The week of Kemba Walker continued last night as he sliced and diced his way through the New York Knicks defense for a game-winning layup. But that was his second best higlight of the night. His first came on this nasty block of Jose Calderon, a block that makes you question whether Kemba’s actually 6’1″.
Worth clicking through. That is a pretty amazing ridiculous hat.
Broncos linebacker Von Miller donned some interesting headgear for his post-game interviews in the locker room. I can't stop looking at his ridiculous hat. Try to watch this and follow what he's talking about—you can't, because your brain will be too consumed with processing his sublime hat. It defies description.
There isn't enough ink to express our pain. Day after day, month after month, year after year, the pain of being black in America, and across the globe, is apparent. Yesterday I read the headlines and tweets that told me NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the cop that killed Eric Garner, would not be indicted . Daniel Pantaleo—say his name until it cannot be forgotten, until he's held responsible. A week and three days before that I heard news out of Ferguson, Missouri that Darren Wilson would not be indicted. That same day, hours before, I watched my beautiful daughter be born into this world. Being black is like that: valley, peak, valley.
by Albert Burneko on The Concourse, shared by Albert Burneko to Deadspin
In July, New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo choked unarmed black man Eric Garner to death, in broad daylight, while a bystander caught it on video. That is what American police do. Yesterday, despite the video, despite an NYPD prohibition of exactly the sort of chokehold Pantaleo used, and despite the New York City medical examiner ruling the death a homicide, a Staten Island grand jury declined even to indict Pantaleo. That is what American grand juries do.
I will be the first to admit that I’m not exactly a fan of Frozen or the song “Let It Go,” and usually avoid writing about either like the plague. So it is a complete testament to this adorable Australian Shepherd puppy named Oakley that I love this video so much. (Also, Australian Shepherds are the best kind of dogs.)
Oakley, who is training to be a therapy dog according to his Instagram page, was sleeping peacefully in the backseat of his owner’s car when the radio switched to “Let It Go,” which immediately roused the pup from his slumber, prompting him to sing along. The best is how he totally nails those high notes.
Somebody should probably tell Oakley that a Frozen sequel is on the way. That would be one excited puppy.
Timber Press founded in 1978 in Portland, OR, focuses on gardening topics targeted at horticulturists, botanists, naturalists, and landscape professionals by publishing books from experts in the fields of gardening, horticulture, and natural history. It is owned by Workman Publishing.
Opinion/Notes: In case anyone is a hardcore horticulturist and has the full Timber Press collection: Yes, this logo has been out since early 2013 but as Timber Press creative director, Patrick Barber, explained to me, it has taken a full year for the logo to be printed on new titles and establish itself as the current identity. The previous logo was… a tree. Nothing more, nothing less. The new logo is a tree made out of timber (wooden beams), providing a new interpretation for the name that is both literal and allusive. It's a charming rendering that feels contemporary and smart and looks great on the spines, as if it's growing from the surface where the books are sitting.
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Before/after letterhead comparison.Before/after business card comparison.New business cards.Moleskine.Before/after spine comparison.New spines.Spines detail.
Say what you will about fraternities (there is a lot you could say), but never say they don't teach valuable emergency preparedness skills, like pissing on things.
Man...I hate to be that guy and shit on things that clearly make some people happy...but fuck this stupid family. I want to hug them with nuclear arms.
Perhaps you have had occasion to view a YouTube song video created by a group of healthy-looking white people named "The Holderness Family." Perhaps it was the one in which they perform a version of Snoop Dogg's classic "Gin and Juice" song, fitted to Halloween, titled "Kin and Moose."
Oh MAN. As much as I loved the first part of the video, when she's breaking 13-yr-old ankles with crazy Barry Sanders moves, I pretty much stood up and went OHHHHHHHHHHH! @ 2:01, when she just TRUCKS this kid.
You remember Sam Gordon, right? Two years ago she was the biggest thing on the internet with a Pee Wee highlight film that was damn near incredible. Gordon became so popular she got the attention of Wheaties and later, attended the Super Bowl with Roger Goodell.
