“Yeah. I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I’d been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn’t happen overnight. My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. . . It’s kind of a drug, a rush. But that’s just how I was as a kid . . . It’s funny, because Cus was always saying that Ali was better than anybody because he controlled his emotions and his fears. Ali was just an emotional juggernaut.”
In the spirit of the World Series, the New York Public Library has put together a great selection of photographs of New York and Philadelphia’s baseball teams from the late 19th and early 20th century. If only baseball players of today had to wear the uniforms of yore. Ha! Collars for all. See the entire set here
Have you seen him? Danny MacAskill is a Scottish freestyle BMX, Trail rider sponsored by Inspired Bicycles Ltd. This video was released in April of this year. All I have to say is its sick!
Truth be told, The Enablist has never been on a ski mountain in his life. If I ever was to go on one, I would probably ride a snowboard down the hill and this would be the snowboard I would ride. Monument x Richard Colman. Boo ya. I also like the fact that Monument has DC’s flag as its web icon, Chocolate City.
Apparently grenades and dynamite have gotten too easy to use when fishing. Enter Extreme Aerial Bowfishing, looks pretty awesome. Check out NY Times for a video etc.
A collaboration for Pharrell Williams by Brooklyn Machine Works and Domeau & Pérès. I still can’t figure out where to ride it though? In a warehouse? Arizona? Or just perfect 72 & Sunny kind of days?
I don’t know where to begin except to just paste these details below about the Shepard Fairey x Michael Jordan x Upper Deck Print Collection.
“The initial offering consisting of just the high-end, 26” x 36” silk-screened master prints signed by both Jordan and Fairey (limited to 50 versions each) for $4,499.99 collectively. For anyone who purchases the three-part master print series, they will receive the same edition number in the limited-to-50 series for each print (UNC, Bulls and the HOF induction). Additionally, on Sept 17th the three-part sets signed by Fairey-only, which also measure 26” wide x 36” high and are limited to 123 apiece, go on sale for $1,349.99 collectively.
On Sept 22nd, individual versions of the dual-signed master prints will go on sale for $1,499.99 each, with the Fairey-only signed versions also being made available for $499.99 apiece. Lastly, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, an 18” wide x 24” high Fairey-signed print that’s limited to 523 will be made available. Complete sets of the three single-signed, 18″ x 24″ prints will retail for $215.99 each with individual pieces listed for $79.99.”
