Our love letter to street basketball
HOOPTIME
Our fourth chapter. A celebration of street basketball, friendship and togetherness.
We are very happy to introduce HOOPTIME, the fourth chapter in our collection of photographic books. A collection about those magical places and moments that bring us together, open our minds and allow us to connect beyond languages, cultures and differences.
It all started with SUMMER BALADE, about road trips and the freedom of the open road. Then came WATCHING MUSIC, about the magic of music and the emotions it creates. WHERE THE SUN KEEPS SHINING celebrated summer and sunshine. And now comes HOOPTIME, about street basketball.
We have travelled around the world with our family, looking for basketball courts, playing, meeting strangers who became friends, and sometimes even family. There is something magical about those concrete floors and basketball hoops. They create a world of their own, where people from different generations, backgrounds, cultures and languages meet. People who might never have crossed paths otherwise, suddenly sharing the same game, the same court, the same emotions.
Basketball has this extraordinary power to connect people. You don’t need to speak the same language. You just need a ball and a hoop. For decades, this has been part of our family life, travelling, playing and sharing the game with friends around the world. And we wanted to capture some of that magic in a book.
BUT HOOPTIME IS MORE THAN A PHOTO BOOK.
During our travels, we photographed the courts, the games and the people we encountered. But we also filmed them. We went one step further and started recording conversations with hoopers, asking them what basketball brings to their lives, what it means to them and how it has shaped their stories.
And because music is always part of our world, we invited some of them into our music studios around the world to record original music for the film. All these encounters, images, games, conversations and musical moments are becoming a feature film.
HOOPTIME, THE MOVIE, IS COMING SOON.
We cannot wait to share its trailer with you and, before anyone else, invite you into this new adventure.
A NEW SCENT: VENICE BEACH STREET BASKETBALL COURT
To celebrate the release of HOOPTIME, we are also introducing a new candle inspired by one of our happiest places on earth: the Venice Beach Street Basketball Courts in California. Every summer, we return to Venice Beach to play basketball with our dear friends from the Venice Ball League (VBL), a legendary street basketball community with whom we have created events, friendships and even our own blue basketball, which you may have already spotted in our pictures and videos.
The VBL community is one of the stars of our HOOPTIME book and movie.
Just imagine the place: eight basketball courts facing the ocean, next to the skate park, Muscle Beach and the surfers. The Venice Beach boardwalk is alive with skaters, walkers, tourists and people enjoying the California sunshine. And every Sunday afternoon, the roller-skating disco dancers take over the promenade, bringing their own rhythm and energy to this extraordinary outdoor playground.
This is our happy place. A place where the sun keeps shining, where everybody seems to belong, and where life happens outside. We wanted to capture its atmosphere in a scent. The freshness of the sea, the freedom of the ocean breeze, the mineral character of the concrete basketball and skate courts, the surrounding grass, the warmth of the sand and the feeling of the beach.
A fragrance inspired by all the things we see, smell and feel when spending our summers there.
VENICE BEACH BASKETBALL COURT is an invitation to travel, to remember and to bring a little piece of that California happiness into your home
THE VENICE BEACH BASKETBALL COURTS
Fragrance composition : Seaweed / Grass / Spice
WELCOME TO HOOPTIME.
A new chapter, a new book, a new candle and soon, a new movie. Thank you for being part of our journey, for following our adventures and for sharing our love of photography, music, cinema, places and, above all, Humanity.
Let’s keep playing, travelling, meeting and creating memories together.
And keep some room for dreams.
Hooptime collection
