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Hypebeast
7 days ago
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- Hypebeast
A BATHING APE® 攜手梵谷博物館推出全新聯名系列
本文看點 A BATHING APE®與梵谷博物館 Van Gogh Museum攜手推出全新聯名系列，將精緻藝術帶入街頭時尚，以充滿活力的方式向傳奇畫家 Vincent Van Gogh 的生平與作品致敬。 系列融合 BAPE 的獨特美學與 Van Gogh 的傳奇藝術，將包括《Self-Portrait in a Gray Felt Hat》（1887）、《Blooming Plum Orchard》（1887）、《Yellow House》（1888）、《Sunflowers》（1889）、《Blooming Almonds》（1890）及《Wheat Field with Crows》（1890）等經典作品，無縫融入 BAPE 的標誌性設計。 APE HEAD 圖案化為畫布，打造按年代排序的六款 T-Shirt，呈現上述作品。經典的 Shark Hoodie 融入 Van Gogh 的藝術元素，並推出全新 OIL PAINTING CAMO 迷彩圖案，將其筆觸轉化為 BAPE 標誌性迷彩。此外系列還納入 Van Gogh 寫給弟弟 Theo 的書信摘錄，增添個人化與深層情感。 雙方共帶來長短袖 T-Shirt、圓領毛衣及 Shark Full Zip Hoodie，預計在 5 月 31 日線上發售，有興趣的讀者不妨多加留意。 >Gentle Monster 攜手 Bratz 推出全新 Pocket Collection 聯名系列 >Bryce James 配戴價值 $25 萬美元粉紅金材質 Cartier Crash Skeleton 稀有錶款
USA Today
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Why does Florida softball wear sunflowers in their hair? Gators honor Heather Braswell
Why does Florida softball wear sunflowers in their hair? Gators honor Heather Braswell Show Caption Hide Caption Hear Florida softball coach Tim Walton speak before Super Regionals vs. Georgia The No 3 seed Gators will begin their Super Regionals vs. Georgia at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium Friday at 11 a.m. Sometimes it is bigger than sports. Those are six simple words, but yet six powerful words when one takes a step back and deciphers them. After all, in times of adversity and hardship, sports tend to be a way to forget about those things and bring people (and a community) together. It's also the exact driving thought and mantra behind one of Florida softball's longest-lasting traditions: Sunflowers placed in the back of each player's hair. REQUIRED READING: NCAA softball tournament bracket, TV schedule for college softball 2025 super regionals Before you ask the question, yes, it is common to see softball players wear something in their hair. So, how is Florida wearing a sunflower hair tie any different from that? Here's what to know, as the Gators continue the Gainesville Super Regional against Georgia on Saturday and look to punch their ticket to the Women's College World Series for the third time in the past four years: Why does Florida softball wear sunflowers in their heads? The overall story behind the connection of sunflowers and Florida softball dates back to 2009. It began with a two-fold approach: former Florida pitcher Francesca Enea being involved within the Florida community and Florida native Heather Braswell signing up for the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation's Adopt-A-Child program. Then came a call to Enea, who is now one of the Gators' assistant coaches. "I got a random phone call and it was Friends of Jaclyn. They said they were so excited that we submitted a form because they have a girl in Orlando that they were ready to place with us," Enea said in "Sunflowers," a recent University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications documentary. "I was like, 'Oh I haven't even asked my coach yet.'" The Adopt-A-Child program through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation pairs kids who are dealing with pediatric brain tumors and/or other forms of childhood cancers with a high school or college sports team or club as an honorary team member. Heather was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2008 at the age of 11. Florida coach Tim Walton mentioned in the documentary that he was initially concerned about the prospect of being involved with the organization, but was swayed by Enea's pitch and the positive impact it has on the team itself. "I was a little concerned. And the concern was that you're going to put all this time and energy into a young person. The hardest pill to swallow is that this person is suffering and what does that do to a sports team," Florida coach Tim Walton said. The match between Heather and the Gators soon became a close-knit relationship, as Heather soon became a staple around the team, while the team supported Heather during her cancer treatments. One way the team supported Heather was "blowing up" her phone with texts while she was at treatments, on