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buildingshitwithcrab · 7 years ago

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Something I’ve meant to get pictures of for a while: an endless sea of shadowboxes. There are honestly two more, to the right of the green one, but my Regulator clock is blocking the bigger one at the moment and it’s only holding a few 80s plastic stampers, and the small one has my previously-pictured mini rollerskate collection.

The second-pictured shadowbox and the blocked one look almost identical, and both have been in my family for literally as long as I can remember. All of the others were thrifted, one way or another.

The first pic is the biggest outlier of things that weren’t thrifted: the Li’l Me Valerie doll (barely visible, on the far left,) the Grand Champions mini horses, everything MLP, the Hello Kitty Squinkies, most of the Shopkins jars, and the polymer clay cat (which I made.) The trucks have all been found at the Goodwill outlet. My dad had a long career as a semi driver, my mom was his that-was-her-job-too driving partner for a while, one of my old jobs was sorting paperwork & receipts for trucker reimbursement and I still have all the truck trading cards they’d send in for the sorters, and it’s just something I never lose a satellite interest in. If I find another shadowbox or rack for the jars, that one will probably be taken over by more trucks, eventually. I’m at least trying to keep it to vintage metal ones, or models with something that moves or opens. That helps trim numbers more than you’d think. I like the late 70s/early 80s semis best, anyhow.

The second pic is an ode to me being a sucker. I’m not expressly a fan of Garfield, Snoopy, Smurfs, nor Frozen, but I absolutely am a fan of 80s stuff, 80s Happy Meal toys, and ice & crystal castles. Everything visible here, except for the shadowbox, itself, was thrifted. Even the Barbie legs, sticking out of the box to the right. My family used to have a 90% complete collection of those gumball machine football helmets, but god only knows what happened to them all, between moves. All that remains is the Bengals helmet, from before it was redesigned to the stripes, and if we were going to keep one specifically, that would be the one. And now this Broncos one, that came out of a grab bag. I really have no interest in Denver, but 9-year-old me liked the Broncos because horse, so it’s weirdly the helmet 80s-me would’ve wanted the most to find.

The log cabin is effing adorable, and looked so much better just after letting it soak in a wipe-down of furniture oil. I think it’s meant as a display for some line of gift shop figurines, but I can’t remember what the back labels says and I’m not taking it down to find out. I’ve had the Avon flower girl since like ‘83, I made the clam, and I think the green bird came from Target, years ago. The puffball things are souvenirs of the USAF’s 40th anniversary in 1987, which is appropriate since the Air Force museum lives in the same town that I do. The best bits are the connected line of bunnies, which my friend @evil-robot-cat sent me for Christmas, and the don’t-ask-me-how matching line of chickens that I found a couple months later at the outlet. Not something I ever expected to have a sort-of pair of, but it makes me happy that I do.

The green shadowbox used to be pink, and is probably as old as my white ones. I’ve never seen another hexagon yet. It’s hard to describe how tiny some of this stuff is, but the green thing in the lower left is a 30′ tape measure, and the yellow hotrod car is a Micro Machine. E.T. is not a full two inches tall. The Miss Piggy used to be a keychain fob, and was a prize from the now-gone Americana amusement park in southwest Ohio. She’s always has red hair. I’m not sure why. The white box to her left is supposed to be for kids to take home a tooth lost at the dentist’s (no tooth included, luckily.) Tiny, tiny shit.

The last shadowbox is just tiny, thrifted dinosaurs. The pink frame is 1″x2″. I don’t collect every dinosaur I come across at the outlet, but the tiny and/or oddly painted ones seem to need a home the most, and find their way into the box.

#miniatures #shadowboxes #80s toys #thrift store #miniature pottery #crab collects A LOT #but everything seen here didn't cost a whole thirty dollars over thirty-plus years #and i think that makes my tons of miniature shit not so bad

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kasperstromman · 7 years ago

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Kasper Stromman Designs Summer House of the Future for Artek Summer Exhibition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6/6/2018 Artek gazes into the future in summer exhibition – Kasper Stromman envisions summer house of year 2020

In this year’s summer exhibition Artek takes a bold leap into the future. Company also shows fearlessness by letting Kasper Stromman try his hands at being an architect.

Tradition dictates that living conditions at the Finnish summer house should be as close as possible to those of one’s parents childhood. However, as time goes on this level of comfort is bound to rise. And more importantly – lately more and more people have come to appreciate the comfort of a dish washing machine. But if we for moment gaze into the future, what will our holiday homes look like in the faraway year of 2020? Stromman’s Mokki 2020 concept gives an educated guess.

Rooted in a time honoured tradition of experimental houses Mokki 2020 follows an ancient tradition of experimental houses by completely abandoning traditional ways of building that has worked well over centuries, and instead creates something new based on theoretical knowledge, childish enthusiasm and unfounded confidence. This is why Mokki 2020 has abandoned eaves, and is built on no sort of foundation. Indeed it is almost like the ”architect” has decided that the moist, swampy ground will not cause any problems. In addition to this Mokki 2020 is also definitely too small, in a fashionable micro cabin sort of way. The only sensible solution of the building would in fact be the pent roof, but even this can in no way be considered jaw droppingly exceptional. But Mokki 2020 looks great, which is enough. Conserving the DNA of summer houses In an ideal world architecure is a practise that combines mathematics with passion. That is why Mokki 2020 incorporates many of the architectural traits that have become synonyms with the Finnish summer house experience. The interior relies heavily on too short beds, which we all know is a beloved feature of the finnish mokki experience. You see, some things are just to deeply rooted to be messed around with. An insane amount of electrical sockets Noone has probably missed the fact that different gadgets requiring charging have increased exponentially in recent years. Mokki 2020 takes this into consideration as well as foreseeing the future by installing a ludicrous amount of electrical oulets throughout the little holiday home. This may feel excessice now, but is sure to come in handy in the future when each family member needs to charge their electric toothbrush and personal drone at the same time. No more roaring fire place We have all basked in the friendly glow of a log fire at some point. But if you have been following the news at all, you should know that burning wood is now a source of lethal micro particles, and should be avoided at all cost. This is why the (pent) roof of Mokki 2020 is completely covered in solar panels. This is of course also a necessity, due to the insane amount of power sockets. But hey, that off-road Segway is not going to charge itself, will it? Cooking also gets a make over If you have ever been to a park, you know that grilling is definitely not out of fashion. But deep inside everyone understands this is in fact not an effective nor practical way of preparing your food. However, a futuristic alternative already exists today, and is in use in literally millions of kitchens around the world as we speak: microwaves. Mokki 2020 wants to reclaim this futuristic and practical method of cooking. Pling goes the future. Recreational clothing also gets an overhaul What do a damp sweater with holes in it, neon ski jacket from the 80s and three quarter lenght trousers for men have in common? They are all totally acceptable items of clothing at the Finnish summer house. There is no reason why this needs to be the case though. Because if Kasper Stromman gets his way, we all will be wearing practical boiler suits in the future, which will solve the problem of keeping warm while at the same time holding mosquitos at bay. This is a necessity as everyone knows there will always be that one person who insists on sitting outside, although it is freezing cold. But as stated earlier – some traditions are just too deeply rooted to be changed. Kasper Stromman was elected Finnish Graphic Designer of the Year in 2013. Thanks to this project he also now worringly considers himself some sort of architect. Kasper thinks the summer house experience is best enjoyed when it has been taken indoors into a central Helsinki furniture show room.

