World champion surfer Kelly Slater founded Outerknown in 2014; a brand rooted in environmental sustainability. Outerknown walks the fine line between function, style, & sustainability, and the result is stylish clothing that’s created with long-lasting materials and in a way that both protects our natural resources & provides fair wages to factory workers.

Outerknown has just gotten their best selling Blanket Shirt – the softest, most sustainable shirt ever made – back in stock. Crafted with organic cotton and corozo nut buttons, the Blanket Shirt is rugged, warm, and extremely soft.

The Blanket Shirt comes in 42 different colours, including solid block colours and plaid patterns, and is only US$148! The versatile shirt will be a perfect addition to any closet as it can be worn as a shirt, layered over a tee, or worn as a jacket on warmer days. But, you’d better hurry because it’s already starting to sell out again!

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IWC Schaffhausen has always been a rather innovative watchmaker. From pioneering the modern pilot’s watch and anti-magnetic watch movements to the leaps and bounds they’ve made in material sciences, the Swiss outfit has always stood out as one of the industry’s most forward-thinking brands.

Perhaps this is why the United States Navy’s Fighter Weapons School – better known as TOPGUN and the inspiration behind the famous 80s action flick of the same name – was so keen to strike up a partnership with IWC. TOPGUN’s job is all about staying ahead of the competition, and it’s TOPGUN’s relentless drive that’s inspired some of IWC’s most technically impressive watches in recent memory.

One of the key features of IWC’s TOPGUN Pilot’s Watch range is their case material: Ceratanium. An IWC-developed compound that’s light and robust like titanium, but scratch-resistant and biocompatible like ceramic, it’s a high-tech material that suits only the most high-performance watches. And that’s what we’re here to talk about today.

IWC has unveiled two new watches that are easily the most complex and technically impressive watches in the TOPGUN Pilot’s Watch collection yet. Stealthy, handsome and both crafted out of Ceratanium, these timepieces are very exciting – and thankfully, you don’t need to be some high-flying Maverick to get your hands on them.

First up, we have the Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar TOP GUN Ceratanium (try saying that three times fast), which features a case, crown and, for the first time in IWC history, a bracelet made of Ceratanium. The bracelet is around 30% lighter than a comparable steel bracelet and, therefore, is extremely comfortable to wear.

Material innovation aside, it’s quite simply one of the most complex mechanical watches IWC (or really any watchmaker) produces. Not only does it feature a perpetual calendar with displays for the date, day and month; a four-digit year indicator, and perpetual moon phase for both Northern and Southern Hemispheres, but it manages this whilst also boasting a 7-day power reserve. It’s a hell of a lot of watch, quite simply.

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The second of the pair is the Pilot’s Watch Timezoner TOP GUN Ceratanium. This is the first TOP GUN model featuring IWC’s unique Timezoner complication: a novel take on the classic GMT watch. The watch can be set to a different time zone by simply pressing down and rotating the bezel – the hour hand, the 24-hour display and the date will move forwards or backwards in one-hour steps. This also works across the dateline and without losing a single second. Mounted on IWC’s hardy textile inlay rubber strap, this is one tough world traveller’s companion.

Both Ceratanium champs are limited editions: the Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar a run of 150 pieces, and the Timezoner a run of 500 pieces. With their unique combination of good looks, haute horlogerie, high-tech materials and of course, that TOP GUN connection– we’d imagine these will be snapped up quicker than a jet fighter breaking the sound barrier. Discover more about the pair at IWC’s online boutique here.

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The following article was produced in partnership with Rado.

Two-tone watches are currently experiencing an unprecedented revival in 2021. After experiencing a spike in popularity during the 80s and 90s, watches featuring a combination of steel and gold have flown under the radar for a while – with watch fans now rediscovering their joys.

It’s not hard to see why, either. Two-tone watches are the perfect balance between luxury and practicality: they’re lighter and more resilient than a pure gold watch, yet more luxurious and eye-catching than straight steel. In short, they’re versatile – able to be dressed up and dressed down – and perfect for the modern Australian man about town.

But not all two-tone watches are made equal. It’s a bold aesthetic that needs a bold watch – like the Rado Captain Cook. Without further ado, we’d like to introduce you to the Rado Captain Cook Bi-Colour: one of the best two-tone watches of 2021, or indeed in recent memory. It’s quite simply a stunner.

