Soccer fans will get a kick out of this: Dutch artist Helmut Smits built a scale replica of a football ("soccer") stadium out of "fruit crate boxes, fruit, wood, stands, halogen work lights, [and] grass carpet."
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I'm not sure if bringing this ball to a pickup match among some Nigerians at Prospect Park will win you a lot respect, but Flower Ball by Takashi Murakami is darn "kickin'." Pun!
And it can be all yours for a cool $400. And they'll even throw in a nifty bag with it.
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The quality is not the greatest on a lot of them, but you can still see the mastery of each and every single goal in this video. I think the bicycle kick score is one of the most exciting goals in all of sports. Too bad a 22 minute long youtube clip now slows my computer down to a fucking crawl. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeXoxNP8_xY]
I'm so sick of the non-apology apology from people in the public limelight after they utter something racist, sexist, or hateful. Their "apology," which is never a straightforward acknowledgment that they said something ignorant and malicious, is always cast so as to implicitly blame the victimized individual or group: See Rosie's "mea culpa" after her whole "ching chong" incident. Here's the most recent example after a Boston Celtics radio announcer Cedric Maxwell remarked, during a game, referencing the female referee on the court:
"Go in there and make me some bacon and eggs, would you?"
Clearly, such unquestionably sexist remarks shouldn't be uttered on air (I say it all the time to chicks though in private, but I also throw in, "and clean the house afterwards" for good measure and then I slap on them on their ass as they walk by) and if it happens, just say you're sorry. But nope, this genius goes with this non-apology apology:
“If I said anything that might have been insensitive or sexist in any way, then I apologize because she worked extremely hard to get where she is now, end of quote.”
Um, "IF?" "MIGHT HAVE BEEN?" "OR?" "CAPS?" "CAPS AND QUESTION MARKS?"
Try: "I said something that was incredibly insensitive and sexist and I apologize because she worked extremely hard to get where she is now. I have begun reading the Feminine Mystique."
I didn't listen to the game, so I don't know whether he said made the bacon and eggs comment as a joke or whether there was a real male chauvinist anger there, but if it was an attempt at humor, he should know better. If I know what I say is going to be broadcast to tens of thousands of people, I'm not going to be making jokes about how fast my people can deliver food on one-speed bicycles (They ARE fast though).
Anyway, I guess there's a good reason why Cedric Maxwell is only on radio. OOOH BURNNNN.
In the meantime, GO RED SOX!
Whether you're a soccer fan, a desk jockey in the advertising industry, or a Latin American aficionado (whatever that fucking means), this is a pretty hilarious mano-a-mano battle taking place in the realm of advertising between an Argentine (ostensibly) condom company and the Brazilian Football Organization. Prior to a soccer match between Argentina and Brazil, the condom company ran the following taunting ad:
Look at the ad again. Get it?
After Brazil beat its rival, Brazil's football group ran the following response:
On top of the loss...wow, talk a real kick in the nuts for Argentines, that is.
Anyway, I love the Brazilian futbol team because of their fans:
