February 2012
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Colette + Cobrasnake + Vans
Colette and Mark Hunter aka The Cobrasnake joined forces to create an original piece of artwork with the Classic Vans Era. The design, a hamburger, was inspired by iconic California burger joints. The collaboration will be available exclusively at Colette, in Paris beginning March 1, 2012. Here are a few photos from the launch event over the weekend during NY Fashion Week. Everyone hung out at...
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Stop Cool Guy-ing Me, Bro.
Dana Morris got his skydiving certification today. And he’s an awesome photographer and takes photos of surfers, and crazy fashion ladies, and bikini ladies. And he’s a steadicam operator whose worked on a bunch of shoots like that Health music vid for “We Are Water” where the girl is getting chased through the woods by the psycho giant. Hey Dana, why don’t you go do...
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January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Custom Made The Old Fashioned Way
We see a lot of customs, but the sneakerheads over at The Fresh & Fly took it to a whole ‘nother place. They got the classic black Era above, tore the damb things apart (I mean, to pieces, for real) and churned out the one of a kind pair below. Sewing machines involved. This ain’t no glue job. If you’re feeling ambitious, here’s a step by step so you can make your...
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Weird Baby Arms to Grab You
The above photo has nothing to do with anything… other than it’s totally awesome. The owner of weird baby arm photo also had another gem. These Vans saw some good times. Cruise on over to flickr to see more of Penelope Jonze’s photographs.
Oh, and make sure to check out her Lomography flickr set. They’re a great collection. Pretty, pretty.
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WatchShout out to DCP for the heads up on this one. I could tell you about it, but that would be less cool than watching it.
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otakuparadox asked: Hey!!I was really pleased to find your archived punk and plaid article - surprised at how little info there actually is on the relation between the two. Following a bit of a rabbit trail trying to trace correlations between subcultures/street fashion and out-of-context or highly symbolic looking textiles. Thanks for the write-up, love it!
niloayer asked: hello, fellas, how are you? I was wondering if there's any website and/or store I could find some out of catalogue models besides ebay). thanks.
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WatchOh, annnnnd that hyphy robot in the previous post is a monster/zombie surfer in my favorite Halloween movie.
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Halloweenies at Vans HQ
Aight, so. We got this costume contest at the office. Danny won with the robot. I didn’t know robots had such stylish moves. Mad ups.
And somebody in the apparel department made a Rick Griffin-inspired flying eyeball pumpkin. It was supposed to be a department entry, but y’all know how group art projects work. You want to win, so you get the one quiet kid whose really good at art to...
October 2011
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September 2011
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Thanks to Tod Seelie for this nuggetron.
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Movie Night at My House is Gonna Be Ossum.
Thanks to Charlie M. for the heads up, although he said it’s terrible. Well, actually he said ‘rubbish’ because he’s from the U.K. Ah, bollocks. I really buggered this post, then. Nice Sk8-Hi’s.
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WatchMorning jam from @hoddybase - “…don’t need to tell you fools I’m high, I’m a damn kite…”
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We're good at eating...
…and finding the best spots to eat in. Last night started rough when we rolled into this place called Art & Soul and asked for a table of 27.
WatchChima Ferguson & Taylor Smith talk about who might win this weekend. Here’s your obligatory language warning. More at vans.com/maloofcup