Archive for category basketball
Web Hits: Barkley/Photoshop/Cochran/Iverson
Posted by jfx in art, basketball, computers, personal on March 28, 2010
1. Charles Barkley is a character out of a cartoon world and these “rare” photos from SI show a glimpse into the man they call Chuck. –> Rare photos of Charles Barkey via Sports Illustrated
2. Adobe Photoshop turned 20 recently and it’s been my buddy since late in version 2.5 (no layers…if you can imagine that). Complex magazine did a great piece detailing the 50 greatest moments in Photoshop. –> 50 Favorite Moments in Photoshop History via Complex
3. Josh Cochran created this sweet new print called “Zombies Vs. Unicorns.” It reminds me of Fort Thunder, or more specifically Brian Chippendale stuff–and in a good way. –> Zombies Vs. Unicorns via Kitsune Noir
4. ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series is in full swing and the one I’ve been waiting for is getting out there now. “No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson” directed by Steve James (“Hoops Dreams”). –> No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson via ESPN 30 for 30
NBA Icons: Northwest Division
Posted by jfx in basketball, computers, icons on February 9, 2010
The final part: six of six, the NBA Northwest Division icons for OS X, including the full 512 x 512 size. Mac and the PC, so no crying, ok? Download the mac icns version. Download the PC ico file.
NBA Icons: Southwest Division
Posted by jfx in basketball, computers, icons on February 5, 2010
Part five of the six, the NBA Southwest Division icons for OS X, including the full 512 x 512 size. Mac and the PC, so no crying, ok? Download the mac icns version. Download the PC ico file.
NBA Icons: Pacific Division
Posted by jfx in basketball, computers, icons on January 11, 2010
Part four of the six, the NBA Pacific Division icons for OS X, including the full 512 x 512 size. Mac and the PC, so no crying, ok? Download the mac icns version. Download the PC ico file.
NBA Icons: Southeast Division
Posted by jfx in basketball, icons on December 28, 2009
Part three of the six, the NBA Southeast Division icons for OS X, including the full 512 x 512 size. Mac and the PC, so no crying, ok? Download the mac icns version. Download the PC ico file.
NBA Icons: Central Division
Posted by jfx in basketball, icons on November 28, 2009
Part two of the six, the NBA Central Division icons for OS X, including the full 512 x 512 size. Mac and the PC, so no crying, ok? Download the mac icns version. Download the PC ico file.
NBA Icons: Philadelphia 76ers
Posted by jfx in basketball, icons on October 27, 2009
It’s been a while since I made some new icons. Snow Leopard for mac has these new extra juicy 521×512 icons so it’s high time I got to it. In celebration of the new NBA season, I’m releasing some new extra big icons. I’m including the vista icons too, so don’t cry PC folks. Download the mac icns version. Download the PC ico file.
Things I Don’t Need: Part 3, Eric Snow Bobble-head
Posted by jfx in basketball, personal on August 17, 2009
My cleaning/organizing is still going on–I know you all though it was over. I may be slow but part 3 is here! My prized Eric Snow miniature bobble-head had been awarded to a co-worker who I knew would appreciate it. Mr. Aaron Horton, of LMBAO.org, is the winner and his reaction was just as I hoped–joy and confusion.
Eric Snow, as if you didn’t know, was the point guard for the 2000-01 76ers and helped lead the team with Allen Iverson’s help, to the NBA Finals. He is the epitome of hard working, solid, good-guy (aka not as talented) NBA players. He is one of my favorite players and yes, I do own an Eric Snow jersey. So does Aaron Horton. I knew I picked the right guy.
Fruit Stripe Baller
Posted by jfx in basketball on May 7, 2009
Fruit Stripe gum is great, for a few seconds at least – then it becomes a wad of rubber. They do give you cool tattoos now a days. The one above is real swell, I wonder if anyone in the NBA has this one?
Kia Rajon Rondo
Posted by jfx in basketball, design on May 3, 2009
As anyone who knows me knows – I’m a basketball guy, and the NBA playoffs are taking a huge amount of my personal time. The recent Bulls/Celtics series was great and I find it amazing that on the heels of that Kia and the NBA release this?
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The three types of specialists needed to make great change
From a passage of Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard, the three types of specialists needed for the success of any revolution.
Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening teams with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.
The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.
The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius — a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in in general circulation. “A genius working alone,” he says, “is invariably ignored as a lunatic.”
The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find: a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. “A person like this working alone,” says Slazinger, “can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be.”
The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. “He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting,” says Slazinger. “Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.”
Slazinger, high as a kite, says that every successful revolution, including Abstract Expressionism, the one I took part in, had that cast of characters at the top — Pollock being the genius in our case, Lenin being the one in Russia’s, Christ being the one in Christianity’s.
He says that if you can’t get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way.
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