Author: Ryan Dunn
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Nike Sportswear, For the Cools
Nike has finally found a name for their product not directly targeted for on-the-field activity. But Nike Sportswear is something more, it rises above the Nike Town, Sportsmart classification, and is the limited, higher end niche they’ve carved from their established stock-and-trade. Whether reissues or new releases, the collection is looking pretty sharp.
And if you’re interested in spending over $200 for your hoodie, I highly recommend finding the Loopwheeler collection of tops. There’s a nice video giving you a glimpse into the Loopwheeler Factory, further proof that you still need thread and a loom to make a sweatshirt.
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Bad Word Pairs #012
“Pregnant Chad”
In this election year, I was reminded of the debacle a couple elections back, where some of the votes were confusing due to holes not punched all the way through the voters’ cards. Fortunately most of that has been resolved with digital/computerized voting systems (which likely present their own fun set of issues).
Nonetheless, the term “pregnant chad” emerged from that whole quandary. And I have to say, I wanted to punch something every time I heard a smug reporter using the phrase with a snide grin, since it was a funny thing to say. My ire has since abated, but let’s hope nothing lame like that emerges this year come voting time.
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Why Don’t I Live Here?
(HUF HAUS)
Prefab’s never looked so good. You can’t get these beauties in the states, but if you could, I just might have to start saving up. More info on the program on the HUF site.
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Quote of the Week #012
“Well begun is half done.” –Aristotle (and Mary Poppins) -
30 Years Later . . .
It took them 30 years to get back together and make an album, and here it is: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is available to stream on their site (the entire album), there’s a free download, and the album is about ten bucks. I’m more of an Eno man than a Byrne fanatic, but this album sounds lovely.
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Bad Word Pairs #012
“Jiffy Lube”
This word pair is fine, until you actually stop and think about it. The connotation with lube in this day and age is probably different than it was 20 or 30 years ago, but still. I don’t want anything lubed, let alone anything lubed in a jiffy.
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Addicted to Faces of the Earth
These images speak for themselves. This site shows dozens more Faces of the Earth in this spirit, and some of them (as you can see here) are pretty awesome.
I’m sure Pixar will have something coming out soon using Faces of the Earth as the basis for their character design, much like they used Nick Park as the basis for their Cars film.
Check out the parent site, Flabbergastedly, for other photographic oddities found around the interweb. And Thanks Alex for the link to the link, wherever that may be.
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Quote of the Week #011
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.” –Friedrich Nietzsche -
Addicted to SHORPY
What a treasure trove this website is. I almost feel naked sharing it with you like this; I want to keep it all to myself. But this 590+ page blog about “old photos and what life a hundred years ago was like,” is just too great to keep from you.
What’s even greater, is that all of the images are hi-res. Some of them are very, very high res. It seems the author of Shorpy, Dave, puts a lot of time and effort into bringing us these images, and it’s special to sift through the pages, getting lost in another time.
But don’t take my word for it. Go snoop around Shorpy for yourself, and get lost like I did.
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Bad Word Pairs #011
“Happy Holidays”
This cop-out phrase is more concerned with offending people during a happy time of year than letting us enjoy it. I mean, nobody says anything about Valentine’s Day, or St. Patrick’s Day, both Christian-based holidays. America has lost its cojonés lately, becoming far too politically correct (another bad word pair, and perhaps an oxy moron to boot?) for its own good.
I say that if we can’t say Merry Christmas, or Happy Hanukkah, then we shouldn’t be able to be in the Holiday Spirit, because, heaven forbid (oops, not heaven, but you know what i mean), what if someone doesn’t believe in spirits!?
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Lower Your Cholesterol
I shot a commercial. It’s on the television in America. Here it is:
And here are some images from the shoot:
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Addicted to ZORK
A friend of mine recently turned me the classic game Zork, written originally in 1977. It’s a text-based interactive fiction game, something like those choose-your-own-adventure books. What’s great about this series is the writing, plain and simple. You feel like you’ve been sucked into this other world and partaking in some secret missions.
Plus, this game is hard, don’t be fooled by the lack of blood spatter. Try it for yourself, if you don’t believe me. There are three games in the series, and I’ve only scratched the surface so far.
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Jet Favre
When you’re a Jet…
I was 14 years old when Brett Favre took over for the injured, and mediocre Don Majkowski. Now I’m 30, and for the first time in my adult life I get to see a new, young quarterback take over for an uninjured, hall-of-fame quarterback.
Here’s to hoping the Packers didn’t just do something really, really stupid.
