Visa World Cup Commercial

Recently, I had the wonderful oppourtunity to work in spec for Visa’s 2010 World Cup Mobile Commercial. The selected winners of mobile video competition host by Mofilms.com, will be entered into the advertising film festival at Cannes. The Visa requirements were simple: “Show us why football fans love the game more than any other sport- how it divides us, how it unites us, how each nation, culture, team and individual fan expresses their passion in their own unique way.”
Local advertising professionals, Vanessa Katz and Lindsay Coomes came up with the creative for the competition and director Colin Lewis executed the witty treatment for their unique creative. In the three extremely short weeks the team had to submit the project, they shot, edited and completed the One mintue commercial. Here’s what they came up with: The Visa Mobile Video “Beyond Ready”

Colin Lewis on the project,”This Visa spot was special because someone else came up with the creative for me. It is an example of great work with talented people in advertising to visualize a common goal.” In the effort to create a larger campaign and gear people up for World Cup 2010, a channel was create called “World Cup Ready.” Visit World Cup Ready for more on the Visa spec and other videos on 2010 promotion.

Check out other Spec from the director:

• Blue Point “Boyfriend”
• Blue Point “Toasted Lager”
• Fabreeze “Fast Food”
• Fabreeze “Party”
• Gas X “Meeting”
• Gas X “Dutch Oven”

For more information on Colin’s past project and upcoming specs visit Colin Lewis’ page.
For more information on Vanessa Katz and Lindsay Coomes, please contact us.

The Spirrs Teams is proud be apart of the creative scene “Parting of the Red Sea” and greatly thankful for playing a role in the making of  the 2010 World Cup Spec.  Spirrs Team will continue to support the young vibrant advertizing proffesionals and directors of the Big Apple. 

Chinatown Charity Showdown

Here’s the Upcoming event in Chinatown NYC.  It is something you can not miss.  NBA stars amoung the best footballers in the world, playing for a cause that goes beyond super stardom. Organized by  two very special Organizations, the events highlights the joining of foundation missions to better give back to the world’s children. Both the Claudio reyna Foundation and the Steve Nash Foundation will come together in the star studded event to raise money to aid the growing support of their foundation work around the world.

Press Release:

Chinatown NYC June 24, 2009- NBA stars. Soccer’s best. An urban field. A sweet 8-a-side game of futbol in the middle of a city benefiting children’s programs on three continents.Steve brings his passion play back to NYC and this year to Vancouver in this innovative match that any sports fan will love. Showcasing athletes from two sports, Showdown is the beautiful game at its most creative. With international rosters including Steve Nash, Thierry Henry, Yao Ming, Claudio Reyna, Tony Parker, Adrian Mutu, Grant Hill, Giovanni van Brockhurst, Raja Bell, Ivan Cordoba, Baron Davis, Javier Zanetti and Chris Bosh the Showdowns are events not to be missed! Set amongst a sea of concrete, the Park is an oasis in an urban jungle. In 2008, fans of all ages crowded the pitch to watch Thierry Henry, Salomon Kalou and soccer greats match skills against Steve, Jason Kidd, and other NBA stars.The Showdown is a free-to-the-public event. See you there!

This is a FREE event, so show your support.  Here’s a Run Down of the day.

• 9:00 am                                              Venue Opens: NYC Parks Kids Clinic #1
• 10:00 am                                            Street Festival Opens : NYC Parks Kids Clinic #2
• 11:00 am                                             NYC Parks Kids Clinic #3
• 1:30 pm                                               Reyna Academy – Warm-Up
• 2:00 pm                                               Reyna Academy – Match
• 4:00 pm                                               Showdown Pro Players – Arrive
• 5:00 pm                                               Showdown– 1st Half
• 5:30 – 5:45 pm                                 Showdown- Half-Time
• 5:45 – 6:15 pm                                  Showdown – 2nd Half
• 6:30 pm - 7pm                                  Block Party

Please Visit the Claudio Reyna Foundation’s New Website and the Steve Nash Foundation’s Homepage for more information on helping the global youth develope through the sports and education. For more Information on the Soccer Showdown, go the event’s official site: Soccer Showdown NYC.

This years Showdown:

The Spirrs Team is a Proud Supporter of the Claudio Reyna Foundation and the Steve Nash Foundation.

Follow Us on Facebook…

Hello Everyone! Now, you can follow Us on Facebook! Not that this is big news. In this day and age, who doesn’t have a facebook page? But it is certainly nice and convenient to be able to follow your favorite websites and companies on a social media platform you check multiple times a day. So, come by dropcheck out whats happening, drop a message, tell us how we’re doing, give us some though or just say Hi. Cheerio Facers….book on!

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Siyanakekela:We Care

Siyanakekel: We care.

The organizations name speaks for itself “Siyanakekela,” Zulu for “We Care.”  Located in the heart of the Umlazi township on the East Coast of Durban, South Africa, the small yet significant organization raises through crime and poverty to aid the hunger of Aids/HIV inflicted children. 

