Bread City Basketball http://breadcity.org ART AND BASKETBALL Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/a660ad61cee2b30e346a79768c91e017?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Bread City Basketball http://breadcity.org SIGGI EGGERTSSON QUILT http://breadcity.org/2009/07/04/siggi-eggertsson-quilt/ http://breadcity.org/2009/07/04/siggi-eggertsson-quilt/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:34:09 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.org/?p=1027 ]]>

Siggi Eggertsson’s “Childhood Quilt” is the jam. It was his graduation project for the Iceland Academy of Arts in 2006, and was featured in Athletes, a Barcelona solo exhibition circa 2007. The quilt is based on his childhood memories, and is made out of 10,000 pieces.

I’m feeling the object itself, which is probably the most badass quilt ever. But what I dig even more is the idea that we live in a world where a basketball player in Chicago made a such dominating impression on a little kid 3,000 miles away in a small town on the Northern coast of Iceland. That’s why this is my 4th of July post. GO AMERICAN CULTURE!


thanks Olivia!

]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/07/04/siggi-eggertsson-quilt/feed/ 0 Cliff MICHAEL JORDAN ART QUILT, OBVIOUSLY NAVAJO SWASTIKA BASKETBALL http://breadcity.org/2009/06/23/navajo-swastika-basketball/ http://breadcity.org/2009/06/23/navajo-swastika-basketball/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:32:43 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.org/?p=1025 ]]>

The all-native basketball team in the photo below was balling back in 1909, which explains the swastika unis. Scholars agree that the symbol comes from India, but it is also a part of American Indian culture. For the Navajo Nation, the swastika represents the legend of the Whirling Logs. The story is about a journey down a river in a hollowed out tree. It involves multiple Gods, and a pet turkey with a lot of personality.

The important thing is that the Whirling Logs legend is a part of the Night Chant, a nine day long ceremonial performance considered the most sacred of all Navajo ceremonies. It is a healing ritual that is performed to both cure the sick, and to restore order and balance to the universe.

Sans swastikas, basketball is still fanatically popular amongst American Indians, but the group has long been severely underrepresented in college ball. Why? Because Division I and II scouts are only allowed to attend high school tournaments that are NCAA certified. Until recently, NCAA certification rules stated that all teams must reside in the same state as a given tournament. This made it impossible for American Indian high schools to participate in any certified tournament, because tribal citizens are technically not state residents.

The NCAA made an exception to this rule in 2007, and this year’s NCAA certified Native American Basketball Invitational, a showcase for high school age teams, will take place in Phoenix, July 7-11.

]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/06/23/navajo-swastika-basketball/feed/ 2 Cliff NAVAJO BASKETBALL 1909 SUMMER: IT’S OFFICIAL! http://breadcity.org/2009/06/13/summer/ http://breadcity.org/2009/06/13/summer/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:07:54 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.wordpress.com/?p=616 ]]>

Hot long purple
purple nights
here we come.


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by Jeff Shaw

]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/06/13/summer/feed/ 0 Cliff BASKETBALL SUMMER SEASON KOBE TOWEL FACIAL http://breadcity.org/2009/06/06/kobe-facial/ http://breadcity.org/2009/06/06/kobe-facial/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:00:51 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.wordpress.com/?p=835 ]]>

Wait for it. Clip gets slowmotion classic about 17 seconds in. A perfect video companion to your NBA Finals.
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The Norman Einsteins is a new monthly online sports magazine that launched yesterday, and looks like it could be the start of something awesome. It also features an article I wrote about the Orlando Magic, Lebron James, and French Renaissance painting. Act like you know.

]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/06/02/launching-the-norma-einsteins/feed/ 0 Cliff SPORTS & ROCKET SCIENCE UPPER WEST SIDE, 2005 http://breadcity.org/2009/05/28/upper-west-side-poem/ http://breadcity.org/2009/05/28/upper-west-side-poem/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 04:41:48 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.wordpress.com/?p=790 ]]>

up on riverside and ninety-five
sidewalk heat
3 bags of lye
2 girls on a stoop
waiting for the bus
1 had a tennis racket
so we lit up the dutch.


photo by AC Berkheiser
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]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/05/28/upper-west-side-poem/feed/ 0 Cliff NEW YORK CITY SUMMER GET ALONG TO GET ALONG http://breadcity.org/2009/05/22/get-along-to-get-along/ http://breadcity.org/2009/05/22/get-along-to-get-along/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 04:47:15 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.org/?p=1039 ]]>

On the private internet investigator tip, unearthing betrayal, infidelity, and double-crossing wherever whenever. Knicks fans shouldn’t wear Bulls jerseys.

]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/05/22/get-along-to-get-along/feed/ 0 Cliff SPIKE LEE BULLS JERSEY TRAITOR ROBES http://breadcity.org/2009/05/18/robes/ http://breadcity.org/2009/05/18/robes/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:59 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.wordpress.com/?p=878 ]]>

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]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/05/15/triangles/feed/ 2 Cliff DIRECTIONS FOR LA GEAR COMMERCIAL http://breadcity.org/2009/05/10/la-gear/ http://breadcity.org/2009/05/10/la-gear/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 06:18:10 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.wordpress.com/?p=402 ]]>

Take some some sunshine, some tank tops, some LA Gear. Take two people. Have them pretend to have fun while pretending to play basketball while not knowing how to play basketball. Have them hop back and forth with the ball, blatantly traveling. Have them regress into childhood. The playground bully goes through the motions but does not know how to get what he wants. The girl-next-door knows how not to give it to him. This guy will never call her out on double-dribbling. Have them dance. Have them not pretend to not know how to play basketball.  Take a theme song. LA Gear. LA Gear. You’ve got the moovvves. LA Gear.

Sneaker Fact: Karl Malone rocked these.


]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/05/10/la-gear/feed/ 1 Cliff g la-gear-commercial-1988 La Gear Commercial OHIO SLANG, CIRCA 2006 http://breadcity.org/2009/04/30/ohio-2006/ http://breadcity.org/2009/04/30/ohio-2006/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:44:14 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.wordpress.com/?p=518 ]]>

holding packs of crayons/
we call that burnt sienna/
cleveland browns bandanna/
my ferrari antenna/

]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/04/30/ohio-2006/feed/ 0 Cliff HELLO OHIO SPRING! http://breadcity.org/2009/04/23/spring/ http://breadcity.org/2009/04/23/spring/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:42:00 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.wordpress.com/?p=508 ]]>

LOVE AND DUNKING IS IN THE AIR.


by Heather Noelle Costigan
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]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/04/23/spring/feed/ 0 Cliff BASKETBALL BOUQUET BIG THINGS GOING DOWN http://breadcity.org/2009/04/19/bread-city-update/ http://breadcity.org/2009/04/19/bread-city-update/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:39:51 +0000 Jake http://breadcity.org/?p=996 ]]>

1)  We are now BREADCITY.ORG! A.K.A. the Billy Baldwin of this blog game. Subscribers don’t need to change anything, but for everyone else the new RSS feed is here.

2)  There are links to Arabic/Catalan/Chinese/Hebrew/Thai translations of this website in the sidebar, below “Today’s Top Posts.” Get familiar…

Back to the streets.

]]> http://breadcity.org/2009/04/19/bread-city-update/feed/ 1 Cliff BILLY BALDWIN VS. KNICKS CITY DANCERS