Yada, yada, yada, two years later she’s back and she’s better than ever. No, seriously. She’s like a mini Barry Sanders out there rumbling, bumbling and her way past would-be tacklers.
That is like the best part of being a child when there's a huge snowstorm
See, this is how you play dad, this is how you win a Father Of The Year award. Take note everyone. The Bills’ Fred Jackson throwing his kids in the snow is the best part of this awful Buffalo snowstorm. A snowstorm that might allegedly move the game to Monday.
Established by two brothers in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, with a single pizzeria, Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, is "the world's largest pizza company" — according to their own description which I don't doubt but I put in quotes to clarify it wasn't my statement — with $12 billion in global sales and more than 15,000 restaurants in 93 countries worldwide, employing over 160,000 people. Their pizza? It's fine for mainstream global standards of pizza and they did give us cheese-stuffed crust because all that cheese simply wasn't enough. Yesterday, Pizza Hut introduced a new menu — billed as "Flavor of Now" — that represents their biggest evolution yet, introducing ten new crust flavors like Honey Sriracha, Salted Pretzel, and Ginger Boom Boom; new "drizzles" and sauces; and premium ingredients like Salami, Fresh Spinach and Peruvian Cherry Peppers. (Spinach! Premium?). Along with the new menu, Pizza Hut also introduced a revision to its logo. No design credit given.
Pizza Hut will look different, too, as the iconic red roof logo has been contemporized, along with delivery boxes, cups and even employee uniforms. All of these changes will be heralded in a national advertising campaign celebrating the "Flavor of Now."
The main elements of the logo — the iconic hut roof and script wordmark — remain in place but are now placed inside a smear of tomato sauce. (Animation that demonstrates this can be found at the end of the last video later in the post). It's nice to see a simpler version of the logo without all the gradients and multiple colors and it works remarkably well in a single color but there is something rather odd about the combination of those two iconic elements with the new holding shape. It might be one thing too many. I'm not convinced it's totally wrong or bad as it now gives Pizza Hut another graphic element to use as a quick identifier and you can see it working well in the new menu (pictured below too in case our international readers can't access it) where the splotch and the roof stand in as the logo.
New ordering menu."Flavor of Now" type treatment.
Typographically, Pizza Hut is actually getting a little adventurous and outside the common visual language of pizzas with the use of an industrial-looking font family and the rugged Flavor of Now wordmark, which is not half bad.
Pizza box from press release.Pizza box in reality. No tone-on-tone typography, just black. (Source).
I'm not sure what was the most recent version of the Pizza Hut box — Google Image results show dozens of variations and since I never order it I haven't seen one IRL — but the new one has a cool simplicity to it and the black ink gives it a slight touch of premium-ness.
New materials presented at a press event. Not the most glamorous shot but you get the idea. (Source).#FlavorOfNow event at Bland, Missouri. (Get it? Bland?). It was actually a nice gesture: Pizza Hut rolled into the town's ballpark with $10,000 check and truck full of pizza. There is also another video of Dick Vitale crashing Bingo Night in Boring, Maryland.They also took their pizza to some old Italian folks. Still trying to decide if it's funny or offensive. The good thing is there is an animation of the logo at the end.
In the videos above, particularly in the stunts, you can get a taste of their new design approach and, again, it's not half bad. The bold typography has a welcome confidence to it and it more clearly separates Pizza Hut from Dominos.
New "relaxed" (as described in the press release) uniforms. (Source).Another look at the new uniforms. Jeans are actually part of the uniform and the plaid shirts. (Source).
Maybe the most interesting aspect about the redesign are the new uniforms, which go from the typical dowdy polo shirt and slacks — see Google Image results here (which, btw, include far too many mug shots to be considered good for Pizza Hut's brand associations) — to the much more relaxed and cooler range of t-shirts, plaid, and dark gray button downs paired with jeans and sneakers. Some of those t-shirts I would actually pay money to own (I'm looking at you vintage Pizza Hut logo t-shirt on the top left).
