Gavin McInnes, like BuzzFeed, has been getting emails from the American Mustache Institute. He has some feelings. (This is also a topical video if you're conflicted about your facial hair choices post-Octobeard.)
Style Buzz We are coming down the home stretch of Octobeard with only 10 days left to go, so what better time to check in and see how robustly our beards are coming in. Special thanks to Fred Flare for providing us with all the happy/sad sweaters.
I guess focusing on the beard is unfair because they guy also was essentially documenting his walk through China, but the beard thing kind of wins.
This kid has a beard and thinks it's “cool and awesome,” a sentiment with which we strongly agree. So he may have attributed copyright credit to the wrong band, but whatevz - we'd still steal the little dude.
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This 1913 leaflet (excerpted here for your enjoyment) uses the ancient art of pogonomancy, or divination by beard reading, to evaluate various well-known poets. The author, Upton Uxbridge Underwood, created the Underwood Pogonometric Index to scientifically judge not only the weight and shape of a poet's beard, but also its “ectoplasmic aura.” Thus Walt Whitman's impressive-looking beard (pictured) scores rather low on the Underwood Index because it lacks “odylic force.” Upton Uxbridge Underwood: clearly the original hipster.
From November 2007 to November 2008, this guy walked a total of 4646km through China. During that time, his beard grew a fair amount. Fortunately, he has documented this.
This man lifted a 56-pound child with his beard, for charity. A month ago he was only up to 11 pounds, so this is quite an accomplishment. Congratulations, beard-lifting dude!
Style Buzz Recession Beards are the newest and most fashionable way to express yourself after a recent round of lay-offs. Mustaches, meanwhile, are becoming the employed population's way of saying “we support you, brothers.” Shave your face, and you might as well have crossed the picket lines, comrade.
When regular cold-weather head gear just isn't enough. Tired of trying to keep warm but not being able to show the world you've got a wonderful mustache and/or beard? Worry no more, friend.
Technically this is a “Napoleon III Imperial” beard. So that's what Mel Gibson is up to, in case you were wondering.
Meet Hermeto Pascoal, your featured soloist for the evening. The bucket trick around 1:00 is apparently a Hermeto specialty.
Kottke's collected a much of mannequins modeling all manner of beard and mustache styles. If only someone would label these, it'd be a perfect resource.
Learn your Fu Manchu from your Van Dyke with this handy chart of beard types. I like the Hulihee; it’s like the mullet of facial hair. (Props! First spotted by Leah Wechsler.)
With less than a year left until the World Beard And Moustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska, enthusiasts are wondering what Weisser (whose facial hair, sculpted in a tribute to the Brandenburg Gate in his native Germany, swept the 2005 ceremony) will come up with. Fingers crossed, dude’s going to bring out the big guns: The Last Supper, bearded.
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