It’s all in the look…

I don’t know about you, but lately I have noticed that young Vancouver males are dressing more and more stylish as the seasons go by. With the addition of new and contemporary men’s fashion boutiques in Gastown, Kitsilano, and Victoria, there is no reason why any man should dress to un-impress nowadays.

For those who are in need of a little more direction, I have devised a Men’s “how-to” guide for dressing well and looking confident. As some of you may know, I write a fashion blog called BC Boutiques (www.bcboutiques.wordpress.com) and write for an online Men’s Lifestyle and Fashion Magazine called Knew Daily (www.knewdaily.com). I was asked by Jonathan to contribute to The Mustache and figured that it would be a great opportunity to write a piece on Men’s fashion.

Step #1: Back to Basics

Every man should have at least 3-4 staple items in their closet. These are basic go-to pieces that always look great and can be worn any time. If you are ever unsure of what to wear, just pull one or two of these articles of clothing out of your closet and presto! A simple, comfortable, and stylish outfit magically appears.

Basic Must-Have’s:

a) A good t-shirt. My favorite Men’s t-shirt is by Rxmance, a Men’s brand available at Roden Gray in Gastown, Vancouver. This t-shirt comes in a variety of colors and in v-neck or crew neck styles.

The Best Mustache In The World

Well, for my first blog post i though it would be appropriate to talk about the man with the best mustache ever. I am talking about Lanny McDonald. Why is it the best? Just look at it! It commands Respect, it's a stache that you would follow to the gates of hell and back just because it asked you to come. Add that its red and wow you are blown away. All the Great men of the world have had a mustache worth wearing, I just hope one day I will be able to grow a Mustache like his.

Business Sense At It’s Finest

If you are one of the thousands of paintball enthusiast roaming around the web, you will have definitely heard of TechPB, and the success it has grown into. Starting as a small web show, hosted by Mike Phillips, on youtube dedicated to educating new players that have entered the sport. It now has grown into a popular youtube channel with a large cult following.

It is a driving force behind the paintball community, and is even investing back into it to keep the sport alive. But on to the topic at hand, Marker Bids, a new auction website created by the group over at TechPB. This site allows you to buy paintball equipment for dirt-cheap which sounds to good to be true, and you are partially right.

What Is Education Now?

Needless to say, the world has changed and education is not what it used to be. Ten years ago education was highly sought after while twenty years ago education was a privilege and was valued in every walk of life. The farther back you look the more valuable any degree in any area of study is. Now what is it? What is a degree really? A Masters is still impressive and a being a doctor is still being a doctor. But really, what about just a degree? Let alone throwing the word 'minor' around that really means nothing, your faculty wont even recognize a minor, you just put it on your resume and call it quits.

Get a degree in what? Psychology? Kinesiology? History? Math? (well math is still impressive) English?!? The fact is you set a goal for yourself because you want a career in the end. Right? But people change.. you study your subject for two years maybe three and then what? You decided you don't like it anymore and switch to another subject to start fresh and waste more money?

Death to Children?!

Since the beginning of video games children dying and/or killing children were a gaming faux pas. No company did it and absolutely no company did it intentionally. There have been mods here and there that allowed you to do this in various games such as Fallout 3 for PC but even games such as Grand Theft Auto kept younger pedestrians out of the picture all together.

This all recently changed when a Polish developer called Techland released their new CGI trailer for the game Dead Island. In this trailer it starts with a young girl no older that 14 laying lifeless on the grass (pictured above) followed by showing her falling multiple stories (the trailer in chronologically reversed).

Spray-on Skin

What we used to only think was capable in movies through CGI or 'witchcraft' has now been developed for practical real world applications.

This breakthrough medical procedure would take only a few days to completely heal and is seen as 'the holly grail of burn surgery'. The equipment Dr Jorg C. Cerlach has created is called the 'skin cell gun' which, he says it works quite similar to paint spraying. The ability to create skin graphs for burn victims in hospitals used to take weeks and in some cases months to heal and the real risk was infection to the new skin while it is trying to heal. The way it works is they isolate cells from the heathy part of the skin (patient), 'mixed in a water solution and prepared for cell spraying'. The entire procedure takes roughly about one hour and within a week the patient is fully healed.

The entire procedure is still highly experimental but has worked successfully on a dozen burn victims.

Link to video: National Geographic (warning video has some graphic images)

RIP Desktops and Laptops

Remember when buying a new cellphone was as easy as 'I want one that flips' or 'this one has a camera! That's the one I want'. Which continued onwards to justifying a $300 phone purchase to your friends by saying your camera was 'way better' than theirs.

Well fast forward to 2011 and the iPhone has been through a couple of life cycles already; it has 'revolutionized' this, and 'changed' everything that. Essentially smart-phones are the new black. Every telecommunication company, and their mother, is coming out with these phones. Between Apple, RIM, Google and Microsoft providing the software (operating systems) and companies like HTC, Motorola, Apple, Nokia, Samsung, etc. are creating the hardware. It's a full fledged war to the death for market-share; a race for the fastest, coolest, multitasking-est phone of the future that everyone should buy.