Shots From the Belltower

I’m not one to marvel over kitchen appliances, but this is just too cool.

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With the recent opening of the GANT Campus Store in New Haven, a re-release of the classic YALE CO-OP shirts was inevitable. Just this past weekend came word that the company started selling a small run of the button-down shirts ($115) at the new campus store in New Haven, as well as at their stores in New York. The wovens, which are based on the original designs that were sold at the university bookstore in the 1960s, are co-labeled with the YALE CO-OP mark and GANT branding. 

I’m obsessed, but then you probably knew that if you’ve hung around this long. Turns out Karl Lagerfeld snapped the pics, and what’s more Nike has introduced an entire line around this new away kit. More pics follow, but first a little history lesson on the Breton Stripes (for the sartorially-challenged, that’s the name given the horizontal blue-and-white stripes that adorn France’s new kit).

The striped breton shirt as we know it today came into being shortly following the 27th March, 1858 Act of France, which introduced the nay and white knitted shirt as the uniform for all French navy seamen. It was said that when a sailor had fallen into the sea, the distinctive pattern of stripes made him easier to spot amidst the many blurred colors of the waves.

Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at an early age, and he has learned to turn art into his means of communication. He creates meticulously detailed images of urban landscapes just from memory, complex scenes that any of us would be hard pressed to do even with a photograph. The aerial views come from helicopter trips he has taken over New York City. Read more here after peeping these pics of Stephen’s work:

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In the U.S., there are about 90 handguns per 100 people. That’s three times what you find in Germany, France, or Sweden. And its 2.5 times what you find in Iraq.

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The ghosts of multi-camera sitcoms past. (by Kagan McLeod)

1. The Odd Couple (which ran until 1975 on ABC); 2. Seinfeld (1998, NBC); 3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1977, CBS); 4. Sanford and Son (1977, NBC); 5. Night Court (1992, NBC); 6. Mr. Belvedere (1990, ABC); 7. Everybody Loves Raymond (2005, CBS); 8. Welcome Back, Kotter (1979, ABC); 9. What’s Happening!! (1979, ABC); 10. All in the Family (1979, CBS); 11. The Cosby Show (1992, NBC); 12. The Honeymooners (1956, CBS); 13. Maude (1978, CBS); 14. Married … with Children (1997, Fox); 15. The Facts of Life (1988, NBC); 16. Chico and the Man (1978, NBC); 17. Will & Grace (2006, NBC); 18. The Golden Girls (1992, NBC); 19. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966, CBS); 20. Good Times (1979, CBS); 21. Roseanne (1997, ABC); 22. Saved by the Bell (1993, NBC); 23. Charles in Charge (1990, CBS/NBC); 24. Home Improvement (1999, ABC); 25. Family Matters (1998, ABC/CBS); 26. Three’s Company (1984, ABC); 27. Growing Pains (1992, ABC); 28. Happy Days (1984, ABC); 29. The Jeffersons (1985, CBS); 30. Perfect Strangers (1993, ABC); 31. Lavern and Shirley (1983, ABC); 32. I Love Lucy (1957, CBS); 33. 227 (1990, NBC); 34. ALF (1990, NBC); 35. Family Ties (1989, NBC); 36. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1996, NBC); 37. Friends (2004, NBC); 38. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2003, ABC/WB); 39. Blossom (1995, NBC); 40. Out of This World (1991, NBC/syndicated); 41. Frasier (2004, NBC); 42. Webster (1989, ABC); 43. Full House (1995, ABC); 44. Diff’rent Strokes (1986, NBC/ABC); 45. Punky Brewster (1999, NBC); 46. Who’s the Boss? (1992, ABC); 47. Mork & Mindy (1982, ABC); 48. Taxi (1983, ABC/NBC); 49. Two and a Half Men (2011? CBS); 50. Yes, we forgot Cheers (1993, NBC).