What makes the Captain Cook Bi-Colour special? It’s all in the execution. The Captain Cook’s sharp, retro design perfectly suits a two-tone colour scheme, the radiance of gold used to highlight essential features of the watch: its bezel, its crown, hands and indices, as well as on that beautiful ‘rice grain’ bracelet. It’s like a cascade of little gold bars…

Thankfully, wearing one isn’t actually like lumping around a gold bar on your wrist. Far from it. Rado is known as the ‘Master of Materials’; they’re real wizards when it comes to high-tech watch finishes. The gold features on the Captain Cook Bi-Colour are the result of a PVD process. PVD, or physical vapour deposition, is a process where the watch’s surfaces are coated with a thin layer of titanium nitride, an extremely dense and exceptionally hard metal compound, which the gold is then bonded to in a vacuum.

Essentially, this means that the Captain Cook Bi-Colour has that unmistakable lustre that only real gold can produce, combined with the scratch resistance and reduced weight of titanium. It’s more durable, lighter and tarnishes less than pure gold – which are ideal qualities for a sporty dive watch like the Captain Cook. Two finishes are available: yellow gold or rose gold. Both look like a million bucks.

Speaking of diving, don’t let the watch’s luxurious good looks fool you: the Captain Cook Bi-Colour is still a thoroughbred tool watch. Its in-house Calibre R734 not only has an impressive 80hr power reserve and water-resistance rating of 300m, but it’s also the first Rado movement to utilise a Nivachron balance spring: a titanium-based alloy that not only has remarkable anti-magnetic properties but is also extremely resistant to fluctuations in temperature as well as impacts – perfect for adventures both in and out of the water.

In short, the Rado Captain Cook Bi-Colour really gives you the best of all worlds. Versatile, capable, stylish and ultimately, quite fun. So really, everything you’d want from a watch. It’s the perfect daily wearer and seems absolutely designed for Australian conditions… What more could you want out of a timepiece?

Discover the Rado Captain Cook Bi-Colour range here in both yellow gold and rose gold.

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Few performance cars are as beloved as BMW’s iconic M3.

First brought into this world with the E30 3 Series in 1986, the M3 has been the benchmark for compact performance cars. If BMW are all about ‘the ultimate driving machine’, the M3 is the purest expression of that philosophy: manic, exciting, capable, yet with an underlying practicality. Take it to the track, and then take it to work the next day.

Something else that BMW is loved for is its fast station wagons. But while you’ve certainly been able to get some very hot 3 Series wagons, BMW have never offered an M3 Touring (BMW’s designation for wagons), saving that prized designation only for sedans and coupes (note: BMW split the sedan and coupe variants into two different model lines in 2014, with the sedan remaining the M3 and the coupe now known as the M4).

Until now, that is. When BMW unveiled their latest M3 / M4 pair last year, they had all but confirmed that an M3 Touring was also on the way. BMW M also shared some glimpses of a prototype being tested outside their factory last August, but until now, we haven’t had a good look at what the car can actually do. But Christmas has come early for Beamer fans.

Footage and images have emerged of the M3 Touring being tested at the famous Nürburgring last week, and not only does it seem pretty bloody nippy, but it sounds amazing, too. Naughty boy! BMW M also confirmed the Nürburgring test with an Instagram post just hours ago, sharing some clearer shots of the handsome-looking beast.

While the car is still heavily camoflagued, the photos and footage have allowed a rather clear look at the car’s overall aesthetics. Its rear end is particularly well-executed: angular and lithe with a small rear spoiler, the car looks very well-proportioned. Sadly for some, the car still seems to be sporting the controversial, ‘nasal’ grille design of the new M3 / M4 – but we don’t think that’s a dealbreaker.

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What isn’t clear just yet is what specifications you’ll be able to mix and match with the M3 Touring package. Currently, there’s three spec levels within the M3 range: the ‘base’ M3, the M3 Competition, and the M3 Competition xDrive, the latter of which features all-wheel drive. There’s no news yet whether you’ll be able to get an M3 Touring in Competition or Competition xDrive spec, both of which boost the M3 from 353kW to 375kW. All spec levels are powered by the 3.0L S58 twin-turbocharged inline-six that first appeared in the G01 X3 M.

The other question mark is whether you’ll be able to get a manual M3 Touring. Currently, the ‘base’ M3 (and M4) are available with a six-speed manual transmission, but the higher ‘Competition’ trims are only available with an eight-speed M Steptronic transmission. There’s no reason to assume things will be any different with the M3 Touring… It’s still a shame that you can’t get the hottest spec with a manual for the regular M3 / M4, though.

