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This special series from Vada is from their Tokio, Texas eyewear collection, celebrating juxtapositions of geometry, jazz, feminine and masculine. The Tokio group is a wrap ska-style frame. Inspired by Ska fashion and Tokyo's 80s underground scene. The series features all 18k gold-tone details: 5-barrel rivet hinges, double wing-tip temples, and engraving. The arms include 18k gold rivets designed to hold Vada's gold chain retainers, making these eyewear and jewelry at once. Handmade in Japan in micro-batches with organic cellulose acetate. Unisex.

Non-polarized lenses with 100% UVA/UVB protection and backside anti-reflective coating.

Measurements (standard fit) 
Width: 52mm
Height: 33.5mm
Bridge: 21mm
Temple: 140mm

This special series from Vada is from their Tokio, Texas eyewear collection, celebrating juxtapositions of geometry, jazz, feminine and masculine. The Tokio group is a wrap ska-style frame. Inspired by Ska fashion and Tokyo's 80s underground scene. The series features all 18k gold-tone details: 5-barrel rivet hinges, double wing-tip temples, and engraving. The arms include 18k gold rivets designed to hold Vada's gold chain retainers, making these eyewear and jewelry at once. Handmade in Japan in micro-batches with organic cellulose acetate. Unisex.

Non-polarized lenses with 100% UVA/UVB protection and backside anti-reflective coating.

Measurements (standard fit) 
Width: 52mm
Height: 33.5mm
Bridge: 21mm
Temple: 140mm

This chunker of a ring belies its sparkling personality, the brushed metal shine and exaggerated balance of spheres feeling just right.

It's somehow not enough to describe these simply as links. They're more like interlocking individual joints. Unusual, beautifully crafted. 23.25" long.

It's somehow not enough to describe these simply as links. They're more like interlocking individual joints. Unusual, beautifully crafted. 23.25" long.

It's somehow not enough to describe these simply as links. They're more like interlocking individual joints. Unusual, beautifully crafted. 16.25" long.

It's somehow not enough to describe these simply as links. They're more like interlocking individual joints. Unusual, beautifully crafted. 16.25" long.

A different kind of link, looks tough as a ring.

Delicately crafted silver rods twisted to create this long collar.

Hand woven sterling silver cuff.

The brand's signature cap in cotton canvas with crest embroidery and return to messaging. Adjustable sizing. Unisex.

Light cotton button down with side slits to fit this satin belt. Wear it with our without. Relaxed fit. Unisex.

T-shirt with Xerox black and white bra print. Unisex.

Polo top with cone bra insert with topstitching. Ribbed collar and cuffs, two button placket. Unisex.

Low-rise, denim trousers in a deep black wash and contrast and contouring stitching. Such a good fit with these. Front and side pockets, long rear ones, too. Body con fit with silver hardware and button fly. Unisex.

The tried and true button-down, except this one has a black trompe l'oeil bra print. Relaxed fit. Unisex.

Mid-rise, wide-leg denim trousers in a soft blue monogram all over print. Twisted seams create a nice leg effect on the leg, while flat patch pockets accent the back. Belt loops, button (and zipper) fly. Unisex.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

World of Warcraft as told by an avatar and his guy; document forgery, true crime, Mormons, Lucifer; analysis of the Canon Powershot SD800; the philosophy of "singularity"; radiation poisoning in Goiania, Brazil; the French. Letterpressed cover and inserts. George Kuchar centerfold. With Flint Jamison, James Voges, Geoff Haskey, Sandra & Jerald Tanner, Kevin Kelly, L. David Roper & Marco Antonio Sperb Leite. Edition of 1000. 

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

It’s about currencies, and has a tone-on-tone, letterpressed cover that works so well with the season’s neutrals, but is pretty difficult to make out. But once you concentrate hard enough, it rolls into the contents inside, anyway, so you’re safe. With Perry I-Pei Tsao (flywheels, high energy rotational systems and storage), His Excellency the Governor General in Council (Canadian Loonie and Toonie coins), Lvcoyote (hardware reviews by this guy who is an expert in such things and works in IT for a school district), F. J. Vine & Dr. D. H. Matthews (magnetic anomalies in ocean ridges), The Great Central U.S. Shake Out (earthquakes and how to react to them), Otto Hadac (complicated chemistry analasys broken out in simple to read diagrams and charts that talk about a different kind of wave), Martin Khout, Igor Schreiber, Milos Marek & Milan Kubicek, Diane Body Schultz & Philip Dikeman (flute competitions), Gisle Fosse (enamel density), Geoff Haskey, John F. Wilder, Judit Polgar vs. Viswanathan Anand (with letterpressed visualizations of their chess boards in a rapid matchup), Barry Loberfeld, Franz Von Stuck, Jeanne d’ Arc. Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

Politics of Czech freetekno and rave; a diary of life with death as it relates to particle physics; Dublin drinks; kidney stones; history of Ceylon tea; "Ultramoderne." Lucky Dragons/Gæoudjiparl 5" vinyl. With Lukas Wimmer, Shari Roman, Chris Dahlen, Maxwell Fernando, Leagues O'Toole, John Cowhie, Robert Smithson. Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

Made up of all glossy ads. The notorious issue wherein Ve sent invoices ($1928.57) to companies for said ads that hadn't been purchased. CZ diamond embedded in cover and pages, glitter sprayed cover. Supposedly scented but i didn't smell anything, so... Shrinkwrapped. Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

A conversation between farriers; screenplay/stills from ATL; sand dune mysteries; what's up with Antwerp; gamma rays. Embossed shiny pearl cover, titanium square embedded in back. With Matt Taimuty, Tina Gordon Chism & Antwone Fisher, Ely Sassoon, Nathalie M. Vriend, Carl B. Collins, Daniel Baumann. Edition of 1000. 

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

This one is visuals-heavy. An accounting of possibly the world's only Oakley sunglasses collection (outside of Oakley), sea cucumbers, Sadhana yoga practice, 4-day cassoulet, UFOs and the US Navy, HIV prevention as physics. With Ilsa Nodham, Eric Snow, Chester C. Grusinski, Frank Y. Wang, Dr. Lynn Fendler, Adrian Piper. Letter pressed cover, 2009 calendar insert, comes sealed with industrial foam and bagged. Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

About touch, and being bound. Reiki, laundry laborers, Esperanto, instructions for putting things together, an entire section in Braille that's shockingly meditative (for non-Braille readers), Manganese significance for humanity across the ages, graphs and symbols and sets - they touch, too. There's magnet in this one. Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

This issue is made available free of charge (pretty much) by Veneer due to problems with the cover. My feeling is this issue has something to do with tough, tactile and abstract materials, being unyielding, stretching, hardness. Margaret Thatcher, mathematics of St. Louis's Gateway Arch, chemical agents in iron, Eurasia, nomenclature, Andre Kertesz polaroids. Edition of 1000.

Veneer (or, alternately, Ve) is cultural critique via gesture, phenomena, documentation, and detritus. It's also the arithmetic of print and its possibilities, with an emphasis on technical minutia stretched to the edge of absurdity as its epistemological approach. Every issue holds secrets and gifts to the reader; cards, photos, posters, confessions. It will make you ask "why should I care?" And then you keep reading, because if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This is tight stuff—freewheeling discipline that made an object worth keeping, and further evidence that intellectual curiosity will always always take you places you never thought relevant or possible. Quarterly.

The Gardens of Pixar, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Chirs Abani, Nnorom Azuonye, Michael Echeruo, Okey Ndibe, Michael Mbabuike, Chike Obi, Residents of Yellowstone County Riverbed vs. Exxonmobil Oil, A. Clifford Edwards, A. Christopher Edwards, John W. Edwards, Chevrolet Cobalt 2009 SS, Wave-adaptice modular vessels, Uluburun shipwreck stowaway house mouse, Vases, Vaccines and antibiotics in colds. Edition of 1000.