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nimrodinked · 4 years ago

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The Chill of Home, Imperfect as it Is

With the season finally bringing snow to my area, I've been thinking, more prevalently than usual, about an old title I used to play back when you had to buy it. A game about brothers in the old times, fighting in the canadian wilderness to protect their sister. It's called Sangfroid: Tales of Werewolves, a game about setup and execution where you lay traps and defenses for the night of unholy terrors ahead, and beat the ever-loving hell out of all manner of folklore creatures, from werewolves to wendigos.

I don't think I'll be talking much on the story, it's very straightforward with a twist at the end that, to my knowledge, never led to a sequel. Instead I think it'd be quite a bit more enjoyable to talk about actual gameplay, one of the many aspects I think this game shines in. It is, all in all, a fairly simple affair, having a basic attack string and a special 'rage' attack to unleash once you've caused enough damage. In addition, the player, whoever they pick as their protagonist, has a rifle with a simple aided aiming system that both makes shots forgiving, and rewards accuracy with higher damage on properly aimed headshots. That's the extent of the fighting proper, but the game is about more than brawling with wolfmen in the woods. You get a preparation time before nightfall, getting exact information on waves and pathing so you can lay traps in the way of enemies. Your tools expand as you play, starting with simple bear traps and hanging rockfalls, building up to auto-attacking sacred trees and sniper crows nests allowing you to zipline quickly across the map. It all gets quite hectic, and the game shines quite nicely, especially on hard mode, which in itself is a welcome little change.

Rather than having a static character and scaling difficulty, players choose either easy or hard mode at the beginning of the game. A rather entertaining lore twist, 'easy' mode sees you playing as Jos, the younger brother blessed with a freakishly large build and Paul Bunyon-esque endurance. He's built like a truck and hits just as hard, capable of easily tangling toe-to-toe with werewolves and tougher enemies solo, freeing up more time in preparation mode to make money with log-cutting and spend on bought traps like black powder barrels. The harder mode sees you playing Jacques, the older of the two brothers and all around adventurous mountain man, now retired to a quiet life in the countryside at his log cabin. Jacques isn't blessed with his brothers strength, meaning while he can, if cleverly executed, kill a werewolf one to one, the encounter will eave most damaged and out of stamina for the next fight. So naturally, Jacques requires players to plan more carefully and set up a plan that will ideally be executed without an axe swung at an enemy, baiting groups of rabid wolves into spike pits and bear trapping Maikan shapeshifters under hanging rocks to crush them. Jacques makes you engage the game on a smarter level, forcing you to make elaborate plans and backups, rather than just wading thigh-deep into furry growling monsters.

With the constant evolving of traps usable, the expanding list of foes and their unique abilities, upgrading your gear and balancing out having holy armaments for unholy killing and silver for Maikan slaying, not to mention the skill upgrade system that augments your traps and combat abilities, not to mention that, to add additional difficulty, the area you have to protect gets larger and more difficult to traverse, it's a canadian sledload of tools and challenges to test your mettle. Not to mention the final boss, which, without spoilers, is magically hidden from sight and requires you to use every trick up your sleeve to triumph.

Gameplay isn't the only thing that makes me love this game, in fact there's not much I really dislike about my experience going back. The voice acting is, while at times a little on the corny side, in major part believable and enjoyable. The character models are a bit odd at times, though it's mostly the underused shopkeepers that look the most like unfinished models. Jos, Jacques, and their little sister all look very nice, and even the rather hellish model of the Devil (yes he shows up, rather immediately in the story in fact) looks good enough to pass. It's a shame then that there's a few 'off' bits in the game, mainly the axe models. The axes themselves lok very nice, but they're quite upscaled, to the point that the head is larger than the character models own noggin. That, and the character portrait for Jacques. I don't know who drew it, but I'd very much like to hunt them down and ask them why they think single-fire muskets possessed ACOG sniper scopes back in the day. Silly things, nitpicks really, and I only point them out because they're generally the exception to an otherwise fantastic direction.

Topping all of this off, the music. My word, the music. Exactly the kind of high-pulse, frenetic canadian pieces you'd expect of the locale, with musical stings to alert you when enemies have caught your scent or a new wave is spawning. Coupled with softer, more somber pieces during daytime shopping and planning, it's all a great accompaniment to your brawling and scheming. So, the game's great, what's the catch, where does it get awful or fall flat? Well, nowhere so grevious, though I do have a single major issue with how things are paced. Mainly the tutorials. They're very helpful if you haven't played the game before, but for me, who only really needed a touch-up on knowledge, the agonizing slowness of every new mechanic does grate, if only a bit. That's only for repeat players mind you, it was as I recall a lovely little learning experience seeing the videos drop down and a friendly, Gabe Newell-esque man teach me the intricacies of the wall of flames.

So, Sangfroid, a game I love, and started playing again. It's got a lot of love poured into it, has a satisfying gameplay loop that'll always keep you wanting to move one day further, and, best of all, as far as I've seen, it's free on steam. It went free to play a long while ago, and seeing how they didn't add any micro-pay oddities into the formula, I think this is a case of the dev team wanting to get their labor of love out to all the people they could, a notion which, if true, would be a nice sentiment. As far as I know they've made one other game, but seeing how Sangfroid is literally a free to play gem of fun gameplay and simple but effective narrative, they're a highly ranked studio. In my eyes anyhow. So, check it out, you've nothing to lose but time, a resource I'm sure many of us find we have much more of nowadays. Thanks for reading, and wrap up warmly; the forests are a cold place.

#video games #werewolf #pc games #canada

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delhi-architect2 · 5 years ago

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Journal - These Are the World’s Most Beautiful Modern Residences in 2020

Architects, interior designers, rendering artists, landscape architects, engineers, photographers and real estate developers are invited to submit their firm for the inaugural A+Firm Awards, celebrating the talented teams behind the world’s best architecture. Register today.

The best homes are designed for everyday life. Countless housing projects are built around the world every year, across a wide range of scales, from small lofts and tiny homes to multi-unit residential towers. Reinterpreting local building conditions and vernacular forms, new residences reflect contemporary values as they are built for modern living.

The following projects were deemed the world’s best residences from the 2020 A+Awards, each winning either a Jury or Popular Choice Award, and sometimes both. Including projects of many scales, locations and construction statuses, these residences showcase some of the best architecture designed this year. Explore these new residential designs below, and discover the full list of 2020 A+Award winners across diverse typologies.

Downtown Loft by BDA Bushman Dreyfus Architects, Charlottesville, VA, United States Residential-Apartment, Jury & Popular Choice Awards

The renovated apartment is located on the third floor of the oldest building on the downtown pedestrian mall in Charlottesville. The existing dark, commercial space was transformed into one spacious open floor apartment with a sleeping loft. Light is the theme of this minimal and modern intervention.

AMANI by Archetonic, Puebla, Mexico Residential-Multi Unit Housing – High Rise (16+ Floors), Jury & Popular Choice Awards

AMANI contains 226 housing units varying between 84 and 168 sqm distributed in two buildings of 22 levels each. The access hall has a mezzanine that welcomes the visitors and residents alike into the complex with connections to green areas, while the remaining levels include the housing units.

XS House by Interface Studio Architects LLC, Philadelphia, PA, United States Residential-Multi Unit Housing – Low Rise (1-4 Floors), Jury Choice Award

XS House places seven apartments on an underutilized site. Its extremely narrow, 11-foot-wide by 93-foot-long parcel is strategically expanded through bays, mezzanines, and bi-level upper units. The 63-foot-tall section connects seven levels of occupied space within its very small footprint, with unit stairs positioned to unlock mezzanine levels and create dramatic spaces.

Hadohilljo Townhouse by UNITEDLAB Associates LLC, Jeju-do, South Korea Residential-Multi Unit Housing – Low Rise (1-4 Floors), Popular Choice Award

This village is composed of a community center, 48 single residences, parks, and amenities. The main corridor connects the individual homes. The site, located in Hado-ri, is one of the most preserved natural regions. Hado-ri stands in high relief to the rapid march of development on other parts of Jeju Island.

Jeanette301 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA], Santa Ana, CA, United States Residential-Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5-15 Floors), Jury Choice Award

Jeanette301 is a five-story apartment complex that fixes 182 units onto a relatively modest 2.1 acre site. The project houses a community of live-work studios with shared workshop and social spaces designed to facilitate and promote a collaborative living environment.

108 Chambers by Pure + FreeForm & Woods Bagot, New York, NY, United States Residential-Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5-15 Floors), Popular Choice Award

108 Chambers is a 10-story mixed use building in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. The unique facade features custom geometric angular slab/spandrel metal panel formations surrounding the windows on the entire exterior. The finish, Deco Bronze, is a contextual nod to the previous building’s bronze facade.

Casa Mi by Daluz Gonzalez Architekten, Zürich, Switzerland Residential-Private House (L 3000-5000 sq ft), Jury Choice Award

Casa Mi takes a series of slopped, interconnected massing to form connections around light and voids. A simple, matte white color palette and materials were chosen to shift the experiential focus away from the residence and out towards panoramic views.

Art Villas Costa Rica | Atelier Villa by Formafatal, Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica Residential-Private House (L 3000-5000 sq ft), Popular Choice Award

Not far from the Costa Rican town Uvita – there is a hidden small resort Art Villas on the jungle hill above the beach Playa Hermosa. Three unique villas and one multifunctional pavilion are scattered over a plot of land. Formafatal Studio was inspired by the atmosphere and colors of Central and South America.

Skigard Hytte by Mork Ulnes Architects, Fåvang, Norway Residential-Private House (M 1000-3000 sq ft), Jury Choice Award

On top of a mountain in Kvitfjell, Norway is a regular grid of 45 wooden columns suspending a 144 square meter cabin 1.5 meters above the ground. These columns are clad with skigard – 3 meter long quarter-cut logs traditionally laid out diagonally by farmers as fencing.

Lightus Retreat by Joongwon Architects, South Lake Tahoe, CA, United States Residential-Private House (M 1000-3000 sq ft), Popular Choice Award

Lighthus Retreat is a vacation home located in the wilderness of Lake Tahoe, a destination frequented by visitors near and far. Situated in a heavily wooded area, the design of the cabin stands away from traditional approaches of clear-cutting the site in favor of designing around trees.

CASA NAILA by BAAQ, Puerto Escondido, Mexico Residential-Private House (S <1000 sq ft), Jury Choice Award

The house sits on a rocky point, as a beacon to the sea, with two fronts towards the Pacific coast. The cross-shaped courtyard has four seven-meter-high volumes, with a pitched roof that frame views to the sea.

The Modular Unit (MU50) by Teke Architects Office, Turkey Residential-Private House (S <1000 sq ft), Popular Choice Award

The Modular Unit is a small-scale, off-grid structure, designed to be recyclable, to allow a wide range of building uses and reduce environmental impact maximizing its site flexibility. A single module consists of two timber frames and the enclosure between them which were prefabricated and then mounted on-site.

n.n. Residence by J.MAYER.H, Moscow, Russia Residential-Private House (XL >5000 sq ft), Jury Choice Award

This home represents a spatial exploration between concealment and exposure. This layered topography blurs the line separating landscape and construction. It is the private residence of a family in a rural area along the River Moskva.

Casa Candelaria by Cherem Arquitectos, Mexico Residential-Private House (XL >5000 sq ft), Popular Choice Award

Casa Candelaria was conceived under the concept of Mexican haciendas, solving the house around courtyards. A key intention for the design development was the decision to use rammed earth walls, with natural mineral aggregates that allows the earth to take on a black tone.

The garden house in the city by christos pavlou architecture, Nicosia, Cyprus Residential-Residential Interiors, Jury & Popular Choice Awards

A house that brings nature back to the city, promoting shared spaces and social dialogue between its residents is what inspired the team to design the ‘’garden house’’. The design emphasizes the potential for private urban gardens and the micro-climates they create to improve living conditions within cities.

MIRA by Studio Gang, San Francisco, CA, United States Residential-Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors), Jury Choice Award

MIRA is an urban residential development in the heart of San Francisco. Just blocks from the Bay Bridge, Embarcadero, and Rincon Park, the 400-foot-tall tower rethinks the classic bay window, a familiar feature of San Francisco’s early houses, reimagining it in a high-rise context.

H_1002 by 314 architecture studio, Athens, Greece Residential-Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors), Popular Choice Award

H1002 is a residential project situated in the heart of Athens. The plot is located in Spefsipou Street, in Kolonaki district, one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the center of the city and it is connected to a neoclassical building built in 1870.

Variable by Marziemirjafari Residential-Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (S <10 Floors), Jury Choice Award

The design team asked whether, in the construction of a house, it is possible to turn it into a flexible space with a different attitude and the use of technology , which can change dimensions according to the wishes of the residents, and can be moved.

Student Residence in Saclay_momentum by Bordas+Peiro Architecte Residential-Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (S <10 Floors), Popular Choice Award

This student residence explored how to create a dense and inhabited city in a natural environment. Reinforcing the transition between an urban nature in the central fringe, and a more porous and less constituted fabric, this approach makes it “possible to dilute the borders between city and plant.”

The Meander by S^A | Schwartz and Architecture Residential-Unbuilt – Private House (L >3000 sq ft), Jury Choice Award

Meandering rivers carved the coastal valleys surrounding this ridgeline home over millennium forming zig-zagging interlocking ‘spurs’, which draw the eye into the distance as they recede. This home’s staggered forms continue these rhythms.

NONAGRIAM TWINS by A31 ARCHITECTURE Residential-Unbuilt – Private House (L >3000 sq ft), Popular Choice Award

Nestled among Andros’ wild mountains, fecund valleys and waterfalls, this complex consists of two detached houses. Modern and rigorous, the design bears clear lines and is organically linked to the natural landscape of Andros.

SkyValley House by Edward Ogosta Architecture Residential-Unbuilt – Private House (S <3000 sq ft), Jury Choice Award

Conceived as a “California chalet for the 21st Century,” the SkyValley House in the town of Lake Arrowhead references the historic legacy of local mountain dwellings while maintaining a contemporary architectural expression. The project culminates in a rooftop viewing perch at the valley between the main roof volumes.

Six- House Villa by BNS Studio Residential-Unbuilt – Private House (S <3000 sq ft), Popular Choice Award

Six- House villa is a modern metaphor for the definition of house in traditional Persian architecture. The word “House” used to refer to the concept of today’s “Room” in the past; in that sense, a dwelling included a few “Houses” each with specific functionality.

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tfsjason · 6 years ago

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arplis · 6 years ago

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KASTLE?? ❛ Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw. ❜ :D :D

Hello, my dear. Here I am, with your prompt, so long after you sent it.

I hate my writing pace.

But I did it. Even I strayed a little from the song and it’s angsty feel, I did it. I hope you like it.

Muah ♥

@carry-the-sky, yours is also ready. I’ll post it tomorrow ;)

We the dead

When he told her the plan, she had, for a good minute there, thought he had lost his mind.

But then everything started going to shit. She had to duck, run, shoot, hide, be quiet, she was bleeding, and she understood. It had to end. And she had to die for it to happen.

Officially, Karen had died. So had Frank. Drowned, shot, tortured, who knows. The last news on her were that she had been taken by the Italian mafia. Nobody was really expecting to find her body, not after the things she had written.

Frank Castle died with her because his name was involved. Indirectly, they were careful about that, but he was both after the Italians and running from the Italians, so it was not very difficult to put his name in the dead list.

He had gotten to her place almost 24 hours ago, asking her to hear him out. She was used to him being over protective of her, forever apologising with actions for using her as bait that one time.

This time, he asked her to let herself be captured. And Karen really did think he was crazy.

But then he explained. Promised he would be there, he would not take his eyes off her, not for one minute. But in order for this to be finished, this underground bounty on her head and the sheer reign of terror the family from Sicily was building, he had to have a way in. And she was it.

Karen from Vermont would never agree to something like that. Karen from New York did, paraded herself for two hours at the last place she should ever be, let herself be followed home, let herself be captured, didn’t put up much of a fight, prayed that Frank was there, behind her, like he promised.

He doesn’t lie to her. And he didn’t. As promised, he got to her right before she got a violent slap to her face, a shot to her head, God knows what else. Suddenly there was someone else’s blood on her skin, her clothes, her face. Frank was there, putting a gun in her hand, shooting a thousand bullets per second, pulling her through a door she never noticed was there, running towards a car, pressing a button, starting the engine at the same time an explosion blew behind them, driving away and she could not believe she didn’t have a scratch on her. Maybe her arms would be bruised from when they grabbed her at her apartment, but that was it.

Frank drove for hours. Three, four, maybe five. Maybe less than that. It didn’t occur to her to ask where they were going. She focused on breathing and looked at the night sky, the lights of the city fading behind them.

When he parked outside a house hidden in the middle of the woods, she saw Max looking out the front window, his excited breathing fogging up the glass.

“I got your suitcase”, Frank said after killing the engine. “It’s in your bedroom.”

“My bedroom?”

He nodded.

“The one you’re gonna occupy while we’re here”. He looked outside the car towards the two story house. “It’s the nice one.”

“What is this place, Frank?”

He looked at her and she didn’t know what to feel. Tired, scared, relieved, angry, sad, what? She was all of those things and a few more she couldn’t name.

He just shrugged.

“Belonged to a friend. Come on.”

He collected the bag of weapons he had put in the trunk and they made their way inside. The bag with her clothes and basic belongings and his were already there, he had brought them the day before, along with Max.

Karen let him look at her, looking for bruises, didn’t complain when he fussed over the simplest of scrapes, putting a bandage over it. She let him apply medicine to the one on her forehead she hadn’t noticed, let him examine the ones of her arms, answered all his questions of “does it hurt?”

They had microwaved frozen meals for dinner and she announced that she was going to bed after swallowing maybe a third of it.

He was right, her room was nice. Big bed and curtains on the windows and her own en suite bathroom. There was even a desk where her computer sat.

It was one in the morning when she decided she was not going to be able to sleep.

Making her silent way downstairs, she spotted a blanket folded over the couch. Picking it up, she opened the front door and walked until she was halfway between the house and the edge of the woods.

She had been staring at the stars in the sky for maybe twenty minutes when he sat down next to her, and then lied down.

