Converse 2012

Converse 2012 currently has a pop-up boutique of sorts central 132 Orchard Street. The storefront has in fact been in the works aback backward September, if it became a abecedarian art amplitude blowzy with author drawings. At the time, we were told that the new adventure would become an urban, street-themed launchpad for the sneaker company. Now, three months on, the assets are gone and neons in abode for a new exhibit.
132 Orchard Street
According to the blog Busting Chops, the amplitude is alleged Converse Energy Space, and will host a photo affectation adulatory the thirty-fifth ceremony copy of Heaven is a Playground by sportswriter Rick Telander. The accident begins tomorrow (private affectation tonight) and will run through January 11. Check out the official website here.
Heaven is a Playground[Photo via Heaven is a Playground]
Heaven is a Playground chronicles the New York City streetball arena in the 1970s, and is advised by some to be one of the top 100 sports books anytime written. Sports Illustrated had the afterward to say of the classic:
It’s harder to appreciate now, but the burghal cosmos Telander declared was as adopted to boilerplate readers of the 1970s as HDTV. The book holds up as a sociological snapshot. But at its amount Heaven is a basketball adulation letter, a song of the bold in its purest form. “There were no corpuscle phones, no laptops, no disco, and the Internet wasn’t even a word,” Telander, a above SI chief writer, writes in the addition to a new copy of Heaven, appear endure anniversary by Bison Books. “But the humans were the same, and so were their dreams…. [And] by God, there was basketball. I affiance you that.”
Here are a few pictures of the makeshift arcade aback in September: