We're still a long way from getting to explore the stars first-hand. Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World might be the next best thing. This compilation of 300 images includes photos, paintings, sculptures, and other works either depicting or inspired by the mysterious objects in the sky. Each one is paired with an informative caption, giving you both knowledge and enjoyment.
For a time, auto racing was the most dangerous sport in the world. And while it is still risky, from the 1930s up through the early 1980s, go-fast technology far outpaced safety. Basics that we take for granted like safety harnesses, roll bars, fire-proof suits, and full-face helmets were novelties and even disregarded by drivers up through the 1950s. The Automobilist's When Sex Was Safe revisits the time when just stepping into a racing vehicle meant potentially losing your life, with 253 pages of history and stunning, hyper-realistic artwork that captures the daring and bravado of racing's Golden Age.
Film soundtracks have been around forever, but the recent vinyl resurgence has led to a slew of new movie soundtracks surfacing. From classics like Dr. No to summer blockbusters like Baby Driver, here are some film soundtracks on vinyl worthy of a spot in your collection.
The Big Lebowski / Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ($25).
Prince and The Revolution / Purple Rain ($24).
Drive / Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ($40).
Baby Driver / Music From The Motion Picture ($25).
Dr. No / Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ($23).
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 / Awesome Mix Vol. 2 ($22).
The better the music, the more compelling a television show can be. Here are some of the best television soundtracks released in the past year.
Master Of None / Season 2 ($35).
Stranger Things / Season 1 ($50).
Twin Peaks / O.S.T. ($34).
Westworld / Season 1 ($25).
Fargo / Season 2 ($42).
Mr. Robot / Season 2 ($30).
Our exploration of space, and our visits to the Moon, in particular, rank among some of humanity's greatest achievements. The Apollo Program Photobook gives you a first-hand view of missions VII - XVII. Each of the more than 225 images was restored from original scans of the 70mm film rolls shot by the astronauts themselves and is presented here with remarkable clarity. They run the gamut from views of the Earth from inside the Command Module to stark black and white shots of the lunar surface. In addition to the photos themselves, the book also contains a short essay written by Apollo VII crewman Walt Cunningham, as well background information on the modified Hasselblad equipment used to shoot them. Measuring nearly one foot by one foot, the clothbound book is available by itself or in a bundle with one of several select prints.
During both of his terms as President, Barack Obama's Official White House Photographer was present for more pivotal moments than anyone. And now, with the release of what is sure to be the definitive visual biography of the 44th President, readers will have access to those moments as well. Pete Souza took nearly two million photographs during his time on staff, and the best are presented in this oversize, 12"x10" format that also features a foreword from the President himself.
The first official book to chronicle the legendary Studio 54 is finally here. During its three year run, the world-famous nightclub and discotheque saw no shortage of celebrities, cutting-edge lighting displays, and one-fo-a-kind parties. The book, presented by co-owner Ian Schrager, showcases personal stories and hundreds of star-studded photographs — many of which have never been seen before. The new book is a fascinating look into the history of the most famous nightclub of the past 50 years.
You probably already know that the Leesa Mattress is sourced and crafted in the USA and that it's backed by elite athletes and over 10,000 verified five-star customer reviews. And maybe you've heard that Leesa is ordered online, built, compressed, rolled, and shipped directly to your door. But what you might not know is that beginning this month, customers can experience Leesa's American-made and expertly designed mattresses at 80+ West Elm locations across the U.S. And as always, Leesa will let you try their mattress in the comfort of your own home for 100 risk-free nights.
Presented by Leesa.
Tile Bluetooth Trackers help you keep track of often misplaced items. And now, they've expanded their product line to include the durable and dependable Tile Sport. It features a sleek graphite gray look and a Bluetooth tracker with twice the range of the original. It pairs seamlessly with the Tile app, and the new model is also waterproof and has a louder speaker to alert you of just where to look for that item you're having trouble finding. The battery lasts an entire year, and the Tile Sport even lets you choose from a variety of new ringtones to optimize and customize your findings.
Presented by Tile.
Charles Nesbit, a New York City-based commercial and editorial photographer, has turned his camera toward the small and strange for his new book, Insecta. The large-format photo book is an exploration of insect taxonomy, featuring close-up looks at species as varied as the common ladybug and the exotic jewel wasp. Each bug is accompanied by informative scientific text making it hugely informational as well as absorbing to browse through.
Founded 30 years ago, Atelier de Production et de Création was originally meant as a minimalist response to the general gaudiness of the 1980s. A.P.C. Transmission serves as a history and behind-the-scenes look at the brand, split into three sections. The first includes photos and material from founder Jean Touitou's early life, providing a glimpse into the brand's influences. The latter two cover notes and memos and sketches and archival materials, respectively, and the whole thing is capped with a foreword penned by Touitou himself.
These six albums make up some of the most anticipated vinyl releases of the year. Available now or for pre-order, each limited edition won't stick around long.
Beck / Colors ($50).
Brand New / Science Fiction ($28).
The National / Sleep Well Beast ($21).
Queens of the Stone Age / Villains ($21).