Overall, you can definitely see that Pizza Hut is trying to be a little cooler and I think it does come across as a relatively genuine effort (other than the publicity stunts in the badly-named towns) with decent results, specially for a mainstream product like this.
We’ve heard agonizingly little about the Jessica Jones Netflix series since it was announced over a year ago, but Deadline just dropped a whole lot of names that are rumored to be in consideration for the role of the titular superhero-turned-PI and her friend/eventual husband Luke Cage.
Krysten Ritter (L!fe Happens, Breaking Bad), Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson, True Detective), Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies) and Jessica De Gouw (Arrow) are reportedly in consideration to helm Marvel’s second-ever female-led series. Like the Jessica Jones show originally in the works by Melissa Rosenberg for ABC, Luke Cage will also reportedly appear in the Netflix series as the male lead; Lance Gross (Crisis) and Mike Colter (The Following) are rumored to be contenders for the role.
Cage will appear in an estimated 6-7 episodes of Jessica Jones before his own self-titled series, the fourth of Marvel’s Daredevil/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Luke Cage package with Netflix. What do you guys think? Do any of those actors seem particularly perfect for the role? Shall I fetch you some smelling salts after all this excitement? Sound off below!
Coming to theaters this fall, an uplifting and inspiring film about how people of color need a white person to teach them how to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.
Ira Madison III / Via Walt Disney Studios
"White Lady Saves the Day" is a common trope where people of color's lives are teetering on the edge of despair... until a white person shows up to save them. Films such as Dangerous Minds, Finding Forrester, The Blind Side, and Freedom Writers employ this trope and it's all too likely it'll be seen again.
The stories are meant to come off as uplifting and inspiring, but instead only reinforce the idea that POC have no future without the help of a white savior. However, there are quite a few times when a POC would actually want a white person to intercede and save their lives. Here are those moments:
1. When you're about to read the latest ill-conceived viral thinkpiece about black culture but an intrepid editor deletes it before anyone can read it and fires the person who wrote it.
2. When your Film Studies teacher tries to make the class watch The Birth of a Nation because it's "innovative and groundbreaking" and a white person smashes the DVD into pieces and burns it.
When you are a Sad Dad, one of the things you spend the most time pining for—after, like, an actual grown-up date with your spouse, a window of more than five minutes in which to take a shower, and relief from the constant background awareness of your own bottomless inadequacy—is some damn peace and quiet. "Can we have some damn peace and quiet around here?" you are constantly muttering to yourself, and then sometimes bellowing to no one in particular, Dad-like, irrelevant, a demented buffalo lowing at grass for no reason and to no effect.
I was very excited when I saw that the Lexus GS450 hybrid was making an appearance on my weekly press-car schedule. While my fellow toilers on Automotive Grub Street fap themselves senseless over the Dodge Charger Challenger Hellspawn, I have different priorities. I love luxury, ease, fuel economy, and reliability.
I normally abhor parody videos, especially ones involving Taylor Swift. But I found myself watching this one until the end. And it’s got nothing to do with the mascot or the cheerleaders or the fact that “Shake It Off” is kinda catchy.
No sir. It’s Timofey Mosgov.
Watching a 7’1″ man wildly gesticulate in an awkward fashion is the reason the internet was invented. Thank you, Denver Nuggets. I needed that in my life.
It’s weird to see a real car company like Mercedes-Benz get put into Mario Kart with DLC, but it’s even weirder to see Mario characters get put into real Mercedes—mostly because of Luigi’s apparent double life as a member of NSYNC. Meanwhile, it looks like Mario’s been studying the death stare.
New Smash Bros. taunt, please:
“Cry me a river, Mario.”
And there’s another with Peach, who isn’t having any of Mario’s turtle shell shenanigans.
That’s what he gets for using a green shell. A red one never would’ve missed like that. Rookie mistake.
