Scout Regalia Bicycle Frame Update

Today is Bike to Work Day! We'll have to take a raincheck but our Scout Regalia Bicycles are coming together well!

Scout Regalia Bicycle Head Badge

Discovery. Exploration. Adventure. Recreation. Sneak peak of the Scout Regalia Bicycle head badge!

Scout Regalia Bicycle Frames Under Construction

Our Scout Regalia Bicycle frames under construction. Manufactured by David Wilson in PA.

Sneak Peek of the Scout Regalia Bicycle

Here's a sneak peek of The Scout Regalia Bicycle. The Scout Regalia Bicycle is our "Ode to America" with a frame manufactured by David Wilson in Pennsylvania, SR exclusive canvas panniers by Winter Session in Chicago, a custom handwoven black ash basket by Swamp Road Baskets of Alpine, NY, and the 100% wool camp blanket and Accessory Straps from Topo Designs of Colorado. More pics to follow!

Silkscreen on Day Glow Poster

We recently designed a poster for a benefit event to help Tim Tarbox, a friend of ours who also happens to be an amazing sign painter. We saw it only fitting to use the Sign Painter font from House Industries for the poster, which we had silkscreened here in LA on day-glow cardstock so they'll really stand out. To find out more about Tim and the benefit event, please check out his website!

Color of the Year 2012: Vermilion Red

Introducing our SR Garden Kits in our color of the year for 2012: Vermilion Red. Our SR Patio Garden Kits (DIY & Assembled) and our SR Raised Garden Kits are available in this orange-red color exclusively on our website. Happy Gardening!

Scout Regalia in Sunset Magazine

Our home/office is featured in the April 2012 issue of Sunset Magazine! We are so excited to share the story with everyone.  It's a peek into our headquarters and a look into how our live-work space is a laboratory for designing and testing new SR prototypes. Pick up a copy on newsstands now, or read the story online.

Spring is Here!

Bulbs from the garden...finally! Spring is here, complete with a little rain here in LA.

Day Trip: Ventura

Shucking oysters by the sea from the Jolly Oyster. Carwash Cathedral.

Rose Bowl Flea

It's no secret that the Rose Bowl Flea is an amazing place to score vintage finds and various tchotchkes. The flea market happens on the second Sunday of every month. There's an overwhelming number of vendors and we usually don't have the energy to go across to the clothing section of the market. So many great finds, you'll never leave empty handed!

Wooden Utensil Workshop at Knowhow Shop

The Knowhow Shop has been an great place for our prototyping and fabrication, and we love that they hold classes to expand your "knowhow" about shopwork.

We recently took the Wooden Cooking Utensil workshop they held in collaboration with Linda Hsiao. Over the course of a weekend, we created wooden utensils out of walnut and learned how to make food safe wood finishes for our new utensils. It was an awesome experience and we highly recommend checking out one of their upcoming workshops if you're interested in creating, building, or making new things. The classes are great for those with little or no shop experience as well as seasoned veterans of the shop.

Stuff We Like: Tugboat Printshop

We've admired the work of Tugboat Printshop for quite a while, and we're excited to finally have a print to hang at headquarters. Based out of Pittsburgh, PA, they create amazing hand drawn, hand carved woodblock prints. We're excited to hang their "Treehouse Lookout" print on our wall. Check out their work on their website and etsy shop!

Case Study House #22: Stahl House

We recently had the chance to tour one of the most iconic modern buildings in the world: Case Study House #22, the Stahl House. What an amazing experience! We can't believe it took this long for us to see the house in person, and we highly recommend it to anybody interested in architecture, design, and Los Angeles.

The Stahl family has tours of the home throughout the year. We did the evening tour which allowed us to see an incredible sunset and all the lights across the city at night. Must see!

Happy New Year!

"Osechi" New Years Day meal

Happy New Year! Looking forward to an amazing 2012 with lots of exciting things in store. Thanks for reading our blog and being interested in what we do! For the latest news, follow us on twitter, facebook, and flickr.

SR Gingerbread Geodesic Dome

Dymaxion Confections! Just in time (barely!) for the holiday season, we're excited to introduce the SR Gingerbread Geodesic Dome, now available on our website. Build your own gingerbread geodesic house with our dome template and easy to follow instructions including recipes for gingerbread and icing. It's fun. It's festive. We also created a video of how it's assembled.

Happy Holidays from Scout Regalia!

Flyfishing on the Owens River

Scout Regalia Reel 01: Flyfishing on the Owens River from Scout Regalia on Vimeo.
We had an amazing guide for the weekend. Gary from Brock's Flyfishing Specialists is one of the most knowledgeable, friendly, and good hearted people we've ever met. He was an outstanding guide that knew the best parts of the Upper Owens River, and taught us some great fundamentals about casting and the art of fly fishing.

We caught and released a couple dozen rainbow and brown trout over the weekend, with perfect fall weather and incredibly scenic views. More pics on our flickr feed, and a video of our weekend above. We're already planning our next fly fishing adventure!

High Desert Test Sites: HDTS 2011

Yucca Crater by Ball Nogues

Here There, There Here by ROLU & WELCOME projects

Space Post by Von Tundra

Trail Registry offering

Trail Registry by Scout Regalia

HDTS 2011 was pretty amazing. We saw such incredible work from so many talented designers, artists, musicians, and all around awesome people. Thanks to everyone who treked out to the Pioneertown site to take a peek at our Trail Registry!  More pics are on our flickr page and facebook page.

