Happy greatest weekend of the year! Here’s some dork explaining how fireworks work. Might help you keep from blowing your face off on Saturday. [Gizmodo]
Kanye is shitting his pants with excitement right now. The Drake vid is killing it, his Louis sneakers sold out the first day and Murakami just made the Kanye bear in gold paint. Hopefully he’s going to rant on the humble.[Supreme Being]
WeSC headphones w/ Medicom/Be@rbricks etc. to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Swedes. Slashhy! [High Snobiety]
Belvedere IX continues to co-op the frenchman ANDRÉ by moving the liquore with a Medicom man in pink and black. Dope. [Giltn]
Yep. Kanye interning at the GAP. And by interning, they mean “Also probably designing a collection for them.” Does that mean we might get another round of Spike Jones commercials when it drops? That would be awesssssome. [NY Mag]
Nike SB July releases. Ready…Seeeeeeet… [Nice Kicks]
In HOLY CRAP news, Eric Koston announced his new footwear sponsor yesterday, Nike SB. Koston has been a skate hero forever, and with the way the Berrics is popping off right now, this couldn’t have been a better get for SB. Koston has always been a Nike head, but he’s also been a trend leader in skate shoe design since his start.
In an interview with Retrokid for SOLE Collector back in April of ’08, when he was asked about P-Rod’s deal with Nike, Koston said, “I think they ripped him off…I think a company like Nike, they should be paying out the fucking ass…Somebody of Paul’s ability and marketability, he deserves more. LeBron’s getting a $100 million deal, it’s just not comparable.” If one were to extrapolate off of this quote, he could safely say that Eric Koston is chilling. So, in celebration of one of skateboarding’s greats, and to mark what will undoubtedly be the start of a flood of awesome SBs with his name on it, we’ve compiled Eric Koston’s greatest signature shoes from his start with éS to his move to Lakai. Hit the jump and get schooled about the dude, and his design process.
Apparently, noteveryonecan pick Charlie Murphy out of a lineup. To help drive the hype behind Micheal Jordan’s impending Hall of Fame induction, the last man standing from Chapelle’s show goes in. Check this site, enough stuff on there to get you to your lunch break. [Get your basketball on]
The thirsty sneaker nerds just couldn’t wait until we put clean shots of this Nike SB x Supreme collection, so they went ahead and scanned our pages from our April/May issue. Thanks, dicks. For those of you who were fiending for better pictures. Here there are.
Supreme chose this under-the-radar Bruin silhouette and hooked it up with Nike Skateboarding technology, which makes for a win for all of us. Four colorways of the sneakers will release on April 16, along with double-label hand tags, that you can give your trifey girlfriend for her car keys. Check all the colorways after the cut. World Famous? Yes indeed. $98, supremenewyork.com,nikeskateboarding.com
