If Ink Were Blood (Man and Woman) by Dustin Yellin. Resin, acrylic, and ink, 182cm x 60cm x 34cm.
Nike’s collaborative art project with Livestrong, entitled STAGES, opened in New York on Friday night at the Deitch Projects space on 480 Broome street. The collection is a series of art that features big timers like Tom Sachs, Ed Ruscha, Shepard Fairey, Kaws, and Jose Parla. If you live or are in NY for the next month, go check it out, the work is impressive and a great way to check out some contemporary heroes all in the same spot.
For the New York edition of STAGES, a few new pieces were brought into the mix, including a piece by Brooklyn artist Dustin Yellin, a two part sculpture titled, “If Ink Were Blood (Man and Woman)”. Before this, we didn’t really know Dustin’s work, so we took the opportunity to catch up with him. Hit the jump to check out an interview with Yellin where he explains his process, then peep some of his more recent work.
There are sports moments that make us cheer, ones that leave us speechless, and even ones that make us cry (a little). But it takes a special kind of athletic feat to make us stand up and say: “That’s badass.” Now “badass” comes in all shapes and sizes, both good and bad, but you know it when you see it: achieving victory in the face of odds that would make a normal man quiver in his pantaloons, risking your career to say what you feel (or just punch the guy who’s been pissing you off all game), playing through injury and dragging the comp, or even doing psychedelic drugs and still playing like a boss.
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, but never doubt ‘em: sports badasses are why we’re watching the games in the first place. Listen folks, these ain’t your old man’s greatest sports moments. These are Complex’s 50 Most Badass Moments In Sports History…
Holy crap. Lance Armstrong’s STAGES bike series with Kaws, Kenny Scharf, Shepard Fairey, Marc Newson Yoshitomo Nara, and Damien Hirst are sick sick sick. [TREK bikes]
Cool new Mexican artist of the day: Iran Fancisco. Painted boobs after the click, so if you work at a company with some tight-ass IT department, wait until later. [World's Best Ever]
If you buy any of the new BAPE x Ghostbusters crap, please @ComplexMag on Twitter so we can be sure to place your contact in our idiot folder. [High Snobiety]
Cool design concept behind a breakable plate (?), but this guy needs to get himself a real job. [Yanko Design]
C-3PO and R2-D2 Kubricks on the way. Awesome. [Hypebeast]
In cool guy-meets-repressed-childhood news, LEGO is teaming up with Wood Wood. We hope this fulfills its kick ass potential. [Freshness]
Here’s a fact: Lance Armstrong is a much better athlete than you. Here’s another fact: Nike makes Lance’s sneakers better than other professional athletes. Tomorrow, this LIVESTRONG x FUTURA X Nike Dunk High FLOM release to top-tier outlets like DQM, Concepts, Goods, Huf, and UNDFTD. Not only are the Dunks one of the best smu’s we’ve seen in a while, but 100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Lance Armstrong Foundation for Cancer research. Everyone wins. Cop them for $150, and if you haven’t already check out Nike and Lance’s new video for the Stages All Star Art Show. www.nikesportswear.com, www.livestrong.com
After retiring from cycling in 2005, Lance Armstrong decided to come back for this year’s Tour De France strictly to raise awareness for his LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign. You’ve seen the bevvy of sneaker releases from Nike, and now the duo has teamed up again for the all-star STAGES art benefit at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris. Some familiar faces who made pieces especially for the show include KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Yoshitomo Nara, Dzine, José Parlá, Ed Ruscha, Geoff McFetridge, Tom Sachs and Cai Guo-Qiang (there are 20 in all).
