The Jabulani World Cup ball. Courtesy of Adidas. It was the goal heard around the world on Saturday when England’s net-minder Robert Green let a tame shot by U.S.A.’s Clint Dempsey slip through his hands, sending the game to a 1-1 draw. A day later, Algeria’s keeper Fawzi Chaouchi mishandled a long-range strike from Slovenia’s Robert Koren, costing Algeria the 0-1 match. But the goalies aren’t really being faulted with the football faux pas—fingers are pointing at Adidas’s new Jabulani World Cup ball. “The ball just moves all over the place,” Dempsey said later in interviews. U.S. goalie Tim Howard shared a similar opinion. “This ball is really doing silly things,” he said. “I feel bad for the guy [Green].” Players seem to widely agree that the ball is no good, especially in the air. “It’s terrible, horrible,” Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar said.
- 6/15/2010
- Vanity Fair
Artwork courtesy of Espn and the Am I Collective. That Brazil, the epitome of joie de vie on the soccer field, should be stuck in the Group of Death is clearly unfair. What if Brazil falters and fails to advance? What fun would the World Cup be then? Well, at this point, the Group of Death is barely limping along—thanks to injuries to Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba and Portugal’s Nani—and doesn’t seem quite as scary as before. But the more pressing question for soccer purists is this: Will Brazil play as beautiful and lively a game as it historically has? The team’s coach, Dunga, who was the midfield enforcer for the 1994 World Cup winning team, has preached discipline, fitness, and cohesion at the expense, perhaps, of creativity and individual expression. He’s also left off some formidable players who typify Brazilian flair: Ronaldinho, Adriano,...
- 6/10/2010
- Vanity Fair
Alyce Santoro and Julio Cesar have found a use for all those old cassettes taking up space in our attics—turn the magnetic into fabric and make lovely neckties. This half-thread/half-tape combination is “actually audible if you run a tape head over it,” according to Santoro, the founder of the Center for the Improbable & (Im)permacultural Research, and the recording on the tie is off her album of found street sounds called Between Stations she recorded in New York before moving to West Texas....
- 11/9/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Two designers team up for neckties made of recycled cassette tapes--sounds like a sharp-looking idea.
Remember the days of cassette mix tapes? And remember when your own mix was like a personal soundtrack, or a piece of your soul?
Alyce Santoro remembers those days too. And using the actual magnetic tape from old cassettes, mixed with equal parts colored thread, she creates Sonic Fabric. Along with Julio Cesar, she's created a Recycled Cassette Tape necktie. Since the tape itself is still magnetized, it actually emits audio when run under a tape-head. Granted, it's doubtful that you ever will. But you can hear the effect here.
(And if you're still nostalgic for mixed tapes, check out Cassette from My Ex, a book that just came out last week which catalogues stories of mix-tape loves, and some of the songs therein.)
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Remember the days of cassette mix tapes? And remember when your own mix was like a personal soundtrack, or a piece of your soul?
Alyce Santoro remembers those days too. And using the actual magnetic tape from old cassettes, mixed with equal parts colored thread, she creates Sonic Fabric. Along with Julio Cesar, she's created a Recycled Cassette Tape necktie. Since the tape itself is still magnetized, it actually emits audio when run under a tape-head. Granted, it's doubtful that you ever will. But you can hear the effect here.
(And if you're still nostalgic for mixed tapes, check out Cassette from My Ex, a book that just came out last week which catalogues stories of mix-tape loves, and some of the songs therein.)
[Ties via Limited Hype]...
- 11/2/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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