The Fall Classic is a collaborative, sports-themed gallery show betwen Michey Duzyj and Chris Isenberg of No Mas. It focuses on our generation’s dissapointing sports role models, and on the various fixes that did each of them in.
Archive for December, 2005
Premium Kareem
Dec 30
The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saga continues. These super fresh kicks are made of thick high grade leather that will soften and adapt to your feet.
Retail Mafia Phones
Dec 28
These phones have actually been out for a while, but I just wanted to make sure that I archived them somewhere on my site. Here are the photos of the Boost Mobile i85 phones designed by THE RETAIL MAFIA. Boost Mobile teamed up with urban design heavyweights alife, Frank 151, SSUR, aNYthing, Situationormal, and J$ to design this series of limited edition phones.
Streets Are Saying Things
Dec 28
Beats in Space w/ Carl Craig
Dec 28
Check out Tim Sweeney’s WNYU radio show, Beats in Space, which has again upped its already high ante with a recent guest mix by Planet E’s Carl Craig previewing his new Fabric 25 CD.
Download the show.
More NIKEAIR.com content
Dec 23
The NIKEAIR.com site just recently launched with some new content around the classic Air Max ‘95 and Air Max ‘93. Check out some of the interviews with Stash, John McEnroe, Charles Barkley, and Retrokid.
COVERPOP visual interface
Dec 23
Here’s another data visualization project that layers images on top of the Amazon.com inventory. Reminds me a bit of the amaztype.jp site that was done by Yugop Nakamura.
Here are the Most Expensive Sneakers according to Forbes. The first shoe featured are the Nike limited edition Air Force Ones, called Also Known As and produced in conjunction with a book celebrating the art of graffiti. The sneakers that were produced were only given to people involved with the release of the book, but Nom de Guerre has a pair on display. The shoes aren’t currently for sale but are expected to fetch between $1,000 and $1,500 when Nom de Guerre decides to release them.
I love these sneakers, unfortunately the other sneakers that Forbes features are wack.
Weeklydrop Episode 3 is now online featuring an interview with Gabriel
Urist, the NYC sneaker jeweler, discussion on DMC, Le Coq Sportif and
much more.
Here’s a great French Blog site that focuses on street, guerilla, and buzz marketing activities.
I Have An Idea
Dec 22
The mission of the site is to serve the industry as a mechanism for communication, self-analysis and intellectual growth. They will document the world’s creative community and disseminate this priceless knowledge to help it grow and flourish. The site promises to ask questions, challenge the establishment and the norms, and make every possible effort to add fuel to the industry they so passionately love.
This is not a website. It is an interactive project, an online and accessible pool of knowledge to which users can and should contribute.
R/GA Holiday Card
Dec 22
Make a Beautiful Noise from New York interactive agency R/GA allows users to create sounds, send them to friends and even download them to their cell phones as ringtones.
“Given where our industry is headed and the direction our client assignments are taking,†says Karen Spiegel, “we decided to incorporate a few of our favorite things—mobility, customization and community participation—into a concept that is fun to interact with and easy to enjoy.â€
The card’s biggest challenge was constructing a set of sounds that would be pleasing to the ear, no matter how they were combined.
Mobile Art
Dec 22
Giselle biguelman’s project at ZKM involves algorithmic image manipulation. You can download the app to your mobile and it’s all sponsored by Nokia.
Agency of the Year
Dec 22
Winners in each of the following categories: Online Agency of the Year, Best Creative, Best Media Planning and Buying, Best Search, and Best Web Design and Site Development will be announced on January 12, 2006. The event is scheduled to take place from 6-8pm at the Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue.
Adidas’ Signature Line is a line of shoes originally created for some of sport’s greatest. The exhibition will retrace the stories behind icons Stan Smith, Franz Beckenbauer and Kareem Abdul Jabbar amongst others and highlight the relationship with their namesake shoes. In addition to vintage and upcoming Signature Line models, a number of designs by Bunka Fashion College students exploring possible evolutions of the “Jabbar Lo” shoe will be on display.
Win a copy of the Digable Planets’ Beyond the Spectrum — The Creamy Spy Chronicles (Blue Note Records). Beyond the Spectrum is a collection of rarities and greatest hits that is a reminder to fans that the group was one of the most influential bands to emerge from the early 90s.
Object Fetish
Dec 10
Object Fetish is a service started by Tom Sicurella and Jeffrey Goldsmith. They are two creative services professionals who have a good idea for a business and are in the process of executing upon the thought. On their website it states, “Perhaps your store or a store you think is very cool would like to sell select products through our site. Perhaps you’re a hot photographer. Perhaps you like taking new friends around to cool shops.”
It’s not exactly clear what they’re going to be doing, but they are planning to tell you all about it in January. If you can’t wait until then, you can email them at tom@objectfetish.com or jg@objectfetish.com.
START SOMA, the art gallery that created the ART HOTEL in San Francisco, is announcing START MOBILE next week. Art for your phone! Hundreds of artists from around the world + thousands of pieces of original NEW ART. The site went live a few days ago, and they are seeing folks actively surfing the art for HOURS.
Gabe Urist Custom Bling
Dec 10
Gabe Urist just recently launched his new Custom Bling site that features photos of his Nike Custom Bling necklaces.
Check out his site.
Questionize
Dec 10
This was sent to me by Corstiaan Hesselink from the Netherlands. As the name implies, the website is about questions. It’s about asking questions, but also about answering questions. It’s a community where no question is too simple and no question too complicated. The website is live but some parts are still under construction (beta).
