure on May 20th? Follow this mystery woman on Twitter while you’re at it. Looks like clues will be unlocked… (materialiste)

Photographer Atisha Paulson comes through with a great photo essay covering the sights and sounds of this year’s Coachella Music Festival for Contributing Editor. It’s filled with images of scenesters and hip kids alike and offer a glimpse into a moment. I should bring my camera to Rock Werchter.

Here’s an interesting take on the bar scene – MiniBar, a new establishment in Amsterdam, looks to take the wait out of bar socializing with a self serve deal. Whether there is a control to check on intoxication of the patrons is another issue, but damn, this is Amsterdam. How does it work you ask? “Customers leave a passport or driver’s license with a staff member and are given an ice bucket and a key to their bar. The numbered mini fridges fill an entire wall, and vary in size and content—guests can choose from beer bars, champagne bars and mixed bars. Like anold-fashioned food automat, the mini bars are stocked from the back, making for easy restocking and out-of-sight logistics.” (springwise)

“Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1979. / Graduated from Nihon University of Art Department of Cinema in 2002. / Lives and works in Tokyo. / His field is mainly making single channel video art, Live Video Performances, collaborated A/V Performances and some prints. / Takafumi Tsuchiya is using the best technique in each work mixing recorded sources and handmade animation with generated material.” (fubiz)

(via SHOWstudio)

Selectism Columnist Steve Monaghan comes through with an interesting look at CWITCH Coffee Company that rides around London in their proper H Van selling beans to the masses. The story really comes at two angles – the story of the man who quit his day job to sell coffee and biscuits as well as the restoration of the classic H Van. “The H van was intoduced after the Second World War as France needed a van to get its goods moving again. The basic idea was to provide a ‘walk through’ interior with a low loading floor, easy access from the side through a sliding door and a wide, versatile rear entry”

Get the full details on the CWITCH Coffee at Steve’s Column.

An interesting piece on BLDBLOG about the buried airports of Los Angeles. Seems there were at least a dozen airfields that have vanished (mostly) from plain view in the city. The brief essay is accompanied by a few historic images of the long gone run ways.

Further example after the jump.

“STEEL LIFE is an experimental student short film by Mathieu Gérard based on aesthetics of visual effects. It was produced at university Paris 8 for the master thesis graduation in Arts et Technologies de l’Image. Mathieu’s goal was to achieve an onirical and aesthetic treatment of visual effects through CG art.” (via coutequecoute)