The Complex Guide to Camo

Ron Arad's all-steel bike wheels, inside Juggalo culture, an in-depth look at camo and more in this week's look at the web

Culled by Maharishi founder Hardy Blechman from his book Disruptive Pattern Material, this guide breaks down the military staple into the 25 patterns used most widely in modern dress. In his Forward, men’s fashion pundit Nick Wooster sums it up as “the perfect uniform, you can wear camo in any application and it is always right.”

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Films to watch next, sexy electrics, brain sculptures and more in this week's look at the web

1. Below the Brain Our creative friends M ss ng P eces recently pointed us to this experimental film documenting the 2010 Caribbean Carnival in Flatbush, Brooklyn estimated to be the U.S.’s largest parade. 2. Telluride Film Festival A.O. Scott’s great piece gives an in-depth run down of some of the films from this year’s Telluride Film Festival. “The Show” always features some serious talent …

Nike Mag

The future arrives in the present with a charity auction of 1500 pairs of long-coveted sneakers

Twenty-two years ago a film about time travel gave us a glimpse of the now not-too-distant future. The 1989 Back to the Future sequel looked forward to 2015, capturing the imaginations of kids like us who dreamed of one day riding their own hover board in self-lacing sneakers like Marty McFly. Those sneakers, a concept created by Nike’s own design head Tinker Hatfield alongside the …