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SYNLawn and the artificial grass industry

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Just Doin' It

You’ve heard of a little company called Nike, right? How about a golfer named Tiger Woods? When these top tier, high quality entities united recently to film a commercial, we’re pleased to have been invited to the party. We spoke to the production company that shot the commercial and asked what made them choose SYNLawn for the artificial grass. It was a trip to the SYNLawn store that sealed the deal.

Expanding Our Acting Resume

SYNLawn has enjoyed being a part of the entertainment industry, and we get that love right back. Big Love actually. The newest addition to SYNLawn’s acting resume is HBO’s Big Love. In Big Love, Bill Paxton plays a modern-day Utah polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. Paxton’s character houses his family/families in three houses in a row on the street, with a communal backyard that is nothing more than a dirt patch. Everytime there’s a scene in that dusty backyard, strains of “Centerfield” by John Fogerty immediately enter our heads...”put me in coach, I’m ready to play...”

SYNLawn Makes the Museum

Not only is the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry one of the nation's top science museums, it is also a world-class tourist attraction and educational resource. When it was time to construct one of their acclaimed exhibits, SYNLawn was a part of the plan. In the exhibit called “Animal Secrets,” habitats were created to explore the secret lives of forest animals. To create a realistic look, the museum used the most natural looking artificial grass they could find — SYNFescue Premium.

SYNLawn Passed the Audition

Hollywood was looking for a strong, colorful supporting type and SYNLawn got the part. SYNLawn is really worthy of a lead role, but despite a commanding presence and amazing looks, the inability to speak limits SYNLawn’s ability to focus on the craft of acting. It’s enough that SYNLawn is the greatest synthetic grass on the planet, so acting is more of a hobby. For a hobby, SYNLawn’s showbiz resume would put half the Los Angeles waiter’s resumes to shame. You may already know about SYNLawn’s appearances on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition and VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club. The latest additions to the resume include NBC’s Medium and WB’s Gilmore Girls.

TODAY’s Fake Grass

When England’s soccer (a.k.a., football) superstar David Beckham decided to appear on NBC’s TODAY Show, set designers searched for the perfect artificial grass surface — they found it with SYNLawn. While visiting Las Vegas, one of the show’s prop coordinators discovered SYNLawn at Wynn Las Vegas Resort. On her hands and knees she felt it, picked at it, even pulled at the grass when she realized SYNLawn was ideal for The TODAY Show set. Ironically, by the time she returned home, her counterpart in New York Googling artificial turf, already made the purchase of 1,800 square feet of SYNBlue Premium. Traditionally, the TODAY Show crew used natural sod for outdoor grass settings. Spending thousands a year on natural grass was just a waste. While most of the time they donated the sod, sometimes they had no choice but to throw it away when they were finished. Now, adding grass outside Studio 1A on the Rockefeller Center Plaza is as easy as rolling out the turf and brushing up the fibers. When done, they simply roll it up, store it and use it for another day.

Picture Perfect Grass

Just point and click. That's all it takes to photograph picture perfect grass when you are using SYNLawn. In fact, SYNLawn is being used all over the country in photography studios, art studios, trade shows and even in television production stage sets for that very reason. Nothing else compares to the natural appearance and flexibility of SYNLawn. It's the perfect model. It doesn't complain, works with any schedule, works in any climate or extreme setting, can take relentless pressure and can work forever without food and water. All this and still be beautiful picture after picture Natural sod, on the other hand, is extremely difficult to work with as a model for photography or videography. Its hard to move from place to place, its messy, can only hold up for a few hours of shooting and needs constant attention to look good. Talk about working with a diva!

Celebrities Get Fit on SYNLawn

One of the hottest shows on VH1 is featuring SYNLawn for it’s fitness stage. VH1's Celebrity Fit Club is based around a team of celebrities competing to see which team can lose the most weight. The eight overweight stars are divided into two teams and challenged weekly with getting into better shape by exercising and losing weight by eating right over a 14 week period. The producers of Celebrity Fit Club came to SYNLawn looking for a grass product that could be used for running, exercising and looked like natural grass. Our SYNGrass sports grass was chosen for the celebrity workout and team challenge surface. It was selected because it provided a soft and safe surface for the workouts, it had superior performance for traction and had the most realistic, natural appearance on camera compared to other artificial grass products.

SYNLawn Goes Extreme

SYNLawn has been featured in not one but two different episodes of the ABC show Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The first home makeover was for a family in San Bernardino, California last year. SYNLawn artificial lawn was installed over the entire backyard. The SYNGrass playfield product was also used in one of the children’s bedrooms as part of an NFL stadium theme. The room also included a custom illustration featuring two New England Patriot football players and the stadium. The producers wanted to install a SYNLawn artificial lawn in an effort to make the yard maintenance free while providing a place for the children to play. The show provides audiences a first look at the latest and most advanced products while assisting a deserving family in rebuilding their home.