Karen waited for him to say something. To apologise again. He didn’t. Just looked at the sky and there they stayed.

When she opened her eyes again, the blue of the sky was not so dark. Dawn was threatening to break and she let herself cry, silently, tear after tear rolling down ter temples towards the blanket under them.

She was dead. They were dead.

She could feel herself calming down when his arm started moving slowly towards her and he pulled her to him.

“Did you tell someone?” she asked, voice small.

He took a second and then answered her, soft and slow.

“Red. And Micro.”

She sighed in relief. At least someone knew she was alive.

“Who’s Micro?”

“Associate of mine.”

“Do you trust him?”

“Yes.”

She fell asleep again after that, inside his arms, feeling safe.

.:.

Matt called once, that afternoon, voice tortured and sighing when she answered.

He asked all the questions. Was she ok? Was she hurt? Did she need anything? Promised he would help with this fucked up situation, promised to do his best.

Asked if she wanted to go back home.

Frank sat on a chair by her side, elbows on his knees, head down, cracking his knuckles, waiting for her to finish. Max sat in front of her chair, sweet round eyes looking at her and she reached a hand to caress his face.

“No. I’m ok.”

.:.

Frank spent a lot of time talking on that strange looking phone. Satellite phone, she realized. From what she could hear, he was giving orders, asking for status, giving more orders, adjusting plans.

Other than that, she was not allowed to log into her email or any other account.

“Don’t worry, they’ll all be there for you when we go back. Micro is taking care of it.”

All she could do in her computer was check the news and try to distract herself.

.:.

After just two days, she had cabin fever. And Frank was the one feeling it’s effects.

“Wanna to go for a drive?” he offered after she used too much force to throw the ball for Max, grunting, and the pitbull ran towards the trees after it. “Maybe pick up some stuff to eat.”

She realized what he was doing. And she wanted to snap at him, tell him not to treat her like a child. Instead, she got up and said “yes”, rolling her eyes as he sighed and bent to put his boots on.

They found a farmer’s market on the way. She had never, in her life, enjoyed a farmer’s market. When her mother forced her to go when she was younger, after church, she would complain the whole way. Today, it felt like the gates of heaven.

“Karen”, he said, using that voice she imagined he used when he was bossing people around in the army, when she asked him to stop the car.

“Don’t ‘Karen’ me. Come on”, she said, putting the leash on Max’s collar. “It’s just a bunch of old ladies.”

It wasn’t. But she enjoyed talking to people, buying stuff she doesn’t usually buy, like half a pound of cherries and a dozen donuts.

She held Max’s leash, who walked by her side and stopped when she wanted to stop, not complaining, just looking behind them here and there to make sure Frank was still there.

She was paying for apples when the lady giving her her change asked if Max wanted some water.

“Oh, yes, thank you very much.”

“No problem, dear.”

She filled a bowl and Max lapped it up happily.

“I have one, myself. Well, actually he’s my husband’s. He’s like yours.”

At first, Karen thought she meant her dog was like Max, but she motioned with her head and Karen looked behind her to see Frank, wearing his sunglasses and hoodie over a beanie.

(He looked good, a part of her brain noticed. Really good.)

“Only Charles does not look like that anymore”, the lady whispered, humor in her voice. “Military?” she asked, already nodding, a small smile.

“Uh, yeah”, Karen answered.

“Mine, too. After forty years, you learn to recognize them just by the way they walk and stand.”

Max finished his water, Karen thanked the lady and then walked back to Frank, saying that they could go.

Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.

.:.

Two nights later, she was crying on the porch, thinking he had gone to bed already, but he opened the door and crouched in front of her.

“What is it?” he asked, careful, distant and present at the same time.

She tried to wipe her tears away, tell him it was nothing, but he insisted, and insisted, and she told him she felt strange, knowing the world was going on without her.

“I’m…” she started, sighing, annoyed with herself. “I’m dead, and it seems to make zero difference.”

It was his turn to sigh, getting up, asking her to move, to make way for him.

He sat with one leg bent against the back of the bench, a foot on the seat, and made her sit with her back against his chest, his arms coming around her.

She thought he was going to hug her, but suddenly there was a gun in his left hand, and he was placing it on hers.

Before she knew what was happening, she was holding his gun and he was making her point it towards the trees.

“Do you see the thick one, a little behind?”

“What-”

“Do you see it?”

Confused, Karen looked and spotted the tree he was talking about. It was taller and thicker than the others around it.

“Yes.”

His thumb clicked the safety off and he cocked the gun, his finger guiding her own to the trigger.

“Come on.”

She blinked, not understanding why he wanted her to shoot a tree, a wild thought that there was someone hiding there and he was making her kill them crossing her mind, but vanishing when she realized his mouth was there by her ear. She could feel his breath, his chest rising and falling slowly against her back.

“Ma’am. Pull the trigger.”

Swallowing once, she did. And she felt so good after the shot echoed and she spotted the bullet mark on the bark of the tree, she did it again without prompting. And again. And again, again until the gun clicked empty.

Silently, Frank pulled a full magazine from his pocket and placed it in her hand. Karen changed it, letting him take the empty one, clicking it in place and cocking the gun herself, shooting again and again until there was a faint ringing in her ear.

She felt incredibly better. Her hands were vibrating, her heart was pounding and she felt she wanted to smile.

“Better?” Frank asked after she lowered the weapon. She nodded.

Getting the gun from her, he placed it on the floor near his foot.

“The world didn’t stop because you didn’t really die”, he said, picking her chin and turning her face to his. “If you did, everybody else would die with you.”

She had time to recognize a different quality in his voice before he put his lips on hers. He didn’t whisper, but his words were low, meant only for her, and she was close enough.

Or at least she thought she was.

She had always, somehow, known he would be a good kisser. And that he would, eventually, kiss her. The effects his mouth had on her, though, were a bit of a pleasant surprise. It was a natural thing, felt right and organic, but also an addicting one. The more she did it, the more she discovered, lips and teeth and tongues, the more she wanted, the more she craved, the more she needed.

Karen turned around and Frank latched onto her neck, hands gripping at her, the intensity of him making her shiver, her own hands grabbing at him when he slid his hands from her waist to grab at her ass, getting up, her legs instinctively going around his hips, mouth looking for his again,God, it felt like breathing.

Frank stripped her with his hands and covered her body with his mouth. The look in his face when he lifted it to look at her made her feel warm inside, but not the cozy kind. Warm like there was a fire starting in the pit of her stomach, spreading up her spine and through her limbs, making her skin ignite and she felt like she could conduct electricity, shock him the next time he touched her.

