FEATURES

The Mast Brothers

By Tom Ran
Michael Mast and Rick Mast of Mast Brothers Chocolate

Photo: Mindy Best

The Mast Brothers Chocolate factory occupies only three rooms in a nondescript building in Williamsburg. The first doubles as a storefront that opens on the weekend to customers with much…

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Roman & Williams Studio Visit

By Tom Ran
Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch in their studio

Photo: Rose Callahan

The partners behind Roman & Williams, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch are anti minimalists. It’s apparent in the spaces they create.

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Billykirk Studio Visit

By Tom Ran
Chris and Kirk Bray of Billykirk

Photo: Rose Callahan

Billykirk’s studio is surrounded by things, equipments, flat files, paintings, photos, and memories.

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RESULTS FOR "Aaron Carambula"

Retail

Saipua

Photo: Mindy Best

Saipua

Off of what you might call the main drag in Red Hook, Van Brunt Street, there are dozens of anonymous warehouses and garages. One of these, however, is not at… read more »

Events

Photo: Food, Inc.

Food Inc.

Along the same lines as Fresh, Food Inc. gives us a close, maybe too close, look at the food we eat and where it comes from. Definitely… read more »

Blog

Photo: Aaron Carambula

Herbert Bayer

Scout contributor, Aaron Carambula reports on the hyper-inflated currency printed after World War I in Germany known as notgelds or “emergency money.” Regional versions were being printed throughout the country,… read more »

"Always Play Amongst Friends" Friends of Type's first print edition

Photo: Jenny Pfeiffer

Friends in High Places

While living on opposite ends of the coast, New York and San Francisco, Aaron Carambula and Erik Marinovich launched Friends of Type via iChat. It was a reservoir… read more »

Photo: Plexifilm

13 Most Beautiful…

Gary Hustwit (of Helvetica fame) is a busy man. Not only is he currently working on Objectified, pushing make-shift camera carts around Ikea and interviewing design… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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