A giant screen with timekeeping, scores, team logos, upcoming games, etc… Very nice design by Steffen Mackert of the Candy Colored Clowns:

Custom-made goals, wider than the usual “cone to cone” standard in bike polo, with nets:

Solid (and very local-flavored) tap-out points:

A big and warm indoor venue, with the fantastic bonus of having a high vantage point:

And for once, our team, Zombie United, did pretty well. We won all our qualifying matches apart from one draw, and lost in the semi-finals to the winners, L’Equipe (who win every European tourney anyway). Finished 3rd! Thanks to Fixie Inc. and all the Karlsruhe players for setting a benchmark…

Shoulder pointing forward …..back foot planted firmly and release…..and a perfect spiral and smile as you know that feeling even as a youngster what it means to be perfect for a split second…..

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Somebody has spent time in the barbershop on the weekend…..

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I doubt this years Super Bowl adverts will come close to this one.

I enjoy hearing someone articulate their thoughts about shoes…in this case Buscemi sums it up nicely…Go Gourmet!

I’m closer than I’ve ever been to sonic heaven.  Sansui Au 9500 amp, Marantz 2275 used solely as a preamp, Elac Miricord 50H turntable, Kyocera CD player, and to top it all off…JBL 4430’s…the ‘bubble butt’ high frequency drivers are making me smile…The Seventies are alive and pissing off my neighbors …for sure.

Arrived in China to find that they make quite good use of LED.  Throw on a copy of ‘Autobahn’ by Kraftwerk and check the video.  Our factory told us that they had problems a while back with power shortages and the main reason was that LED was being used for ‘beautification purposes’ and the Chinese cared more that the freeways were properly illuminated than if there were any power surges because of it.  It’s the Studio 54 underpass!

In the book, colorful racing cars are featured next to blank, white models. Thanks to this juxtaposition, Go Faster not only takes its readers on a breakneck ride through images of racing history, but also shows them exactly how the graphics modulate the look of the vehicle. The neutral models in the book also give readers ample opportunity to imagine their own possibilities for graphic design in motor sports.

The time and effort invested in the look of racecars is strangely out of balance compared to that used to shape the bodywork or engineer the technology present in the car. But perhaps it is precisely this amateur quality, this anarchy and randomness that results in the irresistible attraction that racing cars and their graphics have on us. There are, of course, countless books on racing cars, but Go Faster is the first to focus on the graphic design of these machines. This makes the book an ideal gift for anyone interested in racing and high speeds.

Each piece comes tucked into a special wooden box that’s been burned with the details of the edition. The box is signed and numbered

The new shop (designed by Roman Alonso and Claire Darrow) in the hotel opens 12 February 2010 with Julia working on an installation in the space for the opening.