After I got the Air Jordan XI Space Jams back in December, I just had to get this sweatshirt by UNDRCRWN, which is inspired by the sneakers. So here’s what the astronaut looks like with the real shoes.
And the original design.
The Official Brand for CHAMPIONS.
UNDRCRWN has many nice basketball related items – plus other great stuff – and already a few years ago now, they did this collaboration with adidas on the Gil Zero. I love Gil and I love those shoes. Only after I wanted to send some information on them to Chrishimself recently, I found out that they are even limited to 750 pairs worldwide.
You feel like walking on the hardwood.
Apparently, this player card should be included with the shoes, but I guess mine was lost somewhere in between. Meaning, someone at the customs station stole it!
Please read this card carefully, because the last two sentences are as true as ever today. I am really pulling for Arenas to get back on the right track.
Inspired by the suit that Bruce Lee wears in Game of Death and the scratch known from Enter the Dragon Nike comes out with this new release of the Zoom Kobe V.
I especially like the promoshots that Nike designed with Kobe Bryant resembling the oldschool Bruce Lee movie posters.
I’ll admit, that during my day-to-day-life I don’t get to watch or read the news stories very often, and that also this is not the original theme of this blog, but what has happened earlier this month to people in Haiti is nothing short of heart shattering. CNN has five 360° videos on the current situation here.
Haiti may be a place that’s far, far away for you, but also people from your community could be directly affected by this tragedy. I found out, that the family of two basketball players, who play for MTV Kronberg (close to Frankfurt) has lost six of their family members, including three kids. I don’t know David or Dominik personally, but I was interested in their story, because I do know some other players of that team and attend their games quite often.
Their dad went back to Haiti – shortly after visiting his family there for Christmas – to assist people in need as a doctor. Their adoptive brother from New York immediately took a flight to the Dominican Republic to supply the family with water, food and medicine. That’s what family is about. I think, we all can learn something from that.
You can read more by clicking these links (in German):
I know times are tough for everyone, but we cannot compare what’s going on to the people of Haiti, that already went through so much, but still were happy people and in the right direction with their country. So on behalf of the Duclervil family I ask you to show your support accordingly to your possibilities – it is still needed. Here’s how:
The 5€ admission of the up-coming home game of MTV Kronberg is applied to their campaign and there will also be a tombla with some SKLINERS stuff (and I guess certainly more, but that was the only thing I heard about this) as well as a box for additional contributions: Saturday, 30 January – 19:30 – Altkönigschule, Le-Lavandou-Straße, Kronberg – I’ll be there!
For a donation, they have their own donation account (German account – #368091088 – „Riepel/Die Familie braucht dich“ – BLZ 51050015: Nassauische Sparkasse) and also listed those of organizations here on their site. (By the way, NIKE, David’s employer, is going to double the donations made by its employees, which is also a great move.)
Freiraum Frankfurt (Brückenstraße 36, Frankfurt) has a charity sale event going on this evening (Friday) starting at 19:00 (more details). It was supposed and still is for drinking water projects in Kenya, but they also have a box for your Haiti donations. Personally, I also think that this is going to be a cool event, so I hope I can be there!
Many well known musicians contributed to an album titled ‘Hope for Haiti Now‘. All proceeds will benefit support for Haiti.
UNDRCRWN, a brand that’s largely inspired by basketball, now offers limited ASSIST HAITI tees (all proceeds will go to YELE, Wyclef Jean’s organization).
There are many, many, many other possibilities and this leads me to all those organizations you know and heard about, if you want to contribute that way. Many hearts and souls will be thankful.
I think this post is now long enough and y’all know what to do, so I just leave you with some wise words on this subject by Jay Smooth.
Still looking for an all white Air Max Light ?
Look no further this is the Air Max Light “Snow White”, although I would be even more paranoid about my sneakers than I already am wearing those in the streets haha.
via. Hypebeast
Check out shelta for more pictures and order information.
Just saw this video by SneakGeekZ of the new and first Kixclusive Store in SoHo, New York. Looks really nice and contains some incredible kicks. Definitely a spot to put on my NYC to-visit-list: 288 Mulberry Street (E. Houston) NY, NY 10012.
P.S.: They even have some BAPE stuff listed in their online store.
