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Ghana in Fog: Paul Octavious’ Unreal Video of Soccer in the Park

Clive Longbottom-Fellow, Esq. — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:28:17 +0000

Every now and again, you are rewarded for carrying around video recording capability.

Photographer and designer Paul Octavious was taking a stroll through the park. Unsurprisingly, there was a soccer game going on. So he decided to record. Turns out, he later found out that the team he was taping was the Ghanaian National Team.

Whether or not this actually is THE Ghanaian national team is a side issue. Many of us soccer folk have been told crazier stories by people claiming to be members of, or affiliated with, various national teams. The point is, this is a beautifully shot and edited video.

You can check out more of Octavious’ non-soccer work here, and then watch this over and over again. I can’t stop.

(H/T to @jellenp for putting us on.)

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World Cup Rewind: Revisiting USA vs. Algeria in Pictures

Miriti Murungi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:37:11 +0000

Allow me to take you back. Back to a place where temperatures were not that hot, nor that cold. To a day that made me temporarily lose my mind. To a venue where an Algerian guy stole my vuvuzela. Okay, I gave it to him accidentally. Anyway, here are some picture from the U.S. vs. Algeria match.Click on the thumbnail to begin the slideshow. Hope you enjoy. Better late than never, right?

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World Cup-Inspired Art – Paul Goodnight

Clive Longbottom-Fellow, Esq. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:16:42 +0000

Renowned Boston artist Paul Goodnight has a distinguished history of creating works of art for international sporting events. Goodnight created works for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. But Goodnight’s work extends beyond the Olympic realm. He also created a poster for the 1998 World Cup in France. Not a bad resume. Add to this the 1997 U.S. Sports Academy Artist of the Year Award, works included in television and film features, and countless other impressive accomplishments and accolades, and you’ll soon come to the conclusion that Goodnight is just showing off. I kid, Mr. Goodnight.

Once again, Goodnight is using his artistic skills to add dimension to a World Cup. His work is included in the 2010 Fine Art Project, an official 2010 World Cup collaboration that brings together a range of artists from around the world to create works inspired by Africa’s first World Cup.

Goodnight’s contribution to the 2010 Fine Art Collection (shown above) is a painting called “The Network”. This piece is drawn from a broader set of incredible working drawings (below) that are now for sale.

Check out “The Network” and pieces from other artists here. As a side note, my work was not included in the 2010 Fine Art Project because apparently “stick figures” are not representative of fine art. Maybe I’m biased, but I believe that my stick figures are indeed “fine”.

Football Art @ 2010 Fine Art

Clive Longbottom-Fellow, Esq. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:51:19 +0000

With so much attention on what might be going wrong with the build up to the World Cup in South Africa (and there have been legitimate concerns), we would like to devote some time and energy to some of the things that are being done right.

The 2010 Fine Art project, created by Managing Director, Craig Mark, combines art and football into two powerful projects, the 2010 African Fine Art Collection and the 2010 International Fine Art Collection. The 2010 African Fine Art Collection is positioned to use the World Cup as a way to introduce the world to African art, and more specifically to provide artists from Africa with a global platform to exhibit, market, and sell their works to international clients that were previously difficult to reach. The 2010 African Fine Art Collection includes everything from sculptures, to painting, to photography, and “embodies the true diversity of African beauty and directly mirrors the joy and grace of football itself.” According to the project, the African Fine Art Collection “will further bolster one of the primary goals of the African Legacy Programme of the FIFA World Cup: to improve Africa’s global image and to combat Afro-pessimism – through the medium of fine art.”

However, the 2010 Fine Art project doesn’t end with African art. The project is also projecting the “positive energy and Afro-enthusiasm” internationally through the 2010 International Fine Art Collection. The International Fine Art Collection brings together leading contemporary artists from around the world to create works inspired by the 2010 World Cup. The collection draws five leading contemporary artists from each of the 32 countries that qualified for the 2010 World Cup to to interpret the same theme, drawing inspiration from Africa, the World Cup, and their country’s own national pride, in the style of their choice.

The 2010 Fine Art project is one of the many examples of people using the World Cup to connect football with other creative outlets, and to increase cultural awareness.

Check out some of the art at http://www.2010fineart.com/. There’s some fantastic work.