Watch NYC’s working heroes throw in the towel (or the messenger bike, the chalk, the cab keys) and get together for a little soccer in this likable short doc-style film from Yves Wilson. Sniff sniff. Can’t smell any corporate sponsorship on this one, so go ahead and enjoy it without feeling like you’re watching a commercial disguised as a video.
With the world still caring about soccer for a little longer, the people at the Annenberg Foundation couldn’t have chosen a better time to unveil their latest project for Africa. Although it may look like a typical ‘street soccer’ field (or “pitch” if outside the U.S.), it’s not just for playing matches and doubles as an “innovative rainwater harvesting system.” PITCH:AFRICA was designed to collect and filter rainwater for human consumption in areas facing water shortages.
Part video art, part performance, this video piece is a shot-by-shot, act-by-act re-enactment replica of the 1982 World Cup match between France and Germany. Artist Pied La Biche’s Refait reconstructs the last 15 minutes of the match, moving it from the field to dusty urban patches and into nets full of exhaust, with side-by-side gestures in an eerie echo. At least there are no vuvuzelas.
Queens Museum has soccer fever and any aspiring photogs should cash in on it! Now accepting submissions via Flickr, Queens Museum will snag and display the best photos of people playing soccer in the surrounding Flushing Meadows Corona Park to be displayed in their “Future Gallery” for the upcoming sports photography exhibit. Snap.
Following his recent stint in New York, Madrid-based street artist Spy pulled off a spoilsport intervention, bricking over a soccer goal in Spain and rendering the court unusable. |Ekosystem|
Watch as these soccer fans maintain the time honored tradition of acting fucking crazy and they’re not even in the stadium yet. From what we can piece together from Google translate, about 2,000 supporters from opposing teams converged outside the Monumental Stadium in Lima, Perui before a game on Sunday. Both sides became especially angered when the police arrived to stop them from throwing rocks at each other. They quickly found a common enemy and for 30 minutes battled the law, sending nine officers to the hospital and miraculously leading to only eight arrests. |LaVozdeGalicia|
For the most part, soccer is a boring ass sport to watch and scientists might have the reason why. It has to do with monotony: “Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have found that football has changed so little during recent World Cups that, if shown action from matches, we would be incapable today of differentiating between a France ’98 game and another from Germany ’06.” Yet, somehow it remains to be one of the world’s most popular sports—U.S. not included. Are the liquor soaked crowds chanting wildly really that entertaining? OK, yes there are, but still… |Science Daily|
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