Beautiful Losers & Nike Sportswear present Make Something!!

In continuing the film’s spirit of collaboration, creativity, and inspiraton, Beautiful Losers and Nike Sportswear teamed up this summer to give back to the community with the Make Something!! workshop initiative. Many of the artists from the film (, , ) their contemporaries (KAWS, Todd James (REAS), Jose Parla, among others), as well as the filmakers (Aaron Rose, Money Mark, Tobin Yelland, and me Lenny Mesina) taught classes to high school kids in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami on the D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) aspects of art-making. The web series, which documents workshops in NY and LA, was just released to the public through Nikesportswear.com. As supervising film editor of the series, which was produced and directed by BlackLake Productions, I believe we really made a difference as the kids in the workshops were extremely inventive and clever with the work they created. Here’s the official press release from Nike followed by the entire web series:

(click links below videos to see photos from each workshop)

Make-A-Zine with Aaron Rose

Character Design with KAWS

Documentary Boot Camp with Tobin Yelland

Skate Graphics with Ed Templeton

Making Music with Money Mark

Poster Art with Mike Mills

Video Editing with Lenny Mesina

Sneaker Design with Jesse Leyva

Find Art with Jesse Spears

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