In other sneaker related news, German mailorder and record store hhv drops the NIKE Rivalry Pack consisting of the NIKE x DJ AM Dunk High Premium and the NIKE x DJ Premier Air Force 1 Low Premium instore this Friday, Jan 15th, at noon: Revaler Straße 9, 10245 Berlin-Friedrichshain
At around 5pm you should check their online store for what’s still left, if you are interested.
Does anybody know of other releases of those sneakers in Germany???
(UPDATE – 17:20: Overkill Shop in Berlin will get the DJ AM Dunk “within the next days”.)
And since I began this post with SoHo, New York, I’m gonna end this post with SoHo New York. Here’s itsbongoboy’s video from the pre sale of the pack at NIKE SB’s 21 Mercer Street store. Had to laugh out lout on two intances.
Got some new Nike Dunks in the so called varsity red colorway, classic, nothing too fancy.
Cant wait to wear these this spring when all the snow is gone.
After seeing the Air Jordan XI Space Jams on the internets for so long now and even already about a week ago on the feet of a player of the opposing team, I am now holding my own pair in my hands. This is exactly the color way of this shoe that Michael Jordan wore in the movie Space Jam (please check out this incredibly old school website!!!).
I wasn’t really big on this release (just ask Chrishimself – by the way, I took his tweet for the headline), but this morning in the train, I came to the conclusion, that I had to take my chance on these, since I also was able to get them before the announced realease date of December, 23. And I can only encourage you to hurry up as I got the feeling, that my size (US12) is nearly out of stock in Germany alreadyyyy. I’m also really looking forward to the next release that will hopefully be the Silver Anniversary ones celebrating 25 years of Air Jordans.
Family.
That makes two pairs, so I need to find two suitable girls for a poster like this. Y’all know how to reach me.
Or maybe I’ll just buy it from OSNEAKER.COM (limited to 500 pieces).
Have been looking to get this Air Jordan DMP VII package since it came out but thought I would push them back awhile until they are on sale or until I can get the “Raptors” colorway only, for a reasonable price. Well today, more or less by accident, I found the Air Jordan DMP VII Pack on 50% sale and I just couldnt pass on that.
The Air Jordan VII DMP package comes in this huge box similar to all the other DMP packs.
A shot of the two colorways included in the Air Jordan DMP 7 package.
I especially like the “Raptors” colorway the shoes got the nickname when the Toronto Raptors joined the NBA in 95 and had a similar jersey colorway, the design on the sole looks very nice imho.
Probably selling the Orlando Magic inspired colorway, anyone looking for US11 ?
I just wanted to make you aware of some shopping opportunities today.
First of all, Freebase Sneakersposted a pic one hour ago of the backstock of the NIKE Air Pegasus 89 Berlin (Quickstrike release), that arrived at their store today. So, if you missed your chance head over to their store (Peterstr. 2, 60313 Frankfurt/Main – open: Mon-Fri: 11-20h, Sat: 11-18h), call them (+49 69 13376255) or try it online (www.freebase-sneakers.com) and grab your pair for 119,90€.
Then, KICKZ.com did the incredibly and set the price for the Air Jordan 3 True Blues as part of their Advent calender special for today only at 99,90€ . Surprisingly, as they have still many “good” sizes to offer.
And last but not least, we can now offer you the comforts of our own online shop, where you can exclusively get the WE RUN FFM T-Shirt at. We offer two colorways and free shipping for your order in Germany. Price is 35€.
You also can get to our shop at any time by clicking on the little image on top of the right side.
Jason Paparoulas from The Bakehouse (Australia) shot these pictures and they are really amazing. Of course, I only posted them because you can look at some really rare sneakers. ;-)
All pictures belong to Jason Paparoulas. See more of them on his blog and flickr account.
The Ballatician
P.S.: Model is Jarrah Flemming Gardiner and to be honest with you: I didn’t only post them because of the sneakers.
When I was in Hong Kong last year I went around the city aimlessly just feeling the whole vibe and taking pictures with my Lomo LCA camera, thats when I first discovered the famous “sneaker street”.
A whole street just for sneakers, sneaker shop after sneaker shop. Actually the real street name is Fa Yuen street and some also call it Sportswear Street but I like the term “Sneaker Street” more.
You can also catch some fresh exotic fruits on the local market that is awell located on Fa Yuen Street.
Sneaker Street is located between Boundary Street and Dundas Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Check out my flickr account too to see some of my other snapshots from my Lomo photowalks around the globe :).
