Professional skateboarder Stefan Janoski wouldn’t compromise when it came to designing his signature shoe with Nike. After several iterations the sportswear giant caved and let him have his way. The result? One of the best-selling skate shoes in history and a silhouette beloved by collectors and skaters alike. This intimate look at Janoski’s career from French magazine Desillusion, gives an artistic portrayal of Janoski’s transition …
The Nobel Prize winners have been announced for 2014 and, in the category of physics, a trio of Japanese scientists (one who is now a US citizen) have been honored for inventing the blue light-emitting diode 20 years ago. While green and red diodes have been around for around 50 years, it took much longer to develop a diode that could emit blue light—which was …
Back in 1975, photographer Nicholas Nixon snapped a photograph of his wife and her three sisters. A year later, an opportunity presented itself for him to line them up in the same way and snap another—an event that has since gone on annually for the past 40 years. The New York Times recently revealed the latest in the series, and all of the photos will …