"Vertikal Klub" is an ongoing project of Willem Oorebeek, begun in 1994, with its latest iteration having been shown at Yale Union (July 2015, Portland, OR). This book, Vertikal Klub, serves as the manual for future installations. A blueprint for a relationship—between human form and how its form translates to print. Like much of his work, the artist establishes connections that are both clear and abstract, pushing the boundaries of absurdity along the way. 

The figures in "Vertikal Klub" are cut from advertisements, selected based on a set of rules (looking forward at camera, full length). Some figures you're given entry into their history with text, but layered, in a graphic form. Some are left as complete strangers, as strange forms, empty. The lithographic reproductions are raw and a little crudely presented, but clearly made by hand, and finished by tool. It's a map, to something familiar that goes off the road, too. Edition of 500 numbered copies.

Willem Oorebeek (NL), artist, whose work is based in the myriad techniques associated with the printing process. Multiplicity, seriality, and reproduction are some of the recurring themes emphasized. Image and language are brought together as comparative tools and as combined forms as a way of revitalizing the nature of representation, in both figure and symbol. 

A slightly eccentric, minimalist take on the slip on, the Vibram Fivefingers brand pairs performance with style and a true look at what it means to understand natural movement. The design is breathable and balanced, with a durable recycled rubber sole. This color way is black on black on black, with a leather base and suede striping. Quite unusual, sleek, and fit for every outfit.

A slightly eccentric, minimalist take on the classic mary jane, the Vibram Fivefingers brand pairs performance with style and a true look at what it means to understand natural movement. The design is breathable and balanced, with a durable recycled rubber sole. This color way is eggshell, ecru, and butter, with the Vibram rubber sole and leather/suede upper. Quite unusual, sleek, and fit for every outfit.

Luxury basics from Vivien Ramsay (NY) mean ultra soft cotton, impeccable stitching, and subtle details. Details. It's the details. So look at the neckline that looks like little flower petals and the weeny bow. The seam lines at the shoulders are curved inward, creating the illusion of a slimmer shoulder. The kind of basics you're always looking for, found.

Luxury basics from Vivien Ramsay (NY) mean ultra soft cotton, impeccable stitching, and subtle details. Details. It's the details. Mid-waist brief.

Luxury basics from Vivien Ramsay (NY) mean ultra soft cotton, impeccable stitching, and subtle details. Details. It's the details. Elastic cotton, with softly structured cups and straps that work without underwire. It's a thoroughly modern update to industrial undergarments of yore, combining modesty and sensuality and personality.

Approximate sizing:
Small = A cup
Medium = B cup
Large = C cup

Luxury basics from Vivien Ramsay (NY) mean ultra soft cotton, impeccable stitching, and subtle details. Details. It's the details. So look at the neckline and how flat and gentle the edging is. The seam lines at the shoulders are curved inward, creating the illusion of a slimmer shoulder. The kind of basics you're always looking for, found.

Luxury basics from Vivien Ramsay (NY) mean ultra soft cotton, impeccable stitching, and subtle details. Details. It's the details. Elastic lace, hi-waist panty. It's a thoroughly modern update to industrial undergarments of yore, combining modesty and sensuality and personality.

Luxury basics from Vivien Ramsay (NY) mean ultra soft cotton, impeccable stitching, and subtle details. Details. It's the details. Elastic lace, with softly structured cups and straps that work without underwire. It's a thoroughly modern update to industrial undergarments of yore, combining modesty and sensuality and personality.

Approximate sizing:
Small = A cup
Medium = B cup
Large = C cup

There is a very good Wiki page dedicated to German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann here. It makes a series of good, clear observations that describe his work well. 

