Love Letter to Plywood. By Tom Sachs Tom Sachs 2012-06-13 | Directed by Van Neistat, 2012. Watch the other two movies from the "Energies and Skills" trilogy:Space Camp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-jSSTGqU5cHow to Sweep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt-VlZpz-8EProduced on the occasion of Tom Sachs' Space Program: MARShttp://www.tomsachsmars.com
EVERYONES A WINNER!!! Tom Sachs 2024-02-12 | Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory presents – Everybody loves "Stuff", these are some of our favorites. Available February 15, 2024 on tomsachsrocketfactory.comA Tom Sachs Movie by Fili LatinakisStarring (In order of appearance):Mikayla MartinAman ShahSylvana Hardesty (VO)James SundquistSami WilliamsNecim Abiadh Kanae Sawaguchi Titus McBeathTom SachsErum Shah (VO)
The Final Frontier Tom Sachs 2024-01-29 | Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory presents – The Metaverse is real, it's just another dimension of reality. In this new dimension we make the galaxy not the way it is but the way we want it to be. Join us in our journey through this hand-made generative galaxy.tomsachsrocketfactory.comtwitter.com/tsrocketfactoryA Tom Sachs Movie by Fili LatinakisVFX by Fili Latinakis, Daniel Kyungjae LeeProduced by Aman Shah
Encyclopedia Galactica Tom Sachs 2022-11-17 | Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory presents – We set our sights across the horizon to a new dimension, a galaxy of new worlds for us to build upon. Mars Rocks fuel our journey to the Final Frontier.Movie by: Charlie KossFilmed on location in Monaversehttps://linktr.ee/tsrocketfactory
Mars Rock Mining Tom Sachs 2022-10-01 | Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory presents – The history of humanity is the history of our technology. Imagination gives us the unique advantage of abstract thought. We are able to dream, to see beyond our immediate reality. Our eyes see a stone, but our mind sees its potential. The most significant event in our species’ evolution happened 2.6 million years ago when we formed rocks into our first tools.Through the ages we’ve grown infinitely more capable, infinitely more complex through advancements in our tools, our technology. For better and for worse — our ability to extract the resources of our planet, and apply them towards shaping our environment has led to humankind becoming the most dominant force on Earth. Why stop there.A Tom Sachs Movie, By Charlie KossDesert Footage: Josh Whitehttps://linktr.ee/tsrocketfactory
SHREDDER Tom Sachs 2022-01-19 | Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory presents – For those about to shred, we salute you. https://linktr.ee/tsrocketfactory
The First Ten: Governors Island Launch Event Governor governor Tom Sachs 2021-09-06 | On August 28, 2021the First Ten Rockets launched from Governors Island in New York City. This was the first Rocket Factory Launch Event, it is only the beginning.http://www.tomsachsrocketfactory.com opensea.io/collection/tom-sachs-rocketstwitter.com/tsrocketfactorydiscord.gg/rocketfactory
ROCKET FACTORY: HOW IT WORKS Tom Sachs 2021-08-01 | Tom Sachs Rocket Factory is a trans-dimensional manufacturing plant. Our Rocket Factory uses NFTs to build new NFTs. The Genesis NFT Collection from Tom Sachs.https://linktr.ee/tsrocketfactoryVideo: Charlie Koss
CHALLENGE 15 - 10,000 HOURS Tom Sachs 2021-06-19 | In 2012, I built an entire tea house from scratch. Every element was made by hand, except for the central element, a tea bowl (or chawan) that I bought on eBay and engraved with a NASA worm. NYC ceramics master JJPEET was there to call me out. Since then I’ve dedicated myself to mastering making ceramic tea bowls.This is a video of me making a bowl with the pinch pot method that my master (JJPEET) taught me. The tea bowl that I'm always trying to make ( my north star) is the one Sen no Rikyū commissioned Chōjirō to make over 500 years ago. I chose to dedicate the necessary hours to perfecting this method. I’m 8,700 hours in. We’ve all worked hard together on this Wear Tester Journey work with some rules and guidelines under which we make our art. We establish our own rules to keep us from going crazy with the endless choices that the universe provides (the existential abyss). We use structure to keep us in line so we can finish the damn project. Now is the time to throw it all out of the fucking window. Find your own voice. Stick with it and proceed down the road. “If the artist changes their mind midway through the execution of the piece they compromise the result and repeats past results.” - Sol Lewitt Lifes journey begins with a single step - 10,000 hours begins with a single hour. Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 14 - INVITATION Tom Sachs 2021-06-11 | YOU ARE FORMALLY INVITED Mark your calendars. We are hosting an art show celebrating the work you’ve created along our Wear Tester journey. If you cannot attend in person - host your own art opening, and join us on IG Live. PUBLIC OPENING - FRIDAY JUNE 25TH, 5-8PM ETROCKEFELLER CENTER1250 6TH AVENY, NY 10020Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 12: 100 CINDER BLOCKS Tom Sachs 2021-06-01 | Everything is eventually returned. Today, we consider our relationship to the things in our lives.INSTRUCTIONS:Take 100 objects from their natural environment. Count them, then put them back.Video: @charlie_koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 11 - CARTOGRAPHY Tom Sachs 2021-05-23 | A map guides us forward and shows us where we’ve been. Build a comprehensive map to document your Wear Testing Journey going forwards and looking back. Track your progress. Capture your bingo points. Set your own standards of excellence.INSTRUCTIONS:1 - Make a chart documenting your out and back route. Include bingo points. Include dates.2 - Make a calendar or list and mark every completed assignment. mark every day you participate in one of the assignments.3 - Follow my format or invent your own.This is my map.Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 10: OUT AND BACK Tom Sachs 2021-05-14 | THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS SHOWING UP.Start by doing this twice a week. This is not about how fast you go, or how far - celebrate showing up. INSTRUCTIONS:1 - Plan your course. 2 - Set a timer for 10 minutes. 3 - Start your run. Go easy. Relax and be patient.4 - Run your course for 10 minutes. 5 - Stop when the time is up. This is the bingo point.6 - Mark this spot. Use any means necessary. This is a statement that you were here.7 - You have 10 minutes to get back.This run leaves a physical mark. Art is about mark making. Keep track of your marks on a map.Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 9: OUTPUT BEFORE INPUT Tom Sachs 2021-05-07 | TODAY WE FACE OUR ADDICTION. TODAY WE COMMIT TO OUTPUT BEFORE INPUT.We’ve had 8 hours of sleep where our subconscious minds are active, and working to make sense of the irrationality of our waking hours. We only have direct access to this very sacred, surreal, information immediately after waking. Input from the outside world destroys our access. We must output BEFORE input. Do not waste this moment. INSTRUCTIONS:1 - Wake up five minutes earlier than you’re used to.2 - Use this extra time to create a new habit. OUTPUT: Draw, write, dance, touch clay, etc. 3 - Before you bring in new information, you must express yourself outwardly.4 - Implement this into your daily routine. Continue this ritual, without fail, forever.Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
WEAR TESTER: PHASE 2 Tom Sachs 2021-05-03 | END INTERMISSIONPhase 2 Wear Testers have been selected. Our experiment will resume Monday, May 03. We invite you ALL to follow along and participate in our weekly challenges alongside the Wear Testers, regardless of whether you were selected or not.Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
WEAR TESTER: REPAIR Tom Sachs 2021-04-28 | RETURN AND REPAIRIn Phase 1, 150 Wear Testers were given the Mars Yard 2.5. Over 60 days, the shoes accumulated 216,000 hours of real world data. Each Wear Tester returned their pair to our Laboratory for analysis. The shoes were filthy, worn, torn, battered, broken, and stinky, but not beyond the point of salvation. Each pair was sanitized then mended, ready for redeployment.Thank you to every Phase 1 Wear Tester. Phase 2 starts next week.THE REWARD FOR GOOD WORK IS MORE WORKVideo by: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 8 - CLEANING PIECE Tom Sachs 2021-03-26 | Yoko Ono wrote the instructions for Cleaning Piece II 25 years ago. These instructions have been carried out by individuals privately and publicly around the world since then. I am executing them today. CLEANING PIECE II, YOKO ONO 1996Make a numbered list of sadness in your life. Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers. Add a stone, each time there is sadness.Burn the list, and appreciate the mount of stones for its beauty.Make a numbered list of happiness in your life.Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers.Add a stone, each time there is happiness.Compare the mount of stones to the one of sadness.Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 7 - FIND 36 THRESHOLDS Tom Sachs 2021-03-19 | PASSING THROUGH A THRESHOLD IS TRANSFORMING FROM ONE STATE OF MIND TO ANOTHERVideo challenge about thresholds: learn to recognize the moments of change in our lives. From the mundane to the profound, the humble to the majestic, thresholds define transitions in our lives.INSTRUCTIONS:1 - Identify 36 thresholds (moments and places of change). 