Tender beef steak and whole grain rice with broccoli,red peppers and edamame in an asian-style sauceApart from wanting to call Chinese-style sauce because Hunan is a province in China, why throw in a Japanese word like edamame?
This is an old but great campaign. The original concept, launched in 1983, were white sneakers sold with tools for individuals to customize it as they saw fit.
Fast forward about 20 years. To relaunch and promote adicolor, adidas commissioned a series of directors to create specific shorts. There are seven shorts from a slew of directors--Roman Coppola & Andy Bruntel, Neill Blomkamp, PSYOP, TRONIC, Saiman Chow, Charlie White, and HAPPY.
A nice touch small touch is how they reserved URLS based on the colors RGB code:
I've previously blogged about the awesome site Arcade Fire put together some time ago, and it looks like they're at it again. To promote their latest single, "Black Mirror," they've launched a completely new site.
The Melvillesque story invites you to add or strip down the core layers of the songs. Whether its taking out the drums or voices, it's another multimedia extravaganza.
After a study of over 900 participants, the answer to one of life's great mysteries is finally solved!
Too much Cola can cause kidney problems
If you drink more than two cans of cola a day--diet or regular--there is a twofold risk of chronic kidney disease.
Thanks NIH!
Firstshowing.net has posted a few trailers for some of the films currently showing at Sundance.
Goliath, an odd movie about a missing cat with an awesome trailer; Bottle Shock (pictured above), a comedy about the early days of California wine making; and Downloading Nancy, an insane film about an unhappy wife's torturous love affair.
If you've been following the HD-DVD and the Blu-Ray battle, this'll cheer you up--especially if you're in the Blue-Ray Camp:
Thanks filmguy78 for the laugh!
Many of you have already read his books, watched the show, and now... you can devour his blog.
If you have read any of his books, its a must read for any aspiring foodie. Kitchen Confidential is a great reveal of what goes in the back office of a restaurant.
Sudhir Venkatesh watches the latest season of the Wire with a bunch of gang leaders to see close to real-life it is.
Here's a couple bullets from the session:
We're all trying to combine things to make our lives easier. Phones come with cameras, soda that burns calories, and trailers that are hotels.
While some won't stand up to the test of time, thank goodness mixing music can be a lot less messy.
DJ Earworm mashes up 25 of the most popular songs of 2007 into one packaged song with a bow. It's definitely something you can listen to years from now that'll bring a flood of memories.
Download the mix here.
In a recent FT article, Tatiana Boncompagni, predicts that Korean or Korean-Americans may be the future of fashion. In the recent Gen Art Fresh Faces catwalk, four of the eight designers were of Korean heritage. In fact, 29 percent of the student population enrolled in The New School for Design at Parsons are Korean. The article goes into profiling prominent and up-and-coming Korean fashion designers.
Why Korean, not other emerging arts countries like China? Well, according to Grace Sun:
I was born in Korea but I conduct business in China a lot and I’ve realised that Chinese culture is very much focused on food and culinary experiences. Koreans focus more on appearances and therefore fashion is a bigger part of the culture.Yes, I do love my food.
Walking west from state street on Jackson, I looked up and saw this amazing beacon of light. Turns out the building is simply called 311 South Wacker Drive.
Because of the brightly lit crown (the beacon of light on my walk home), it is also known as the "white castle building", wedding cake, the "bart simpson" building. But according to my friend the "crown" of the building is supposed to represent the engagement ring given by the architect to his wife.
How romantic.
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For years, I've heard from my friends comment how amazing a show The Wire was. Over the holiday break, I finally grabbed the bull by the horns and watched all four seasons of the show.
It was absolutely amazing. There is a certain truthiness to the show is astounding. The character development for growing cast is incredibly three-dimensional. The protagonists are flawed and sometime battered, the drug dealers aren't inept like most Hollywood films, many are smart and ambitious. Stringer, one of the drug overlords had a copy of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in his apartment.
All in good time too, the fifth and final season will start on January 6.
Interestingly, Mark Bowden, most known for his book: Black Hawk Down, recently wrote a piece on David Simon in the Atlantic Monthly. In it the profile, Mark posits that David's anger and grudges are the key driver in making The Wire one of the best shows on television.
For all his success and accomplishment, he’s an angry man, driven in part by lovingly nurtured grudges against those he feels have slighted him, underestimated him, or betrayed some public trust. High on this list is his old employer The Baltimore Sun—or more precisely, the editors and corporate owners who have (in his view) spent the past two decades eviscerating a great American newspaper... He landed a job as a Sun reporter just out of the University of Maryland in the early 1980s, and as he tells it, if the newspaper, the industry, and America had lived up to his expectations, he would probably still be documenting the underside of his adopted city one byline at a time. But The Sun let David Simon down.
[I]n the show’s final season, which debuts in January, Simon will revisit the part of Baltimore that’s closest to his heart, The Sun. The season, more than any other before it, will reflect his personal experience. Given his long memory and his inclination to settle old scores, the difference between fiction and fact will be of particular interest to his former colleagues.
