Memos from December 2008

Inspiration — Sipho Mabona Origami

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Sipho Mabona

Ever won­der what else you can do with paper that you just trash and/or shred? Well— take a look at Sipho Mabona’s cre­ativ­ity and be amazed by his art.

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Here’s an award-winning project he did for ASICS, Origami In the Pur­suit of Per­fec­tion.1

Check out more of his cre­ations via his port­fo­lio site, or his Flickr pho­to­stream.

  1. The movie won a Grand Prix at the Eurobest, gold at the New York fes­ti­val, gold at the Lon­don Inter­na­tional Awards, sil­ver at the Clio in Miami and two times bronze at ADC Germany.

    Direc­tor: Tim Schier­wa­ter (Nord­pol+ Ham­burg)
    Art Direc­tor: Sean Kirby (Nord­pol+ Ham­burg)
    Pro­ducer: Flo­rian Liertz (elemente-e Pro­duc­tion)
    Ani­ma­tion: André Junker, Chrisof­fer Wolters (Nform)
    Stop­mo­tion: Kathrin Albers, Jim Lacy (Stop­trick)
    Origami Artist: Sipho Mabona / Mabona Origami [↩]

Jackie Robinson Steals Home

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Jackie Robin­son Steals Home, orig­i­nally uploaded by stechico.

One of the pri­mary rea­sons why I’ve grown to love the Dodgers.

Base­ball World Series

Sub­way Series: Brook­lyn Dodger Jackie Robin­son charg­ing wildy fr. 3rd base as unwary NY Yan­kee catcher Yogi Berra squats behind Dodger bat­ter dur­ing Jackie’s steal of home plate in the 8th inning of the 1st game of the World Series at Yan­kee Stadium.

Loca­tion: New York, NY, US
Date taken: Sep­tem­ber 28, 1955
Pho­tog­ra­pher: Ralph Morse

This photo is from the LIFE photo archive hosted Google here. It’s very nice of them to do this as more peo­ple can reflect back to the great images that Life has taken over the years.

Keri Hilson

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Keri Hilson

Keri Hil­son be bustin’ out songs lately w/ dope pro­duc­ers such as Tim­ba­land. Here’s her EPK:

If you don’t know, now you know… Con­tinue reading →

AKQA Holiday Greeting

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Here’s a sick Hol­i­day greet­ing from AKQA.1

  1. AKQA is an inde­pen­dent agency with 700+ employ­ees and offices through­out the USA, Europe and Asia. An ideas-led agency, AKQA works in part­ner­ship with brand lead­ers to deliver inno­va­tion. In 2008 AKQA has received Agency of the Year hon­ors from Adver­tis­ing Age, Adweek and SHOOT Mag­a­zines and was included in Adver­tis­ing Age’s “A-List” as well as Fast Company’s Fast 50, fea­tur­ing the world’s 50 most inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies. Clients include Nike, Visa, Xbox, Coca-Cola and Tar­get, among oth­ers. [↩]
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