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LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing
- DKnoll 9y agoThat got a lot more interesting as I scrolled down. I like the aesthetic.
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- jgillich 9y agoThe site takes forever to load on my 1mbit mobile connection.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoI see your problem, at 1 milli-bit per second that page is going to take ... 500 years.
- stoic 9y agoDr Bronner's meets Project Mayhem?
- adfm 9y agoHis name is Robert Paulson.
- Benjammer 9y agoWhat in the world is a full tattooing kit doing in there?
- jwilk 9y agoIt ensures that people don't think it's serious.
- frik 9y agoIt got more bizarre further down "LOT 0018 — tattoo kit; coil tattoo machine"
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThe image appears to have a capacitor (? it's green, which is unusual) just randomly poking out at the bottom-right. I'm assuming that's a doctored image. I also get a couple of strange images: * One says "TT" and has the Manx triskelion, suggesting a relationship to the Isle of Mann motorcycle race, The TT. * One says "poslednee gac" in cyrillic script, presumably "Last Hour" in Russian. * One shows a tight shot of a large piece of heavy equipment, painted white and with a whiteboard with intriguing notes written on "Impete Forman / 3 Heat sheets from training / ..." or somesuch. [appears to refer to Kearny volunteer fire house in LA?] * Another shows a man, wearing the garb supposed to be on sale, astride a black motorbike. * Yet another shows an arrangement of 2048 in the stones stuck to the tyre of that motorbike. * Another again quotes the Bible and has a large "60", but has a phone number "+1628 444 97 91" which appears to be a Russian number. * And so on. The music appears to be a serious of multiples of beats with some ambient sound and a small amount of speech. I'm guessing at least part of it can be interpreted as hex and converted to ascii or something similar. Later there is some chanting and partial word elements with scrambled speech too. My best guess is viral marketing for a movie/tv-show at this point. I thought of Mr Robot, but it seems 12 Monkeys like from what little I remember seeing. Whatever it is it's well made with a good degree of intrigue IMO.
- gergles 9y ago> * Another again quotes the Bible and has a large "60", but has a phone number "+1628 444 97 91" which appears to be a Russian number. It's +1 628 444 9791, it's a US phone number. It just says "We're sorry, the person you called has a voice mailbox that has not been set up yet." The Russian country code is 7.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoI just Google it and it came up in a Wiki of phone numbers with Russian details, but thanks.
- beaconstudios 9y agointeresting how what seems to be a dystopian-aesthetic brand has chosen to include a tattoo kit as an essential. also, what exactly is a "team" in this context?
- mathnode 9y agoYou can tattoo yourself with an inventory barcode.
- gnode 9y agoProbably some kind of anarchist group.
- gerikson 9y agoAnarchists who wear exactly the same clothing? I think it's more the modern Heaven's Gate cult, saves a lot of time not asking members to shop for themselves!
- beaconstudios 9y ago> Anarchists who wear exactly the same clothing? I think GP was referencing the black bloc tactic.
- gnode 9y agoExactly.
- gergles 9y agoSizes 28-34 on the pants, which I think will exclude a large potion of the market that would pay $50 a month to have clothes mailed to them.
- tutufan 9y agoIt's clearly satire. But even in satire, fat guys like me are left out... :-/
- splawn 9y agoThis seems like it could be an ARG or something. I like it, it's intriguing.
- lfowles 9y agoI'm getting that vibe too. On the floss packaging: 3:23PM 12/02/2017 IS THE LAST HOUR
- dsr_ 9y agoIt feels a little like TRAVELERS -- they should be in production on their second season now. S1 is on Netflix. The TRAVELERS are from a crapsack future; they're here in our time to change that. This is the sort of thing that might be useful for them.
- splawn 9y agoThere is no way I am not going to call that phone number when I get home. :D
- pbnjay 9y agoThe Soundcloud track at the bottom is even more intriguing. In the footer it has my location and weather displayed too... even creepier (I turned off ublock to see if there was other stuff on this page).
- vgprice 9y agoDamn this is edgy.
