The sun beams down on the city of Melbourne, strawberries & cream are flying off the shelves of Coles & Woollies, & tennis courts across the land see a massive increase in attendance: it can only mean one thing; summer is here & the Australian Open is on!
To celebrate, Nike took tennis style out to the streets with their very cool Sportswear Polo Van. The van parked all across Melbourne, giving fans the chance to customize their own Polo tennis shirt. All they had to do was request their favourite colour, number & style, & Nike created it on the spot for an instant souvenir! Cool eh!?
To confirm their good taste, Nike partnered up with Miami Horror to create this very cool video of #1 tennis player in the world & all round hot stuff, Rafael Nadal sharing his story behind his Number 9 customised GS Polo. Listen out for Miami’s Summersun accompanying Rafael’s story, which has also been posted on nikesportswear.com.au and all over facebook.
Here’s what happened when Rafael visited the Nike Polo Van:
And whilst Rafa may have taken a tumble in the quarter finals, Miami Horror continue to provide the soundtrack to the summer with Illumination… Holidays just placed #54 in the esteemed triple j Hottest 100 2010. Congrats boys!
Lifewithoutandy captured MH in fine form last night at the Beach Rd. Hotel in Bondi. The boys are making their way around the country performing a series of intimate summer themed shows to launch their new single Holidays.
It seems the gospel of MH has reached it’s way all the way to L.A with Ke$ha rocking up up to see what all the fuss was about.
Being the gentlemen they are, the MH lads sent Ke$ha and her crew a round of shots to show their hospitality.
Check out all the shots from the night at Lifewithoutandy.com. These shots will also be up on LifeLounge.com and submitted to MTV, popmag and Pedestrian.tv. Here’s a few to whet your appetite:
Thanks so much to Mitch for making these shots happen!
Miami Horror and the talented lads at Krozm (the film directing duo of Chris Hill and Lachlan Dickie) headed over to sunny California a short while back to work on the video for their soon-to-be summer hit Holidays. Their film documents the blossoming romance between actress Fernanda and Cephalopod career Keith… and the rest is history.
Here’s the tale from the Krozm lads themselves!
We met Keith at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach CA where he was holding a job as head Cephalopod carer.
Apparently he has some sort of extra sensory ability built into his facial nodes which allows him to communicate with various species of mollusc and he did seem to have quite an intimate relationship with the aquariums oldest octopus who goes by the name of Fat Albert. However apparently the true nature of Keith’s unique facial features is quite a sensitive subject (literally) and rumour has it that the last person who enquired as to the specifics of his facial nodes ended up in hospital the following day in a critical condition due to the effects of an unidentified organic neuro-toxin which was strangely quite similar in composition to the venom of the highly poisonous Synanceia or as its more commonly known, the Indo-Pacific Stone Fish.
Anyhow we got to talking with Keith who is coincidentally quite the renaissance man. We chatted about a mutual love of Martin Luther-King Jnr, Ghandi, haiku poetry and Dennis Hopper. In fact we became such good friends that he invited us to dinner with his actress girlfriend Fernanda Romero. Suffice to say we all became close friends and as we were so enchanted by their inspiring relationship we asked if we could film a short documentary of their blossoming affinity during a weekend getaway up the Californian coast.
We pitched this love affair / road trip idea to the Miami Horror guys who immediately fell in love with our new-found friend’s story and as luck would have it the band were actually on vacation after touring in California. So we planned out our journey with the idea of meeting up with the Miami Horror guys on the road as we went.
Keith and Fernanda’s natural chemistry on and off camera was central to this project. Basically there was no “acting”, these guys are actually in love and we felt privileged to be along for the ride with a camera in hand.
In retrospect we may have stepped over the line by hanging around in their hotel room a little too long after hours…. Earlier edits did explore the more candid aspects of this footage and although we could release a quite intimately revealing, yet commercially viable version of the video we were bound to respect the secrets of Keith’s truly special skills.
We hope you enjoy this inspiring tale of love and freedom.
- Krozm
Now that you’re in a festive summer mood, get yourself along to the exclusive, limited capacity Miami Horror shows in November.
You’ll never get the chance to see Miami Horror in these kinds of venues, but they wanted to do something special to kick off summer and launch Holidays before they head off to play festivals and parties around Oz (plus an upcoming European tour!)
How about dropping in at The Capitol on Thursday evening for a quiet beer and a not-so-quiet music showcase? From 7.30pm we’re proudly presenting a stellar lineup of Australian (& Japanese) talented artists to whet your palate for the following festival daze / days.
Not well acquainted with the lineup? Read about each of the artists below the jump…
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