Number 5 in Feldmann's on-going series of Bilde (Picture) books. Found images, placed deliberately to create associations and fissures. So interesting, well-done, emotional, and precise. As startling and sense-making as ever. 

There is a very good Wiki page dedicated to German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann here. It makes a series of good, clear observations that describe his work well. 

The next in this artist's book series offers a chaotic compendium of movie stills, photojournalism, ads, amateur photos, pornography, art, scientific imagery, archival imagery, found photographs and more. Feldmann’s touch is in the sequencing. Sometimes its stories, sometimes only associations. Narratives are broken then fused, but there’s always the palpable energy of our times. 

"feeling the hollow edges of a silk seam as a diagonal that tilts up"
"shades of transparent yellow"
"let us rejoice in"
"running toward the bees on flowers"
"god forbid we try too hard"

Handpainted vintage t-shirt with burn out poetic phrases, uplifting and thoughtful, and an entreaty as well. With figurative illustrations. 

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 21"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 28"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

"feeling the hollow edges of a silk seam as a diagonal that tilts up"
"shades of transparent yellow"
"let us rejoice in"
"running toward the bees on flowers"
"god forbid we try too hard"

Handpainted vintage t-shirt with burn out poetic phrases, uplifting and thoughtful, and an entreaty as well. With figurative illustrations. 

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 23.5"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 29"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

"feeling the hollow edges of a silk seam as a diagonal that tilts up"
"shades of transparent yellow"
"let us rejoice in"
"running toward the bees on flowers"
"god forbid we try too hard"

Handpainted vintage t-shirt with burn out poetic phrases, uplifting and thoughtful, and an entreaty as well. With figurative illustrations. 

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 26"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 31.5"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

"feeling the hollow edges of a silk seam as a diagonal that tilts up"
"shades of transparent yellow"
"let us rejoice in"
"running toward the bees on flowers"
"god forbid we try too hard"

Handpainted vintage t-shirt with burn out poetic phrases, uplifting and thoughtful, and an entreaty as well. With figurative illustrations. 

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 22.5"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 31"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

"feeling the hollow edges of a silk seam as a diagonal that tilts up"
"shades of transparent yellow"
"let us rejoice in"
"running toward the bees on flowers"
"god forbid we try too hard"

Handpainted vintage t-shirt with burn out poetic phrases, uplifting and thoughtful, and an entreaty as well. With figurative illustrations. 

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 24"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 31"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

"feeling the hollow edges of a silk seam as a diagonal that tilts up"
"shades of transparent yellow"
"let us rejoice in"
"running toward the bees on flowers"
"god forbid we try too hard"

Handpainted vintage t-shirt with burn out poetic phrases, uplifting and thoughtful, and an entreaty as well. With figurative illustrations. 

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 24"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 31"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

Handpainted and patchworked vintage t-shirt, tie-dyed, beaded, and lovingly pieced.

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 24"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 26.5"
Shoulders (seam to seam) = 22"
Sleeve (seam to hem) = 8.25"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

Handpainted, hand patchworked vintage t-shirt, lovingly pieced, with Waggy's original screens, logos, illustrations, and designs.

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 22"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 27.5"
Shoulders (seam to seam) = 22"
Sleeve (seam to hem) = 8.25"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

Handpainted, hand patchworked vintage t-shirt, lovingly pieced, with Waggy's original screens, logos, illustrations, and designs.

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 21.75"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 27"
Shoulders (seam to seam) = 20.75"
Sleeve (seam to hem) = 8.5"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

Handpainted and patchworked vintage t-shirt, with Love Love Love Love all over it.

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.

Handpainted and patchworked vintage t-shirt, tie-dyed, beaded, and lovingly pieced.

Measurements (taken lying flat):
Chest (armpit to armpit) = 23"
Length (rear collar to hem) = 27.25"
Shoulders (seam to seam) = 21.5"
Sleeve (seam to hem) = 8"

NB: Each garment varies. Any anomalies should be understood as part of the design, not as errors.