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Summer is here and what a better way to celebrate than a little Pony Guide to Longboarding. Enjoy.

Cannabis, The Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire November 12, 2002 UC Berkeley Let this be a little amuse-bouche to wet your appetite for the writings of Michael Pollan, whom you may of heard of for his method approach to journalism, articles for the New York Times Magazine, or...

I've been wearing my Space Pilot's Boots for a solid 6 months now. They've been through city and countryside, forests to mountain top. Over the past month, I've been on the road visiting factories, shooting the new W'menswear look book on the Mekong river, to New York for fashion week, and through…

Among the other things I had collected along the beach of Chonburi, Thailand is a basket full of these ghost fishing nets. Ghost nets are fishing nets left or lost by the fishermen out in the ocean. Many of them are still in great condition and it’s a shame to throw them directly into the bin for re…

Now that the whole world is on a standstill, there’s no better way to be socially and environmentally responsible than to shuck that oyster at home. With a little chew and slurp on this delicacy you are en route to saving the environment - the keyword here my friend is Farmed. Oyster farming is...

Here I am in San Francisco, so close to Silicon Valley and I’m ready to make Fortune come true! Trust me this will be as easy as pie. Couple blocks from the Financial District of San Francisco, lies the Fortune Factory. It’s time to follow your sense of smell now… Ross Alley As promised, all...

We are so proud of all of our W'menswear indigo products that are painstakingly hand stitched and dyed in natural indigo by our friends Anne and Serg of Slowstitch Studio in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. After studying a 3 year batchelor course in textile design, specialising in weaving, then w...

Last week I had the pleasure to learn more about what Wastgetable does. One of the many things they do is turning organic food wastes into compost, then use it to fertilize the soil that grows vegetables hence Wastgetable! All this done on the carpark rooftop of a small shopping mall in the heart of…

Hey friends, I'd like to make my first post of 2020 a reflection on the past year and what I would like to work towards in the new year. 2019 felt like a dutch oven of chaos, heating within its scorching walls. With much political, economic, and environmental uncertainty - Brexit, Trump orderin..…

One crucial element of good living that we have mostly cast aside is the idea of getting to know ourselves. For me, the concept of getting to know the 'how, what and why' of our motivation in life, is the foundation of our human experience. The quality of our personal and public life, as well as o…

Introducing a brand new segment to Ponytail Journal, Ponytail Culture Club, where we review specially selected films, novels, podcasts, and art that have been curated just for you. Kick off is the raddest kung fu film, ’Deadly China Doll’ starring our martial arts hero, Angela Mao.

In the Ponytail space, we are over the moon to hear news of mindfulness taking root in the garment industry. Our friends at Heddels have shared a recent video they made about their visit to a ’post-consumer-waste’ recycling plant in Karachi, Pakistan, that transforms used denim jeans into new cotton fibers.