Archive for the Street Level Category
Treasure Trove: Vintage Matchbox Labels
December 9, 2010 | No Comments | View
After last week’s thinking about thinking about thinking (that we’re still thinking about), we were thinking a return to browsing some great designs of yore would not only please your prefrontal cortex, but feel right to your deeper processes as well. With that, we point you towards a vast, wonderful collection of matchbox labels spanning [...]
Tags: print > treasure
Informed, Inspired, & Influenced: Influencers Short Film
November 4, 2010 | Comments Off | View
Andy Warhol. Jay-Z. Both MJs. Steve Jobs. Basquiat. Obama. Shepard Fairey. Ali. The Beatles. Picasso. Paul Newman. Marilyn Monroe. Gandhi. Biggie Smalls. Ramones. Run DMC. Steve McQueen. Einstein. << Those are just a handful of the reasons Influencers may be of the best 13:55 of video you’ll ever watch. Throwing a party with those luminaries [...]
Tags: music > philosophy
Street Level and Rising: Dulux Let’s Colour
October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment | View
“If your world was all black and if your world was all white, then you wouldn’t get much color out of life now right?” – {If you need to Google that quote, then you should definitely Google that quote. You’ll be in for a treat.} When it comes to the Aluminum/Aluminium spelling quarrel, after you [...]
Be Inspired: New Type York
September 23, 2010 | No Comments | View
This sounds kind of dumb to say, but language and communication is effing amazing when you take a quiet minute to think about it: sounds and symbols that allow an idea from one person’s mind to enter the mind of someone else. Dang. How many times as a kid did you furrow your brow and [...]
Tags: fonts
Protect Ya Neck <- And Know Ya Rig
August 26, 2010 | No Comments | View
By now you might be picking up that we have a penchant for live, street-level musical performance. Full disclosure: we just fully realized it ourselves. So here’s our latest fixation along those lines: This quick little glimmer in the turbid shallows of YouTube caught our eye earlier this week (thanks Alex!) and has clearly stuck [...]
The Highest Form of Art
August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment | View
Well, we pointed this way earlier in the week in the short forms, but we wanted to return to it with the longer form here, now. There’s certainly more to be said for and about this art statement/event/installation/performance/display (and video documentation) that extends beyond 140 characters. But first, just to recap: the Thursday before last [...]
MTWX: Marking 10 Years of Michael T. Wheeler at Bluezoom
May 20, 2010 | No Comments | View
At the end of the day (or season), what’s an NBA fan rooting for these days? In large part, a jersey. In larger part, a logo. The culture that produced Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan*–players synonymous with a single team (for what would become an era)–has since developed a noticeable taste for rearrangement [...]
Tags: bluezoom > michael wheeler > video
Street Level: Jimmy John’s Subs for a Buck
March 23, 2010 | 1 Comment | View
Working downtown certainly has its perks: the characters, the energy, the fixtures, the unexpected, and the unknown. Check out the first entry in our Street Level category. It’s about subs, promos, people, and floating dollar bills.
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