Beautiful balls
by Cem Basman
German artist, bora.herke, has created 32 footballs representing each of the qualifying countries in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The cultural references in each are perhaps a little clichéd and in some instances a touch offensive (I'm sure Sweden has more to offer the world than Ikea) but together they are a nice collection and have merited some shelf space at the Colette store in Paris.
[via 30gms]
Tags: 2006 FIFA world+cup football
Comments
Speaking of soccer balls:
This week I read that the price for a soccer ball rose from 60 to 200 Swiss Francs within the last decade or so. At the same time I heard on the radio that the Asian workers sewing the balls get 80 cents for every ball they finish. It makes me nauseous even to think where the rest of the money goes.
Since the headlines here at vowe are sometimes intentionally misleading... Shame on me ;)
Sascha, most of these intentionally ambiguous headlines are in fact from me - so shame on me ;)
PS: My first intention btw, was "Got balls!" - but than I dropped the line ;)
I imagine a camouflage ball like this one would finally make soccer entertaining. For me :)
Post a comment
Recent comments
Volker Weber
on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 22:00
Chris Linfoot
on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 21:57
Jan-Piet Mens
on Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! at 21:39
Marco Klop
on Synchronizing iPhone with ... Lotus Notes at 18:55
sunny gerscky
on Pwnage 2.0 released at 16:00
Tobias Lange
on Remember, it's always the cable at 13:16
Volker Weber
on Remember, it's always the cable at 12:21
Ian White
on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:56
Andy Brunner
on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:37
Ben Rose
on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:33
Ben Poole
on It has only been less than two hours at 09:44
Frank L. Quednau
on It has only been less than two hours at 09:29
Martin Hiegl
on It has only been less than two hours at 08:27
Stephan H. Wissel
on Notes.ini parameter RunFaster=1 is finally here at 05:24
Volker Weber
on It has only been less than two hours at 01:33
Thomas "Duffbert" Duff
on It has only been less than two hours at 01:26
Chris Linfoot
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 21:56
Yancy Lent
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 19:48
Bruce Elgort
on Robin Bloor: Why Google Chrome Will Dominate at 18:51
Mac Guidera
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 16:04
Kevan Emmott
on 824 Chrome users so far today at 15:56
Chris Linfoot
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 14:54
Lars Berntrop-Bos
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 13:12
Andreas Braukmann
on 824 Chrome users so far today at 11:33
Nick Daisley
on Robin Bloor: Why Google Chrome Will Dominate at 10:14
Click here to subscribe
