Tag: REDBULL

Last Spring, the street artist Gaia began archiving his graffiti exploits with Google Maps. Now, courtesy of Red Bull and the Loducca advertising agency, Gaia has an illustrious -- and expanding -- crew of Google graffiti compatriots. Composed entirely of graffiti art, Red Bull's new Street Art View project aspires to become "the biggest art collection in the world" by incorporating various ...

We Americans have a penchant for borrowing traditions from other cultures and making them our own. For example, on Saturday, 90,000 gathered on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota to watch people compete in flugtag. As part of flugtag, which is German for "flight day," teams build awesome homemade aircrafts, and launch them off a platform in order to see who can glide the ...

For one daredevil, even the sky is not a limit. According to Fox News, Felix Baumgartner's jump later this year from 23-miles (or 120,000-feet) up in the air will make him the first parachutist to ever break the sound barrier. He'll fly toward Earth at speeds of 760-mph wearing a custom-made, supersonic suit. This attempt to set the record for the world's highest free fall is part of the Red Bull ...

The Olympic drama in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games has spread from the slopes, ice, and tracks to, of course, the Twitterverse. According to the Wall Street Journal, Red Bull and Verizon Communications posted some tweets that violate Olympic sponsorship and advertising rules. Since the companies aren't official Olympic sponsors, they can't associate themselves with the event or ...