Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Adidas House Match Ad

This fun ad has a bunch of top soccer players, current and former (David Beckham, Gareth Bale, Zinedane Zedane, Lucas Moura), hanging around in David Beckham's house (allegedly), playing themselves in a soccer video game. Well, they decide to "play for real" in the house, and as in real life, things get broken. It's really cool, but I would have loved to see some extra even crazier stuff.

Like, for example, Beckham is an Englishman, like the artist Damien Hirst, and so I thought it might be fun for Hirst's big pickled-shark-in-a-tank work (The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living) to be in Beckham's house, and to have the tank get smashed with the soccer ball, letting the shark out of the tank, and having the shark wake up and try to play soccer with its tail and try to bite someone, whereupon they say: "Hey, no biting, Suarez!"

Here's the home game (I'm surprised they didn't call it "Home Game", rather than "House Match"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfpIL9anHo

And this is that Damien Hirst shark thingy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living