Always looking to support innovations in technology, AS|D Labs sponsored Jackbot, the self-driving robot car built by Assembla. The Jackbot was built for the Mini Grand Challenge competition run by Penn State Abington, where it WON! Congrats guys!
Street artist WK Interact has teamed up with Nike for their Nightmares Never Sleep campaign to promote the brands 2010 Air Jordan’s. The campaign, designed to depict basketball start Dwayne Wade as a nightmare on the basketball court had WK Interact painting walls around NYC, documented in the below video.
The Spyder version of the Audi R8 Supercar made it’s public debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show, and is now making it’s film debut via this promo video floating around the web. When you watch the ad, crank the sound to eleven Spinal Tap style. Listening to the sound effects captured in the video conjore the feelings of power and fear that the car can give you the abilities to wield over all mankind. When released the drop top version of the R8 will feature the 525 hp, 391 ft lb of torque V10 and will be capable of reaching 194 mph. More importantly it will also be capable of cruising at 5 mph around town for all your ego-boosting needs.
Considering I get a touch of the bah humbug spirit around this time of year, I thought a reference to the Grinch would be appropriate. Thanks to PHAROE and GRINCH for taking over this Disney The Princess and the Frog billboard and making my job easier!
As my Father pointed out to me, Heineken recently began re-broadcasting it’s walk-in fridge TV commercial. To coincide with the relaunch of the campaign, Heineken placed giant homeless mansions walk-in fridge boxes around, perhaps the only place high enough to believe these were from real fridges, Amsterdam, to make people think that the walk-in fridge from the beer makers ad was actually available for purchase.
In a previous post I told you about noted blind artist Esref Armagan painting the new 2011 Volvo S60. Since then, Volvo placed the painting up for auction on eBay, where it fetched $3050. that was donated to the World Blind Union.