Adolf (”Adi”) Dassler started to produce his first sports shoes in his mother’s wash kitchen after his return from World War I. In 1924, his brother Rudolf Dassler joined the business which became Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory and did well – selling 200,000 pairs of shoes each year before World War II.

However the brothers did not get on well, and in 1948 they split up, with Rudi forming Puma, and Adi forming Adidas.

I painted the Adidas logo on my first ex-wife’s old –but honestly not noxiously malodorous– Puma shoes and took a sensual photograph:

Can you feel the connection? 

Of the many happy campers at the record-demolishing (and economy-confounding) Sotheby’s auction last night, Takashi Murakami may have been the happiest. Drawing stares from art-world veterans — one told us she’d never seen an artist show up to watch his own work on the block — the Japanese Pop maestro sat in the back of the room with a serene smile as My Lonesome Cowboy, his larger-than-life sculpture of a boy waving an ejaculate lasso, brought in $15.2 million —

I’m trying to compile a things we can go see and do. Feel free to add.
And let’s see which ones we are interested in going to.

AIGA
upcoming talks/events.
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Molly Wright Steenson

FRIDAY 23 MAY 2008 6:30 – 9:00PM
IN/VISIBLE: Graphic Data Revealed
Fresh Dialogue 24

MET
Jeff Koons on the Roof
April 22, 2008–October 26, 2008

Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008

MOMA
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
April 20–June 30, 2008

New Museum
Current
Paul Chan 7 lights
4/9/08 - 6/29/08
Third Floor

Brooklyn Museum
Murakami
April 5–July 13, 2008

icff

may 17 -20

(Members of the general public are welcome on Tuesday, May 20 when the ICFF is open to all comers. )

needs 50bucks tho

also new york design week

-mooooon

BEFORE

AFTER

LIKEMIND

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released today an interim final rule extending the period of Optional Practical Training (OPT) from 12 to 29 months for qualified F-1 non-immigrant students. The extension will be available to F-1 students with a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics who are employed by businesses enrolled in the E-Verify program.
“This rule will enable businesses to attract and retain highly skilled foreign workers, giving U.S. companies a competitive advantage in the world economy,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. “By extending the training period by an additional 17 months to students who are employed by businesses enrolled in E-Verify, we are further ensuring a legal workforce in the U.S. and aiding good corporate citizens.”

WorkHearts is Cynthia Ratsabouth site who studies at MCAD, met her at ADC.

A digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee’s lovely song “Again & Again”. The set? His Mac desktop. You sort of have to see it for yourself to understand; luckily, Dennis has dropped it on YouTube so that the world can see it in low-res glory.

http://www.dennisaliu.com/

LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

http://www.weirdotoys.com/gallery/

The printed page is giving way to the networked screen. The Institute for the Future of the Book seeks to chronicle this shift, and impact its development in a positive direction. The Institute is a project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Former WK12 Year 1′r Rudy Adler recently launched a new website – How I Spent My Stimulus.com. In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. Rudy hopes this website helps shed some light on where the stimulus money is going.

Rudy created this as a collaborative project. All blog entries are submitted by visitors to the site. He’d love for you to contribute — just upload a photo and share your story.

As a collaberation of two budding designers, paperdotnet is an upbeat and fun loving way to get others involved in our exciting project, we want you to work with us and bring paperdotnet from paper to the net.

haha similar to my life mapping!!!!! awesome.

Thanks DD

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