Malcolm Campbell commercial

[sjordan2]

Anyone seen this Hennessy commercial? Superb. Custom recreation of The Bluebird.

Commercial..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048531/

Behind the scenes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ8937mC4P4

[Harry P.]

That's really cool! Nice video.

It's amazing how much work goes on "behind the curtain."

[Modelmartin]

As a long time Campbell fan I find it kind of strange and cheap. Who is this NAS character and why on earth is he in the trailer? He obviously doesn't not know jack about jack.

Campbell was a rich sportsman and he loved racing. His dedication to the sport comes easier when you don't have to work and you have boatloads of money to spend. He also raced Bugattis and was a great customer of the British Bugatti dealer. The actor portraying him looks nothing like him! By the way, he died of natural causes at 63 unlike his son Donald who died when his water speed record boat broke up. His body was never found.

[Harry P.]

As a long time Campbell fan I find it kind of strange and cheap. Who is this NAS character and why on earth is he in the trailer?

Pretty sure he's a rapper.

And guess who the target demo for Hennessy is?

[Modelmartin]

Pretty sure he's a rapper.

And guess who the target demo for Hennessy is?

Odd old world we live in isn't it? Using an old English white guy of privilege to promote booze to the downtrodden. Okey-dokey!

[Greg Myers]

I thought i'd be the only one. Yo,yo,yo. worse than what they did to Von Dutch.

[Casey]

worse than what they did to Von Dutch.

By "they" you mean Lorna and Lisa, right?

[Greg Myers]

and still a debate as to the wishes of Howard. They :

He died in 1992, leaving two daughters. At the end, he was drinking heavily, holed up in an old Long Beach city bus. For years he lived at the museum called Movie World, Cars of the Stars and Planes of Fame in Buena Park, California. He had become paranoid and he spent time elaborately engraving and painting knives and guns as well as cars.

No wonder the daughters, Lisa and Lorna were happy to sell the rights to reproduce their father’s imagery in 1996 to Michael Cassel, a maker of surf clothing, who established a company called Von Dutch Originals in 1999 and opened the store on Melrose Avenue a year later. He brought in a man named Tonny Sorensen who in turn hired designer Christian Audigier. Audigier worked for Diesel and Fiorucci. Casel’s notion was to tap the hot rod set; but Sorensen and Audigier aimed at wider, fashion audience.

Edited December 18, 2013 by Greg Myers

[Modelmartin]

Ah! Pop Culture - 100 miles wide and 1/8 inch deep.

[Harry P.]

Ah! Pop Culture - 100 miles wide and 1/8 inch deep.

Exactly.

Exhibit A: Kim and Kanye.

[Greg Myers]

Yep, pop culture indeed http://www.ocweekly.com/2004-01-08/features/von-who/ and we thought we knew our Kenny, http://selvedgeyard.com/2009/05/06/kenny-howard-the-pinstriper-known-as-von-dutch/ .