Posts from the ‘FINDS’ Category
I found out about Uschi in the Keith Richards thoroughly entertaining auto-biography.
She was a leftist sex symbol in the 1960’s– joining communes and radical groups in her native Germany.
Hanging out with rock stars, staring in a film called Eight Miles High, and ultimately buying a Mercedes bus, painting it blue and outfitting it with furs, [...]
The New York Times picks the 41 places to go in 2011.
here’s the link: http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/travel/09where-to-go.html?hpw
I think these 5 have the most Gypset promise…
1)Oahu… but not because of the new Disneyland or Ian Schrager’s Marriott hotel. And definitely not for the new Pearl Harbor visitors center. I’d go because of the North Shore, the surf world mecca [...]
San Pancho, Mexico. Masirah Island, Oman. Busua beach, Ghana. These are just a handful of gypset spots I’m curious about checking out this year. please send in your recommends and tips. here’s to the (dirt) road less traveled!
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We were in Santiago, Chile last week and were thrilled to uncover contemporary art busting out in the most unlikely corners of this intellectual capital at the foot of the Andes.
Small, upstart galleries which resemble private living room ateliers more than sleek white cubes are scattered around the city’s center in grass roots digs; one [...]
1) TODOS SANTOS, MEXICO
Todos Santos is a small, groovy farming and fishing village about two hours drive north of San Jose del Cabo at the tip of Baja California. it’s known for its arty community and amazing winter surf swell. This rambling historic 150 year old sugar processing factory has three formal bedrooms, two baths, [...]
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Garth, my surf guru, who lives most of the time in Baja California, Mexico roaming between Todos Santos and the East Cape depending on the seasonal surf, just sent me a very cool cook book.
“Surf Food” was written by Nava Young, surf legend Nat Young’s daughter. Nava, a surfer, writer, and musician, grew up in [...]
Gypset (Gypsy+jet set) is about an emerging group of artists, musicians, fashion designers, surfers, and bon vivants– who lead semi-nomadic, unconventional lives….
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1) Hell’s Angels By Hunter S. Thompson
2) The Plumed Serpent by D.H Lawrence
3) Drop City by TC Boyle
4) A Scandalous Life: the biography of Jane Digby by Mary S. Lovell
5) The Oblivion Seekers by Isabelle Eberhardt
6) Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
7a&b) The Pump House Gang & The Electric Kool Aid Acid test by Tom [...]
Le grand sapeurs vogue through the streets of The Congo; from the book Gentlemen of Bakongo by Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni
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Hotel Raya, on the tiny Italian island of Panarea in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, is a classic gypset hotel. It’s a pain to reach (over 4 hours by hovercraft from Naples and just a little less from Palermo) and it’s owned by a true bohemian, Myriam Beltrami, who spends winters in Indonesia, and [...]
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