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How 16 Men of Note Take Their Coffee
Coffee is the 2nd most valuable traded commodity after oil, employing 25 million farmers and coffee workers in over 50 countries according to some sources. The U.S.
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ArchiveCombat Coffee: One Marine’s Tour of Caffeine
Despite being from Seattle, land of Starbucks, Seattle’s Best, Tully and more than a handful of artisanal brewers, I didn’t come by my coffee habit honestly. The bitter drink didn’t cross my lips during college, despite the frequent all-night cram sessions wrought of a sporadic (home) work ethic.
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ArchiveTable Service: 5 Great Coffee Table Books About Coffee
Left unattended, the ubiquitous coffee table quickly becomes a gatekeeper of everything from last October’s cable bill (you paid that, didn’t you?) to the feet of undisciplined friends and family. We know you run a tighter ship than most and appreciate how a well-placed read can stimulate conversations faster than a triple shot.
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ArchiveGrounded Literature: 5 Great Books About Coffee
Feet up, couch bound with a good book in one hand and a hot cup of coffee in the other is a reader’s rite of passage. Those co-mingling aromas of parchment and fresh grounds are undeniably intoxicating.
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ArchiveDesign Spotlight: Halley VI Antarctic Research Station
February 5 marks the official opening of the new Halley VI Minnesota Antarctic Research Station, which replaces the 20-year-old (you guessed it) Halley V. Creating the new home of the British Antarctic Survey was a difficult project given the unique (a.k.a.
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ArchiveThe Birth of a NIKKOR Lens
A good lens will burn your bank account faster than a real housewife after a bottle of chardonnay — but there’s a reason this precious glass costs so much. Dust-free production is an exacting process that requires plenty of human interaction to do right.
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ArchiveDesign Spotlight: Body Jet by Marc Newson
After adding his distinctive touch to typical consumer products like the Pentax K-01, Australian designer Marc Newson has now made the logical leap to… jetpacks? That’s right.
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ArchiveWhere The Wild Things Are: 10 Days in Kenya
The Masai Mara National Reserve on Kenya’s southwestern border with Tanzania is blanketed with large mammals, so heavily in fact that it takes a day or two to register that the animals are real and not holographic or cutouts from a National Geographic photo spread. This is what happens when you combine a life spent mostly staring into a computer with the ease of international travel.
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ArchiveZero Dark Thirty: Best or Worst Movie of 2012?
Is Zero Dark Thirty the year’s best movie or misleading sensationalism that advocates torture? The film’s recent Oscar snub has raised the debate.
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ArchiveDesign Spotlight: NASA Z-1 Spacesuit
The final frontier of space — and the technology required to get there — once represented the pinnacle of innovation. Then stagnation (and budget cuts) set in.
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ArchiveThe Farmer and The Bluefin
Tuna fishing — and farming — is a bitterly divisive topic. Food documentary blog The Perennial Plate and Intrepid Travel tackle the issue in a way most on either side of the argument can’t: peacefully.
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ArchiveImmaculate Tomb: Exploring Actun Tunichil Muknal
In the Tapir Mountain Nature Reserve of Western Belize, late in 1989, Dr. Thomas Miller jumped into a tributary of the Roaring River and swam inside an unnamed cave’s vine-covered mouth.
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ArchiveAmerican Tintype
In American Tintype, a Vimeo staff pick, Harry Taylor shares his story and his passion for tintype photography.
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ArchiveTalking Action with Roger Yuan and Bobby Holland Hanton
An interview with the fists behind the Bond fight scenes.
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