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Here’s a new spot for Nike by Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, featuring LeBron James, Anderson Varejao, JJ Hickson, Daniel Gibson, Greg Oden, Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, Lil Wayne and Jamie Nared.

The song used is called Candyman by Cornershop. Very cool concept.

Credits:

Client: Nike
Title: The Chalk
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
Creative Directors: Alberto Ponte, Tyler Whisnand, Jeff Williams
Copywriter: Caleb Jensen
Art Director: Taylor Twist
Executive Creative Directors: Mark Fitzloff, Susan Hoffman
Agency Producer: Erika Madison
Production Company: Anonymous Content, Los Angeles
Director: Mark Romanek
Executive Producer: Dave Morrison
Producer: Aris McGarry
Head of Production: Sue Ellen Clair
Director of Photography: Adam Kimmel
Editor: Robert Duffy
Post-Production: Spot Welders
Post Producer: Carolina Wallace
Assistant Editor: Patrick Murphree
Audio Post-Production: Lime
Mixer: Loren Silber
Colorist: Siggy Ferstl @ Riot
Effects: Digital Domain
VFX Supervisors: Brad Parker, Vernon Wilbert
VFX EP: Karen Anderson
VFX Producer: Melanie LaRue
Senior Flame Artists: Chris De Cristo, Andrew Eksner, Jonny Hicks, Pilon Lectez
Talent: LeBron James, Anderson Varejao, JJ Hickson, Daniel Gibson, Greg Oden, Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, Lil Wayne, Jamie Nared
Music: “Candyman” by Cornershop

Lebron James and Nicole Scherzinger star in this funky new spot from w+k for Nike. Music credits can be found below.

Gotta love the dialogue:

Lebron: Now see what they smell like… they smell good?
Nicole: Ohhhhh they smell good.

Eward Harrison, Sasha Swetschinski and Desmond Marzette were the creatives responsible for this spot along with Ben Grylewicz and Endy Hedman as the Executive & Agency Producers. Brian Billow from Hungry Man was the Director with Nate Young as the Producer. Post production was by Filmcore with Charlie Keating responsible for all the post-audio.

The songs used in this spot are the Westchester Lady by Bob James and In The Mood by Tyrone Davis.

Vuitton….Louis Vuitton. Everyone’s favorite James Bond, Sean Connery, can now be added to the list of recent celebrities recruited to star in a Annie Leibowitz shot campaign for fashion designer Louis Vuitton. Promoting their ‘Core Values’ effort, Sean Connery joins other celebrities like Keith Richards, Sofia and Francis Ford Coppola, Andre Agassi and Mikhail Gorbachev. The campaign benefits The Climate Project, which is run by Al Gore. In order to get Gorbachev to model for the campaign, a donation was made to Green Cross International, an environmental organization founded by the former Soviet leader in 1993.

The tag-line reads,

There are journeys that turn into legends

The 78 year old retired actor is pictured relaxing on a dock near his home in the Bahamas. Two other pieces in the campaign are shown below.

Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola:

Keith Richards:

Gorbachev:

Here’s the latest to come from Copywriter/Art Director duo Michael Illick and Eric Baldwin of w+k fame, it’s two Old Spice Swagger commercials complete with celebrity cameos. LL Cool J stars in the one shown above, explaining to us that he wasn’t always as ‘cool’ as he is now, he used to be an awkward teenager. That is, he was until he started using Old Spice Swagger, at which point he apparently transformed into a self-absorbed R&B star. Good for him.

The second in the series (shown beneath the fold) features a similar story line but this time with Chicago Bears Linebacker Brian Urlacher. He wasn’t just a dork, he was a lisp-having drama queen….That is, until he started using Old Spice Swagger.
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Here’s a recent commercial for Foot Locker and Nike that features NBA stars Caron Butler, Rudy Gay, Shawn Marion and Amare Stoudemire.

Created by Chris McMurtrey (Copywriter) and Scott Higgins (Art Director) from Nitro USA, this spot shows us what it’d be like if having fun on the Santa Monica Pier meant playing full-contact basketball using the entire 2000 ft. boardwalk as a court.

Dave Meyers Directed this piece with @radical.media, Los Angeles (Frank Scherma was the Executive Producer with Paul Cameron as DP). Adam Schwartz from Beast did the Editing with Jai Shukla as the Assistant Editor. Tim Masick from Company 3 was the Colorist and Peter Holcolmb from Sound Lounge was the Sound Mixer. JD Williams from Driver was the Executive Producer.

The song used in this commercial is Strobe’s Nanafushi (Satori Mix) from Kodo.