The Spirrs Team is a Proud Supporter of Siyanankekela. Stayed posted on the lastest news from our team about the upcoming Non-Profit Organization that will be create in the continung efforts of supporting Siyanakekela and international foundations and charities alike.

 

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Set to Launch the Long Awaited Spirr-it.com Website

After the long awaited deadline for the up and coming Spirr-it.com website, the SPIRR’s Network is ramping up for the launch of their News Aggregate website.  Set to go live by the end of the month, soccer players, parents, coaches and fans will be able to share soccer information on the internet with ease, precision and confidence.  Much like the strikingly successful news aggregation website digg.com the new soccer aggregate will produce the most note-worthy soccer content from all “corners” of the web.  The information, might it be articles,  images, videos or even websites, will be user submitted and user approved.  All web content submissions will be subject to the opinions and votes of other users.  Good, knowledgeable, helpful and most of all interesting content, will seeming raise to the top with more votes, while dull useful information will sink to the depths of the net.

So, get ready! Soon,  the Soccer community will be able to share the best football information while voting out the less admirable web content.

For more about Spirr-it.com, Click Here. Otherwise, Just Visit Spirr-it.com and Check out all it has to offer.

Claudio Reyna Foundation: Joining Urban Youth from Across the River

Sunday May 31, 2009 marked the first ever Claudio Reyna Foundation Brooklyn Vs Newark Season Wrap-up Game. All were welcome, as players, parents, coaches, fans and family gathered at St. Benedicts Prep in New Jersey to witness this fruitful game between the Brooklyn and Newark teams. The game culminates and highlights the hard work of the inner city youth hand selected to be apart of such a special program. In the Fall of 2008, Claudio Reyna started his foundation in hopes to create a Soccer Acadecy that would do more that just give children a place to play. The Academy welcomed young players from Brooklyn, NY and Newark, NJ to take part in this educational development program that exceeds the lines of the playing field. As founder Claudio Reyna describes, the mission is to “motivate and support underpriviledge youth around the globe by providing positive experiences through education, commnity involvement, and sport that grow healthy bodies, minds and spirits.” This game represented a full year of player, parent and coaching support and committment to creating this vision.

With the sun over head and not a cloud in site, the small turf field presented a nice hot surface for the 8v8 match. Each team dressed in their bright, bold jersey baring TEAM Brooklyn and TEAM Newark, were ready and eager to play. Anxious players and excited parents lined the field. As everyone gathered for the opening words from Claudio Reyna, smell of hot dogs and hamburgers filled the air. He explained the significant gesture of Jersey trading, how it is done all over the world and how especially important it was in the joining of two teams. The player representative of TEAM Brooklyn and TEAN Newark, shook hands and traded sign Jerseys, and the teams were ready to go.

To the surprise of many, as the players moved onto, their teams were divided. Team Brooklyn spilt and Team Newark separated. Before both team could realize, there were two evenly matched teams. Players stood side-by-side with new teammates from across the river. With one goal in mind, the lines of Brooklyn and Newark began to fade and game began. The coaches took the field and everyone was involved. The flare, character and personalities of the inner city kid displayed “fun” to the fullest. The sound of laughter and cheering combined with excitement of the game couldn’t depict a better sunday afternoon.

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A few word from Claudio on the day, “So nice to see the parents, kids, friends and guests enjoy the afternoon. Having the kids get to meet each other from the two Academies was my personal highlight.
They exchanged jerseys before the game and in keeping with the spirit of the afternoon were only concerned about getting to know each other and not so much on who was winning the game. We decided to mix the kids up so they can play with kids from the other Academy and I believe this made the game much more relaxing for the kids. I want to thank everyone for their work today and throughout the past year in making this happen. This is just the beginning and with continued hard work we will make an impact on more families in the future.”

For more information on the Claudio Reyna Foundation please visit www.claudioreynafoundation.org

Spirrs team is a Proud Supporter of the Claudio Reyna Foundation.

Puma v1.815 FG Ferrari Limited Edition

 

If you havn’t checked out these already…go to Prodirectsoccer.com for more….If anyone was lucky enough to get there hands on this, please comment.

Product decription provided by ProDirectSoccer:

 How do you make the fastest boot on the planet even faster? Simple – collaborate with arguably the biggest name in motorsport. This is exactly what Puma have done and the end result is the ultra-limited, highly desirable Puma v1.815 Ferrari Edition. At a quick glance the boot could look like a new v1 boot, but this isn’t just a cosmetic enhancement. The designers at Puma spent a over two years collaborating, creating and crafting the PUMA v1.815 Ferrari with alterations and additions to make the ultimate elite level football boot that everyone will want. The look of the boot is simply stunning and the flowing lines of the Puma stripe perfectly match the silhouette of the boot giving a sleek overall style. Along the side of the boot is the classy Ferrari Prancing Horse logo which gives a stunning final result.  The Ferrari red originates from the sport of Formula 1, where each country was assigned a colour. Red was assigned to Italian cars, Green to English, Blue to France and so on. The red for Ferrari has remained ever since and now is iconic with some of the greatest moments in the sports history.

 

 

Cheers!