Just in time for an amazing warm and sunny Swedish summer, WeSC and SUPER are presenting a brand new collaboration which sees the two dynamic brands come together to create a new shape of eye-wear exclusively for WeSC. Read More
Stockholm
aka The Oak, Fat town and Sissyville (‘Fjollträsk’)
WeSC + SUPER
Martin | August 25th, 2010
Krazy Fiesta
Martin | August 12th, 2010
I just discovered Krazy Fiesta a joint music project by Johan Sigroth and Erik Hanspers. With a seemingly nonsense-name and music that defys being limited to one genre. Read More
At the Mountains of Madness
Martin | August 11th, 2010
I’m a bit of an H.P. Lovecraft fan, but haven’t read anything for a while. Over a recent lunch -due to a discussion about a forthcoming feature in a Swedish magazine on fashion, magic, Kenneth Anger and Alan Moore- Lovecraft came up in the conversation. Read More
Grolsch Block Party moves to Mariatorget
Martin | August 10th, 2010
This year Grolsch Block Party is to take place round the corner from my office at Mariatorget on Södermalm. This event takes place for the fourth year and yet again brings some great live acts and DJ’s to an area of town and makes it that little more fun for one evening. Read More
Sherlock updated
Martin | August 9th, 2010
Whilst in the UK, I recently saw the first in a 3 part show, Sherlock, produced by the BBC. It is a contemporary update of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson. Set in London and Cardiff with two pretty good writers behind the project, the show has promise. Read More
Eskilstuna Denim
Martin | July 23rd, 2010
Sweden has a huge love affair with denim, from the big three authentic brands to home grown denim such as Indigofera, Denim Demon and the fashion denim of Acne and Cheap Monday. I just discovered a new brand made in the town of Eskilstuna by two denim nerds, Hampus Luhanko and Patrik Andersson. Read More
Blue Bell
Martin | July 20th, 2010
One of my favorite classic denim brands – Wrangler Blue Bell has just launched a new website for Autumn 2010. Read More
Randy Evaluates Sweden
Martin | July 19th, 2010
Mattias Olsson, a Swedish filmmaker, decides to move back to Sweden after 14 years in New York, he realizes that he doesn’t really know his country anymore. So he asks his friend Randy (a musician from Brooklyn) to help him to find out what Sweden is all about and buys him a ticket to Stockholm. Read More
“Tina – did you kill the neighbors?”
Martin | July 16th, 2010
My unholy fixation with animated series continues. I’m obviously watching the new season of Futurama but that’s not news (the episode with the eyephone was great!). Anyway, I’ve just started watching Neighbors from Hell, a satirical American animated sitcom. Read More
That Summer Feeling…
Martin | July 14th, 2010
Fashionable Film
Martin | June 14th, 2010
It seems the fashion film is certainly continuing to be in vogue. Swedish designer Carin Wester recently screened her collection film ‘Beeping Sleauty” by Sandberg/Timonen and Fredrik Skogkvist. Read More
Zinkensdamm IP
Martin | June 14th, 2010
Fucking Recipes
Martin | June 11th, 2010
Brussels, what the fuck?
Well, if you can’t make your mind up what to eat and you have exhausted the extensive recipe database of Jamie Olivier then there’s always the new site ‘What the fuck should I make for dinner?’ to help you decide. Read More
“What about big dogs cock, can you say that?”
Martin | June 10th, 2010
The American
I rather enjoyed Control by Anton Corbijn (the Ian Curtis biopic), so I was very intrigued to discover he has just directed ‘The American‘ a suspense thriller adapted by Rowan Joffe from Martin Booth’s novel, A Very Private Gentleman. Read More