Monstrously over-rated environmental installation artists Christo and Jeanne Claude have opted to collect their art in a massive Taschen coffee table book, which is fairly de rigueur for artists of their stature. What is not so standard, however, is the $50,000 pricetag they’re throwing on it. Seriously, $50K for a book. Obviously, the mindset that […]

Ok, we’ve done a lot of posts about the adidas Originals x Star Wars Fall/Winter 2010 Collection so far, and honestly we’re kind of over them. In fact we would’ve let this one slide if it wasn’t for the particularly inventive packaging for the shoe: it comes “frozen in carbonite” like Han himself in a […]

Continuing on last week’s gradual unrolling of the new adidas Originals x Star Wars Fall/Winter 2010 Collection, this time it’s Boba Fett that gets manifested in sneaker form. Unlike the Jabba the Hutt or Death Star Stormtrooper iteration, however, Boba Fett doesn’t get a high top, opting instead for adidas gets ZX 800 running shoe. […]

I’ve been an admirer of Matt Longue’s EmptyLA photography project for awhile (above pic). Exhibiting what Los Angeles would look like car-less and people-less, there is a simple beauty and austere loneliness to the pieces as a whole. Now cinematographer Ross Ching has taken the idea and put it into film format in his Running […]

You know how I just got done ranting yesterday about the insidiousness of advertising, and how it’s a black festering sore on the soul of humanity? Well, here comes Nike with a well-timed rebuttal emphasizing the potential that advertising, and commercials, can reach. This Exploit Yourself ad is pretty rad, even if it does just […]