2 - Take pictures and/or videos of them. 3 - Make and post one film showing all 36 thresholds. 4 - Omit all necessary frames. Make the movie as short as possible, but no shorter. Always. 5 - Tattoo step Number 4 onto your forehead in reverse order.Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 6 - MIDTERMS Tom Sachs 2021-03-13 | WE ARE HALFWAYThis week is an opportunity to reflect on the work so far. Refine, edit, and wrap it up.CHALLENGE 1 - PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONCHALLENGE 2 - HOW TO MAKE A PLANETCHALLENGE 3 - 5 PLANETS, 5 EXERCISESCHALLENGE 4 - WALK SOMEWHERE YOU’D NORMALLY DRIVECHALLENGE 5 - ARCHITECTURE MISSIONCHECK IN WITH YOURSELF - DEFINE YOUR OWN STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE AND TAKE THIS WEEK TO MEET THEMTHE REWARD FOR GOOD WORK IS MORE WORKVideo: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 5 - ARCHITECTURE Tom Sachs 2021-03-06 | ARCHITECTURE IS THE UNAVOIDABLE ARTINSTRUCTIONS1 - Pick 5 architectural points that mean something to you (don’t limit yourself to only buildings).2 - Visit them.3 - Document, and make a map.Architecture is like an emotion: good, bad, or indifferent. You can’t stop things from being designed. Whether it’s a brilliant piece of Eames, Noguchi, Mies van der Rohe or a compromised turd of disposable furniture - it’s still all part of architecture and design. Video: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 4 - WALK SOMEWHERE YOUD NORMALLY DRIVE Tom Sachs 2021-02-27 | THE ONLY THING YOU NEED FOR THIS IS A DESTINATION.INSTRUCTIONS:1 - Think of a place you’d normally drive.2 - Pick your route. Try to do this walk in a day.3 - Plan ahead. Pack a bag, essentials only.4 - Start your walk.5 - Document your journey - make a map.This is not about efficiency, set your own pace.This is not a hike, or a run. This is a walk.“Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.” - Werner HerzogVideo: Charlie Koss#nikecraftweartester #tomsachs
CHALLENGE 3: 5 PLANETS, 5 EXERCISES Tom Sachs 2021-02-19 | CHALLENGE 3 - 5 PLANETS, 5 EXERCISES Do these planet exercises at YOUR level. If you have doubts, do it at an easier level. Take it easier than you think. It’s not how many or how hard it is that matters, it's how WELL you do the exercises. Perfect your form. Use a mirror. Your body is the force that guides your planet around its cosmic orbit. Doing things correctly means doing everything correctly. Only the universe is perfect in its structure, but we can aspire to emulate its majestic perfection. INSTRUCTIONS:1 - Watch the video, and study the exercises.2 - Start easy, listen to your body. 3 - Move to the next level - only when you’ve mastered the one before.4 - Routine - make it count. Stage 1 - Do all 5 exercises twice a weekStage 2 - Do all 5 exercises 3 times a weekStage 3 - Do all 5 exercises every other day "The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery" - Carl Sagan#nikecraftweartester #isru #tomsachsVideo: Charlie KossExercises Pat Mannochia Founder, La Palestra @la_palestra_nyc
CHALLENGE 2: HOW TO BUILD A PLANET Tom Sachs 2021-02-13 | CHALLENGE 2 - HOW TO MAKE A PLANETMAKING IS A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE THINGS AROUND YOU.INSTRUCTIONS:1 - Identify the ideal weight of your planet (5-8 LBS max).2 - Select and weigh your materials.3 - Build your planet: think in terms of strength and durability. Keep it tight.4 - Your planet is finished when you are confident it can be thrown full force into the air, and land without fear of rupture - like a medicine ball.HOLD ON TO YOUR PLANET AND AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.PRO TIP: Use more tape than you think you should. I used two whole rolls. Keep in mind: this will be thrown around.MY PLANET:TYPE: terrestrial with a molten iron and nickel inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.WEIGHT - 6.01 LBSINNER CORE - molten iron and nickel, can of tomato sauceOUTER CORE - gel packMANTLE - bubble wrapCRUST - duct tape“What I cannot create, I do not understand” - Richard Feynman, 1988#nikecraftweartester #processart #materiality #tomsachs***NOTE: TAKE A PHOTO OF YOUR PLANET ONCE A DAY NO MATTER WHAT***
NIKECraft WEAR TESTER PHASE 1 Tom Sachs 2021-02-02 | Your submissions have been received, reviewed, and catalogued for future use. Wear Tester Phase One Group (001 - 149) have been notified via Instagram.Our testing process will begin on 2/1/21. We invite you ALL to follow along and participate in the weekly challenges alongside our testers, regardless of whether you were selected or not. Remember, the reward for good work is more work. Phase Two wear testers will be announced at the conclusion of Phase One.nikecraft.com
Tom Sachs ISRU Announcement Tom Sachs 2020-04-23 | Tom and the studio team use the principles of I.S.R.U to adapt to working in their own personal spaces outside the studio.