More to come.

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Ever wondered why we always board planes on the left? If this particular quirk of aviation protocol has left you curious, allow us to gift your eyes with an explanation, via experts who know these things. Namely: pilots.

Various pilots have taken to the internet over the years to share their why this is the case, with the most recent being a captain on Pilot Talk Show.

So: why do passengers always board planes on the left? It all comes back to when people used to travel by ship, and the lexicon of port (left) and starboard (right), the captain explained.

He’s not alone in this theory.

Commercial pilot Andrew Stagg wrote on internet forum Quora: “The word starboard comes from ‘steerboard,’ which referred to a board similar to a rudder on the right of the ship.”

“The placement of this board required that the port side was the one you would embark and disembark from, so most airplane and jetway designers followed the same convention.”

He said it has remained the case with airlines (and become an industry standard) because it’s “efficient if everyone agrees to use the same side.”

Another Quora user went a little deeper, writing: “A question that has long puzzled me. The customary answer is that the jet-bridges in airports always go to the left or port side of the aircraft or diving a bit deeper, that nowadays the whole airport operations are organized in a way that the port side is the ‘passenger side’ and the starboard side is the ‘service side’ of the aircraft. But that does not explain how it came about. After all, even in early commercial aviation, when all this was not yet relevant, the port side was used.”

The same Quora user, who claims to be called Jobst von Steinsdorff, and whose response was upvoted by Steve Kinoshita, whoe profile says he holds a Canada Private Pilot License, continued, providing three reasons why we board from the left.

“Nautical tradition: Aviation has adapted many seafaring traditions. Early ships did not have a central rudder for steering like modern designs, but simply had a rudder sticking out to the side. Since most people are right-handed, this was typically done on the right side of the ship. That’s why it got the name starboard (which etymologically comes from ‘steer’).”

“The other side is known as ‘port’ (as harbour),” he continued, “which leads us to the next interesting point: If you have such a rudder on the starboard side, it’s better to go alongside in ports with the other side, so that the rudder doesn’t get in the way of the quay or landing stage. In the nautical world, it has thus become a custom that – if you have the choice – you should dock with the port side.”

“Since this is the way it is done in nautics, it has been adopted in aeronautics. Since doors in the fuselage are a weak point in the design (even without a pressurized cabin), often doors have not even been installed on the starboard side.”

Finally, he added: “Another aspect is that the captain’s (or sole pilot’s) seat in an aircraft is on the port side. Whoever sits there has a better view of boarding or de-boarding of the aircraft and especially of such details as whether there is still a ladder against the aircraft or whether the ladder is still in the way of a wing, etc. It is also possible that the captains’s seat is on the port side for this very reason.”

There you have it: the history of left vs. right (for aviation).

According to The Sun, other aviation experts have said we board on the left hand side “because the planes are refuelled on the right, so they need to keep passengers out of the way.”

If you found that interesting, check out the video below, which depicts one of the most annoying (yet apparantly neccessary) things airlines make passengers do when boarding a flight.

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Frustrating Heathrow scenes are showing what happens when demand for travel surges from a little to a lot, without adequate transit facilities. 

Numerous travellers returning to the UK have taken to Twitter to blast the airport, and authorities, for allowing such chaos to occur, citing long wait times and fears of a giant super spreading event as their concerns. 

Twitter user (and, it seems, returning traveller) Can Papuççuoğlu wrote of the scenes: “It took 3,5 hours to get through the passport control queue in Heathrow Terminal 2 today @BBCWorld with a sign that says: Keep your social distance! British sense of humor or lack of planning?”

Take a look at the wild scenes at Heathrow airport in the video below.

According to The Mirror, the airport said it was experiencing “some delays” as a result of having to conduct health checks – despite those measures having been a requirement for months now. 

The Mirror also reported: “Brits have been given the most freedom in 18 months to travel abroad, as the UK deals with the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Briatin has seen huge numbers of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, with many residents concerned the situation will now get worse coming into winter. 

@HeathrowAirport @British_Airways Welcome back to air travel and Heathrow T5 is a disgrace. Queue management negligible. Few staff. No communication. No common sense being used. pic.twitter.com/3vNHnzubK7

— Stuart Rock (@stuart_rock) October 21, 2021

This is not the first time there has been Chaos at Heathrow. Last month there was a “human logjam” thanks to the e-gates not working.

