Campire stick twist bread! I initially wanted to post this separate Tiger in a Jar video in addition to their pesto video, but I was looking for a recipe - this isn’t a how-to recipe in the way their beet cake and pesto videos were. Still, this is so beautifully shot and so fittingly fall-ish that I’m going to post it anyway. Tiger in a Jar, all the time!

This summer, Tiger in a Jar’s Matt and Julie Walker teamed up with Kinfolk magazine to provide a video compliment to the stick twist bread recipe in the magazine’s July issue.

I’ve never tried bread by the campire before, but the shots of it baking over the fire look like autumn heaven. I’ll be getting my hands on the fourth issue of Kinfolk soon, but in the meantime, since no recipe is provided, I’ve poked around online and it seems like a basic type of soda bread recipe will do. 

Something like: 

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp powdered milk
  • 1 tbsp olive oil or butter

I’m curious to find out what Kinfolk suggests, but there is certainly fun to be had in experimenting with different flavors. Rosemary, garlic, raisin, cinnamon sugar, etc. - different types of tastes for different types of campfire nights. Let us know if you’ve tried this before (or, like us, are planning to)!

- Maggie

For at least a few days, the relentless summer heat seems to be taking a bit of a break in Buffalo. Enjoy the cooler air, and slow your summer roll with this little mix of songs made for a quieter kind of night:

Blood Sugar Love - The Real Tuesday Weld

Fleet Foxes - Isles

Swimming Story - Sea Oleena

Haller Lake - The Cave Singers

The Dreamer - Tallest Man on Earth

Wimbledon 1980 - Indian Wells

What’s On Your Mind? - Lo-Fi-Fnk

Republique - I Can Chase Dragons

Perth - Bon Iver (Rummage rubdown)

Little Army - Sea Oleena

Swimming Endless - Celista

Transforma - Niva

Nothing - Young Man

Maggie

(Listen above, or head over to Block Club on 8tracks.com).

The Buffalo Infringement Festival is sort of like the art kids’ Olympics, which is relevant  when you consider that the art kids have dibs on tonight’s apparently Mary Poppins-fights-Voldemort-mind-blowing opening ceremonies. But once that’s done with, you can witness and be a part of a different kind of insanity. Just go outside. Or look up. Or find a band on the sidewalk and settle in for a show. Or go to a park and find fire dancers. Or read Colin Dabkowski’s Buffalo News daily diary of must-see events. Either way, you have no excuse to not do this.

-Ben

America is maybe feeling a little dazed today, as it sometimes happens in the strange and sudden quiet that follows the whirlwind of one’s birthday celebration. Especially in the wake of the Big Bay Boom, its birthday party in San Diego that didn’t go completely as planned: 

Painstakingly organized to last about eighteen minutes for the hundreds of thousands of people gathered along the bay, the set suffered a technical malfunction, causing the entire fireworks display to explode entirely at once in fifteen short seconds. Ah! That had to have been a big bummer for everyone camped out there all night, but the massive fifteen seconds of pyrotechnics would be a crazy thing to see in itself, I’d imagine.

And let’s take a second to appreciate the person who really got the shortest end of the stick here: that unfortunate friend in every group who, a slave to anticipation and that one extra sip, will inevitably always realize they have to run to the bathroom exactly one minute before the show is starting. “What did I miss?”

So how was your Fourth? 

(Big Bay Boom photos from benballer and Lightning Jeff; James Brown celebrates at the Buffalo Harbor).

- Maggie

It’s Music Mix Friday, y’all! (Did you catch last week’s playlist?)

Listen above or head to our 8tracks.com page for this week’s Club Haus playlist - Maggie’s songs to bring on summer:

To Be Alive - Two Sheds

Day Dreams - Midi Matilda

Lollipop - The Chordettes (Squeak E. Clean and Desert Eagles Remix)

Locomotive - Alex Winston

I Found You - The Alabama Shakes

Mr. Tambourine Man - Helio Sequence

Lovers’ Carvings - Bibio

Everyone Knows - Vacationer

If You Want It You Got It - TV Girl

A Night Like Tonight - MPM & Kristine

Corvette Cassette - Slow Magic

Closer Than This - St. Lucia

Longest Ever Dream - The Sound of Arrows

It Don’t Rain in Beverly Hills - Dean & Britta

Babe - Evenings

Far Away - Washed Out

Cannons - Youth Lagoon

Trip - Vacationer

Kinfolk magazine does branding. And they do it very well.

Here they merge filmic storytelling with a mythical narrative, telling the story of their reader’s lifestyle. How they come to the table of Kinfolk, and all that this relationship coveys. It’s an artistic stretch, implying that every reader canoes up to their friends’ charming candlelit dinner on the riverfront. We can all dream, can’t we? The point, as is stated below, is that their approach to branding here has to do with knowing who they are as a magazine. Who comes to the table is anyone’s guess. But it’ll probably be someone cool and smart.

A few notes from gymclassmagazine’s fantastic mag blog:

Magazines are brands. And like all brands, they signify to others who we are and to what we aspire. A rolled magazine under our arm is a sign, just as much as the trainers on our feet or the shirt on our back.

Kinfolk’s identity got us thinking about semiotics (university flash back!). It got us thinking about how some magazines have a strong sense of what they’re about and who they’re for (such as Kinfolk)… while others seem to struggle.

So the big question at Gym Class Magazine HQ this morning is: What do magazines with a confused identity say about the people who read them?

-Ben