ISRU Week 2: Pencil to Paper Tom Sachs 2020-04-23 | Putting Pencil to Paper: Drawing the solution to a problem we want to solve is one of the easiest ways to get started on a new idea or project. We show you how to put pencil to paper and get started.
ISRU Week 1: Sharpening Our Tools Tom Sachs 2020-04-23 | Sharpening Our Tools: The size of your tool kit doesn't matter, a bag of pencils will get you just as far as a basement workshop. Take inventory of what you have and get Set Up.
ISRU Week 3: Introduction to Bricolage Tom Sachs 2020-04-23 | Intro to Bricolage: See the potential in your surroundings, and use what you have to solve problems and make things. In the studio we call it Bricolage. (bri·co·lage - noun): To build or repair with limited available resources.
How to Learn How to Surf Tom Sachs 2020-01-10 | This is a movie about bad surfers on the long, painful road to becoming OK surfers.
Paradox Bullets Q&A Tom Sachs 2019-02-25 | A conversation between Tom Sachs, Werner Herzog, and Van Neistat. Moderated by Jennifer Higgie at Frieze Los Angeles, February 15, 2019.
DEAR DR. S Tom Sachs 2017-11-08 | An appeal to Dr. S for assistance from the Sachs Research Laboratory Crew.Dir. Van Neistat.
Rocket Test: Jesus H. Christ Tom Sachs 2017-10-23 | Tom Sachs: Objects of Devotion Sperone Westwater257 Bowery, New York September 5 - October 28, 2017"Jesus H. Christ"English porcelain, carbon fiber, epoxy resinS/N: 2017.177.002Mass: 767.0gMotor: D12-3Peak Thrust: 32.9 N
Rocket Test: Elizabeth Taylor Tom Sachs 2017-10-10 | Tom Sachs: Objects of Devotion Sperone Westwater257 Bowery, New York September 5 - October 28, 2017"Elizabeth Taylor"Steel, lead, plasticS/N: 2017.177.036Mass: 2,009.4gMotor: D12-0Peak Thrust: 32.9 N
TOM SACHS: TEA CEREMONY Tom Sachs 2017-09-18 | A film by Tom Sachs, Charlie Koss, and Johnny FoggFoley Artist: Van NeistatGuest: Gray Sorrenti Host: Tom SachsShot on location at The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NYThank you Dakin Hart
SPACE CAMP: OBSTACLE COURSE Tom Sachs 2017-09-11 | NIKECRAFT Presents "SPACE CAMP: OBSTACLE COURSE" a film by Tom Sachs, Van Neistat, and Charlie Koss
Rocket Test 08.24.2017 Tom Sachs 2017-09-05 | Plywood Rocket Test:"Adam Steltzner"Plywood, resin, steel, latexS/N: 2017.117.005 Mass: 744gMotor: D12-0Thrust: 13.6 N
A Space Program Trailer Tom Sachs 2017-06-22 | Zeitgeist Films presents A Space Program. A film by Tom Sachs and Van Neistat. Now available on iTunes: tinyurl.com/yazwalhj
Nautical Challenge Tom Sachs 2013-12-09 | The epic off shore power boat race between Tom Sachs and Van Neistat summer of 2008, in New London, Connecticut. This movie was compiled by Alex Chohlas-Wood from clips from The Neistat Brothers HBO series in 2010. Directed by Van and Casey Neistat.A book documenting this competition is available on the Tom Sachs website: http://www.tomsachs.org/item/nautical-challenge
How to Sweep. By Tom Sachs Tom Sachs 2012-05-10 | Directed by Van Neistat, 2012. Watch the other two movies from the "Energies and Skills" trilogy:Love Letter to Plywood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxldyIa0BgSpace Camp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-jSSTGqU5cProduced on the occasion of Tom Sachs' Space Program: MARShttp://www.tomsachsmars.com
Space Camp. By Tom Sachs Tom Sachs 2012-05-10 | Directed by Van Neistat, 2012. Watch the other two movies from the "Energies and Skills" trilogy:Love Letter to Plywood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxldyIa0BgHow to Sweep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt-VlZpz-8EProduced on the occasion of Tom Sachs' Space Program: MARShttp://www.tomsachsmars.comFor information on the book featured in this film, Anatomy of Strength Training: The 5 Essential Exercises, visit www.exerciseanatomy.com
