WA State Fire Lookout Project

Photographer Kyle Johnson documents the few remaining Forest Service lookout posts in the Pacific Northwest's vast landscape

Few places garner the type of awe and admiration for the abundance of nature like the great Northwest. While its cities continue to produce an impressive crop of creativity, its wilderness remains in part uncharted but ever-enchanting. To keep the heavily wooded region alive and well, the US Forest Service began building wildfire lookout posts in the early 1930s and ’40s—the number grew to nearly …

Shinola Store NYC

Detroit's multifaceted brand opens up shop in TriBeCa with The Smile Newsstand

Shinola opened their debut brick-and-mortar store in Midtown Detroit in June 2013 and this weekend they opened their second in NYC’s TriBeCa neighborhood. Designed by the Rockwell Group to inspire shoppers to linger, the spacious store features a small cafe and newsstand by The Smile in the front and is literally filled from floor to ceiling with Shinola branded products, special collaborations and a specially …

Nikon Coolpix A

We put the powerful point-and-shoot to the test at Chef Daniel Burns' new restaurant Luksus

Thanks to Instagram, in 2013 everybody is a food photographer. The plethora of filters the social app provides has undoubtedly contributed to making culinary still lifes more visually intriguing, but it’s done little to heighten the medium of photography itself. Nikon aims to improve this with their recently-released Coolpix A, a compact point-and-shoot that packs a large APS-C sensor (typically used in their D-SLR cameras) …