The Row x Toms shoe drop in Honduras

I love this video of the Olsen twins and Blake Mycoskie doing a shoe drop in Honduras.  If you're having  a bad day, watch this, I guarantee it will put a smile on your face.

The Original Party

Antes de mais, desculpem a ausência, tem sido complicado vir aqui actualizar nesta fase final de mestrado mas hoje já chega ao fim, tenho a defesa oral do trabalho final de mestrado esta tarde e férias.

Apesar da minha vontade de terminar o mestrado, a verdade é que passei muitos bons momentos e aprendi imenso. Conheci muitas pessoas diferentes de mim, com outras culturas e personalidades muito distintas, aprendi e cresci com elas. Entre vários projectos individuais e em conjunto, este ano passou a voar.

Um desses trabalhos foi uma publicidade em vídeo para uma marca à nossa escolha, a escolhida foi Adidas.
O conceito foi simples, Adidas é para todos, e a ideia era juntar todos os estilos e tipos de pessoas numa festa Adidas, num ambiente de felicidade e diversão onde não há espaço para a preocupação.

E o resultado foi este...



Before anything else, sorry for my absence, it has been complicated coming here in this last phase of my master, but today it comes to an end, I have my final presentation this afternoon and then vacations at last.

Although I'm really eager to finish, the truth is I've spent really great moments and learned a lot. I met really different people from me, with other cultures and distinct personalities, I've learned and grew with them. Between many individual and group projects the year passed by so quickly, and I'm going to miss it.

One of those projects was a video campaign for a band of our selection, the chosen one was Adidas. The concept was simple, Adidas is for everyone, and the idea was to put together all styles and different people together in an Adidas Original party, in a fun, happy and free care set.

And this was the result...

Adidas from Ajoke on Vimeo.


Project by Cláudia (Lau) Figueiredo
                 Marta Fonseca
                 Mafalda Sistelo
                 Marco García

(VIDEO) The Arcade Fire @ Rivoli, Toronto, 2003

Many of us are looking forward to The Arcade Fire's show at Olympic Island this weekend. They just played a show at Madison Square Gardens in NYC with a Terry Gilliam-directed live stream to YouTube - some good quality video has surfaced over at Vimeo. But just prior to that, one of the band's earliest performances caught to video filmed by a friend of the The Arcade Fire's Richard Parry surfaced on Vimeo. It was filmed at the Rivoli in Toronto in 2003; I'm not sure which month in 2003 the performance is from but according to Us Kids Know, they played the Rivoli in 2003 twice, first in July and then in September. What's so intriguing for me about the video is that it captures the band at a stage in their career that's not wholly different from how they are now, except for maybe their haircuts. It's cool to see the video also because, it was also 2003 that I'd first saw The Arcade Fire live when a few friends and I went to Pop Montreal and saw them play Club Soda. If not blown away, I was deeply impressed by them and they were the opening band that night. So check out their performance at the Rivoli in 2003, with the band performing "Wake Up", "No Cars Go" and "Old Flame":

ARCADE FIRE Live 2003 from Bennett on Vimeo.