Matters of Taste: Why Kanye West (the label) Matters
It has been a whirlwind few fashion weeks. Big names are playing hopscotch at historic houses – from Slimane replacing Pilati at YSL to Raf Simons stepping down at Jil Sander. Marketing continues to skew extreme with Burberry advancing their eg...
Keeping Score: The Beauty of March Madness
While the mark of spring doesn’t officially begin until March 20, many people would point to the rebirth of basketball’s greatest spectacle as the event that brings people out of the winter doldrums, whose grip was fiercely vicious this year after a...
Keeping Score: The Anatomy of A Perfect Point Guard
The point guard controls the pace, movement and build of an NBA franchise as if a maestro for an orchestra, signaling blistering crescendos by simply holding up one finger in the air. Today more than ever, floor generals are being treated as centerpi...
Keeping Score: The Day Americans Rule Fútbol
While the NBA All Star Game is purely an exhibition – where dunks come fast and furious and the pace resembles that of a 4 x 400 relay instead of a 4th quarter 4:00 minutes to go slugfest, the athletic prowess at which the game’s elite play is...
TECH
I’m slacking on blog updates because I just got back from NYC and I’m prepping to go on a stag weekend. I’m not used to actually living an existence — I’m more adept at forging one vicariously via the internet outside of everyday working hours, so it...
Keeping Score: The Peyton Manning vs. Andrew Luck Debate
Finding a franchise quarterback in the contemporary NFL landscape is not simply at the top of a general manager’s checklist, it is the list. As the league enacts more and more rules that protect the quarterback, and allow receivers to run freely down...
Keeping Score: Who Has More to Lose, Pacquiao or Mayweather?
Every Thursday Hypebeast will feature an editorial spanning the world of sports, ranging from thoughts about the state of the NBA to whether or not the United States National Soccer Team will ever challenge for a World Cup. Handled with words from Se...
Pinterest’s Social Aesthetic
Something is changing in social media. A very noticeable shift is taking place from the data-heavy, status update-laden burden of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to something lighter, more versatile and highly visual. As I covered in my last p...
SOPA KING WE TODD IT
Blackout.
Today, a string of major websites are banding together to protest SOPA, a bill trying to work its way through Congress that is intended to stop online piracy. SOPA doesn’t sound so horrible, right? Online piracy is (fun but) bad! (No,...
THE HATE LIST 2011
“Oh, it’s just what all that shit represents. The stencil bullshit, the wheat-paste bullshit, the fake skate bullshit. I just can’t believe kids buy into all that. It’s like, “nice Obey hat, bud.” You know?”
Jason Dill, 2011, Vice Interview
In li...
The Rumble Around Tumblr
Thomas J. Watson, the historic president of IBM and namesake of the company’s latest, borderline-Orwellian artificial intelligence program, once said: “design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must...
The Art of Street Style Photography
During the recent years the street style culture has gained a big role as fashion media content. All the way back since the first photographers were established, people have been taking photos of street goers looking either extremely beautiful, ugly,...
Productive Placement
In my 20 year career I have seen, and executed for clients, just about every way imaginable to get a brand or product release “hot” via product placement. First as a record promoter in the music business, then mobile promotions manager an...