It didn’t happen. Frank lowered his face again and she ran her hands on the skin revealed by his shirt.

She was focusing on the feeling of his hands on her when he rolled them over, and she moved to sit on top of him, straddling his lap, no teasing, it was not about that, it was just about them, getting and giving, everything.

He tugged at the hem of her sweater and she removed it, watching as he watched, feeling powerful and beautiful, but cold without him pressed up against her.

Karen tugged on his wrist and he sat up, an arm around her waist, his tongue on her neck, teeth scraping skin, breathing intense and palm heavy. He held her firmly and she reveled in it, in his strength, how he didn’t touch her as if she was made of paper.

She forgot she had been crying, remembering only when he lied down again, after bringing two hands to her face and wiping the dried up tears from her cheeks, and she turned her face towards his palm.

Frank was on top of her again, her legs were up and around him, arms too, her back was arched and she was feeling so good, the world falling silent around them, moving slow, all she could see was him, all she could feel was him, all she wanted was him.

Karen and Frank needed to die in order to feel alive again.

.:.

It had been a week when his phone made itself known one more time.

Her computer had been off for days and all she wore were his shirts, not because she felt comfortable in them (which she did, but her own clothes were also efficient in that department), but because she liked the way he looked at her when she did. Watching her with precision, focused, chasing the movement of her legs with his eyes, unmasked, unguarded, no Punisher, just Frank.

She was wearing one of his hoodies, the grey one he loved to throw over his bare chest, perched on the kitchen island with her legs around him when the satellite phone beeped in his pocket.

Sighing, he picked it up, but kept scanning her with his eyes, and she brought her hands to his face, the tip of her fingers caressing his jaw, the contour of his nose, ghosting over his lips.

Damn it. She was in love with him.

She has heard some people describing that feeling as heavy. “The weight of realization”. To her, it felt the opposite. She felt like she would float away if he wasn’t holding her down.

“Yeah. Fine. Thanks, man. I’ll call back later.”

Hanging up, he drew a deep breath and leaned in to kiss her, sweet and gentle and… Devoted.

“It’s been a week”, he said, forehead touching hers. “We have to go back.”

It was her turn to sigh and cast a quick look around, to this mysterious house in the middle of nowhere, where she already felt so at home.

“I don’t want to”, she admitted, lacing her fingers on the back of his neck, kissing his forehead and he held her to him, chest to chest, tight and sweet.

“Yeah”, he said. “Me neither.”

“Can’t we stay?”

Lifting his head from her neck, he gave her a teasing look.

“Weren’t you crying over your own death just the other day?”

She smiled, pinching his side, making him squirm, smile, and she wanted to make him smile everyday, take him away from his demons, for good.

“That was before.”

“Before what?”

She kissed him once, open mouth and sliding tongue, and leaned back, back, his hands sliding from her back around her waist, lifting the hoodie, exploring, warm and heavy, she loved that pressure.

“Before you”, she said, laying down on the marble counter, arching her back, letting him lower the zipper, knowing his eyes were doing a sweep of her, reveling in it. “Before us.”

He grunted and he moaned and she breathed deep, lost in the feeling of him, sitting back up to hold him, unable to resist the allure of his mouth on hers for too long.

“I want to stay”, she told him again, hand on his chest, feeling his heart beating.

Alive. Both of them.

His burner vibrated in his pocket. The world called.

But they wanted to stay.

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Why does the world need a self-lacing shoe?

Haven’t you heard of Velcro?

How will you tie your shoes when the Wi-Fi is down?

That’s the gist of the instant response I got when I mentioned the new Adapt BB, a shoe from Nike with, yes, powered laces that tighten to a wearer’s foot automatically. The shoe is an evolution of the Nike HyperAdapt 1.0, which is itself a commercialization of the Air Mag — a self-lacing vanity project that realized the self-lacing shoes mocked up for Back to the Future II.

When I tweeted about the Adapt and its companion smartphone app that allows for remote control of each shoe’s lace tightness, the immediate response was, in summary, “why?”

A sentiment followed up quickly with callouts to the Twitter account @internetofshit, which highlights devices that are unnecessarily burdened with wirelessly connected bloatware features. To be fair, this response is exactly the same one that Nike’s first self-lacing model received. But this time, the announcement also came right on the heels of CES, the natural home of needless electronic gadgets. People are so burned out by smart toilets that they were not ready to hear about shoes gaining a connected hardware component.

And, honestly, I get it. It’s a hard sell to say that the solution to a laceless design is to add about half of the hardware that goes into your smartphone and the ability to talk to your shoes with your phone.

But the Adapt BB is really working on two levels, and to tease out whether there is a there there when it comes to connected shoes, you have to consider the context.

Laceless

For a while now, the Holy Grail of shoe design has been the hunt for a truly “laceless lockdown” shoe for basketball applications. Not just a lack of laces, but enhanced lockdown — a fit that borders on custom-molded, preventing a player’s foot from moving around inside a shoe even in extreme cut or stop-short situations. Think cornering ability in a car coupled with adjustable seats — it doesn’t matter how hard the car can turn if it throws you all around the cabin.

Nike’s approach to this effectively uses a single cord and a motor to replace a traditional set of laces.

Nike rival Adidas is pursuing the goal in a different way, using interwoven textiles and self-tightening weaves in its N3XT L3V3L basketball shoe.

Regardless of approach, there are genuine, real benefits to trying to eliminate or evolve laces. The casual observer crapping on auto lacing may not realize that lacing and lockdown are actually an enormous problem for many pro players. The typical player has their shoes laced in the locker room and then leaves them laced that way the whole game unless they come off the court for some reason and have them adjusted. At times, they even have a coach take care of lacing for them, because it’s impossible to get enough torsion on their own to achieve full lockdown in their game shoes.

Then, that level of tightness is kept for hours as they play the game, allowing for no relief even on the sidelines. Not the best for players that already have bone weakness, and, honestly, not good for anyone, as blood flow aids recovery and prevents injury.

Nike says it commissioned an independent university study on the effectiveness of the Adapt BB system on lockdown that showed a 40 percent improvement and has testimonials from a host of (admittedly Nike-solicited or sponsored) athletes who have had a chance to try them. They all say the same thing: These shoes really do help achieve better lockdown, and the convenience of being able to set one or many pre-set lacing tightnesses and then choose to engage or disengage at will is a real benefit.

