Oh yes it’s officially basketball season, and with that comes the best commercials in the biz. Yesterday premiered the LeBron James “Rise” from Nike Basketball and late last night premiered this funny gem for Dwyane Wade (channeling James Bond) via the Jordan Brand imprint “Dominate Another Day”. Love the Kobe, ‘Bron, Magic, & Celtic references.
Click the photo for Behind the Scenes Shots via Complex Mag. Click here for a look at the marketing done for the launch via NiceKicks.
Absolutely awesome commercial. Brings to mind so many of the great Nike Basketball commercials of the past, in tone, pacing, and direct reference (We see you Chuck).
I spent my formative years in Atlanta, thus Creative Loafing was required reading, f0r those that don’t know, think of it as the Atlanta equivalent to LA Weekly, but better. So before you made your way down to Little 5, The Tabernacle, or The Underground, you knew what was going down.
Long story short I often hit them and Maurice Garland regularly to stay up on the latest happenings in the city thats got my heart. Every year they put together an excellent issue dedicated solely to the music emanating from the city. The latest was no doubt one of the magazine’s strongest. Atlanta has been bubbling over with new talent recently that are now gaining public awareness and Creative Loafing did a great job of bringing it all together in this year’s edition.
This is a visualization of 25,000 barrels of oil looks like. Remember 25,000 comes form the initial estimate that was given to oil spilling PER DAY. It appears to be closer to 50,000.
This was made using the powerful Unreal engine that powers many video games today.
Multidisciplinary artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, known as Haas&Hahn have been making amazing murals, not only by their artistic quality but also by their sheer scope. Haas&Hahn get the help of the local kids to help them construct their pieces. The results are beautiful and inspiring.
Their most recent piece, “O Morro“, spreads over 7000 square meters and 34 buildings in Rio’s Santa Marta neighborhood. The plan is to turn the neighborhood into a living and active landmark.
Google tests the speed of its recently released browser, in a sort of Rube Goldberg setup. They compare Chrome to electricity, a potato gun, and sound waves. Its pretty dope.
This is a damn dope concept: McDonalds and high fashion. With this project by TheCoolHunter’s latest dedicated entity Access Agency, scheduled to launch this year, they have brought together both the universally accessible and the universally aspirational. The results have been fly:
