Sportsong of the Week #5
Goldfinger "Wayne Gretzky" 2002 Mojo/Jive Produced by John Feldmann & Kelly LeMieux Sport stars are loved by a lot of people. And a lot of people would love to take this love to a groupie consumation level. "Dangerous" Darrin Pfeiffer, drummer of the band Goldfinger, serenades his groupie love for hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, in the song not surprisingly called "Wayne Gretzky". Darrin, self proclaimed stupid American boy, wants to make sweet sweet love to the legend! For thos
Six new featured artists II!
At the least Art Loves Sport will add six new artists per month. Two weeks ago there were also six new artist added, but you guys get lucky. Six brand new artist join the mission today! A Brazilian 8bit artist, a young Belgian, Dutch sport lovers, a prize winning illustrator, a surf artist and a French photographer traveling the world for his religion basketball. Enjoy and get inspired! 8bit Football Bram Vanhaeren Josh Hoye Holland Sport James Bennett Kevin Couliau
Sportsong of the Week #4
Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band "Black Superman" 1975 PYE Label www.johnnywakelin.co.uk Here's Johnny! And The Kinshasa Band! These guys aren't the best known artists in the world, but they definitely made a sportsong how a sportson is meant to be. A catchy tune, giving tribute to one of the biggest stars ever. With a story about the athlete and oneliners incorparated: "This is the story of Cassius Clay who changed his name to Muhammed Ali"; "He floats like a butterfly and
Amadeus
If you are ever in Zagreb, Croatia, go visit the Muzej Dražen Petrović if you like basketball and good stories about one of Europe's biggest basketball legends. For work I recently had to go to Zagreb and discovered this hidden gem. For those who don't know, Dražen Petrović, was a croatian basketball player, who was the biggest basketball star in Europe, was the first real European star in the NBA and sadly died at age 28 due to a car crash. After a short walk from the train
Sportsong of the Week #3
Gerry and the Pacemakers "You'll Never Walk Alone" 1963 (music video from 2013) Directed by: Andrea Jade Colomb
Produced by: The Fyzz Music Video Limited Sportsong of the Week #3 is unlike the earlier songs not an intended tribute song to a team or a sport. But it probably is one of the most covered songs in the world and the most sung song in football stadiums in the world by singers and the supporters. Originally "You'll never walk alone" was a showtune from the musical Car
Six new featured artists!
At the least Art Loves Sport will add six new artists per month. Because there are so many artists that I want to show you, I can't wait any longer with the first new six artist to join the first 30! First Estonian, first Texas cowboy, first (old) Greek! A lot of firsts! Enjoy and get inspired! Karmo Ruusmaa Dave Choate Off-Foot Soccer Myron of Eleutherae Gillean Clark Kyle Polzin
Sportsong of the Week #2
Kurtis Blow "Basketball" 1984 Produced and directed by Michael Oblowitz The Island Def Jam Music Group This song and music video is a classic in the hip hop and basketball world. The song was on Kurtis Blow's album Ego Trip. It's a song to show his love to the sport of basketball full of shoutouts to players and references to the firm place of basketball in daily life in America. When I was younger I played basketball in the backyard of my parents house with this song blastin
Art Loves Sport is live!
Today is a special day! Art Loves Sport is live! I have been working on this website for half a year and now it's ready to officialy see the light of day! This website is for art lovers. Sport lovers. But especially sportart lovers. Like me. A guy trying to bring art and sport lovers together. Trying to bring the art world and sport world together. Art Loves Sport is one of the ways I am trying the above mentioned goals. On this site you will find artist and some of their art
The legend (of) Pierre
This hipster looking fellow is a legend in my eyes. Everybody who loves sports and art should know who he is. Born Pierre de Frédy, baron de Coubertin, better known as Pierre de Coubertin, was a French historian and pedagogue who founded the modern Olympics. He wanted men to be educated in both mind and body, and competing in sport rather than war. He is also famous for the saying participating is more important than winning: "The important thing in life is not the triumph b
Football Design Galore!
Daniel Nyari is one of the reasons I started researching sportart more and more. Beautiful and recognizable designed portraits of my football hero's and the hero's of today. Kieran Carroll and Dave Flanagan are already part of the artists on Art Loves Sport Loves Art. I am now discovering he is not the only designer using these stars as their subject. There are a lot of talented designers out there! Football design galore! Recently the Kampion Card Game was developed. A wet d
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