top of putting Twizzlers in their caps during games, which Heather would bring with her to the stadium. An added "win" to the whole relationship between Heather and Florida softball was that Heather converted over to a Gators fan from a Florida State fan. Unfortunately, the tumor and cancer came back in the same spot in January 2014 after a five-year remission. She died on March 24, 2014, 10 weeks after the diagnosis that her cancer had become terminal. "When she passed away, we used yellow as a symbol of her," former Florida pitcher Lauren Haeger said in the documentary on how the sunflowers began. "We started wearing yellow ribbons in our hair. It kind of just transitioned to a sunflower because sunflowers are yellow." In a time of challenge and mourning, Heather's spirit stayed with the Gators that season, as they rallied together and went on to win their first national championship at the Women's College World Series. Terri Braswell was in Oklahoma City to watch Florida defeat Alabama in the 2014 Women's College World Series, the first of back-to-back national championship titles for the Gators. "It's hard for me to imagine that it was just like two months after Heather died. But there was really nowhere else I would have wanted to be," Terri Braswell said in the documentary. Wearing a sunflower in their hair isn't the only way the Gators have kept Heather's legacy and love for Florida softball alive, though. In the Gators' locker room at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium in Gainesville, one of the lockers is designated for Heather and has her name engraved into it along with a "Team Heather" shirt hanging in it. Florida also hosts an annual "Yellow Game" every April, which is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, to raise money for pediatric cancer. "It was a really special time and I think that truly solidified the type of program that Florida softball was going to be from there on out," Haeger said. When does Florida softball wear sunflowers in their hair? Florida softball players wear sunflowers in their hair on Saturdays during the season in honor of Heather Braswell. The team has given it the name of "Sunflower Saturday" over the years. The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast. Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
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- Yahoo
A new podcast asks: Are ‘radical' climate activists really that radical?
In October 2022, two protesters with the group Just Stop Oil shocked the world by tossing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's iconic 'Sunflowers' in London's National Gallery. 'Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?' said one of them, Phoebe Plummer, moments after the two soup-throwers glued their hands to the wall. The painting, safely behind glass, was unharmed. But the soup-throwers were ridiculed. Piers Morgan, the British media personality, called it an act of 'childish, petty, pathetic vandalism.' Journalists and scientists warned that stunts like this would alienate people and undermine support for climate action. Just Stop Oil, however, didn't change course. They spray-painted Stonehenge with orange powder, zip-tied themselves to soccer goalposts, and blocked rush-hour traffic in London, with hundreds getting arrested. A new podcast series digs into what drove these activists to pull these shocking stunts — and whether they actually work. In 2023, Alessandra Ram and Samantha Oltman, two journalists who met at Wired over a decade ago, quit their jobs to investigate every aspect of this story, from the street blockades and court drama to the money trail that supports disruptive climate activism. After they gained trust with activists, they embedded with Just Stop Oil, at one point observing how its members get trained for police confrontations (they 'go floppy,' with their limp weight making it harder to get dragged out of the street). The podcast, 'Sabotage,' landed in Apple's top 40 podcasts and just wrapped up with its series finale last week. 