{"product_id":"floater-blurring-basketball-lines","title":"FLOATER: Blurring Basketball Lines","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFLOATER: BLURRING BASKETBALL LINES, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eChinatown Basketball Club's first book that celebrates CBC past 5 years (2019-2024) unique blend of competitive basketball and aesthetic experimentation, with essays contributed by Herb Tam, Lu Zhang, Reef (Harith Liew), Sean Catangui, Alex Zhang, Chiarina Chen and Dustin Lin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough documentation of its graphic production and critical texts, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFLOATER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a collective, de-centered, and Asian approach to re-imagining basketball aesthetics, a space dominated by corporate expressions of aggression, masculinity and elitism. It traces how CBC has cultivated collective creativity over five years of collaborative poster art, graphics, and events—addressing questions such as: Is there an alternative, distinctly Asian (diaspora) way of experiencing basketball? Could there be a basketball aesthetic rooted in Asian (diaspora) that exists outside mainstream basketball culture? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn anatomy, “floater” refers to tiny specks or shapes that drift across one’s field of vision—never fixed, always in motion. More broadly, the term describes something that remains suspended, either on the surface of water or in the air. In basketball, a floater is a short-range, high-arching shot above the reach of a taller defender. In many senses, floater suggests a suspension of outcomes—full of possibility, hovering just out of reach.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e6.25x9in, 287 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book is made possible with support from TRF.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDesigned by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quxinyuan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eXinyuan Qu\u003c\/a\u003e. Co-published by Chinatown Basketball Club and\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/squeezesour\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e linlin Plum\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CBC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42310602981474,"sku":null,"price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0866\/5580\/files\/01_0fd1c348-7634-4ff4-b3ae-7ee8db923ba3.jpg?v=1763056442","url":"https:\/\/actualsource.org\/products\/floater-blurring-basketball-lines","provider":"Actual Source","version":"1.0","type":"link"}