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#1 2009-02-26 01:17:47
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
http://www.ivy-style.com/somewhere-in-time-back-to-the-button-down.html
^ From our old Brother Zach AKA 'BandOfOutsiders'. I hope he gets the chance to do much more over there as he knows his stuff & has a real feel for it. Interesting date on the article: '72.
They need to edit their 'Ephemera' column over there btw, having fallen for Richard 101's latest attention-grabbing stunt...
#2 2009-02-26 12:52:45
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
Some very nice exchanges re: Zach today via PM & email. He's very fondly remembered.
#4 2009-02-28 00:57:08
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
Let it be know:
Any future silly emails from Mr. Chensvold to The Torch Society will not be answered. His attempt to get a rise out of the Society is a miserable failure and has made him a laughing stock once more.
Jus' passin' on the news... 
#5 2009-03-01 01:38:32
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
The Torch has spoken!
http://thetorchsociety.blogspot.com/2009/02/bump.html
#6 2009-03-01 09:26:29
- Hard Bop Hank
- Ivy Soul Brother
- From: land of a 1000 dances
- Posts: 4923
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
Video footage of The Torch found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cO9k8GA6Dw
What panache!
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#7 2009-03-01 09:37:17
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
... Which is why you really shouldn't send them silly emails!
#8 2009-03-01 14:30:15
- Hard Bop Hank
- Ivy Soul Brother
- From: land of a 1000 dances
- Posts: 4923
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
Actually, I like his crusade! He's opened my eyes... it's a little bit like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA8drfZwnXQ
They Live - The moment of revelation
Reality clarifies for a man in the street.
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#10 2009-03-02 13:17:25
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
Here's how you blog on Ivy:
http://www.theweejun.com/index.php/more-vintage-ocbds-gant-the-hugger/#comments
Knowledge
Taste
Suss
Enthusiasm
Love
The five things that the fakers can't fake.
#11 2009-03-10 06:53:29
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
Let us praise "Ivy-Style" once more -
I liked the Commuter pics very much this morning. "Life" again? It usually is over there.
After a surfeit of Campus pics it's good to see them spread their focus out a bit.
The text with the photos sadly didn't work for me however. Is it necessary to always have text? It we are to always have commentary from people who don't know their subject then I think it's ill advised. A celebration of Commuter culture would have been more unexpected & much more interesting.
Having commuted myself at one stage of my life I know that the outsider's view of it all as a rat race is very far from the truth. I loved the culture of familiar faces and habits. Drinks & snacks. Books and newspapers. The endless chances to pretend your train was delayed to explain why you got home late after drinks after work. I found it all very 'clubby' & nice.
'Ivy-Style' needs to take more care with the meanings they ascribe to these vintage pics. If they want to talk about a culture then they need to actually know it. Otherwise what is it that they're actually serving up?
#12 2009-03-10 08:12:44
- Decline & Fall
- Ivyist At Large
- Posts: 850
Re: Something Nice From The "Ivy-Style" Blog -
Agreed. I really liked the pics. Really made me want to see more vintage commuter action. That bar car was especially interesting.
"I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar-that's wonderful."
— Raymond Chandler