'Sabotage' raises a key question: Are 'radical' climate activists really that radical? After all, the suffragettes actually slashed famous paintings, and 'Sunflowers,' despite all the uproar over the soup incident, still sits untarnished in the National Gallery. All kinds of people have gotten arrested in order to bring attention to climate change, as the podcast documents, including climate scientists and a doctor motivated by how a warmer world spreads infectious diseases. If you take a clear-eyed look at what climate change means for life on this planet, Ram and Oltman ask, what's the sane thing to do? The pair launched their production company, Good Luck Media, to 'tell stories you won't be able to stop talking about' — ones that just happen to concern climate change. As they developed the podcast, they used a litmus test to see if a particular story was worth telling: If they shared it while getting a haircut, would the stylist be into it? Their podcast goes in unexpected directions — one episode follows a love story disrupted by a prison sentence, while others explore the wealthy heirs, like Aileen Getty of the Getty oil fortune, who are giving their inheritance away to controversial climate activist groups. The podcast was co-produced by Adam McKay (the director of Don't Look Up and Succession) and Staci Roberts-Steele of Yellow Dot Studios. Convincing Just Stop Oil activists to talk wasn't easy. 'There are so many misconceptions around this group, even though they have been, especially in the U.K., covered all the time,' Ram said. 'People really just like to troll them.' The journalists slowly gained trust by approaching interviews with curiosity instead of judgment. 'What we found really fascinating as we embedded with them was understanding they're incredibly strategic, despite how almost goofy some of their stunts are,' Oltman said. The soup-throwing protest in London's National Gallery, for instance, was critiqued as nonsensical — what does attacking art have to do with climate change? — but it turns out that the absurdity was the point. Recent research by the Social Change Lab in London shows that Just Stop Oil's illogical protests get more media attention than those with a clear rationale and also lead to an increase in donations. It's part of a growing body of research that shows climate protests achieve results, even unpopular ones. Just Stop Oil's stunts appeared to work. Just two and a half years after the infamous soup-launching — and despite the United Kingdom cracking down on peaceful protests with years-long jail sentences and raiding activists' homes — Just Stop Oil has already achieved its central goal. This spring, the U.K. confirmed it was banning new drilling licenses for oil and gas. Just Stop Oil announced in March that it would be 'hanging up the hi vis,' boasting that its movement kept 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and was 'one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history.' Hundreds of protesters marched through Westminster at the end of April for the group's final action — though there's been plenty of speculation that their disruptive stunts will continue under a new name. Given Just Stop Oil's over-the-top actions, you might expect the activists to have big personalities. But Ram and Oltman found that many of the protesters they met were shy, quiet, and anxious. 'I was startled by the gulf between who these people seemed to be in their actual personality and the risks they were willing to take, particularly in the public shame and outrage front, to try to move the needle on climate change,' Oltman said. 'Sabotage' paints their stories with nuance, managing to avoid the usual media caricatures to reveal the real people behind the movement through small, vivid details. The infamous soup-throwers, for instance? The night before their demonstration, they practiced the Campbell's toss in a tiny bathroom, making a mess as they hurled tomato soup at the glass in the shower. 'I haven't been acting in a radical way by joining Just Stop Oil,' Anna Holland, one of the soup-throwers, says in the podcast. 'We're facing the extinction of everything we know and love. And the only radical thing a person could be doing right now is ignoring it.' This story was originally published by Grist with the headline A new podcast asks: Are 'radical' climate activists really that radical? on May 20, 2025.