The STAGES show opens to the public today, and Nike dropped a few videos to give you an inside look. The video above is an introduction hosted by Lance and Nike President Mark Parker, and the video embedded below is focused on Shepard Fairey’s piece inspired by 30-year-old cancer survivor Jessica Ikenberry…
Happy sports holiday weekend everybody! On Saturday, July 4th, the Tour de France bike race kicks off, and…whooooooaaaaaaaaa, hold up a got-damned second! The Tour de France is starting on America’s birthday???!!! WTF!!!??? Maybe if those Frenchies hadn’t been so busy riding bikes and helped us go kick some…oh nevermind, we’re just gonna rename the thing the Tour de Freedom, how you like dem apples? And the freedom part of the Tour de Freedom includes the freedom to fall on your smug mug, so without further adieu (drat! They’re so insidious!), we present The Craziest Tour de France Crashes…
This July, Lance Armstrong will compete in the Tour de France, an attempt at a record eight victories at the prestigious proving ground (he currently holds the record with seven wins). To celebrate, Nike is making a ton of product, a lot of which you’ve seen on other sites. Check the new issue of Complex, hitting stands on Monday, we have a feature on the Livestrong product, which is how we were able to get our own set of shots and details of the product.
Click more, and see detail images of the Livestrong version of the FLOM Dunk (formerly a 1 of 24 pair SB designed by Futura), the Livestrong version of the “Spiderweb” Cartoon AF1 (which was never released due to Spiderman copyright issues at the time of the original launch), the Livestrong version of the “Hideout” Footscape Woven (which originally debuted in pony hair, but new designers brought it in to make it a bit more wearable, Wu-tang style), and the Livestrong version of the Busy P AF1 (which came in a rainbow colorway the first time around). These sneakers will become available at 21 Mercer in NYC and accounts like UNDFTD in L.A. at the end of June.
First it was all black, then all gray, now it’s looking like all brown, or some permutation of the color blocking, is waiting in the wings for those of you who have taken advanced monotone color blocking. New brown/brown 51-30 watch by Nixon, delivering to retail in June. [Zozo/Fieil]
Lance Armstrong’s Live Strong x Trek bikes by Kenny Scharf and Shepard Fairey, coming soon. Worlds collide like freight trains in the night (or two friends in a coffee shop). [High Snobiety]
Whoa. Giant 6 foot tall matte black Be@rbricks. I can has that? [Freshness]
The Bape 16th anniversary T-shirt. Is bad. [Honeyee]
Always wondered why SMS text messages were 160 characters? Us too. Not anymore. [Gizmodo]
Alexander Wang for Gap is on the way for June. Yay for Wang! … Nevermind. [Pink Rock Candy]
Oh how far the LiveSTRONG movement has come. Several years ago most people only knew of the little yellow bands everyone was wearing around their wrist because it was the cool thing to do. Now with Lance Armstrong still killing the game, and Nike, well doing the same, the two have got back together for two new tech-heavy sneakers that release this Saturday as a 21 Mercer Street exclusive.
Both a LunarRacer and Lunar Everyday will drop, two sneakers that feature superior tech like Flywire and Lunarlite foam (LunarRacer) and a Nike Free Everyday upper (Lunar Everyday). Both trainers are dressed up in the black/yellow LiveStrong color scheme, so you can heavy match your Steelers jersey to ‘em. Just kidding. Check more shots of the sneakers that will help you be a bit more like Lance after the jump. $100, www.nikesportswear.com
Trek actually planned the District colorway to match our infamous Complex dugout jacket. So we think.
While going “green” isn’t always easy, a great way to reduce your carbon footprint is by riding a bicycle instead of driving. Sounds simple, but if you live in a major city, you really have no excuse not to get a bike. So what kind? The ballyhooed fixed-gear movement has become trendy recently, but consider fixed-gears the allover prints of the bicycle world. It makes better sense to invest in something like the all-new Trek District bike, which hits stores in the first week of April.
Our buddy Erik from Trek stopped by last week to give us a sneak-peek at the District, and it is a thing of beauty. But looks aside, what makes it special is that it’s Trek’s first single-speed, belt-drive (i.e. no chain) bicycle. The District has specs and parts to satisfy bicycle enthusiasts while being user-friendly enough that your mom would have no trouble riding it. Uh, pause. Every aspect of the District has been well thought-out and executed with careful attention to detail. At $929, it may cost a grip, but think of it as a lifetime investment'as long as it doesn’t get jacked. For a detailed look at the features of the District, and as a bonus, some pics of the Trek x KAWS bike for Lance Armstrong, see below…
