Palace X Umbro

VISUAL CANDY. I'm busy celebrating easter so it's going to be a lazy post today, in others words: nothing brand new to treat you with.
With that said, this is my favorite collaboration from last year, and, admittedly, one of my all-time-favorite collabos.
The 90's inspired, casual football fan collection Palace Skateboards did for football brand Umbro just does it for me. Everything from the product design to the fantastic video marketing the collections is spot on.

I read "The Football Factory" long ago and really liked the rough vibe of the book. I'm not all that keen on the movie with the same name – it doesn't capture the feel of the book.
If I had it my way, they would film a re-make, with the guys behind this video producing and directing.
A smash hit for sure!
You're well advised to check out more of Palace's videos, top stuff!

Read a bit about how this collabo came to be, here.

The Nike Free 5.0

ADLAND. Besides the countless collaborations and coming up with new colorways for old sneakers, Nike also designs new stuff. During the past couple of years my main interest has been the Nike Free shoe-line.
Now the Free 5.0 is about to drop and with it comes a marketing campaign. In my opinion this new kaleidoscope inspired commercial really nails the "free" concept. Just watching you actually feel the shoe bend with your foot.
Nike promises us this shoe will be able to flex like crazy. I just hope they can deliver on that promise.

Tricky feat Francesca Belmonte

I'm really into this new tune "Does It" by Tricky featuring Franceseca Belmonte. The UK artist is about to release his tenth studio album "False Idols" come may, and judging by this tune the album may very well be Trickys return to the international spotlight.
Announced at the official Tricky website is a short european tour prior to the album release. No swedish dates, so i'll probably miss out, but if you're able to attend any of the venues, don't hesitate.
Yet another tune from the forthcoming album named "Nothing's Changed" can be found and downloaded – for free – from the Tricky website.

Bear House

VISUAL CANDY. I like Bearbricks as much as the next guy and have a small collection going on at home. Every time I buy clothes or other stuff from a store that carries Bearbricks I get a few packs as well. Recently I've been thinking about getting something fancy for my collection – like a display stand.

But not even in my wildest dreams would I've come up with what this thai family did for their collection. Their entire house is built to show off their precious Bearbricks. Don't know if I would wanna live there, but it would be a really cool place to visit!

Bearbricks are produced by japanese toy company Medicom. The Thai house is designed by Onion and you can check out the whole bear house feature here.

Jellyfish Eyes

MUSHI MUSHI. This may be slightly old news for everybody out there, not for me though, I stumbled upon it just now while browsing the web.

Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has a full length feature about to premier in Japan on the 23d of April. I'm really into his art and judging by this trailer "Jellyfish Eyes" will be a whole heap of fun. Sadly I haven't got the slightest clue if – and when – this will be available outside of Japan.

For those of you with a short term memory i'd like to take this opportunity and remind you of his latest video "Superflat" for Louis Vuitton, hot stuff!

English, please.

Ok, so I notice a lot of my traffic seems to be coming from the glorious land across the Pond, and a fair bit from the beautiful british isles.

I guess y'all can't make any sense whatsoever of my swedish ramblings. Well, hey, I'm a nice guy, so what I'll do is I'll switch it all into your language. You just got to bear with me when my english isn't on point, I'm not a native speaker.

So, to all you lovely visitors from the US of A, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland or wherever else you may be visiting from, a great big WELCOME to Bits N Tings!

Wes Anderson X Prada

 

REKLAMSPANING. Mitt i alltihop så dyker den här lilla pärlan till reklamfilm upp. Regisserad av Wes Anderson och Roman Coppola. 

Nu ska erkännas att jag inte är Wes Anderson största fan eller någon frankofil för den delen. Men visst kan man lugnt säga att Andersons visuella stil gifter sig alldeles utmärkt med drömbilden av ett pastellfärgat romantiskt Frankrike.

Ja just det, kunden är Prada och produkten en parfym döpt till Candy.