The best uniforms from yesterday and today’s action:
Saint Mary’s:
Kentucky:
And Texas:
Allow us to display our favorite shoes of all time, the red, low-cut, Chuck Taylor Converse All Stars.
Love the look, love the design, love the color. Love the associations with the bygone days of the NBA, neighborhoods with decorated telephone wires, and punk music. Gimme.
Yes, we shun the high tops when it comes to personal choice, but they, too, look rather fresh:
Of course, some of us are classicists.
Do you know what the trouble with a classicist is? We’ll let Lou Reed and John Cale fill ya’ll in on that one:
The trouble with a classicist, he looks at a tree;
That’s all he sees, he paints a tree.
The trouble with a classicist, he looks at the sky;
He doesn’t ask why, he just paints a sky.
Digression!
On March 17, 2010, In Branding, By Wes
The American flag has remained the same for decades, aside from the addition of a few stars here and there. But there were many versions of the flag before the one we’ve come to know and love(?) today. These include flags with no red white and blue, flags made up on the spot by John Paul Jones to avoid charges of piracy by Dutch statesmen, flags featuring disgusting reptiles, etc., etc. Here’s a sampling of some of the coolest and most surprising.
One of the very first American symbols, this flag flew over American shipping vessels c. 1775. It was a message to the British, and a nationalistic ode to the new world. It was called the Liberty Tree flag.
And now we’ve moved to the first type of flag flown by the fledgling American Navy, c. 1775. It’s still flown today on the oldest naval ship. The rattlesnake is ominous, poisonous warning. Also, disgusting.
We all know the (probably) mythical story of Betsy Ross sewing the first real American flag in 1776. Here’s the (probably fictional) representation of the woman herself presenting her work to Washington.
The flag flown by Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys at the Battle of Bennington, 1777.
The actual flag flown over Fort Sumter in 1861 – the first battle of the Civil War, won by the Confederacy.
On March 11, 2010, In Branding, By Wes
Has anyone else seen those insufferable Pepsi ads with Will.i.am re-mixing Bob Dylan? May You Stay Forever Young by drinking our artificially sweetened, calorie-rich, teeth-staining swill. Pepsi has consistently tried to brand themselves as the cola the yung’uns drink, the new generation of cola. Pepsi is what you drink whilst listening to the latest Black Eyed Peas mediocrity, updating your Facebook page and digitally uploading your thoughts on the latest TMZ scoop. Whatever. Hat tip to graphicdesignblog.org, who took the time to put this chart together:
Notice who stayed consistently classy (with the exception of New Coke) and who relentlessly undermined their historical brand by pathetically and unsuccessfully worshiping at the altar of youth. Coca-Cola for life, brah.