Scout Regalia at HDTS: Trail Registry

Rendering of Trail Registry

Trail Registry at HDTS, Pioneertown

Introducing Trail Registry, our project for HDTS 2011 at High Desert Test Sites. We hope you can join us on October 15-16 in Joshua Tree, CA as we debut this long-term installation in Pioneertown!

Trail Registry is inspired by the registries found at trailheads. We created this registry to help delineate the entrance to the HDTS Pioneertown site. The registry encourages people to leave and/or take a memento tied to the enameled aluminum rods, similar to the way people leave rocks in a pile at the top of a mountain or leave artifacts near trailheads. We hope that this creates a sense of exploration and personal narrative of both the site and the area as a whole. Trail Registry is inspired by totem poles and nudie suits, with representations of the variety of flora and fauna of the high desert. The registry is made of Doug Fir that has been CNC milled to create the form, and includes an aluminum strip between the "front" and "back" of the two vertical totems, creating a juxtaposition between new and old materials.

Scout Regalia at HDTS: Laser Cut Messages

Our Trail Registry for HDTS 2011 will also include laser cut messages on tyvek that will hang on the enameled aluminium rods. We want to encourage people to take or leave messages on the rods as a way to create a sense of exploration and personal narrative of both the site and the area as a whole. The messages range from descriptions of the local flora and fauna, street names, and messages such as "Take One" and "Leave One".

Special thanks to 2ndwnd Studio for the use of their awesome laser cutting facilities. 2ndwnd is part of the Knowhow Shop collective in Highland Park, where we did the milling of our totem poles.

Scout Regalia at HDTS: Pregame Milling

We've been busy at headquarters getting ready for the HDTS 2011 event at High Desert Test Sites, which is happening on the weekend of October 15-16. We're really excited to be part of the event featuring art, design, and installations from so many talented designers and artists. Special thanks to curator Brooks Hudson Thomas who invited us to be part of the weekend event.

We'll share more of what we're up to as the project comes together. Part of our project involves milling forms from laminated Doug Fir. We've been working with the all-around awesome guys at Knowhow Shop for our millwork. They have a great cooperative shop space in Highland Park that has been indispensable in our fabrication and prototyping process.

More to come about HDTS!

Upstate NY Part 4: Pizza Tour 2011

Who doesn't love a good pizza pie? When we lived in Brooklyn, we were right next to some of the best street pizza around from Luigi's Pizzeria.  Now that we're in LA, we have a shortlist of fine pies, topped by Mozza and followed by Casa Bianca, Mother Dough, and...well that's about it. Whenever we're in Upstate NY, pizza becomes a staple food group. Some of the best pizza we've ever had is in the Triple City region. Our visit this year was no exception in eating as many slices of pizza iterations as possible. Here's a few of the highlights:

Jim Roma's Bakery
Jim Roma's sheet pizza probably had the sweetest of all the sauces, with a light and fluffy crust that was just on the verge of being undercooked. It made for a great saucy slice that was delicious even at room temperature. They slice the sheet with giant scissors, which seem completely appropriate given the "shear" scale of pizza we're talking about.

Jim Roma's Bakery

202 North Nanticoke Ave.
Endicott, NY 13760

Mario's Pizza
Another exceptional sheet pizza is the plain cheese sheet from Mario's. The crust is quite a bit softer than a standard round pizza, probably because of the sheer volume and size of the pie. A mildly sweet sauce topped with a hearty portion of cheese.

Mario's Pizza

51 Fox Street

Owego, NY 13827

Consol's Family Kitchen

Hands down the best pizza we had that week was the "Hot Pie" at Consol's. The pies were made famous by Consul's Uncle Duff back in the mid 1940's. The perfectly thin but substantial crust with a slightly sweet sauce is topped with a nice blend of cheeses.  They also have a grilled pizza which we'll have to taste test next time we're there. The best part is how they package the pies to go- not in a box, but wrapped with butcher paper so the pies don't sweat.

Consol's Family Kitchen

101 Oak Hill Ave.

Endicott, NY 13760

Shortstop Deli
While technically not a pizza in the truest sense, honorable mentions go to the Hot Truck Pizza Sub from the Shortstop Deli, which combines the best of both the pizza and sandwich worlds. These toasted subs are made of fresh french bread baked daily on site, with options for toppings that you check off from an order form at the counter. The Poor Man's Pizza (PMP) is a standout. They even have their own secret "truck sauce" which seems to be some mixture of mayonnaise, garlic, pizza sauce, and amazingness.

Shortstop Deli

200 W. Seneca St.

Ithaca, NY 14850

Upstate NY Part 3: Triple City Carousels

With 6 historic wooden carousels, the Triple City area near Binghamton is the self proclaimed "Carousel Capital of the World". The carousels were donated by George Johnson of the Endicott-Johnson shoe company at the beginning on the 20th Century, with the caveat that all carousel rides would forever be free. What a treat for kids and kids at heart alike. We went to the carousel at Highland Park in Endwell, and even got a fun button for a spin on the carousel. More pics on our flickr feed!

Upstate NY Part 2: The Great New York State Fair

One of the highlights of our week in Upstate New York was visiting the Great New York State Fair, which is the oldest and one of the largest state fairs in the country. While most people think of the City when you mention New York, the state has a strong agricultural core, and the fair was full of agricultural exhibits including barns full of poultry, dairy cattle, hay crops, and of course a butter sculpture.

More pics on our flickr feed, including images of (almost) prized pigeons, honorary Christmas trees, a miniature circus, and of course, Hot Beef Sundaes.