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My new book [in German] has been published! You may order it online ↑via amazon or directly ↑via Peter Hammer Verlag. Offline every decent bookshop can get it for you, too.
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—Jules & Michel Verne 1908
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Category Archives: sartorial
the lovecraft tie
Above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evident pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, literature, sartorial
Tagged aesthetics, dandyism, design, horror, phantastic
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tri knot
The above was uploaded to YouTube by McGreyling on 22 September 2010 and shows how to tie a before unknown inverse tie knot. Like Edeity’s knot, Henry Hu’s Hen Tie, and Lord Whimsy’s Merovingian it is of size 11. … Continue reading
inverse in time
Due to public demand I created the category ↵sartorial and the tag ↵dandyism. For starters I hauled over five according entries from ↑ye ole xirdalium. In detail and with background information, pictures, sequences, diagrams, and movies you now can read … Continue reading
eldredge reloaded
With the video Jeffrey “cwtrain” Eldredge uploaded to YouTube yesterday, the story of the inverse tie-knots finally seems to have come to an end. In the video Jeffrey demonstrates exactly ↵the sequence I had come up with on 19 … Continue reading
eldredge variant
To my eyes ↵the ‘Eldredge’ is an absolute beauty, but the solution Jeffrey Eldredge chose for the final move does not exactly leave us with a ‘knot’ in the technical sense of the term. He simply tucks what is left … Continue reading
the eldredge
It is uncanny, the development is still unfolding. After I learned about the inverse tie knots, invented by edeity, and clearly transcending Fink & Mao’s 85 ways, I made some calculations—of course by means of the formulas devised by Fink … Continue reading
more merovingian ties
After having published ↵merovingian ties—beyond the 85 knots of Fink and Mao, I started to contact some of the involved protagonists. ↑Lord Whimsy was the first to answer and confirmed a suspicion of mine. To my question on how he … Continue reading
merovingian ties
beyond the 85 knots of Fink and Mao Most of you have not noticed, I presume, because when the ↑character ‘Merovingian’ (Lambert Wilson) first appears in ‘↑Matrix Reloaded‘ (2003), your eyes were on ↑‘Persephone’ (Monica Bellucci) at his side. But, … Continue reading
Posted in fieldnotes, sartorial
Tagged aesthetics, craft, cyberpunk, dandyism, design, matrix
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