NY Times: Alternative Pursuits

10.9.08

Check out the sports section of today’s NY Times to find several Stanton & Company athletes featured in photographer Bess Greenberg’s photo essay about athletes and their outside interests. Bess, a former basketball player, shot beautiful portraits of the athletes in a way that dimensionalized their interests beyond their sports. Athletes include snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, climber Steph Davis, BMX racer (read more)

Source: NY TIMES by Julie Bloom For proof of dance’s mainstream popularity on the Internet, look no further than YouTube. That site’s most-viewed video, an absurdly silly stand-up comedy routine called “Evolution of Dance” (youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg), still captures hit after hit. But until recently, such attention to movement on the Web has largely eluded the professional dance world. In the past (read more)

Source Last month, Kristin Sloan, a comely member of the New York City Ballet, began appearing in a television ad for the iPhone, one in a series of Real People telling slightly implausible stories against a black backdrop. Ms. Sloan’s tale—that she runs a dancers’ blog called The Winger, and sometimes mobile-blogs backstage on her iPhone during performances—may have generated (read more)