Weezer / Pacific Daydream ($20).
Arcade Fire / Everything Now ($29).
With advancements in small-scale UAVs, aerial photography has completely evolved over the last decade. These drones are going where no camera has gone before to capture a unique perspective of the world. To celebrate this new medium of photography, photo editor Ayperi Karabuda Ecer and the website Dronestagram have teamed up to bring you Dronescapes. The book consists of 250 of the most inspiring pictures taken by quadcopters, along with the process behind every image. For the budding drone photographer, there's also a complete guide on proper drone usage and selecting the best model for you.
In the age of iBooks and Kindles, it's rare to see a book whose physical form is nearly as intriguing as the content itself. Such is the case with Change Is Good. Penned by Louis Rossetto, a co-founder and editor of Wired, this novel follows six characters — a CEO, a journalist, an artist, a hacker, a banker, and a dealer — as their stories intersect over the course of a week. At its heart, it's a story about the birth of the Digital Revolution, which makes it all the more interesting that it's being printed in Germany on a Gutenberg printing press, using the first direct-to-plate laser cutter specifically for printing larger size sheets on letterpress. This First Edition will be limited to just 1,000 copies, with a select few available signed by both the author and designer Erik Spiekermann.
Used to be if you wanted a new toy, you begged your parents to take you to the store. Now your kids can get a new toy without leaving the house with the Toybox 3D Printer. Combining specialized hardware with a kid-friendly app, it offers push button operation and surprising capabilities. It has a patent pending print bed that bends for easy removal of models, printed at a resolution of 200 microns, and pre-calibration makes setup a breeze. The app offers a library of over 500 ready-to-print designs, and also lets your children draw and then print out their own creations.
Before Action Bronson was lighting up stages, he was lighting up kitchens in New York as a chef. No stranger to good food, Action takes his VICE show into your house with the F*ck, That's Delicious book. And don't call it a cookbook. This is a philosophy of life, a travel guide, a modern epic by a modern poet. Oh, and weed. Lots of weed. F*ck, That's Delicious is out September 12, 2017.
The mass-produced automobile changed human society forever. The promise of affordable, long-distance travel made our world a little smaller and our dreams a little bigger — there was always something just over the horizon. Fast Forward catalogs some of the world's most unique cars, charting what we thought was the shape of things to come in steel and glass and four wheels. From the airplane-inspired behemoths of the 50s, the crisp, modern 60s, and the angular, sci-fi shapes of the 70s, where people wanted to go was captured in what we dreamed to drive.
Industrial designer Joey Roth has created an antidote to bland, rectangular bookshelf speakers. Drawing inspiration from tactile mid-century designs, these speakers are made by hand from a mix of aluminum, cork, Baltic birch, and white-glazed porcelain. Their stunning visual presence begs to not only be heard, but seen. The four-inch drivers provide a 70 Hz - 20 kHz frequency range coupled with a completely analog signal path that's as short as possible without DSP or filters, while oxygen-free copper wiring source the drivers. We opted to include Roth's Bluetooth receiver alongside the matching external amp — both of which are made from steel and cast iron — to make it a complete, modern set, allowing you to link up with your preferred source, whether it be a turntable (with phono pre-amp), your computer, or simply the phone in your pocket. All necessary, premium cables and connectors are included.
Speakers: Height: 7" / Width: 5" / Depth: 10"
We're all guilty of mindlessly staring at our smartphones instead of taking the time to view the real world in front of us. The Light Phone, now off of pre-order and available for immediate shipment, acts as a temporary replacement to your existing phone, giving you a break from social media feeds and news notifications, while still keeping a sleek device in your pocket for those old-fashioned "phone calls".
The Light Phone arrives with its own SIM as an unlocked 2G GSM phone that's ready to be used right of out the box (which in this case is actually a special hardbound book). So along with your new number, you'll mostly want to use call forwarding from your fancy smartphone. You get three free months of service, and then it's only $5 a month afterwards (U.S. only).
Roughly the shape of a credit card and only a bit thicker, you'll forget you have a phone with you until you really need one. A beautiful and extremely user-friendly web-based interface let's you add up to 10 contacts for quick dialing. In our own usage, the battery lasts a few days on a single charge. Available in white or black, the Light Phone's minimal design is an instant classic, and surely makes Jonny Ive envious.
No one enjoys cleaning out their fish's tank. With the Water Garden Fish Tank, you'll never have to worry with that again. It leverages aquaponics — a closed-loop system that uses the fish's waste as plant food and the plants as a filter — to give you a small tabletop herb garden while keeping your fish happy and healthy. The package includes a coupon for the fish, as well as tank-rated gravel, organic seeds, natural fertilizer, fish food, and a quiet submersible circulation pump.
It's not exactly a "self-help" book — after all, most of those are little more than lists of steps to reach pre-determined goals. The Field Study Handbook is more of a guide to seeing the world differently so that you're capable of crafting your own steps and setting your own goals. Penned by the founder of a consultancy that specializes in human behavior, this brilliantly illustrated tome is an excellent way to ensure you make the most of your interactions with people and nature, both at home and abroad, such that you never waste an opportunity to enrich your life.
