Video: Giant Nike for giant athletes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Do you think the maximum shoe size is fiftieth? Tell this to British artist Benedict Radcliffe, he will laugh. After all, he made a Nike sneaker with a length of three and a half meters!
Of course, he did not make this sneaker for a one-legged giant who decided to go in for sports. Nike ordered and sponsored the creation of this shoe element itself. After all, such a sneaker is an excellent advertisement, an occasion to once again declare itself to the public.
You can even imagine the ordering process. "Just do it!" - said the Nike managers to Benedict Radcliffe, laying out a pack of British pounds on the table. And he fulfilled his promise - he created a 3.5-meter sculpture in the form of a sneaker from this company.
But he made it not from rubber and fabric, but from metal rods, which he then dyed blue.
A sculpture called GIANT AIR MAX (after the Nike Air Max 1 sneaker) is now in a showroom in London. Both visitors are interested, and Nike is pleased.
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