The world’s first international news magazine on cotton, T-post is a subscription t-shirt service based in Sweden. Silkscreened onto American Apparel tees, subscribers get a new “issue” every six weeks with a design about a current news item on the outside and a short article on the topic printed inside. A t-shirt company out of…
It was bound to happen. First, you could buy music in stores. Then you bought music online. Now, in an iFood terminal at Stockholm’s way upscale Nordiska Kompaniet’s food hall, you can actually download audio recipes onto your iPod, then buy the ingredients right there. The store describes the process thusly (in Swedish): 1) Docka…
For decades, Levi’s had a cult following across Europe. You could sell them on the Black Market for double or trouble their original cost. Now, a punk-rock style, trendy unisex fit and $50 price tag are making Cheap Monday jeans very popular among young Swedes. But a Satanic logo, featuring a skull with an upside…
Apparently, jail houses rock. In Sri Lanka, Galle prison, a centuries-old UN World Heritage site, is being converted into a hotel. On June 16, The Daily News reported the plans of Kingsley Wickramaratne, governor of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, to develop the prison. The governor has said that rooms will be no-frills prison…