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Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by agwom(m): 9:57am On Feb 26, 2020 |
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. – Last week, casketmaker Fletcher Collins loaded a customized tribute memorial into a rented van before he and a couple of friends drove cross-country from his business in North Carolina's Mount Olive community of Elizabethtown to Los Angeles. Collins’ destination over the roughly 2,260-mile trip is a public memorial service Monday for basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna “Gigi,” at the Staples Center nearly a month after their deaths in a helicopter crash in California Jan. 26. There, in front of the center on Tuesday, he unveiled to the public what he calls his masterpiece, the “Staples Center,” which he dedicates to the families of Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter and the seven other people killed in the accident. Kobe Bryant was a longtime Los Angeles Laker, an NBA franchise that plays its home games at the Staples Center. Since his death at age 41, the nation has mourned the loss of the NBA Hall of Famer, who was an 18-time All-Star and 15-time member of the All-NBA Team. Bryant, Collins said, was one of his favorite professional basketball players. “I loved what he brought to the game,” he said. Collins, who has built customized designer caskets for roughly a decade over his 47 years, said social media led to what he called this humbling assignment. Through social networking, he said, a friend of Bryant’s family reached out to ask if Collins could create some type of memorial art to honor Kobe and the other victims. “I tried to capture everything about him,” said Collins, who also is an assistant pastor at Greater Temple Holiness Church in Elizabethtown. Painted largely in Laker purple and gold, the memorial casket is overlain with a mock-up of the Staples Center hardwood court, complete with miniature basketball goals on each end and 24-second clocks. One side is trimmed with what is intended to be the Los Angeles skyline. Source: yahoo.com
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Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by hAlexandro(m): 3:58pm On Feb 26, 2020 |
its finished |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by constance500: 6:16pm On Feb 26, 2020 |
Na wa o |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by itsme01: 7:22pm On Feb 26, 2020 |
Idolizing the dead 1 Like |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by Nobody: 8:08pm On Feb 26, 2020 |
∆ Mamba out!!! ∆ |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by Nobody: 8:09pm On Feb 26, 2020 |
itsme01: 1 Like
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Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by ValCon888: 9:33pm On Feb 26, 2020 |
No matter how beautiful a casket is, nobody wants to die. |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by LoveFayfay(f): 9:39pm On Feb 26, 2020 |
Tribute.... some people here don't know what last respect or even tribute means. May the souls rest in peace 1 Like |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by Papadoh(m): 6:13am On Feb 27, 2020 |
Mamba Out... in style. |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by ogbiwa: 6:49am On Feb 27, 2020 |
Wow this looks to much and too busy. |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by MANNABBQGRILLS: 6:56am On Feb 27, 2020 |
RIP LEGEND 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by InfoSources: 8:14am On Feb 27, 2020 |
The casket is a true reflection that you leave the world with nothing.. RIP Kobe. |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by Amstupid(m): 9:12am On Feb 27, 2020 |
Order 1 for Buhari |
Re: Designer Casket Honoring Kobe Bryant Is ‘nothing People Have Ever Seen’ by femi4: 10:35am On Feb 27, 2020 |
I have seen something else under the sun The people of thiz World invest so much in vanity |
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