Stussy x Marvel launch party: superheroes on the sauce

They took the superhero thing to heart at the launch party of the Stussy x Marvel collaboration, with everyone from Spiderman to Wolverine making an appearance.

You get the feeling that if you didn't look like a cartoon character you'd have felt a bit left out.

I've stuck the promo video on the end of this post too, if you scroll down.

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Girls Friday: Lee Cropper

 

Happy Friday.

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Shakedown 2011 part one: the machines

Bank holiday Monday was a scorcher, as is usually the case for the annual bank holiday Shakedown motorbike rally.

Every Easter, tens of thousands of bikers, scooterists and trike lunatics mob up at the Ace cafe just outside London and ride to Southend, sit around eating ice cream and ride home. All for charity.

So I went down the seafront with Nath to record the moment.

Shot using a Leica D-Lux 4, unphotoshopped (where do you find the time?) and unmanipulated, other than using the pinhole setting on the camera and a polarising filter.

Volkswagen Beetle: harder in the shell

Only yesterday I was having this conversation with Nathan about what car you can reasonably own without it being ridiculed in one way or another.

If you drive an SLK, Boxster or any other little two-seater you're accused of being a hairdresser; any Saab is an old man's car, and you don't even want to know what you are if you drive a BMW or a Ford.

Which leaves you without a lot of options really, other than an Audi.

My most recent favourite car, the Fiat 500 Abarth has escaped too much flak, although it is a Fiat, which still holds a reputation for being a piece of crap for anyone over a certain age such as my dad.

Then there's is the Beetle, which didn't even need anyone to tell you that it was a girl's car, because it was blatantly obvious. What right-minded bloke is going to drive around with a flower sprouting out of the dashboard?

After a decade or so of the most recent Beetle incarnation, it looks like Volkswagen have woken up to the marketing limitations and are at last doing something about it.

They have come up with this, which looks like the bastard child of a 911 and a Beetle.

And I'm sure no one's going to have many bad things to say about that.