- jressey 9y agoProtip: Hanes t-shirts are about $7 at target, boxers $12/3 at T.J. Maxx. Get good, comfortable shoes, no matter the price. This is insane, but a work of art if it's parody.
- DKnoll 9y agoThe shirts come in 3 packs for about $7.
- jressey 9y agoCan you get the nice, boldly colored ones in packs? I have some really cool purple, orange, and green ones that look like fancy mall retail shop shirts.
- DKnoll 9y agoNot to my knowledge, I just buy the packs of grey and/or black crew/v necks. But yeah I love Hanes... outstanding quality and cheap. The x-temp products are great by the way, albeit more expensive.
- pascalxus 9y agoyour right, it's a great parody.
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- intoverflow2 9y ago> Hanes t-shirts are about $7 at target How do they feel on your skin? I've been wearing AA triblend tshirts for I think over 10 years now. With their recent closure in my country I tried a few other high street brands that were a lot cheaper, looked the same but felt like sandpaper on my skin compared to what I was used to.
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- tobltobs 9y agoNice and all. Please tell us what the tattoo kit is doing there.
- infinitone 9y agoSo... did anyone sub?
- alexandersingh 9y agoImmediately. This is right up my alley :)
- _red 9y ago1 Year = $588 1 Cap, 6 t-shirts, 12 underwear, 1 jacket, 12 socks, 2 necklaces, 2 pair shoes, 3 pants, 4 sweatshirts Uh huh...
- beaconstudios 9y agoFor the wealthy cyberpunk on the go
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- pantalaimon 9y agoAlso, who throws all those items away after just one year of use?!
- culturestate 9y agoI don't throw them away (I donate them to the local equivalent of Goodwill instead), but I definitely replace socks/underwear/t-shirts at least yearly. T-shirts often go after ~4-6 months, once they start to become a bit stretched out and faded around the collar.
- ivanche 9y agoWow! I still occasionally wear 2-3 t-shirts and polo shirts I bought in 1996. My typical sock/t-shirt is probably 5 years old...
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- NTripleOne 9y agoI mean lets be honest it's pretty easy to spend more than $500 and get less clothes than that. Not that I'm saying this is good value, not at all, but still.
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- rpazyaquian 9y agoIs this viral marketing for a TV show or something?
- liber8 9y agoThe footer on the subscribe page quotes Jerimiah 29:11 (" For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.") and lists this coordinate (32.7663,-117.1293), which googlemaps says is on a hillside above the 805 freeway in San Diego. This is clearly a treasure hunt or an art project, right? edit: also, the instagram is pretty artsy: https://www.instagram.com/lot2046/ https://www.instagram.com/lot2046/
- otto_ortega 9y agoOr it may as well be some kind of hipster religious sect... Nowadays one can't be really sure!
- psiclops 9y agoBackpack features even numbers along with 0 in positions they show up on a keypad. Interesting writing on the floss, deodorant, hair dye, perfume, and id bracelet as well
- utternerd 9y agoInterestingly the coordinates I get in the footer are 33.6751, -117.7339 which is some undeveloped land inside the Orange County Great Park - perhaps what it gives back is based on GeoIP?
- beaconstudios 9y agoIt is, I got a location in the north of England where I'm based.
- psiclops 9y agoYeah I wasn't getting coordinates till I turned off ublock
- liber8 9y agoInteresting. I'm using a VPN so GeoIP didn't occur to me.
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- gt565k 9y agoConsumerism at its finest. New clothes every month? ...
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- otto_ortega 9y agoWhat kind of joke is this? Who on Earth needs a new set of clothes EACH month, all looking the same? If it is some sort of art project attempt, well... then I guess it is beyond what I can grasp as I can't figure the point of it.
- jpalomaki 9y agoBecause you want to avoid making unnecessary choices. Having to decide when to order new to replace old is one extra thing that will take cycles from something more important. https://medium.com/personal-growth/why-steve-jobs-wore-the-same-outfit-every-day-f792072f7ecf https://medium.com/personal-growth/why-steve-jobs-wore-the-s...
- literallycancer 9y agoExactly. It's minimalism at it finest.
