September 14, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
Rizzoli New York is releasing a book entitled Supreme: Downtown New York Skate Culture in April 2010 that will be a sort of retrosepctive on the New York City skateboarding scene from the eyes of Aaron Bondaroff, one of the founding members of Supreme and aNYthing.
The book is going to be sold for $50, but if you pre-order the title now on Amazon.com, you can get it for just $31.50
August 25, 2009 @ 12:37 am
Kona Bikes created this video after visiting Amsterdam and seeing the incredible bike culture that was existing there. Worth a watch if you really can’t be convinced that riding a bike is a good thing. [via]
Also, people in Amsterdam are gorgeous.
August 17, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
CNN took their cameras behind the scenes at Wong Fu Productions to see what 3 guys are doing to better represent Asians in media and popular culture. Watch it!
November 20, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
I just came back from my Youth Culture & Fashion class and I watched this very great documentary today on hip-hop and sneaker culture. The film is called Just For Kicks and it was made in 2005. The documentary looks back at hip-hop culture and how it shaped the world of fashion as it is today. From the early days of breakdancing to early rap groups like Run-DMC, to big-time sports celebrity sponsorships, Just For Kicks covers seems to cover all important aspects of the culture then and now.
I liked the film so much that I just added it to my Netflix.
You can order the DVD at Amazon.com
Here’s a quick preview of the film.
November 3, 2008 @ 9:25 am
Thanks to the wonder of instant movies via Netflix, I watched a wonderfully cute and hilarious film called Outsourced the other night. Flo and I couldn’t decide on what to watch, so we just chose something that we had never heard of. It’s always a nice surprise to completely go into a movie blind.
The movie is a comedy about a guy who loses his job when it gets outsourced to India. But before he can move on, he has to live in India and train the new team to make sure they can do the job just as well as he did in America. Cultures clash, habits are taught, and language barriers are crossed when one person is thrust into the world of over a billion others.
Anyway, the movie is clearly a winner in a lot of people’s eyes as the film has won a handful of awards from festivals all over the world. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and I recommend that you watch it if you’re into good movies at all.
If you’ve got a Netflix account, watch it instantly tonight, or rent it on DVD at your local shop!
Outsourced trailer
January 18, 2008 @ 11:23 am
The perception of each other – how Germans see Chinese
Yang Liu was born in China but moved to Germany to be educated. Having grown up in two very different places with very different traditions, Yang Liu was able to experience first-hand what the underlying differences were between the two cultures.
With a people’s perspective on it it all, Yang Liu has created these posters and images using simple symbols and shapes to convey just how different the two cultures are. The blue side is Germany and the red side is China.
When I first saw this project, I was immediately amazed at how true it all was. Of course, these are still large generalizations of a culture as a whole, but the fact that I recognize just about every single one of these is just a bit funny to me. Even funnier is that I can not only relate to the Chinese portion of the image, but I can relate somewhat to the German side too since this semester was basically German-town for me here in Australia (the bulk of my friends were from Germany).
Click inside to see some of my favorites from this project.
