This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Somewhere between 2024 and 2026, Kodak quietly started renaming film stocks and redesigning packaging, and I only noticed when I tried to buy the same roll I always buy and found a cheaper one sitting next to it. That
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Consolidation in the watch industry has been predicted for a while. This time it showed up: Breitling is adding Universal Genève and Gallet to the family. It is not the subject of the week, but it is one of
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. We’re back with what was the talk of the town when this watch released. Last time it was Louis Vuitton and the Porsche, then I took the liberty to discuss the Rolex Land-Dweller piggybacking on that. Honestly, if I’d
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Every time a heritage brand does something even slightly different, the internet loses its mind. We saw it with the Ferrari Luce. We saw it with the Singer and Louis Vuitton collaboration. And we saw it, in a big
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. This week was Car Week here in the Bay, an hour away from me in Monterey, and it brought three brand collaborations worth talking about. The word I kept coming back to for all three was interesting, but only
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode and derived from its transcript. I listen to The Motor Trend Podcast on EVs, The InEVitable. See what they did there with the “EV”? But there’s a line they repeat often that’s been sitting wrong with me for a while: hybrids are the “worst
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. If you’ve followed the path I’ve taken through photography, cars, and watches, you probably already know I shoot a fair amount of film. Instagram gives it away. And yes, I’m aware it’s a strange hobby to double down on
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Last episode was Volkswagen. This one is Zodiac. Different industries, different scale of disaster, but the same underlying exercise: pull apart the timeline, listen to what leadership actually said versus what the analysts and the enthusiast community said after
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. I keep coming back to Volkswagen (VW). Not because I want to, but because I can’t help it. I love the brand, and that’s exactly why watching it during the last decade has been so frustrating. So here we
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This is the second half of a topic discussed on the last post. The first half was about manufacturers who built things for other brands and eventually decided to build their own. This half is different. This is about brands that actually died, but
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