A shot of hand made, limited edition, custom decks designed by Steve Olson and Harry Jumonji from last night’s event at Saturdays NYC. Click “Read More” for additional images.
Category Archives: Sports
Everything Is Practice
May 18, 2010 – 8:21 am
Nike recently premiered a new video called Everything Is Practice. Directed by young filmmaker Jake Sumner, the video follows Spike Lee assistant coaching his son’s Chinatown soccer team. It’s shot in black and white and has the nice, lazy, feeling of New York summer. Click “Read More” for the full video.
George Nissen
April 12, 2010 – 11:48 pm
In 1930, at the age of 16, George Nissen, a member of his high school gymnastics team, strapped a canvas sheet to a steel frame and called it the bouncing rig. He worked for the next several years perfecting the design, finally settling on a nylon sheet and, borrowing from the Spanish word for diving [...]
Dharma Yoga Brooklyn
March 8, 2010 – 10:38 am
Today is the first day of classes at Dharma Yoga Brooklyn, a donation-only yoga studio that opened yesterday in Park Slope. (Yes, donation-only as in pay what you want.) The 70 year old guru Dharma Mittra, dropped by yesterday to bless the studio which is on the second floor in a beautiful victorian glass structure [...]
Picking the pocket of an Irishman
November 21, 2009 – 3:22 pm
Watching someone cheat stylishly is far more entertaining than prosaic probity. Thierry Henry, upon whose elegant shoulders has been heaped the corpulent bulk of the insufferably high minded English sports press’ opprobrium, remains the most charmingly witty and scintillatingly intelligent player to have ever graced the Premier League. He has single-handedly (no pun, etc.) prevented [...]
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden
November 19, 2009 – 4:49 am
In 1970 Dock Ellis, who passed away last December, pitched a no hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while on acid. For part of the game he was convinced Nixon was the umpire and occasionally that Jimi Hendrix was at the plate. No Mas presents James Blagden‘s Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No.
Get your aesthletics on..
June 22, 2009 – 12:30 am
The Institute for Aesthetics is a combination of sports and performance art that has spawned such sports as Straightjacket Softball (not a joke) and Wifflehurling. Anyone who shows up can play, don a sombrero and run around trying to follow the rules which are [...]
Spike Lee’s Doin’ Work
April 24, 2009 – 3:57 pm
Nike hosted a screening of Spike Lee’s new documentary Wednesday night at its Mercer St. space, in advance of the film’s premiere this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. All I knew going into it was that the film was about basketball and focused on Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant has always seemed a little arrogant to [...]