- epicide 9y agoThis isn't minimalism. The clothes themselves are of a minimalist art style, but the service is elitist and wasteful. If you want to only have simple clothing, that's perfectly fine. If you don't want to have to spend a lot of thought on clothing, that's awesome! I'm the same way. However, subscribing to an overpriced service that sends you clothing on a schedule is extremely wasteful. It's basically planned obsolescence in clothing form. It is just as simple to go find a few articles of clothing you really like and wear those until they are no longer wearable, then donate/sell and replace. Minimalism is about maximizing the value out of things you own while minimizing their impact on your life. This accomplishes neither.
- literallycancer 9y ago>Minimalism is about maximizing the value out of things you own while minimizing their impact on your life. This accomplishes neither. That's largely a matter of personal taste. >However, subscribing to an overpriced service that sends you clothing on a schedule is extremely wasteful. High price doesn't necessarily imply wastefulness, unless you mean that you are wasting money? But that's a function of your earning potential, not only the item price. It's only wasteful if you end up with too many pieces. If you know your t-shirts last 2 years on average, and you need 12 of them, they getting a new one every 2 months is no more wasteful than any other purchasing pattern that keeps you stocked.
- garethsprice 9y agoReally like the totality of the aesthetic here - clothing, skincare, music... Nicely put together. Love it as an art project. My thoughts are that the tattoo machine is the boondoggle piece that helps position the collection - it's fairly common in high fashion collections or new brands positioning themselves. For example, Warby Parker's monocle, Saint Laurent's $1,200 roller skates and guitar cases, Hermes' $500 riding crops - complicated and impractical pieces not really meant for mass consumption, but they create conversation and help position the statement the designer is making.
- RubenSandwich 9y agoI didn't think of that, but that makes sense. I first saw the tattoo machine and was instantly turned off because it broke the minimalistic and utilitarian vibe of the rest of the collection. Also, I wouldn't trust myself or any of my friends to give me a tattoo... I'd rather go to a professional for that, the internet is already filled with bad tattoos.
- sirdavid 9y agoThis could be a viral site for the third season of 12 Monkeys. The future timeline started in 2043, and I'm pretty sure the future timeline is now somewhere roughly around the year 2046 now. Season 3 starts in May. *edit, changed final to THIRD season
- pbnjay 9y agoAlright I'll bite... $49 is some cheap entertainment and I'm totally intrigued at this point! My only fear at this point is that it's completely legit and someone actually thinks this is a good business. Subscription confirmation: http://imgur.com/PKVip3w http://imgur.com/PKVip3w
- gotrecruit 9y agojesus christ... seriously? a few months ago, i started a subscription box service with a friend and so far we've made only one single sale. our product is food related, and although we have plenty of competitors, we believe we offer some of the best value for boxes out there. yet, no matter what we do, it seems we have difficulty converting sales. our price tiers start at only 10 bucks! and yet, something like this... which seems ridiculous to me... people are actually willing to pay $49 just for "entertainment"? just for fun, to see what comes in the box? damn it... that is some serious marketing magic. you even think it's "cheap"! i'm genuinely either impressed by the person who started this (or stuff like this), or just baffled by those who actually pay for it.
- pbnjay 9y agoTBH If it's a food-related box for only $10 then I wouldn't expect to be getting quality. Don't compete on price! There's no "entertainment" value in eating cardboard (no dig on you, i have no idea what your value prop is or any details beyond "food related" and "only 10 bucks"). I also have plenty of opportunities to eat well where I am. For $49 I'm getting something I can at least wear for a year. I know a lot of people (not me personally) who would pay $49 for a good t-shirt from some fashion brands. I'll get a few more things than a t-shirt. The "marketing magic" certainly piques my interest, but lets face it you can't even get decent seats at a concert for $49. Also I want to be clear: if this sucks and isn't worth $49... I'll clearly cancel after one month. There's no committment period that I agreed to...