We’ll get into the long-term plans, but it’s important to remember that the market for this first model of Adapt is professional and semi-pro athletes. Though many consumers will buy them, Nike’s plans for casual shoes on the Adapt platform are down the road and these aren’t it, chief.

Still, those long-term plans are what make the whole thing more exciting than, hey, here’s a new pro tool for pros.

First, though, let’s talk about the hardware.

Hardware

The core of the Adapt BB and the device that makes Nike’s use of the much-maligned platform buzzword possible is a plastic rectangle that sits under the arch of the foot inside the shoes. Branded with the traditional swoosh, it contains a worm drive engine with back stop protection that coils the laces to the desired tightness then locks them mechanically to prevent slippage during play.

This, and the single wire that tracks through a maze of anchors over and up the foot falls under the umbrella of what Nike is calling FitAdapt tech. It’s the auto-fit component of the smart shoe stuff that Adapt BB can do.

There is, of course, a battery as well and a coil to enable induction charging from the shoe’s charging plate. And yes, a Bluetooth module to allow it to communicate with your phone.

The other stuff inside this box is fascinating, though, and is completely un-used at the shoe’s launch. But let’s dance around that for a minute.

The midsole is made of Nike’s Cushlon foam, a denser foam that doesn’t compress as much as some of its newer offerings like Zoom. This allows the module to sit under foot, recessed a few millimeters under the sole insert and invisible to a wearer’s foot. The insole is also made of a new sockliner foam, which focuses on impact distribution, spreading any point impacts from the box in the midsole over the surface of the foot.

Simply put: you can’t feel the motor.

Narissa Chang, Lead Mechanical Engineer and Jordan Rice, Senior Director of Smart Systems Engineering at Nike, explained that they conducted a massive amount of testing to make sure that the module continued to work in damp, high-impact conditions. The spec I was given was that the motor should easily outlast the shoe, so it shouldn’t be the point of failure.

The outsole is grippy, with great traction behavior and sharp cornering. I was able to wear test the shoe on two consecutive days and played a pickup game with other media folks on day two in them. The details of my performance will remain undisclosed, but the shoes performed admirably.

Here’s how the system works. You slip your foot into the shoe. If you’ve already set up a lace tightness, a new magnetic system (no longer pressure-based like the first Adapt) senses your foot’s presence and tightens them. That’s it.

If it’s your first run, you pair the shoes to the Adapt BB app, which will be on the App Store and Google Play Store. When you pair, you’re linking your shoes directly to your Nike+ account, so there is no chance of anyone either connecting to or controlling your shoes. No log-in, no control via the app.

Once the app is paired you’re able to choose a color to identify your shoes, which will appear in the LEDs that back the control buttons on the lateral side of the midsole, just aft of the mild outrigger.

The LEDs serve to ID your shoes and offer customizability but also to identify which of your lacing profiles are set. The app, in a feature that is launching in a couple of weeks, allows you to set up multiple tightness levels that you can switch between with a tap.

If, however, you want to use the shoes free of the app you can. If your foot is in the shoe you can single tap to jump to desired tightness or tap and hold a button to bump them back to “wide open.” You can also make micro adjustments by tapping the buttons. If your foot remains in the shoe it will eventually tighten back down due to the auto-lacing mechanic sensing your foot is still inside, but I’m hoping you can change that behavior for rest periods.

This means that if an athlete is on the court, they can adjust their shoes by button on the go.

This is one of those fundamental things that a lot of the Twitter Snark brigade was missing — this was essentially an impossibility for players up until this point. Precisely adjusting the lacing all the way up to full lockdown was something that typically required a coach to do. This isn’t hurriedly re-lacing to finish out a period, it’s getting the exact fit for right now on the court.

Players, for example, will tell you that after about a half hour on the court, their feet will swell, sometimes up to a half size. This changes their comfort level significantly. So they have a choice: either play with their shoes too loose for 30 minutes or tighten them enough to be painful by halftime. Not with an adjustable shoe.

The buttons, it should be noted, are pretty much mandatory in the NBA where phones are outlawed on the bench.

The shoe and tech, however, is approved for court play and Jason Tatum debuted them last night in the Celtics/Raptors game.

But outside of the immediate benefits for athletes, the hardware also telegraphs an interesting future for Nike’s connected future. The other components of the lace engine include things that you’re probably already carrying including a 3D gyroscope and accelerometers that measure multiple axes. This shoe can, if it chooses, determine things like gait, foot strike pressure, pace and even in-air motion of your feet.

Imagine, if you will, a coach that tells you you’re putting a foot too far forward or back during a layup or launching too late, or leaning back too far. This is possible with the hardware Nike already has on board.

And it is telling that none of it is enabled up front. Though it can do all of these things, it’s not doing them now. Nike feels that the solid benefit to pros of an adjustable lacing system that can achieve industry-standard-or-better lockdown is enough to launch this.

Everything else it can do is gravy and scene-setting for Nike’s future plans. Though they are predictably pretty reluctant to state future plans, plenty of hints are dropped at more connected shoes, clothing that connects to them and devices like smart watches and headphones that can work in concert to give you feedback about how your body is performing.

“When we think of it as a platform, we started with fit,” says Nike VP of Design Innovation, Eric Avar. “We quoted Bill Bowerman — he believed fit was the foundation of all of it. If you don’t have fit then other performance attributes of the product could be compromised.”

One other core component that Avar notes could become a focus of Adapt is cushioning.

“You can imagine adaptive cushioning in the future, obviously. So when we say platform we’re thinking holistically about the performance attributes of footwear and also starting to think about apparel.

Some brief notes that you might be wondering about:

Nike says battery life clocks in at between 10-14 days with multiple adjustments per day.

The shoe always reserves 5 percent battery to unlace the shoes to get you out.

Charging takes under three hours with the wireless charging mat to full.

There is currently no Apple Watch app, but Nike says they’ve been thinking about it.

Design and comfort

I was able to wear test the Adapt BB over two days in New York, including doing some warmup and playing a pickup game with media at the National Basketball Player’s Association court. The comfort level, I’m pleased to say, is well within bounds for a performance shoe. I’ve worn easily north of 1,000 different pairs of sneakers in just the past couple of years and I would have no problem wearing these off the court as well as on. It’s absolutely a ‘pro fit’, with a grippy, enclosed feel that facilitates cutting and cornering.

