Sneakers - From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
For a window on the worlds ‘coolest’ sneakers check out the Japanese store Hangtime. Here’s some of my favourites. Not sure I could wear many of them though…
Nike Air Structure Triax:
Adidas Consortium Superskate Street:
An odd wasp-like Jordan version:
Crazy Lichtenstein Vandals:
Air Max 97 in some special colours…
Gourmet Diablo (what are these…?)
That’s as far as I go, but there’s plenty more if you’re a sneaker head.
Modern Toss Museum of Urban Shit-Naks
At the Inkd gallery in Brighton right now. It was closed yesterday when I went by. But I’ll get in there somehow…
Two Things I Thought Everyone Had Seen, But Turns Out They Haven’t, Yet
If you have seen these already, sorry. I thought that they’d done the rounds but I’ve mentioned both of them to a few people who’ve all looked at me blankly. So I thought I should share…
Facebook in real life:
And this guy who breaks out a cracking (if slightly politically incorrect) stand up routine at his high school speech thingy:
Although it doesn’t seem to have loads of views on YouTube on things like break.com it’s had well over a million views, and the scandal has been picked up in the media, Doc Searls has blogged about it and there’s a Facebook group supporting his right to free speech.
A Muxtape for Blue Skies
What a jolly nice day. Here’s a muxtape for the kind of stuff I’ll be listening to…
http://easygeezer.muxtape.com/
10 Things Google Found To Be True
I reckon there’s some gems in this list. Stollen mercilessly from the most excellent Core 77 Blog.
Portfolio Night
I was lucky enough to go to Portfolio Night 6 last night. Set up by the enterprising young dudes behind http://ihaveanidea.org/ it’s billed as a chance for young creatives to meet creative directors (for a fee of £10). I felt like it was a chance for me to meet young talented people (for a fee of nothing with a couple of beers thrown in for free).
Without giving away any personal details about people that I saw I was amazed at the disparity in skills that I saw. Some of it was obviously about talent. But there were a bunch of people who’d obviously been given a really rubbish schooling in what ‘advertising’ is all about. A shocking image with a quirky line and a logo (bottom left invariably bottom right invariably [thanks Ben for pointing out my stupid error]) can’t be the basic unit of advertising any more, can it?
I met a few youngsters that really stood out: if I thought I could hide Jai and Wal from the world and keep them as my little secret I’d be tempted. But they’re already out there, blogging with the best of them and doing placements at great places. So they’ll be fine whatever happens.
There’s another couple that I really really liked, but I’m keeping them secret for now whilst ‘discussions’ take place…
I hope my comments were useful to the people I spoke to. I’m not sure they were mostly. But I hope at least I was polite and respectful (unlike some of my contemporaries who I heard being a little bit mean if I have to be honest…).
YouTube vs Last.fm
Nicely executed mashup of last.fm and YouTube made by a guy called Tim Bormans. It looks slick and works pretty well - to view it click here. It’s easy to make your own personalised music video channel, as long as you’ve got a last.fm username.
via: Lifehacker
Hooray For The Design Police
I’ve been banging on to a couple of designers about how they need to start up something like this. They need to hunt down and bring to justice all of the horrible design that keeps creeping into some of our documents. Now someone’s done all the hard work. All we need to do is print out the stickers.
And it’s not just design crimes. There’s also stickers to highlight conceptual and stylistic crimes too…
Thank you design police.
2 Amazing Videos
Both entries to Radiohead related competitions. This first one was a D&AD brief last year for a video for a Thom Yorke track. It won. It’s quite dark. But it works it’s simplicity nicely.
And this from the ever stunning Flight404. Have patience with it, it’s a builder (and just so you know this was all generated using code - wow)…
Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.
He wasn’t going to enter this into a Radiohead video competition, but now thankfully it looks like he will. To find out more about the story of this awesome piece read about it on his blog.
Flowing Pixels from the 8-Bit Pool on Flickr
Some nice stuff in this Flickr Group of 8-bit stuff I particularly like the pixel pot plant too.
via: Wonderland
