Union Motorcycle Classics is a bunch of like-minded friends operating out of an old red dairy barn in Idaho. Mike Watanabe and C. are churning out a steady stream of delectable customs, and the latest is this 1967 BSA A65 Lightning — via Bike EXIF
They’ve sold millions of albums as one of the greatest all-time bands and now AC/DC hope to do a similar trade in liquor.
The hard-living Australian rockers have teamed up with NSW-based winery Warburn Estate for a nationwide release of an AC/DC wine collection.
Back In Black Shiraz, Highway To Hell Cabernet Sauvignon and You Shook Me All Night Long Moscato are just some of the varieties that will be available — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The stock Yamaha Virago is no great prize, but Classified Moto’s John Ryland loves putting a positive spin on one. XV920R6-R
is the latest machine to roll out of his Richmond, VA workshop, and it’s gone straight to lucky new owner Bob Ranew of North Carolina — via Bike EXIF
The Ship Song Project — Sydney Opera House reinterprets Nick Cave’s iconic song. Performed by Neil Finn, Kev Carmody and The Australian Ballet, Sarah Blasko, John Bell, Angus and Julia Stone, Paul Kelly and Bangarra Dance Theatre, Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Opera Australia, Martha Wainwright, Katie Noonan and The Sydney Symphony, The Temper Trap, Daniel Johns and the Australian Chamber Orchestra
This is the sweater you were looking for. Erica Schoenberger of EricaKnit on Etsy offers up this rad custom knit R2D2 sweater, and can even whip up a matching R2 beanie. Love it — via CRAFT
Walmart is pulling the plug on its MP3 downloads store, but it will continue to support DRMed tracks that it sold before the store went DRM-free. The news comes via a leaked memo to Digital Music News — later confirmed by a Walmart representative — which told music licensing partners that the store would close on 28 August 2011 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Even after death, Kurt Vonnegut is circumventing the rules.
When the Republic High School in Missouri banned Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, two weeks ago, the late author’s memorial library sprung into it action: offering free copies to any of the 150 students who were originally meant to read the book in class.
The book — which deals with war, the World War II bombing of Dresden, fate and society through a science-fiction plot vehicle — was banned for creating false conceptions of American history and government or that teach principles contrary to Biblical morality and truth
, according to a 2010 complaint in the Republic School District. Although the free copies were offered by the memorial library, the books will be paid for by an anonymous donor, according to a blog post by Julia Whitehead, the executive director of the Vonnegut library in Indianapolis, as reported by the News-Leader — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Music fans who took souvenir T-shirts from a rock festival in Gera, eastern Germany, have discovered they hold a secret message.
The so-called Trojan T-shirts bore a design of a skull and right-wing flags and the words hardcore rebels
.
But, once washed, the design dissolves to reveal a message telling people to break with extremism — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Becky Gould made this plush of Boba Fett meeting a well-deserved fate in the bowels of the Sarlacc. It’s one of her contributions to Stitch Wars, an annual exhibition of Star Wars-themed crafts hosted by the Bear and Bird Boutique — via Neatorama
The actor’s pet Malamute rouses him during a hunting trip in the Sierra Madre Mountains, 1963 — via LIFE
Footage from Alfred Hitchcock’s first film has been uncovered in New Zealand.
The British director was 24 when 1923 silent film, The White Shadow, was made.
The three reels were found among some unidentified American nitrate prints, which were left at the New Zealand Film Archive in 1989 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Previously confidential documents detailing Universal Music’s meetings with the former UK government over the Digital Economy Act are revealing a whole lot more than the pair intended. Blacked-out sections now uncovered show that Universal believed that ISPs could spy on their users and hand over information to rightsholders in order for them to sue — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Finally after a thirty year plus wait, you can quit taking those items in for repair at exclusive mechanics. Now you can repair the bay doors on your AT-AT without having to resort to pricey mechanics who charge a fortune due to high Empire taxation–although the Pull-a-Part might be a ways. Designed by TGIGreeny, the manuals appear on a series of t-shirts which include the Tie Bomber, Tie Fighter, and for those with the means, Imperial Stormship — via Neatorama
Starting in two weeks, Fox will no longer offer free access to its TV-shows the day after they air on television. For TV-fans the decision to limit the availability of these show is a step backward, and all the signs indicate that TV-show piracy will once again surge in the United States. But whether Fox will care much about this piracy increase remains to be seen — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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