- gotrecruit 9y agoActually, we really do ship out quality products even for our lowest tier box. I sell candy boxes, and we never procure second-rate products for our boxes - always premium brands, premium products. our goal from the start is that, because our business model is designed not to profit from the candy sales but from other derivative or peripheral services instead, we have absolute zero concern about making profit on our boxes. which means that we will always find the best ratio between shipping weight and box weight in order to make sure our customers get the most value for their money, which is to say for what you receive, you are unlikely to be able to put together the same box for the same price. not to mention, as we source directly in asia, we get access to interesting seasonal or limited edition flavors only available in asia, which as a candy lover myself can be really awesome and exciting.
- allenz 9y agoThis is by Lapka co-founder Vadik Marmeladov. https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/851475018332622848 https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/85147501833262284... In 2013, before Lapka was acquired: "He was dressed head-to-toe in tailored black garments... he confessed to me that one day, if his company ever got big, every employee would dress this way. “That’s the dream, anyway,” he said with a self-effacing laugh." https://www.fastcodesign.com/3050743/why-airbnb-just-bought-a-quirky-russian-industrial-design-firm https://www.fastcodesign.com/3050743/why-airbnb-just-bought-... See also his personal site http://www.vadikmarmeladov.com/ http://www.vadikmarmeladov.com/ which showcases similar design principles and includes "our Codes of Practice": 1. Wear the uniform 2. Think long term (like 30 years from now) 3. Build stories and languages, not things 4. Create your own universe 8. Do not build utilitarian products. However, use them as a medium to express yourself 20. Move to LA 23. Use only one font, just a few colors, and just a few shapes 28. Remind yourself daily: you and everyone you know will die 30. We are 2046 kids
- state 9y agoWhat I love about Vadik is (what I see on his site) as his second principle: Think long term (like 30 years from now) I think that's the thing that always comes through in the spirit of his work. Not that the things he makes are always designed to survive, but they're designed for a vision of the future.
- microcolonel 9y agoToo bad it sounds a bit nihilist-marxist (a hundred million dead kind of bad ideas), if it were not associated with that it would be a cool thing.
- beaconstudios 9y agonihilism (or more broadly, existentialism) is not directly tied to marxism. Both are materialist philosophies, but taking one does not require that you take the other. "Fuck the corporations" is also a pretty common attitude on the right as well as the left.
- bkmartin 9y agoI tried to subscribe... with test card data just to see if it would call out to a processor... It did not work, but I didn't get any errors on the screen... here is the console... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzFTPlMnM3weVZvMV9wNW1qRzQ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzFTPlMnM3weVZvMV9wNW1qRzQ...
- mtalantikite 9y ago2046 is a movie by Wong Kar-wai and was recently shown as part of a scifi series at Metrograph called "The Singularity" here in NYC. I mention it because part of the plot revolves around a place called 2046, where nothing ever changes and in which people try to travel to in order to find lost loves.
- captainmuon 9y agoI thought this is an allusion to the movie THX 1138
- zirkonit 9y agoVadik Marmeladov's manifesto, which was penned in 2016, instructs as a rule #2 to think 30 years ahead, and finishes with “We are year 2046 kids”. This is clearly a reference to this.
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- kazagistar 9y agoIt's like a shitty version of the numerous fashion subscription services out there.
- cwyers 9y agoWho on earth needs new shoes every six months?
- DocTomoe 9y agoAnyone who walks a lot (which a lot more people, especially desk warriors like us, should do - it's healthy). I burn through some pretty heavy-duty hiking sports shoes every four to five months at 20000 steps a day. I would expect less-well-made shoes like the ones on that site last three months at most.
- f_allwein 9y agoHave you tried good quality, Goodyear welted leather shoes? Mine last for many years generally. When the sole wears out, you just have it replaced.
- mijoharas 9y agoAre you sure? I average about 10,000 steps a day (thanks android wear!) in some normal beat up old trainers and they only get replaced about every 3 years. It should be mentioned that this is walking in a city, I use hiking boots when I go to the countryside, I guess the wear could be different...
- emodendroket 9y agoYou can keep wearing shoes that long but they're not really supporting your feet very well.
- sooheon 9y agoYour feet evolved to be walked on, it's a myth that they need "support". They just need protection.
- emodendroket 9y agoI trust my podiatrist over people trying to sell me Five Fingers shoes. Also notice how easily I can change this argument: "Your teeth evolved to be eaten with. It's a myth that they need 'brushing.'"
