No.One’s Triple Black Bravo Sneakers

Full-grain, vegetable-tanned leather low-tops from the LA-based independent brand

As LA’s No.One footwear company makes clear, the name of their Triple Black Bravo isn’t accurate. Really, the best way to understand just how remarkable the shoes are requires looking at all the ways they’ve used premium black materials. First, the sleek sneakers are quintuple black when you count the black veg-tan footbed with black foil embossing and the black Plonge lambskin lining. This is …

Depth Photography Apps and the New iPhones

Both the 8+ and the X capture detailed and editable depth data when shooting photos in portrait mode

Apple introduced Portrait Mode awhile back utilizing the dual lenses on their plus model phones to map depth in an image and blur out the background, creating the effect of a fast lens with the aperture wide open. With both the iPhone 8+ and the iPhone X on iOS 11 the depth data from portrait mode images is available to developers. Within Apple’s own Photos …

Thoughtful New Insights from Jeff and Mark Bezos

Summit's first content release focuses on an intimate dialogue with predictions for the future

For their first Sessions video release, the team behind Summit have shared a conversation from their most recent Los Angeles ideas festival, hosted back on 4 November. For it, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his TED talk-delivering brother Mark Bezos traverse everything from early inspiration to their hopes for the future. The hour-long piece includes family photos and anecdotes that are both humanizing and empowering. …