A bang up job

I'm Chrysanthe Tenentes. Co-Founder & Contributing Editor of Brooklyn Based, Co-Creator of The Shed Story Salon, previously Foursquare, outside.in, NBBC, Digital Dumbo. Consultant to startups and brands. I bike most places, prefer dresses to pants, and sneeze in pairs. Contact me, I'm friendly I'm (mostly) on Twitter See my photos on Instagram and Flickr. Follow my Svpply I'm on Pinterest _uacct = "UA-1551138-3"; urchinTracker();

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that hat

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Fins of clay

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The End of Brooklyn, photos of every dead-end street from Greenpoint to Sheepshead Bay.

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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, the first and only documentary about Joan Didion

We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live, the first and only documentary about Joan Didion. Made with Joan, using Joan's words.

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Tsumori Chisato, look number six, Spring/Summer 2015, Sept. 27, Paris Fashion Week. 

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John Sanderson's railroad landscapes are on view at the New York Transit Museum until February 1.

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In the true spirit of The Shed, our theme this month is “Do It Yourself: Stories about channeling your inner Macgyver, faking it till you make it, hacking and making, and getting fed up enough to just %#&!^*$ do it!” Join us in our Red Hook backyard for another night of eating,...

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Tales of DIY, this Friday in the backyard behind the shed. See you in Red Hook! RSVP >> here.

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“Texas is a place in which people have independence and huge ambitions of what they’re going to do in the world, and that describes the platonic ideal of New York as well.”

Jake Silverstein, formerly of Texas Monthly, is named editor of the New York Times Magazine

[airows]

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summer dreaming

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“The intended customer for Isabel Marant’s latest efforts—baggy tweed men’s jackets that might have been found at a thrift shop, saucy gold sequined shorts—is a well-heeled young lady who is studying for her LSATs or the baccalauréat, and, judging by the models’ sullen expressions, is none too happy to crack a book.”

Lynn Yaeger in the New Yorker

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yes x 1000 to ankle straps

Nina Ricci Fall/Winter 2014

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great color, great texture

(the rest of the collection is worth a look)

Dries Van Noten F/W 2014

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How Did Toast Become the Latest Artisanal Food Craze?

This piece is about much more than artisanal toast*. A moving read.

How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer.

*Which I have yet to see on a menu in Brooklyn, but I'd attribute it to the East Coast/West Coast divide. What New Yorker wants to wait for thick-cut bread to toast jetting out the door?

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love these colors

Etro Fall/Winter 2014

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DVF F/W 2014 perfection

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Get Lost at Sea with The Shed on Saturday, February 1.   RSVP here for the secret address coordinates.

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Join us for a great night of storytelling next weekend.