- adjkant 9y agoFor those who think Soylent provides too much taste and want to express that thought externally, but just aren't quite sure how.
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- zedadex 9y agoTurns out those folks in the 1984 commercial were just economically like-minded individuals who decided on conformance as an ideal for mass-producable lifestyle goods with a collectively minimized footprint and that regrettably misguided soul was disrupting their crowdfunded marginal-cost movie night :(
- skocznymroczny 9y agoLOT is the name of the Polish national airlines, might be confusing to some customers.
- jlebrech 9y agointeresting, aka cult starter kit.
- shiftoutbox 9y agoIn post soviet Russia the cult joins you !!
- emodendroket 9y agoIf you don't care how you look just save yourself some money and go to Wal-Mart.
- lojack 9y agoThis is for people who care about how they look but don't want to put the effort into thinking about it.
- cmdrfred 9y agoAnd have lots of disposable income.
- emodendroket 9y agoThey sell nondescript basics at old-fashioned stores too, you know.
- kimburgess 9y agoCompletely appreciate this is not for everyone, but this looks fucking amazing. I've been wrapping myself in mainly the same setup from https://outlier.nyc/ https://outlier.nyc/ for the past 5 years and have been looking at subscription clothing servies pretty intensely for the past month. This is the first I've seen that's not just turbo-generic or overtly loud fashion. There's a few other places that are popping up doing personalised, laser cut, tailored t-shirts that are definitely competing for attention, but will be giving this a test run for staples.
- thenomad 9y agoThere's a few other places that are popping up doing personalised, laser cut, tailored t-shirts Links please? I'd love to find a good online source for tailored T-shirts.
- kimburgess 9y agohttps://www.sonofatailor.com/ https://www.sonofatailor.com/ is the main one I've found. There was another local (Australia) setup at http://myriad.live http://myriad.live a couple of weeks back, but I can't remember their name.
- jnwatson 9y agoThank you for succinctly distilling down the generation gap between my generation and those born after.
- thenomad 9y agoYou may be surprised. I'm not the median age for HN. I do, however, like tailored clothes, because they look good. To the best of my knowledge, that's not a generation-specific thing.
- Tepix 9y agoIt would look even better with a much darker black, like the Viperblack Kickstarter (that still hasn't shipped a shirt after ending in November 2015).
- threepipeproblm 9y agoDoes it come in Hamburglar?
- JohnJamesRambo 9y agoIf the people that made Watch Dogs made a clothing line...
- tankenmate 9y agoCayce Pollard
- tucosan 9y agoThis is what I thought of immediately. Cayce Pollad Units: > CPUs for the meeting, reflected in the window of a Soho specialist in mod paraphernalia, are a fresh Fruit T-shirt, her black Buzz Rickson's MA-1, anonymous black skirt from a Tulsa thrift, the black leggings she'd worn for Pilates, black Harajuku schoolgirl shoes. Her purse-analog is an envelope of black East German laminate, purchased on eBay if not actual Stasi-issue then well in the ballpark. She sees her own gray eyes, pale in the glass, and beyond them Ben Sherman shirts and fishtail parkas, cufflinks in the form of the RAF roundel that marked the wings of Spitfires. CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally seem to have come into this world without human intervention. What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She’s a design-free zone, a one-woman school of anti whose very austerity periodically threatens to spawn its own cult. — Pattern Recognition, 2. "Bitch", page 8.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce_Pollard#Apparel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce_Pollard#Apparel
- if_by_whisky 9y agoI've always wanted to start my own fight club. Bookmarked.
- horusthecat 9y agoPretty sure I already saw THX1138, but I imagine what with the median age here, most haven't
- delinka 9y agoThis simply must be a joke. "LOT 0018 — tattoo kit;"
- then00b 9y agoAll I needed to see to be sure this is an ARG or marketing stunt is the $299 tier package being "SOLD OUT"
- troyvit 9y agoFinally, a place evil overlords can go to dress all their hench-people.
- ris 9y agoAt least it'll make the douches easy to spot.
- maronn 9y agoWow An idiot created service for idiot. That's genius!