Tatler Asia
08-05-2025
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- Tatler Asia
Mother's Day 2025: 7 well-designed gifts to honour the most important women in your life
2. cc-tapis Rebus rugs by India Mahdavi Above cc-tapis Rebus rug by Iranian-French architect and designer India Mahdavi (Photo: Instagram / @cc_tapis) Above Each rug is both artwork and object balancing abstraction and symbolism (Photo: Instagram / @cc_tapis) Bring some colour into her home with these Rebus hand-knotted rugs by cc-tapis, in collaboration with acclaimed Iranian-French architect and designer India Mahdavi. Bridging the realms of fine art and interior design, and forming a visual language that is both cryptic and playful, Mahdavi crafts a design puzzle that balances abstraction and symbolism. Don't miss: Architecture for Dogs: Innovative spaces reimagined for canine companions Above Fade effect achieved through alternation of wool threads in varied saturations (Photo: Instagram / @cc_tapis) Above Saturated colours and bold, unexpected forms offer fresh insight with every glance (Photo: Instagram / @cc_tapis) Each rug functions as both artwork and object, with translated words, phrases and ideas converging through saturated colours and bold, unexpected forms–a figurative language that invites interpretation, offering fresh insight with every glance. Produced in the cc-tapis atelier in Nepal, the Rebus collection showcases exceptional craftsmanship. Its distinctive fade effect, achieved through careful alternation of wool threads in varied saturations–resulting in a palette that is both subtle and striking. Read more: Home tour: A nature-inspired lakefront retreat in Canada blends quiet luxury with seasonal beauty 3. Lego Art Vincent Van Gogh–Sunflowers wall art set Above The Lego wall art set captures the brilliance of Van Gogh's painting in 1889 Arles (Photo: Lego) What better flowers to get your mum than those that last forever? And which blossoms speak better of permanence than Vincent Van Gogh's iconic Sunflowers ? Created in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam–which holds the world's largest Van Gogh collection, including the original Sunflowers painting–this three-dimensional buildable interpretation by Lego captures the brilliance of the work the artist painted in Arles in 1889. See also: 10 most expensive Lego Star Wars sets to bring home on Star Wars Day Photo 1 of 3 Van Gogh's iconic use of light, shade and layered yellow hues come to life (Photo: Lego) Photo 2 of 3 16 sunflowers with adjustable petals (Photo: Lego) Photo 3 of 3 A printed tile bearing Van Gogh's signature (Photo: Lego) Featuring 16 sunflowers with adjustable petals, a removable frame, a printed tile bearing Van Gogh's signature, and a hanger element for elegant wall display–see how Van Gogh's iconic use of light, shade and layered yellow hues come to life as you spend quality time with mum in constructing the 2,615-piece composition. Don't miss: Lego Art meets Van Gogh: Inside the revolutionary 'Sunflowers' design 4. Pern Baan OTS Chair by Office of Tangible Space Above A reinterpretation that blends sculptural form with artisanal process (Photo: Pern Baan) Above Bridging high-precision metalwork with traditional craftsmanship in Thailand (Photo: Pern Baan) The OTS Chair by Pern Baan–a Thai-American furniture brand founded by Robert Sukrachand–and New York–based studio Office of Tangible Space is a bold reinterpretation of the classic dining chair that blends sculptural form with artisanal process. Crafted in Thailand, a country whose design culture bridges high-precision metalwork with traditional handcraft, the chair features a powder-coated steel frame in graphic green or soft cream, and paired with a handwoven cotton cord seat and an open base that maintains a visually lightweight yet grounded presence. Read more: 7 iconic cantilever chairs that shaped modern furniture 5. Sage Living Starlight Ori side table Above Inspired by the geometric folding design of origami (Photo: Sage Living) Relive your shared childhood memories with mum with Sage Living's Starlight collection–a furniture series that draws inspiration from childhood memories of paper folding or origami. Designed by co-founders Keerthi Tummala and Ram Kabadi, the collection celebrates the magic of folded design, where clean lines and thoughtful construction evoke nostalgia–those moments when boats, cranes, and airplanes came to life through simple creases and folds. See also: Home tour: A luxurious multigenerational home near New Delhi showcasing homegrown materials Capturing the essence of origami through masterful integration of traditional Indian craftsmanship, the Ori side table features honey onyx and silver pyrite stone pieced together with Pietra Dura inlay techniques–the slicing and cutting of materials into different shape sections, before assembling back together seamlessly. Set atop highly reflective chrome legs, the geometric forms and clean lines reflect paper folding's elegant simplicity, creating a captivating illusion that is both visually intriguing and practical in functionality. Don't miss: Rikke Frost revolutionises Danish design at Carl Hansen & Søn 6. Pratesi