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...1/2-minute extended version of which ran on MTV, barely mentioned the product, except for a flash of the swoosh logo. Instead, against a spare backdrop, they showed expert dribblers dexterously pounding basketballs and executing trick maneuvers. Call it basketballet. The squeak of their soles and the thump of rubber provided a primal, trance-inducing soundtrack (with some help from hip-hop legend Afrika Bambaataa). The message: Sport is music. Sport is dance. Sport is art. And so was this...
...cease-fire, the area took the appearance of an archeological dig. Across one ridge 20 mujahidin fighters scratched at the ground with sticks looking for fragments of U.S. bombs, which they loaded into a huge cooking pot and carried to a pickup truck. One fighter handed me a rubber jug with a strap. "Al Qaeda," he said with a nod. Arabs drink water too. Another fighter with pale green eyes carried a backpack that he had taken from a cave. It contained a stick of Mum Cool Blue roll-on deodorant. He wouldn't let anyone touch...
...simple wooden chair is upholstered in a wild zebra print, a fabric the Browns selected from Elsa Gullberg, a Swedish textile artist who was also a member of the modern school. The bright blue floor that the furniture is placed upon is also symbolic—of the blue rubber floors of Windshield...
...blue rubber is a great care,” Brown wrote to Neutra in September of 1938. “It seems almost impossible to keep it looking really well...I wish that at Harvard I had taken a course in how to finish floors as I feel woefully ignorant of the technology of this important art.” Anne Brown had a great eye for color, and in addition to blue floors, she installed red tiles, glass and formica in her bathroom, red blinds, white walls and blue floors in the den and she used rose-colored lightbulbs...
...Fair in 1958 and combined electronic voice manipulation and pulse generation with film projectors, ultra-violet lights and hundreds of fluorescent lamps in various colors. John Cage’s “prepared piano” (which involved the insertion of nails, bolts, nuts, screws and bits of rubber, leather and wood in the strings of an ordinary grand piano to create innovative percussive sounds) mirrored the work of the Fluxus group, who believed in removing everyday elements from their natural context, thus allowing the viewer to experience a familiar object...