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It’s been a long time since anyone put any sneakers up in TheScrapBook… which is not only telling, given all the fashion trends we’ve brought to you etc, but it’s a bit strange since it was one of the things that got us all together as mates (along with many other fine things, but kicks is certainly strong!)

These new dunks from Nike absolutely steal the show though. Taken from stills from the Beautiful Losers film releasing very soon, this collection of Dunks is, in my humble opinion, stunning.

We mentioned Beautiful Losers before, but it’s a collection of artists that have been put together, curated along the lines of their “anti-art” backgrounds, their skate or music influence, or the way they influence the world. You’ll be familiar with them, perhaps - Kaws, Obey (Sheperd Fairey), ESPO (Steve Powers), Twist (Barry McGee) to name a few.

Supertouch has the low-down on the Beautiful Loser Dunks:

“Presented by NIKE SPORTSWEAR, the film chronicles the lives and creative process of artists including Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton, among others, whose DIY attitudes informed the aesthetics and ethos of their generation…

To further commemorate the film’s release, Nike’s Sportswear’s JESSE LEYVA has also created a series of 22 Beautiful Losers Dunks emblazoned with iconic stills from the movie using the company’s new high-resolution digital printing process. Says Aaron Rose of the project, “We went back to the documentary and pulled frame stills of what we felt were key moments in the narrative. We used these moments to tell the Beautiful Losers story using the shoes as a medium, with the end result being a collection of works of art.” Viewed together, the shoes reflect the overall narrative of the film, and after being exhibited at the NYC and LA “Make Something!” workshops, two sets of the shoes will be auctioned off with proceeds donated to the Children’s Aid Society.”

The MAKE SOMETHING! workshop schedule, if you’re in NYC looks interesting too:
255 Elizabeth Street
August 8: Zine Making with Aaron Rose
August 9: Cinematography with Tobin Yelland
August 10: Character Design with Kaws
August 14: Animation with Todd James
August 16: Photography with Cheryl Dunn
August 17: Design with Eric Elms
August 18 Tattoos with Scott Campbell
August 21: Painting with Eric White
August 22: Sneaker Design with Jesse Leyva

Having praised Mark Earl’s book, Herd, I thought it only right to check out his blog. Lucky I did too.

The image above is of my oyster card wallet… well, not mine but one like it. I always wondered who the artist was, as it was given away for free at random by TFL and the Arts Council (randomly allocating one artist over another). Mark talks about the power of the backstory in reference to Tim Mitchells‘ other works (see below) but I’ve always loved my oyster wallet (shell?) because of the non-story that it provides me with on long boring journeys.

Read At Work:

Dont Click It

Two great websites that deserve to be here on TheScrapBook. Play with them yourself to appreciate what they’re all about!

Roadsworth’s story is a compelling one: his street art is genuinely “on the street” and provokes thought about our urban landscape and interaction with it, as well as making us reconsider the extent we rely on signs, signifiers and cars to run our lives. He’s also facing severe punishment (money and jail time) for his actions as it goes beyond mere “vandalism” and instead risks categorisation as potentially causing dangerous driving, something far more severe.

Watch the trailer for the film, Roadsworth: Crossing The Line, at Wooster Collective.

In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Malcolm McLaren teams up with Creative Time to showcase art and pornography where it belongs - in the heart of NYC, in Times Square. McLaren’s video art showpiece, Shallow, is airing from June 25 to mid-August on 44 ½, MTV’s giant outdoor, gilded HD screen between 44th and 45th Streets.

“I’ve cut up pieces of old stag movies, slowed them way down, and set them to music,” says McLaren. “What you see is not people having sex but people about to have it. The old movies had a lot more foreplay. I was interested in the body language of nonactors, how they communicated their longing.”

The 21 “artful” films are interactive too by calling a specific number to hear the musical mashups commissioned for the pieces. “Love Will Tear Us Apart” meets “Love Will Keep Us Together”. Show schedules and MP3s are here.

From Supertouch

It’s clearly vintage day today at THESCRAPBOOK. 12ozPROPHET have a great post on vintage spray cans from about 1974-1988 and mainly Switzerland specific. Click here to see more

Been looking around the net and found James Dawe’s portfolio site through The Serif - a daily dose of design inspiration.

In need of some digital romance? Check out Much Better Than This

We’ve mentioned TED before, and it truly is the most inspirational series of lectures, across a broad range of subjects; some of which are not obviously relevant to our lives and careers but all of which enrich us. The Top Ten TED Talks are what they say on the tin. Check the video on the linked page to see a highlights reel, or the links below to view the individual videos themselves. To inspire you a little, consider the most popular talk, viewed 2 1/2 million times and counting, which features neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, who observed her own stroke while it was happening.

Top 10 TEDTalks of all time
1. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My stroke of insight”
2. Jeff Han: “Touchscreen demo foreshadows the iPhone”
3. David Gallo: “Underwater astonishments”
4. Blaise Aguera y Arcas: “Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo”
5. Arthur Benjamin: “Lightning calculation and other ‘Mathemagic’”
6. Sir Ken Robinson: “Do schools kill creativity?”
7. Hans Rosling: “The best stats you’ve ever seen”
8. Tony Robbins: “Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better”
9. Al Gore: “15 ways to avert a climate crisis”
10. Johnny Lee: “Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote”

image courtesy of Open Learning blog