August 11, 2010
1LOVE: Brooklyn
Not sure why there’s so much Williamsburg because he lives in Fort Greene…
Filed under: Random · Tags: Brooklyn, Fort Greene, marketing, Nike, NYC, Theophilus London, video, Williamsburg
June 24, 2010
Assorted Videos
Filed under: Assorted Links · Tags: Biking, Crystal Castles, Mr Oizo, music video, Nike, Shanghai, soccer, Sports, video
June 10, 2010
Obligatory World Cup Post
*If you can’t tell, the images are mostly unrelated to the text
Ridiculously amazing photos of WC2010 buildup on Boston.com's Big Picture
- (UPDATE) First things first: The World Cup, Translated into American.
- Slate has the scoop on the secret history of American soccer in the first quarter of the last century (i.e.,the Roaring Twenties), featuring the Boston Wonder Workers, the Brooklyn Wanderers, and, of course, the infamous Fall River Marksmen.
- Even the New Republic has a soccer blog, where you can find gems such as Tom Vanderbilt’s on-point “Meditation on Loyalty.”
I hope I encounter this in real life at some point in the next month...
June 7, 2010
Unsorted Links
UPDATE: Rearranged with respect to the next post; trust me, it’s better for everyone this way.
- Digital decay, visually.
- So-so Theophilus London music video.
- Not that you’d ever need an excuse to watch this video…
- Nice analysis of Nike’s “Write the Future” World Cup ad (which I like better than Adidas’ almost-as-star-studded Star Wars spot.)
Richard Barnes - Murmur 8, December 14 2005
Filed under: Assorted Links · Tags: Aakash Nihalani, advertising, Art, Barry McGee, Biking, memes, Music, music video, Nike, street art, Technology, Theophilus London, video
June 6, 2010
Items
I’ve mentioned tilt shift photography before, but it continues to blow my mind.
…it gives the viewer a sense of being in a smaller world, a bit like the way the world looks to a kid.
–Bryan Solarski, GOOD Picture Show, June 2 2010
Equally amazing: photos of the semi-dystopian ruins of Kowloon & Battleship Island & Kowloon (below) (Dark Roasted Blend via Boing Boing)
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The “How Our Laws Are Made” infographic above is well-executed and fairly clear, if a little busy (GOOD); the Pulp Fiction one below is neat but, as one commenter points out, the story makes more sense the way it unfolds per Tarantino’s script (Flowing Data).
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Art vs. Art:
Greater New York at PS1: I only got around to seeing about half of the exhibit when I stopped by PS1 last week, but I’m sure I’ll have many opportunities to revisit and engage with the work over the next few months, especially once Warm-Up is underway. Nevertheless, I would imagine that Greater New York stands for everything that Jeff Koons’ BMW Art Car (below) is not. (NYT)
That said, I thought that Koons’ art car (unveiled at the Centre Pompidou) turned out fine, though I was a little disappointed to learn that “the design isn’t actually painted on the car; it’s a vinyl wrap covered with two layers of clear coat. BMW says the wrap was lighter than paint and it could be applied much more quickly. That was a key consideration because Koons had just two months to complete the project.” (Wired)
via Animal
See also: Image gallery of previous BMW art cars via Wikipedia.
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Filed under: Assorted Links · Tags: city life, graphic design, Jeff Koons, Nike, NYC, NYT, photography, PS1, Queens, soccer, Tarantino, words
May 21, 2010
Nike – “Write the Future”
Amazing:
Full press release at Slam×Hype; metacommentary (re: Facebook) on the Times’ Media Decoder
Nike has also opened two pop-up spaces in NYC, which are just around the corner from each other in Nolita (click on images for more details):
April 29, 2010
Images: Super Deluxx Edition
Henri Cartier-Bresson's portrait of Sartre is currently on view in his retrospective at MoMA
As with his entire body of work, Sartre’s theory of imagination refers to—and, naturally, affirms—his ontology, in which he explores Husserl’s tenet that “all consciousness is consciousness of something” in the context of the ‘detotalized totality’ of being-in-itself / being-for-itself dualism. Sartre postulates an admittedly underdeveloped notion of image consciousness in his early work The Imaginary (1940), though these writings are largely eclipsed by his later political [viz. Marxist] proclivities; nevertheless, his theory of imagination is a sufficient foundation of a phenomenological aesthetics.
Notably, Sartre implies that the imaginary (or ‘irreal’) has the same ontological import as the real: if the real is never beautiful, it is simply because beauty is, by definition, imaginary, where imagination is a permanent possibility of consciousness. A painting, photograph, film, song, performance, etc., necessarily transcends perception—i.e. consciousness of oil on canvas, ink on paper, a projection, an actor, etc.—as an object of image consciousness, which overflows with the meaning of the portrait (etc.): a particular arrangement of brushstrokes or sounds immediately presents itself to consciousness as an image or melody. The abstract, then, is that which escapes us in experience qua perception; colors transcend pigment to conjure mood or geometry.
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Filed under: Art, Assorted Links, Events · Tags: advertising, architecture, Art, BAM, Basquiat, Brooklyn, China, Chinese art, Damien Hirst, Deitch Projects, DQM, Events, Faile, Faile & Bast, HCB, Herzog & de Meuron, images, Interpol, LES, Liu Bolin, London, lookbook, Marina Abramovic, marketing, Maya Lin, memes, Met, meta, Music, Nike, NYC, openings, photography, Sartre, Scott Campbell, Shanghai, Shepard Fairey, Soho, street art, Technology, TED, video, Zaha Hadid
April 16, 2010
Art vs Commerce
via BoingBoing
via Kottke
Parisian turntablists Birdy Nam Nam are obviously the missing link:
Plus: Re-enter Sandman – Smooth Jazz or Dance Pop, take your pick.
April 12, 2010
Thy Fearful Symmetry
Earl Woods did not live to see his son’s scandalous downfall, but he may be instrumental in restoring the good name of the shamed Nike pitchman… though I prefer the Christian Bale remix (below):
via Buzzfeed
Most commentators see the commercial as distasteful or exploitative—Colbert notes that Nike is selling Woods instead of vice versa—though ad execs are rather enamored with the 30-second spot, insofar as it offers a curiously intimate moment with the athlete.
Visible Measures charts the spinoffs; via Mashable
I can’t say that I’m particularly keen on golf, but I do love pop culture, celebrity, and Nike—not to mention the role of marketing in all of the above—and I’m curious if this is the epilogue to the whole sordid affair. As per the title of the post, did William Blake portend the meteoric rise of golf’s biggest star?
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March 25, 2010
New Shoes
Common Projects at Gargyle
It’s high time to treat get a new pair of kicks for spring / summer… if only I had the cash to throw down for those Common Projects’ überpremium Vans…
Convertible Stan Smiths
Looks like Nike's also trying to give Vans a run for the money
Overkill x New Balance 577 - Berlin Wall
Related: The Choosy Beggar’s Footwear Fails, after GQ’s Men’s Worst Style Mistakes.
Filed under: Style · Tags: adidas, Common Projects, footwear, New Balance, Nike, Style