Swollen Drumz » Travel http://swollendrumz.com/blog Fresh News About Fresh Things On A Freshly Basis Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:12:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Transit Elite Film http://swollendrumz.com/blog/2010/02/22/transit-elite-film/ http://swollendrumz.com/blog/2010/02/22/transit-elite-film/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:44:32 +0000 Administrator http://swollendrumz.com/blog/?p=637

The guys from Apolis Activism just released a beautiful film about their recent trip to Nepal with the folks from Rapha, who they collaborated with on their Transit Elite Sweater. The documentary tracks the people behind the women’s cashmere co-op that produced the wool used for the sweater along with the vivd sights and sounds of Kathmandu.

TRANSIT ELITE from Dave Christenson on Vimeo.

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“The latest hotel launch capturing design media attention is Mandarin Oriental Barcelona. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group operates in 25 countries, but this is its first entry into southern Europe. Mandarin Oriental Barcelona’s official opening was celebrated in November 2009 with a lavish gala attended by the city’s style leaders and elite.”    Excerpt and pics via The Cool Hunter

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んだ〜バカヤロウ (nda~ bakayarou) is a new restaurant in Nagoya focused entirely on helping people relieve stress by acting stupid. It’s hard to translate the restaurant literally, so we’ll settle for “WTF?!”.  Via Japan Trends

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