Massive queues as e-gates go down at Heathrow and other airports around the UK | Science & Tech News – https://t.co/5jWRLWAcJi

A “human logjam” has formed at Heathrow as crowds of people struggle to get through customs after e-gates failed.
The unspecified tech proble… pic.twitter.com/gSRfDcVvJB

— Eric Thompson (@isearch247) September 24, 2021

Heathrow chaos: Huge crowds overwhelm understaffed airport – Heathrow chaos: Huge crowds overwhelm understaffed airport Sunday, September 5th 2021 – 06:53 UTC Full article Prepare for lines… – https://t.co/T9M141PRhz pic.twitter.com/Etll35UsjN

— Refess.com (@Refess) September 5, 2021

In January, there were long waits too. 

“Shut it down!” journalist Matthew Wright wrote on Twitter in January. 

Shut it down!
COVID-19: Crowds at Heathrow Airport spark social distancing concerns https://t.co/RUXzB0KsY7

— Matthew Wright (@Matthew_Wright) January 23, 2021

“You should be ashamed,” Twitter user Kevin Pascoe tweeted, also in January. 

Britain’s labour government called the big crowds “incredibly worrying.”

The delays have been put down, at various moments, to understaffing, staff calling in sick (or exhausted) after being asked to work longer hours (leading to a viscous cyle of even fewer staff available for even more hours) and e-gate issues. 

Some people have even suggested there is another element to Britain’s soaring case numbers – attitude.

In response to the BBC asking “could it be that our variant being more transmissible explains why we have much higher rates than in the EU?”, journalist Alex Taylor wrote on October the 19th: “I went Paris/Lyon and back yesterday. 1 200km and didn’t see a single person without a mask in either the métro or the train. Maybe more that?”

Back from Spain after 3 months and horrified no masks tho highest infection rates in the world. Spain wear outside even though now not mandated. Last place saw masks Heathrow terminal 5 where the kettle every arrival for 2 hours pic.twitter.com/jrFwJwi051

— Maria Montgomery (@MariaMo32975161) October 19, 2021

Another frustrated Twitter user wrote: “I’ve often said that if ever they give the UK an enema, Heathrow is where they’ll stick the tube.”

Yes I’ve often said that if ever they give the UK an enema, Heathrow is where they’ll stick the tube

— Bryan Moores (@mooresbryan1) October 23, 2021

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Spike Lee is a rather unconventional style icon.The 64-year-old film director has always had an eclectic and off-beat personal aesthetic: from his chunky glasses to love of colour and wild baseball caps, Lee’s always been one of a kind. Indeed, he arguably kickstarted modern sneaker culture with his 90s ads for Nike, featuring his iconic tagline, “it’s gotta be da shoes.”He normally saves his craziest outfits for when he sits courtside at New York Knicks games – the superfan regularly rocking his favourite team’s orange and blue colours. His latest courtside outfit, however, might just be his most outrageous yet, and it’s one that’s inspired both shock and awe from fans.In attendance for his beloved Knicks’ game against the Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden last week, Lee wore a NBA logo-embroidered suit, orange loafers and blue Knicks socks. He looks like a bloody handbag – well, he would, if he wasn’t also wearing a Louis Vuitton x NBA purse as well. Handbagception…

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If you ever come up against obstacles in life, generally, the only genuine obstacle is you and your mind. Tell yourself, and believe, you can do something will more often than not result in a positive outcome. This is especially true for getting yourself into much healthier shape.

We’ve already seen countless stories of incredible body transformations, from people from all walks of life. Whether it’s your average American who’s been inspired by their sporting heroes; dads who realised their over-eating could mean they’ll leave the planet sooner than planned and never see their children grow up; or even sporting figures such as Mo Salah or Sergio Ramos, who push themselves harder, allowing them to perform better where it matters.

The latest incredible body transformation – and inspirational story, of course – comes from German man Andre Patris. Taking to Instagram to disclose his story, Andre reveals he was once a rather large man and has also undergone heart surgery. Now, he’s ripped as hell and is a National Bodybuilding coach, proof that you really can turn your life around if you overcome the mental battle.

 

 

 

 

 

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The caption for his post – comprising various before and after images – is written in German, but a rough translation says:

“People see this shape and think that it’s all so easy for me. That it was easy for me to look like that. Bullshit. I have my struggle like everyone else. Just me.”