It's been twenty years since these albums were released, and each is nearly as relevant today as they were back in 1997.
Radiohead / OK Computer ($30).
Daft Punk / Homework ($29).
Elliott Smith / Either / Or ($25).
Deftones / Around The Fur ($85).
Blur / S/T ($37).
Foo Fighters / The Colour And The Shape ($28).
Put a little cannabis kick in anything you cook with Pearl2o Creative Water. The result of three years of development, this liquid edible has zero calories, zero fat, no cholesterol, no sugar, and, most importantly, no weed flavor. It retains its THC and CBD concentrations when cooked, chilled, or frozen, meaning you can use it for everything from cocktails to ramen noodles. It comes in 50 and 100 mg bottles and is currently available in I-502 licensed retailers across Washington.
From special editions to colored pressings and even bootlegs, here are six of the most influential vinyl albums recorded in 2007.
Radiohead / In Rainbows ($147).
White Stripes / Icky Thump ($TBD).
Kanye West / Graduation ($32+).
Arcade Fire / Neon Bible ($29).
The National / Boxer ($27).
LCD Soundsystem / Sound of Silver ($28).
It's hard to describe Burning Man if you've never attended. But now, with Nothing Left Behind, Danish photographer Anders Overgaard provides the next best thing. Through his photography, Overgaard gives a rare insight into the festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada that provides visitors with an experience unlike any festival in the world. The art, music, fashion, and scenery are all under the microscope in this hardbound book that includes stories and quotes from famous artists and attendees.
Black's place in fashion is well-known. Its place in architecture is nearly as notable. Black: Architecture in Monochrome celebrates centuries of dark buildings across the globe. From ancient churches dating to modern skyscrapers, it covers more than 150 structures from obscure origins and legendary architects alike, with the excellent photography paired with enlightening text.
It wasn't that long ago when finding a good cup of coffee was difficult. But now, there are plenty of options for your caffeine fix, but they aren't all created equal. Where To Drink Coffee is an insider's guide to the best coffee spots around the world. Thanks to 150 baristas and coffee experts, a list of 600 places have been compiled. From the best cafes and restaurants to coffee shops in video stores and auto shops. This thick, hard-cover book includes reviews, maps, and is organized geographically for easy reference.
Give your child a proper introduction to racing with these Classic Car Go Karts. Sized for junior drivers, with power output to match, these rare rides replicate the Ferrari 330 P2 Le Mans, Stirling Moss' Mercedes-Benz 300SLR, and an early Jaguar E-Type. All three are powered by gasoline engines and have intricate details that are sure to delight collectors and pint-sized drivers alike.
If you thought the wildly popular Harley-Davidson image was confined only to the United States, you'd be very wrong. Even in Europe, the land of motorcycle racing and sport bikes, Harley enjoys a following as loyal as that in the US. From panheads to knuckleheads to shovelheads, choppers, EVOs, flat trackers and everything in between, The Harley-Davidson Book isn't just a photographic catalog of the bikes themselves, but the story of something that came to stand for things far bigger than anything on two wheels.
The world got to know Jim Meehan when The PDT Cocktail Book was released in 2012.
And now, five years, a few cities, and several drinks later, he's ready to unleash Meehan's Bartender Manual. The hard cover book aims to explain the ins and outs of the modern bar industry while also touching on bar and cocktail history, bar design, spirits production, and much more. It also includes recipes for 100 cocktails, including some that are Meehan originals. The nearly 500-page book is filled with high-quality photos along with contributions from more than 50 colleagues from around the world of drinks and bartending.
There's something about a great portrait that endears its subject to the viewer. That goes for animals, as well. The life work of photographer Joel Sartore, National Geographic's The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals is an unrivaled collection of photos highlighting animals both big and small. With a focus on endangered species, Sartore has been traveling the globe photographing animals in captivity, with some of the best seen here, alongside background from wildlife author Douglas Chadwick and a foreword from Harrison Ford. Weighing in at exactly 400 pages, it's a coffee table tome that's simultaneously enjoyable and thought-provoking.
If you have a Swiss Army knife, chances are you know a little something about how to make it in the wild. But because we've been surrounded by an abundance of sophisticated and high-tech camping gear, we rarely need to use our bushcraft skills at the same level we used to. With renowned woodsman Felix Immler's The Swiss Army Knife Book, which details more than 60 different projects for explorers of all ages, you'll have more than enough material to fill a weekend carving utensils, building shelters, starting fires, and improvising using just a single tool.
The Big Kahuna Burger. Pigeon Pie. The Krabby Patty. Film and television are full of savory food moments. With his YouTube channel Binging with Babish, Andrew Rea has been recreating these iconic movie dishes in his Harlem kitchen for an audience of over one million subscribers. Now, the cinematic chef is expanding his passion for food and film with the cookbook Eat What You Watch. Like his videos, the pages are full of recipes from 40 cult films, satisfying both the foodies and film junkie in all of us.
