NashMoney x Nike Air Force 1 ‘Sneaker Speaker’ Customs

 via Art & Sole

Adidas really need to step their INNOVATION game UP!!!

At this point in time, I believe almost everything that we need to sustain life on earth has been created. The challenge now is how we can evolve and make more INNOVATIVE product offerings. 

Nike is continuing its pursuit in terms of making their performance products lighter i.e. Zook Kobe IV, V & VI. Last I heard, Adidas & Puma are right behind Nike i.e. Adi Zero & Puma Fas. Reebok introduced those Zig Tech, the energy drink for your feet. But aside from performance Nike is behind several steps from Adidas. The Jeremy Scott X Adidas collaboration with the Teddy Bear shoes & the WINGS shoes are insanely popular and it is probably THE most talked about and anticipated collaboration. Putting a Teddy Bear head sneakers? Thats original. Clear see through shoes & glow in the dark shoes? Not so original. Nike did that a few years back with its first partial see through shoe in the ESPO Air Force 2 artist series and just last year they created a whole glow in the dark shoe in the Nike Air Max Hyperize.

But I do like how Adidas EVOLVED what Nike started though. And from the look of it, they did make it more interesting. 

Courtesy of the awesome folks at WEST NYC.

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Closing out February 2011 - Black History Month

February is black history month in the United States and Nike being a diverse company and always looking to bank on anything is releasing it's juiciest offerings on the last weekend of Black History Month 2011.

Zoom Kobe VI - BHM and the Air Jordan 3 BHM

Random things - Bouncy Katy Perry.

This month has been a very busy month in terms of sneaker releases. It seems that EVERY weekend there are at least a few sneakers coming out, especially from Nike. 

So to kinda get away from all this mundane sneaker related post, I present to you everyone's favorite bouncy GIF from SNL.

I absolutely LUST Katy Perry, YUMM!!

Taking it back: 2010 4/20 Nike SB Dunk High "Skunk" by Todd Bratrud via Maven VT

Air Max LeBron 8 v/2 "Entourages"

Don't think I've covered this particular colorway yet. Around the web, these are called the "Entourages" inspired by the poster of that popular HBO series. We all know, Bron2 goes EVERYWHERE with his entourage, what pro-athlete does not have a posse or/and groupies. Bron has his "horsemen" and Michael Jordan always has Ahmad Rashad as his male groupy. LOL!
Pics courtesy of Marqueesole.com

Nike Hachi - I don't usually get hyped up like this, but...

LAWD have mercy!!! Nike Sportswear is set to introduce their latest lifestyle sneaker, the Nike Hachi. 
 via FNG


The Orange & green pair is completely INSANE in the BRAIN!!! MUST COP!!!

The Hundreds X Scott Caan - Available on THURSDAY Feb 24th 2011

“When I was a kid someone told my father that they thought he was a great artist, and he laughed.  I asked him what was so funny, and he said, “Picasso is an artist; I’m an actor.”

So I started acting when I was old enough to realize that I would do anything not to have a nine-to-five job.  At the time I had no idea what an impact the art would have on me.  I joined a theater group.  I obsessively studied plays, playwrights, actors, and directors.  I lived and breathed theater.  I lived and breathed acting, and writing.  I really felt that I wanted to be an artist.  I wanted to express myself.  I wrote plays, I wrote movies, I acted in movies.  Then I started to direct.  I made movies, I made plays.  I even wrote shitty songs.

Whether frustrating, rewarding, painful, or just embarassing, I usually felt full… That’s all we really want.

So when I didn’t, I would take a picture.

I took a bunch of photos with a bunch of different cameras that were all given to me by my father.  The guy who says he’s not an artist… he’s wrong.

As an artist today, I think it is almost impossible to do exactly what you want.  You have to listen to other people.  You have to work with opinions.  You have to change.  Purity in most art forms is a struggle.  Certainly acting or writing.  Especially directing.  So much that sometimes the art gets lost.  The feeling of it anyway.  Having your ideas, cognitive or not, and following through precisely… Not impossible, but for one reason or another, really hard.

Photography, to me, is pure.  It’s the person holding the camera’s eye, and that’s it!

Like it or not, it is what it is.

Hope you like my photos, but they won’t change either way.  They are what they are.  That’s what I love about them.”

- In the artist’s own words, Foreword, SCOTT CAAN : Photographs Vol. 1

Via Thehundreds.com

ALL-STAR kicks ain't doin it for me this year. Waiting on these instead.