December 2007
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Sneakers Required New Year's Ball
This is the coolest dress code I’ve ever heard of in all my 80 years. Tonight in San Francisco Mos Def is hosting a show called “Sneakers Required.” It’s a benefit concert for the H.E.A.R. Foundation whose mission is to bring awareness to all of us dumb kids that listen to music too loud and don’t wear earplugs at concerts. What? Exactly. You didn’t hear me...
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Shop Blog of the Week: M.I.A. Skate Shop
There are a couple of a rad spots in Miami that I’ve heard a ton of good things about. M.I.A Skate shop has one location in Miami Beach and another in Doral that also runs a skatepark. Have you heard of it? Koo-ka-choo. If you’re in Miami and don’t know what to do…I bet they are a good place to start. Their blog is pretty rad. They are excellent with team updates. They also...
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Polite Criminals
One night last week Colorado Springs resident, Tricia McKeehan, woke up to a strange noise in her house. Like every victim ever in the history of the world, she got up to investigate the noise in the dark. What happens next? She saw a dude in a hoodie in the hall. She screamed. He screamed. And everyone ran. She hit up 911 real quick, “Alack! I am being burgled by a burglar!” The kooks...
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Amanda Lopez Christmas
One of the first posts on this blog was the work of photographer, Amanda Lopez. She’s been documenting the life of her checkerboard Slip-ons for a while now. Here’s her most recent installment. Nice tree Amanda! Way to decorate. What? No presents? Gonk. Maybe she didn’t get anything and is into the true meaning of Christmas…shunning materialism. Me, too. Hang on..my...
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Shop Blog of the Week: Niche
Niche is a sneaker/culture/lifestyle store in Charlotte, NC. (Holler at my ‘hood, ya’ll.) They have an outstanding little site where the locals can keep track of hiptastic events that are neat. They update it all the time. I’m particularly backing their news ticker ‘causer they give the heads up on all kinds of events. I’m saying it’s not all ‘tight...
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Dirty Birds Part Doo
Gee Whiz! If someone gives me photos that no one has seen from a show yet may I call it an exclusive? I mean, it might not stay exclusive. However, today -as far as I know- no one else has posted these photos. I am claiming it. Exclusive photos from the ‘Dirty Birds’ show at Lower Haters right here. There’s a little behind the scenes shot, too. After the show, featured artists...
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FTC Skate Shop & Lower Haters=Dirty Birds
Drop in to the Lower Haters Gallery if you’re in San Francisco. They just put up a new show called ‘Dirty Birds’ that sounds like it would be nice to look at. It’s a friendly-friend bunch of skateboard art with ‘birds’ as the general theme. Artists involved include more than few people that hang out with Vans… Tony Alva, P-Nut, and Evert Lee to name a hand...
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Finally, More Custom Chukkas and Authentics
There aren’t enough people working on custom Chukka Boots and Authentics. I find a ton of people customizing on Slip-ons, but I guess most people aren’t up to the challenge of designing around the rivets. Is that it? WEAK, kids. Where’s that can-do American attitude? Seth Brau doesn’t mind taking a shot. He’s been running his own DIY custom Vans biz for the last...
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Darin Bendall is Cooler than Me.
You’ve seen Darin’s work around for the last forever. I’m taking a minute to point out how cool he is. He started out as an illustrator bouncing around within and without the skate world dropping little nuggetrons of art happiness all over the place. Since planting new roots in Japan, getting deeper into animation, and rolling out this video with Joel Trussell for M. Ward, his...
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Shop Blog of the Week: Flat Spot Skate Shop
I was putzing around the world wide web and found this shop’s blog. The next time I’m in Hamilton, Ontario, I’ll make sure to hit these kids up (for a can of Molson…ZING!). Their blog is constantly updated with pics of new merchandise for the shop, good skate clips, local events, and the obligatory photos of their friends partying while flipping off the camera. I betcha...
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Made to Order Customs
Everybody always says you can’t do anything with an art degree. Duh, you make art. After graduating with her BFA from CSULA, Monica is starting her own DIY (that’s a butt load of acronyms, LMAO). If you email her with an idea or design, she’ll take what give her and come back with the shoes you can’t make because you only draw stick men. It’s ok that you’re not...
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Nice Trash!
Our intern’s boyfriend’s dad found this original gangsta Van Doren Rubber Company sneaker box with reciept in his garage a couple of weeks ago. He’d had it since 1968. No kicks were included in the box. Bummer, but whatevs. It’s nice to know that you can be crazy and keep a pile of junk so long that it goes from trash to cool and even a shoe box becomes a collector’s...
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Fernando Iglesias Makes Politics Look Pretty
I spotted these Slip-Ons on a sneaker site from Spain (ummm..I think). As far as I can gather from using the fabulous “translator” widget, Iglesias has been doing some heavy hitting comics in Spain for some time now. With his pair of customs, he’s turned his pen on his country’s current and former prime ministers along with a few other big time controversial faces....