January 2008
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Alex Henry: Foot Model Turned Illustrator
Oh crap. I just found my favorite art and culture site. JoyEngine. Doesn’t that sound like fun? While puttering around on the site, I found a pair of custom painted Vans done up by one of the site’s founders, Alex. What luck. Doot doot doot. Besides sharing good times USA on Joy Engine, Alex is also a big popsicle at design collective, Cypher13. They make things and kick stuff in...
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NDEUR: Frenchy-French Customs
NDEUR is French designer Mathieu Missiaen. His custom painited vintage heels have been in every practically fashion mag over the past year. I’m glad to see he’s now working on some Vans, too. This guy paints everything from shoes, to walls, to furniture. Here’s what I want to know: if I have a party, will this guys will come over and do some FACE painting? He hasn’t that...
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Best Girl. 2nd Worst Nickname.
Angie Crabtree has literally been making art since she was a five-year-old. Now that she’s all grown up and working on her art degree, she was nice enough to send us some of her recent works on (sneaker) canvas. Homeslice’s portfolio is all over the place. She’s gone from Disney mural nursery commissions (hustlers gotta make a dollar) to some absolutely fantastic psychedelic...
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Dennis McNett Will Vanquish Thee on the Train
Brooklyn artist Dennis McNett has collaborated with Vans on a few shoes that should be hitting stores just about now. What kind of guy spends all of his time making huge prints of wolves and bats and other things to bite your face off? The same kind of fellow who created a parade float to roll down Broadway calling for Fenris, son of the Norse fire god, Loki, to return from the dead to fight the...
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Latest in the Life of Amanda Lopez
Amanda Lopez has been keeping this blog in the loop on her photo series since I first emailed her in October of last year. In case you’ve missed them, she’s been doing a series on the life of her checkerboard Slip-ons. In the latest installment we see her vans with a couple of cats. We could get into a discussion about ‘cat people’ and ‘dog people’ at this...
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Paid $cum: Making Me Hungry
I don’t want Christian Audigier, and I can’t afford KAWS so Paid $cum seems to have come up with a fair middle ground. Are those little bug eyed aliens on the Slip-ons? Nope. Only moments ago I was trying to figure out how I could bring together both my love of sneakers and sushi. Problem solved. Paid $cum’s customs here. Although, those do look like California rolls, and I...
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freshazimiz, thank you.
I don’t know what it is about me and the Cannucks this week. Are they slightly more forward thinking and fashionable? Is is the socialized medicene? Is it Ice Road Truckers on History Channel? I don’t know, but here’s another set of Maple leaves for which I have a penchant. The fellas that take care of the freshazamiz.org blog dropped into Paris just before Christmas making...
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Slip-Offs
Shana Luedtke is radical. She’s a recent graduate of Alberta School of Art & Design in Calgary and has had mucho success in the sneaker customization biz over the last couple of years. I mean, dang, her shoes showed up on Ellen earlier this year. (Not like I watch Ellen. Ok. Well, not, like, all the time. Don’t judge me like you know me! GAHHH!) She’s in a band, too. Busy...
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Mysterious Photos of Mystery
A guy known only to the world as the dangerous and elusive and dashing and more dangerous and talented “Doublecappuccino” has graciously allowed me to post some of his photos. Nothing more will be revealed about this rare diamond plucked from the cloaking mists of web photo sharing. His identity will be protected all the way to the link to his Flickr page: Gonk
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Water Holes at Waterloo
LA artist Jophen Stein has a solo show coming up on January 12th, 2008 at Project Gallery in Culver City, CA. The opening reception is from 7pm-11pm. I’d say go early ‘cause you want to see this stuff. If you have a dollar, I’d also tell you to invest here on some art, yo. It’s like picking up google stock 5 years ago. This boy is blowing up. His work is mad like a guy...