“How often do I fear heavy squats because I worry about my artificial aorta (the main artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body). How often do I have back and knee problems? How long my biceps tendon has been inflamed. How often do I not manage to consume enough protein shit and how often I generally eat and sleep far too little.”

“The difference is not that I don’t have any problems. The difference is that I am learning to live with these problems.”

“At some point I accept it and learn to deal with it. Yes, my biceps hurt when curling. So I’m looking for a way to train my biceps without them hurting.”

“I haven’t been able to do it for two years. Is that why I throw myself on the floor and start crying and kick around?”

“No, I’ll go on. Fuck it. If you want to be better than the rest, you have to be able to do more than the rest. If I said “too late today, I’d rather go to sleep” every time at 11pm, I would probably only do it once a week for training create. I just do what has to be done.”

“The saying always helps me a lot. Do what needs to be done! How bad do you want it?”

His words are of a similar vein to those of muscle mountain The Rock, who has previously revealed a technique he uses to help push himself harder, is to ask himself “how bad of a m****r f****r do you think you are?”

Andre’s post has received hundreds of comments, all in support of his incredible transformation, and recovery from his surgery. In fact, a surgeon has even commented on the post, claiming: “I’ve done many sternotomies. This is great work to recover so well.”

Some skeptics and cynics may question whether Andre has dabbled with using steroids to aid him on his quest for muscular greatness. We’ve previously heard from fellow German bodybuilder Jo Lindner, who has admitted to taking steroids in his younger days, but now strongly condones their misuse. 

Regardless, for Andre to go from a serious dad bod, to having surgery, to getting himself into incredibly ripped shape, is nothing short of remarkable. He’s yet more proof that if you keep telling yourself you can, and that you will achieve and smash your goals, you can do anything.

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Even if you could go to the island of gods right now, you probably wouldn’t want to. Why? As part of the Indonesian government’s plan to keep COVID-19 under control, visitors have to spend eight days of quarantine at a hotel. This is completely fair (and a shorter stint in quarantine than the length of time Australia still currently mandates) but in terms of tourism, is probably going to prove a deterrent. 

The Guardian reported earlier this month: “The latest plan from the Indonesian government, announced by minister Luhut Panjaitan in October, is to open Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport to international flights from China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia on 14 October.”

As part of the plan, visitors must undergo eight days of quarantine at a hotel, with the expenses to be charged back to them. 

DMARGE got in touch with Australian expat in Bali, Peter Hibberd, who is the Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy and who has been living and working in Bali for a number of years (inluding now), to ask for his thoughts on the situation. 

Surely, even if Australians could travel to Bali right now (which they can’t, as they are not on the aforementioned list, and also aren’t allowed – yet – to leave the country for leisure), given the 8 day quarantine situation, they would rather go somewhere else (or wait until Indonesia gets rid of the quarantine rule)? Well it’s not quite so simple, Peter said. 

Peter told DMARGE: “There has been a couple major changes to the situation in Indonesia including Bali. Indonesia went through a large spike of Covid during July of 2021 and the entire archipelago was shut down again. This has since subsided and things have been returning to the ‘new normal’.”

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“The vaccination rates of Bali specifically are very high sitting around 80% compared to the rest of the nation which is a direct result of the government trying to kickstart the Bali tourism as soon as possible. And it’s working.”



”The Denpasar (Bali) international airport is finally open to international flights and you no longer have to quarantine in Jakarta. This means, when the airlines decide to kick off operations, the tourists can quarantine in a selection of hotels across Bali from Uluwatu to Ubud.”

“The hotels include the major international chains and boutique options so at the very least your view won’t be a Jakarta city’s Will it prove a big deterrent? The truth is more are actually returning already and the bustle of Bali is coming back!”

“Holidayers will have to make a decision if they consider using a few days in a hotel as part of their holiday but as soon as you’re out, you’re good to go.”

Peter added that the 8 days of quarantine could actually feel like 6, explaining that one traveller he spoke to even suggested if your flight arrives at night and you check in at 11pm, that counts as day one and checking out 8am on the last day counts too.

“Therefore 8 days actually feels like 6 (as with all travel, follow all mandatory rules and there is no issue).”

On top of that, this is a beautiful, quiet time to be in Bali, without the throngs of tourists – if you can get there. So there are pros and cons to everything. Though if it’s a choice between Bali with quarantine and Fiji without, we imagine many people will be saying “Bula” for now.

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Stay tuned for an update on what life in Bali is like right now, if you are considering visiting when you get the chance.

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