With an all star cast including Koby Bryant, Kanye West, Bruce Willis and Danny “Machete” Trejo, this 5 minute long Nike advert directed by Robert Rodriguez, surely must be up there with the most expensive adverts ever made. Very cool indeed.. even if you don’t like basketball!

The BBC has an interesting little piece about Ben Wilson, an artist who has taken to the streets of London in an attempt to brighten them up by painting on bits of used chewing gum.

Over the last 6 years he has completed over 8000 miniature pieces of art ranging from personal paintings to commissioned works.

via @vvit

Bit of an unusual subject matter by Amir Zaki but what amazing photos this series of lifeguard towers make. Typology photography at its best… DOPE!

Couple more after the jump.

Came across this nice series by Matt Logue entitled ‘Empty L.A‘. Not sure how he’s managed to shoot all of these fairly large landscapes completely deserted, but the 28-days-later-esque feel about them is really nice for cityscape photographs.

A few more after the jump.

A good friend of mine, Connie Wright, knitted these amazing Nike shoes in collaboration with THIS IS STUDIO for Nike 78 – a project initiated by Paul Jenkins in which he asked various creatives to challenge the function of a pair of Nike shoes.

Quite possibly a biased opinion but for me these are fo’ sho’ the best creation on show, and with around 100 hours spent knitting no doubt the pair with most effort put into them. Check some other cool ones after the jump or hit up the online gallery for other all the other outcomes.

A very talented friend of mine has a ‘two for the price of one’ exhibition opening tonight down at The Haggerston’s new gallery space; The Drawers Gallery. With a range of quirky doodles and strange sculptures on show there will no doubt be plenty to warrant a trip down. Show runs until Tue 22nd June

A friend sent me this wicked image he took down at Collect 2010 – an art fair for contemporary objects put on by the Craft Council. Unfortunately the fair has finished now but this really nice idea by Caroline Broadhead was apparently one of a number of great things at the fair. One to pop in the diary for next year me thinks. Cheers Marc!

I’m liking the work of street artist Alex Farto, aka Vhils. I saw the piece of his that’s down just off Brick Lane a while ago but I’ve only just discovered the man behind the art. While he works with many materials across various mediums I personally love his wall series in which he uses just the decayed and perished parts of the plaster as a means to create a portrait. In particular the more subtle executions like the second example above. Check some more after the jump.

A while ago I posted about an amazing advert in which Robert Carlyle brilliantly tells the story of Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky as part of the brands new advertising campaign by BBH London – If you didn’t see it that then make sure you check it out.

The little birdie that showed me that back then gave me a heads up on the latest part of the campaign that continues the walking theme. BBH have created a series of brilliant audio podcasts entitled ‘Walking With Giants’, in which a number of iconic figures walk in places that are significant to them, telling their own inspiring stories.

I’ve only managed to listen to a couple of them so far but both have had me hooked, in particular the one above by Bobby Carlyle (click here). They’re both humbly fascinating and inspiring, providing the perfect lunch time listening!

Check the rest of them out here. Thanks Maddogg for the tip!

Steve McQueen, the iconic anti-hero. You can’t get much cooler than this guy.

I met Jane Stockdale a few years ago when she came in to the studio I worked at at the time to show her photos. Since then she has quickly elevated herself to one of the best documentary photographers around these parts.

As a photographer she has a breathtaking ability to not only get herself in places and situations that seem near impossible and potentially life threatening, but also dig out a perfect shot that captures the mood and feeling of the environment before her.

When I first met her I was blown away by her photos and stories and nothing has changed today. I caught up with her in between her busy schedule to ask her a few questions.

Hi Jane. Tell us a little about yourself and how you got to where you are now.

I live in London, studied in Edinburgh and am from a little town in the north of Scotland. I moved to the states when I was 16 to go to high school in New Jersey, started photographing bands on my dads canon AE1-program and have pretty much been taking photos ever since.

Continue reading after the jump for more pictures and the full interview…