September 18, 2011
My good friend (and colleague) Graham Clark paints with his beard for charity. So I guess I’m saying that if you’re in Vancouver, and you don’t go to his show, you’re a real so-and-so.

My good friend (and colleague) Graham Clark paints with his beard for charity. So I guess I’m saying that if you’re in Vancouver, and you don’t go to his show, you’re a real so-and-so.

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May 19, 2011
Inspired by a comment that my co-host Jordan Morris made on this week’s Jordan, Jesse, Go!, Justin Russo made this amazing graphic. My first nomination for “Triple Beard Score” status is Steve “Bedrock” Bedrosian.

Inspired by a comment that my co-host Jordan Morris made on this week’s Jordan, Jesse, Go!, Justin Russo made this amazing graphic.

My first nomination for “Triple Beard Score” status is Steve “Bedrock” Bedrosian.

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May 5, 2011
beardpaintings: My friend and colleague Graham Clark is a painter. Rather than using a brush, he uses his beard, which is attached to his lower face area, and quite large. He sells the paintings he paints to raise money for a friend’s cancer treatment. So: follow him on Tumblr, so you can hear about future paintings. And enjoy the one above, inspired by the dress of one P.W. Herman.

beardpaintings:

My friend and colleague Graham Clark is a painter. Rather than using a brush, he uses his beard, which is attached to his lower face area, and quite large. He sells the paintings he paints to raise money for a friend’s cancer treatment.

So: follow him on Tumblr, so you can hear about future paintings. And enjoy the one above, inspired by the dress of one P.W. Herman.

(Source: beardpaintings)

Posted in Pee-Wee Herman Graham Clark Art Beards
January 19, 2011
Via Dim Tool Dim Bulb

Via Dim Tool Dim Bulb

Posted in Accessories Beards Vintage
November 15, 2010
siwanoy: For some, double breasted jackets never went out of style……Prince Michael of Kent. Michael: Prince of Kent, King of Beards.

siwanoy:

For some, double breasted jackets never went out of style……Prince Michael of Kent.

Michael: Prince of Kent, King of Beards.

(via da-i-net)

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October 27, 2010
“I’m just rockin’ the beard, havin’ fun.” - Brian Wilson Go Giants.

“I’m just rockin’ the beard, havin’ fun.” - Brian Wilson

Go Giants.

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My Interview at Build-a-Beard

April 8, 2010

lonelysandwich:

Renowned beardblog Build-a-Beard interviewed me about my beard, my take on beard culture, the history of my beard, and my thoughts on recent beard developments in the bearding industry.

It’s a two-parter, but they’re both worth a read if you’ve ever been fascinated with my beard. It’s pretty much all in there. I’ve exhausted the topic. Here’s a snippet:

Q: Do a lot of your friends have beards?  How does corporate culture impact your bearded decision (or not)?
Not many of my friends have beards, actually. And that may be for many reasons: their careers may preclude the option, their personal style may conflict with the ruggedness of a beard, but I think most often it’s just that their sissy faces can’t really support the follicular activity. Every time I have the beard conversation with a friend, it’s always, “Oh, I can grow hair here and here, but it never comes in here.” And all I can feel is sad for them, the way my friends felt sad for me when I was 15 and hadn’t yet sprouted in my crotch or armpits.

Here’s Part I. And here’s Part II. There are some pretty ridiculous pictures.

Posted in Beards
April 6, 2010
Q and Answer: What Facial Hair Should I Wear? Ian writes: What constitutes appropriate facial hair? I’ve been sporting a goatee (just the chin, the mustache addition is the Van Dyke), but I’ll soon be graduating from law school and looking for jobs suitable for a middle-of-the-curve student. I have no idea what is considered appropriate- any advice? The well-dressed gentlemen is appropriate from head to toe, so I feel like this is included in your milieu. Ah, the goatee.  Once the province of the hipster - the kind of hipster that snaps at the end of a particularly great poetry reading.  Now the province of the yokel and the doof.  The kind of yokel and doof who wear a goatee. I understand completely your desire to tend a facial garden.  We all have that desire.  Sometimes, though, we must fight it. Adam, my co-author, has a full beard.  It looks fantastic.  It’s striking, it’s well-cared-for, and it makes him look both serious and gentle.  If you are lucky enough to look great with a beard, then grow away.  Keep it neat, but feel free to get all Paul Kinsey.  You deserve it.  (And don’t do the 5-o’clock-shadow thing.  You’ll look like a douchey agent type.) However, almost any other type of facial hair is profoundly dangerous.  The ironic moustache is ascendant in my neck of the woods, and is horrible.  It’s so popular that the sincere mustache, which we might otherwise get behind, is almost impossible to pull off.  The goatee is so poisoned by 15 years of steroid-addled third basemen that my mind starts to overheat just trying to think about a context in which it will look anything but silly. Look: here’s a test.  If you ask ten people who you know, but aren’t deeply invested in you what they think of their facial hair, at least nine should say it looks “great” or “fantastic.”  They should be certain that it’s better than none.  NINE OUT OF TEN.  Otherwise, shave it off, and keep it clean.  You’ll look younger, fresher, and you won’t have to worry about the messages you’re sending. (PS: If you’re bald, like Larry David and above, you might look extra cool with facial hair.  We spent a whole improv show admiring Brian Huskey’s mustache recently, and the guy who stars in this movie looks amazing with an unkempt beard.  But still, no goatees.)

Q and Answer: What Facial Hair Should I Wear?

Ian writes: What constitutes appropriate facial hair? I’ve been sporting a goatee (just the chin, the mustache addition is the Van Dyke), but I’ll soon be graduating from law school and looking for jobs suitable for a middle-of-the-curve student. I have no idea what is considered appropriate- any advice? The well-dressed gentlemen is appropriate from head to toe, so I feel like this is included in your milieu.

Ah, the goatee.  Once the province of the hipster - the kind of hipster that snaps at the end of a particularly great poetry reading.  Now the province of the yokel and the doof.  The kind of yokel and doof who wear a goatee.

I understand completely your desire to tend a facial garden.  We all have that desire.  Sometimes, though, we must fight it.

Adam, my co-author, has a full beard.  It looks fantastic.  It’s striking, it’s well-cared-for, and it makes him look both serious and gentle.  If you are lucky enough to look great with a beard, then grow away.  Keep it neat, but feel free to get all Paul Kinsey.  You deserve it.  (And don’t do the 5-o’clock-shadow thing.  You’ll look like a douchey agent type.)

However, almost any other type of facial hair is profoundly dangerous.  The ironic moustache is ascendant in my neck of the woods, and is horrible.  It’s so popular that the sincere mustache, which we might otherwise get behind, is almost impossible to pull off.  The goatee is so poisoned by 15 years of steroid-addled third basemen that my mind starts to overheat just trying to think about a context in which it will look anything but silly.

Look: here’s a test.  If you ask ten people who you know, but aren’t deeply invested in you what they think of their facial hair, at least nine should say it looks “great” or “fantastic.”  They should be certain that it’s better than none.  NINE OUT OF TEN. 

Otherwise, shave it off, and keep it clean.  You’ll look younger, fresher, and you won’t have to worry about the messages you’re sending.

(PS: If you’re bald, like Larry David and above, you might look extra cool with facial hair.  We spent a whole improv show admiring Brian Huskey’s mustache recently, and the guy who stars in this movie looks amazing with an unkempt beard.  But still, no goatees.)

Posted in Q and Answer Grooming Facial Hair Beards Mustaches Goatees