I haven’t listened to this one yet, but given their track record so far, I’m pretty sure this one is rocking. Check the details below….

Sparkle Motion (aka DJ Yoda & TOBE$) are back with more synthesized chonkyfire to take you higher and higher!

On the return flight from Vol. 1, the duo is back with another hour 80’s R&B breaks, from uptempo boogies to slow drag joints you used to straight groove to, hip-to-hip with a honeydip who smelled just like TCB and watermelon Jolly Ranchers. I asked TOBE$ for a tracklisting and real brilliant-like, he told me “No tracklist; trust us.” And with that, I’m decided to let the pilot fly the plane and do the damn thang.

Let this hold you down until the follow-ups of New Jack City and Slow Jamz arrive, as well as a new series. Miracle Blendz

Download it here: Sparkle Motion – Flight School, Volume Two Mixtape.

…via TSS.

By the time the Yankees rushed the field to celebrate their 27th World Series victory, Robert Caplin had photographed the action — 12,000 times. The result is a romantic and captivating time-lapse presentation.

Mr. Caplin used three cameras to shoot that night so that he would have enough footage to “properly capture the narrative of the evening”; a narrative of ice melting into hot dogs, the greasy glass of a popcorn cart, the rise and the fall of the fans.

Much of the game was photographed with a tilt-shift lens, rendering the players as smudges of chalk pastel in a children’s book illustration.

Mr. Caplin, who is just 26, said he wanted the montage to seem as if it had been made a hundred years ago — “You know when you look back at old movie footage and they were cranking it? And it was really jumpy and slightly faster than normal?” The game is played to Chopin’s Waltz No. 5, a score Mr. Caplin chose to complement the antique sensibility of the piece.

An accomplished photographer (see this Q & A on The Frugal Traveler), Mr. Caplin worked as an intern at The Times in 2005.

via NYT Lens Blog.

Amazing and hilarious all at once.

A heads up to anyone in the area, and Tim Burton fans in general, MOMA will begin a 6-month exhibition of his art, starting on 11/22. Check the info below…

This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton’s career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchbooks, and cartoons. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as a spiritual experience, influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics.

For more info, check MOMA.org.

I will never get tired of seeing space photography. Seeing something like this makes my day, really. For the full size, hi-res image, click here.

And for something i actually meant to post here a few weeks back, a shot of Earth and Jupiter, taken from Mars, click here.

What’s better than throwing a no hitter when you’re gone off LSD?

An animated video about the story. Check out the awesome video, via NO MAS and James Blagden, below…

Check out a less entertaining version of the story after the jump…

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I’ve been seeing early prototypes of these on the nets for the last few weeks, but I was hoping the final product would look a lot different. That didn’t happen, so I have to ask, am I wrong for thinking these are horrible? Check the video on the new Jordan 2010, featuring designers Tinker Hatfield and Mark Smith, below…

Apprently, I’m not the only one who’s thinking this way.

Check out a few more images of the shoe after the jump…

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I’m not gonna front and act like i was thirst for pumps when they dropped 20 (Really? Has it really been that long? I’m getting old man…) but I definably respect the fact that they’ve been apple to keep their legacy going for so long.

I’m obviously not the only who who recognizes this, as Reebok as teamed up with some of today’s biggest names to celebrate their iconic brand’s birth and London’s Spine TV produced and directed a short film that chronicles the anniversary.

The feature film drops at the end of this month. In the meantime here is the first of four short clips, this one featuring Boston’s own Bodega…

I’ll get the others up as soon as they’re available. In the meantime, check out more info at Spine TV or Pump20.com.

I knew that two brothers started Adidas & Puma, but had no idea that there was a 60-year family feud behind that whole story. Now, after all this time, the two companies have squashed the beef, in the name of world peace. Check the details below, Courtesy of NYT…

A war that began one day in 1948, with a bitter falling out that divided a community into two rival camps, finally came to an end this week after six decades with a symbolic handshake on a day devoted to world peace.

We are not, unfortunately, talking about this handshake, or the Arab-Israeli conflict, but about the mysterious falling out between two German brothers, Adi and Rudolf Dassler, who dissolved their successful family sneaker business 61 years ago, set up rival sneaker companies, Adidas and Puma, on opposite sides of a river in the small Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, and refused to speak to one another for the rest of their lives. …

Check out a video on the whole story and the full NYT article here: Truce in Six-Decade Sneaker War.

Nothing more to say than that, really.

Props to Ian on this one.