This shoe does not have the comfort level of a casual or lifestyle sneaker, by design, but Nike says it is bringing Adapt to those categories in 2019 as well. I’m happy to say that these shoes are just wearable, period, even for someone with a wide foot and high instep. The Adapt 1.0, by comparison, were heavy, stiff and rough to wear for feet outside the norm.

Aside from the Cushlon we mentioned and the crispy clear outsole, there are a few interesting design details worth mentioning. To me, the shoe is designed to evoke designs of Nike basketball past. The overall silhouette evokes the Kobe AD, which makes sense given Nike vice president and creative director of innovation Eric Avar’s work with Kobe and his line of shoes.

I also notice a shiny heel segment that throws off hints of the Jordan 11’s patent leather support band.

Avar also calls out the swoosh within a swoosh, saying that it’s meant to evoke the human within the shoe, being enhanced by the Adapt system.

It’s a good looking shoe. Intentionally designed to give off Nike basketball vibes, while still holding appeal for a set of early adopter enthusiasts that will likely wear them on and off the court.

Enabling technology

One of the most exciting ancillary effects of a self-lacing shoe is assistance that it can give people with fine motor skills or mobility issues. Having a shoe that can tie itself goes right from a first-world problem to a genuinely life-enhancing feature when you look at it through the lens of accessibility.

First up, no, I don’t think that the entire Adapt project is some sort of accessibility Trojan horse and that they’re doing all of this to let people who can’t tie their shoes for reasons out of their control wear dope kicks. But it’s absolutely bound to be a result of the platform, including its self-lacing feature, trickling down through the lifestyle and casual categories. Yes, this first pair is $350, but that’s already down from $750 from the Adapt 1.0. That’s quite the curve and it will continue to bottom out with scale.

I asked Chang and Rice specifically about whether accessibility was a part of their design and engineering conversation. They said that the Adapt 1.0 was just an experiment to see if they could commercialize this laceless design but that the moment it hit the public they got tons of feedback about how great this could be for accessibility. And the engineering team works directly next to the department inside Nike that works on athletes of all levels of ability and enablement.

So, while this is not the purpose of Adapt, I’m hoping that it will be an awesome effect of it succeeding. Provided it does, of course.

Pitfalls and potentialities

Performance benefits of a connected suite of Nike and Nike-compatible devices are, frankly, a safe bet. Nike is in the envied position of being an established purveyor of performance gear and sees a future in being able to offer some value here that will sell a lot of product.

But I think even this unrealized future of a connected performance suite is too narrow. I’ve written before about Apple’s position in the market and the potential it has to turn its devices into biometric enablers of identity.

Imagine a shoe that automatically pays as you cross the boundary of a toll booth or bus door. A bike that locks unless your cleats are in it. A shirt that can have an opt-in chat with your health app of choice and give a real window into hydration.

Nike is billing the Adapt BB as the first shoe that’s software upgradeable. Though there have been other electronically enabled shoes in the past, this is the first time that you could conceivably see one of these being able to get better before the natural course of time and wear makes them get worse. Pro athletes change their shoes sometimes as quick as one pair per game. The pro-am category though, could conceivably see a shoe they wear for a year or more gain features and abilities over time.

Seeing a shoe get the benefits of a piece of upgradeable software defines, I believe, a major shift in the way that we think about clothing as a consumable and “degrade only” category. Buying a piece of clothing that gets better with time isn’t new, obviously, as leather boots and other animal skin clothing tends to take some time to break in before it even fits right. But outside of animal products, it’s rare — and a first, as far as I’m concerned, in performance wear.

The caveats abound, of course. There is a lot of ground between here and there, and Nike could stumble at many points on execution, scale or just plain convincing people that more devices that collect and utilize data are what people want or “need.”

It’s imperative that they tell the story carefully, following the strategy of providing solid, real-world benefits that feel not just as good but better than the analogue alternative. It’s also mandatory that Nike takes its stewardship of user data seriously. It’s a good sign that they mentioned responsible data use a lot during formal presentations and my informal chats across the design, digital and engineering teams.

Apple’s philosophy toward data handling was mentioned — and it makes sense as Nike has a similar arrangement with customers. You may give them data but they’re providing you a product for profit. It does not benefit them to misuse or misrepresent the way they might use future data that they read from your shoes or clothing. Examining incentives is important in a world where we’re getting closer to a high-fidelity, portable, digital profile without having yet decided who owns that profile — us or the companies that gather data on it.

But you have to walk the walk. As Nike rolls out the Adapt platform, it will be important to keep an eye on whether they are good stewards of user data.

Culture

One advantage Nike could and should leverage in its pursuit of creating actually useful smart clothing is its conduit into culture. This conduit takes many shapes but includes sneakerheads, basketball fans, hip hop culture and art/fashion collaborators. There are dozens of examples of failed attempts to make wearable smart clothing cool, functional and adopted at scale. In most of those cases, however, the efforts have come from companies without the ability to connect culture and tech with a strong organic link.

The Culture, as an organism, has an incredibly strong BS detector. It doesn’t matter how good the tech is or how disruptive a company’s business model — if it’s trying to create a true shift in consumer behavior (that’s exactly what Nike is attempting) then it has to partner with culture. That can be via communities like the sneaker enthusiast early adopters or through institutions with rabid in-tune fan bases like the NBA or collaborators like fashion upstarts and artists who lend authenticity and a feeling of nowness to the product.

It’s one of the cardinal blind spots that remains in Silicon Valley, which views culture through the lens of engineering rather than art or fashion. It’s a huge reason why there are so many corpses of companies that have attempted this before. That and many of them did not have the advantage of a mature-to-the-point-of-saturation smartphone supply chain to take advantage of.

Positive and negative futures

Any time I write about passive connectivity I get a polarized response, not unlike the one people have had so far for the Adapt BB. It’s either a sign that we’re getting lazy, complacent or not paranoid enough, or it’s an amazing feat that points toward utopia. Neither one is likely to be totally true, though I would argue that we need to look at these things in a way that attempts to engage, discuss and influence them toward the positive end of the spectrum.

If the past decade has taught us anything, it’s that the future is going to happen, and if we don’t have the belief that it can be good, backed up with active participation in making it happen, then we’re doomed to more of the same.

In the near term, Nike has what it seems could be a lucrative opportunity to provide solid value for customers based on a portfolio of devices that enhance active lifestyles. In the long term, the company has a tougher but potentially much more impactful chance to outline a connected, wearable framework that rests on an honest relationship with customers and strong data stewardship.

There are only a handful of companies on earth that have the scale, execution ability and incentive structure to make this happen. Nike is one of them. This will be interesting.

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