Comments on: Nike: new branding approaches http://cultureby.com/2005/03/nike_new_brandi.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:10:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeremy http://cultureby.com/2005/03/nike_new_brandi.html/comment-page-1#comment-6210 Jeremy Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:05:11 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-6210 <p>I'm really enjoying being redirected to these older posts ... and want only to comment on the "knees up" thing.</p> <p>Maybe I have my timing wrong, but could your recollections, and the kids shouts, about an English style of running, be connected to Chariots of Fire, and that crazy notion of a professional coach, and practice, and all those ungentlemanly ideas?<br /> </p> I'm really enjoying being redirected to these older posts … and want only to comment on the "knees up" thing.

Maybe I have my timing wrong, but could your recollections, and the kids shouts, about an English style of running, be connected to Chariots of Fire, and that crazy notion of a professional coach, and practice, and all those ungentlemanly ideas?

]]> By: Dave http://cultureby.com/2005/03/nike_new_brandi.html/comment-page-1#comment-6209 Dave Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:36:27 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-6209 <p>Er, isn't that a bit of an oxymoron, 'a famous public soccer pitch' in England? All the famous pitches/stadia here are privately owned...</p> <p>Which means they probably went to a park... :-)</p> Er, isn't that a bit of an oxymoron, 'a famous public soccer pitch' in England? All the famous pitches/stadia here are privately owned…

Which means they probably went to a park… :-)

]]> By: brian http://cultureby.com/2005/03/nike_new_brandi.html/comment-page-1#comment-6208 brian Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:26:28 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-6208 <p>knees up? frank zappa taught us buns up and kneeling and wouldnt that make a nike ad to sell shoes</p> <p>www.lyricsdepot.com/frank-zappa/dinah-moe-humm.html</p> knees up? frank zappa taught us buns up and kneeling and wouldnt that make a nike ad to sell shoes

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/frank-zappa/dinah-moe-humm.html

]]> By: Anonymous http://cultureby.com/2005/03/nike_new_brandi.html/comment-page-1#comment-6207 Anonymous Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:04:45 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-6207 <p>Grant, <br /> Meaning creation/ meaning manufacture??? More like a straightforward appropriation or better yet enclosure... from public/common into private/Nike. I bet they’ve already trademarked the phrase.</p> Grant,
Meaning creation/ meaning manufacture??? More like a straightforward appropriation or better yet enclosure… from public/common into private/Nike. I bet they’ve already trademarked the phrase.

]]> By: Keelay http://cultureby.com/2005/03/nike_new_brandi.html/comment-page-1#comment-6206 Keelay Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:58:39 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-6206 <p>Great post Grant. I am glad you are out mixing it up so I don't have to.</p> <p>I am fascinated by the process by which an increasingly jaded culture creates authenticity by divorcing invention (as opposed to selection) from the creative process.</p> <p>There is so much cool yet to be mined from chaos. I regret that the pink puffy insulation of age will reduce it all to mere tailings in my eyes.</p> <p>www.strainedmetaphor.net/mine.html</p> Great post Grant. I am glad you are out mixing it up so I don't have to.

I am fascinated by the process by which an increasingly jaded culture creates authenticity by divorcing invention (as opposed to selection) from the creative process.

There is so much cool yet to be mined from chaos. I regret that the pink puffy insulation of age will reduce it all to mere tailings in my eyes.

http://www.strainedmetaphor.net/mine.html

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