Tangier 57

From deep within the T-57 test lab

// January 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // inspiration

The ther-e-glove. Or the glove-a-min.

But it’s top-secret. So don’t tell anyone.

Jumpsuits: Fashion meets Function

// November 25th, 2007 // No Comments » // inspiration

In our ever expanding journey in and out of the musicosmos, Tangier 57 has found many things to aid our travels. From minature turkish tea houses to whatever it is that’s “under that white sheet”, we endeavour to balance modern and ancient technologies. One thing we know for certain, a jumpsuit is both functional and fashionable.

I guess war isn’t all bad…

// December 19th, 2006 // No Comments » // inspiration

after all, it did provide us with the transparent beauty of plexi-glass!

Inviting and warm to the touch, amazingly light in weight, yet strong and shatter resistant, plexi-glass is truly the material of the dream suite of tomorrow! Plexi-glass!

I can’t decide…

// October 28th, 2006 // 2 Comments » // inspiration

…if we should cover the existing soundtrack or use this as the video for (Don’t Let ‘em Bust Your) Chill (, Now). Either way, this baby has got to find it’s way into the show!

I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t care less if it keeps my produce fresh and crisp or my milk cold a refreshing anymore… this thing is going to change my entire outlook on life. I’m sold!

Enjoy,

Thurston

Rock is Dead

// October 6th, 2006 // No Comments » // advice, inspiration

Watch this movie

It hardly seems possible…

// August 18th, 2006 // 1 Comment » // inspiration

but humanity once suffered a dire existence devoid of informal pre-dinner pleasantries or social exchanges. Imagine arriving to your gracious hosts’ abode and proceeding directly to the dining hall…sober! Do you reach? Imagine a world without the little black cocktail dress. Imagine a world without (this may be a good time to find a sofa or bed on which to faint) cocktail parties! I think few of us truly can understand the weight of this situation.

Fortunately for all of us living in the twenty-first century British novelist and man-about-town Alec Waugh (Island in the Sun, 1957) spied a gapping spirit-free hole in the socialite’s daily planner. This groovy gent is credited with inventing the cocktail party while living in London in the 1920’s. He went on to spread the saucy good word around the globe while hanging his hat overseas in various exotic locales including, coincidently, Tangier, Morocco, a lifestyle afforded to him by his wealthy American wife Virginia Sorenson.

In addition to his many novels on such heavy topics as race relations and sexual identity, Alec is known for penning In Praise of Wine & Certain Noble Spirits (1959), an amusing and discursive guide to the major wine types, and Wines and Spirits, a 1968 book in the Time-Life series Foods of the World.

“I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.”

- Alec Waugh, In Praise of Wine &Certain Noble Spirits (1959)

A Good Mullet

// August 15th, 2006 // 1 Comment » // inspiration