Botanica bedding collection Above Pratesi captures the romance of the Italian countryside in bloom (Photo: Instagram / @ Above The Tre Righe hand-embroidery set against Egyptian cotton percale (Photo: Instagram / @ Designed to elevate every moment of rest for your mum, the Botanica collection by Italian luxury linen and bedding brand Pratesi captures the romance of the Italian countryside in bloom–winding buds, florals and soft dappled light. Woven by artisans in Italy, the collection features a rich tapestry of flowers set against a base of Egyptian cotton percale, evoking the timeless charm of la dolce vita . The bedding caps off on a luxurious hand-embroidered note with Pratesi's celebrated three-line embroidery–the Tre Righe , and the brand's subtle emblem nestled among the vines. Read more: 5 interior designer tips for kid-friendly bedrooms that grow with your children 7. King Living Sleep+ Mattress and bed Above Every layer of the King Living Sleep+ Mattress is engineered for customisable support, enhance airflow and wick away moisture (Photo: King Living) Exceptional rest is important to all mothers, and whether your mum prefers firm support, cloud-like softness or something in between, the modular and customisable Sleep+ Mattress by King Living may be what is needed for a restful night of uninterrupted sleep. See also: 5 ways to create a luxurious bedroom that promotes uninterrupted sleep Each component can be interchanged, allowing you to configure your ideal sleep surface–such as the Comfort Layer with five different configurations to suit your preferred sleep position and firmness level, and the mesh-encased Spring Base with KingCell pocket coil springs that provide targeted support and pressure relief. Besides that, every layer of the Sleep+ Mattress is engineered to enhance airflow and wick away moisture–not to mention, removable to clean or vacuum–creating a cool, clean sleep environment within the zipped cover. Photo 1 of 4 The King Living Horizon Bed features a floating-style platform and a grand bedhead (Photo: King Living) Photo 2 of 4 The mounting points for the side wings and smart accessories are tastefully concealed (Photo: King Living) Photo 3 of 4 The Jasper Bed is another of King Living's range of beds that blends form and function (Photo: King Living) Photo 4 of 4 The King Living Jasper Bed comes with integrated lighting, shelves, under-bed storage and wireless charging (Photo: King Living) Furthermore, complete mum's new sleeping sanctuary with King Living's range of beds that blends form and function: Horizon Bed features a floating-style platform and a grand bedhead that conceals mounting points for side wings and smart accessories, whereas the Jasper Bed comes with integrated lighting, shelves, under-bed storage and wireless charging so everything is within reach. 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Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rothko painting worth more than £42m damaged by child visiting gallery
An abstract painting thought to be worth millions of pounds has been damaged by a child at a gallery in the Netherlands. The painting 'Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8' by artist Mark Rothko was housed at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. However, it appears a young visitor got a little too close to the masterwork and touched it. The museum told The Independent the artwork had 'sustained superficial damage', which included 'small scratches' in the lower part of the painting. 'We are currently researching the next steps for the treatment of the painting,' the statement said. No information was provided about the possible cost of restoring the artwork, and no pictures of the damage were released. 'We expect that the work will be able to be shown again in the future,' the museum added. A spokesperson for the museum told Dutch media outlet Algemeen Dagblad on Friday that the damage occurred during an 'unguarded moment.' The artwork is estimated to be worth up to €50m (£42.5m), according to the Dutch newspaper. Another Rothko painting was defaced in 2012 while on display in London's Tate Modern museum. 'Black on Maroon' was part of a series originally commissioned by the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York, which was housed in the Seagram Building, a celebrated modernist skyscraper on Park Avenue. Artist Wlodzimierz Umaniec vandalised the painting in the name of his Yellowist movement. He was jailed for two years. And last year, London's National Gallery made the 'unfortunate decision' to ban liquids in the wake of a spate of attacks by activists on its artworks. 'Unfortunately, we have now reached a point where we have been forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection,' the National Gallery said in a statement on Thursday. 'From 10am on Friday October 18 2024, no liquids can be brought into the National Gallery, except for baby formula, expressed milk and prescription medicines.' It cited paintings including Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, John Constable's The Hay Wain and Velazquez's Rokeby Venus among those targeted in 'five separate attacks on iconic paintings'.
