Last night I had one of the best times on the internets that you can have that doesn’t involve downloading German smut videos.
NiceKicks.com presented their annual Kixpys sneaker awards and the show was hosted by my folks from Obsessive Sneaker Disorder. If you haven’t been part of the OSD live broadcast then you don’t know what you are missing. It’s the chance to argue, co-sign, show love and hate to everything happening in the world of sneakers. From time to time the show touches on stories that occur outside of that realm but the discussions are still framed around the love of sneakers. I don’t really know what else to say about the program other than the fact that if you are a sneaker nerd you will feel like Norm does every time he walks into Cheers.
If I’m not in the streets going in hardbody at an obama I am on the phone taking part in this one of a kind program that reaffirms the reason I am a sneaker fiend. OSD was the perfect venue for the Kixpys since this is the one place that spent the entire year commiserating and congratulating all the nominees. The big winner was DJ Clark Kent who took home two awards and also took the time to be part of the program. Clark Kent is a pretty generous and humble dude if you don’t know him, but if he feels comfortable around you he will talk that shit. Clark went in with everyone for the length of the show. He talked about his passion for sneakers as art and as footwear. He also told us that he had some projects in the pipeline that would eclipse his award winners.
The 112 Pack by Clark Kent
The 112 Pack was a tremendous release for NIKE and for Clark Kent. I think that Clark certainly give NIKE their street credibility. NIKE is already popular enough but the edge that Clark Kent gives them is non-pareil because there aren’t too many people that can document the fact that they were there AND are still here. The 112 Pack’s highlight was the Air Max 1 shoe. I am killing myself that I didn’t camp out in Brooklyn for those. That pair would be even sicker than my AM-1 NL Black Cements that I copped from the ATL DunkxChange.
Clark should have won for his NIKE collabo on the Black Friday Air Force 1’s. These are definitely on some superhero status. People are still buzzing about these shoes. The materials are str8 banana beans. I jacked some pics from HowFresh’s website just to show you how mean these shoes are.
Peep that HowFresh went in to pose these kicks on a DJ rig.
The Black Friday AF-1’s are a monster shoe that deserved to win out over the ?uestlove Air Force 1’s but only time will tell which shoe the sneaker heads love more. You can recap all the categories and nominees for the Kixpys over at NiceKicks.com and check out some of the red carpet kix pix @ ShowIDeez.com
Here’s the podcast of the Kixpys awards via OSDee…
Black Fridays & Krinks both take a steaming pile on the Questos…
Those Clark Kent 87’s are FIRE!
the 112 pack would make it to my closet b4 the quzitos and them black fridays……………I passed on copping both shoes for a Top Secret purchase this year….Some futuristic won’t leave the closet til 2010 type jawns……that said, Clark Kent is definitely a force to be reckoned with. I’m glad he’s designing.
I think I like the color combinations of the 112 pack more than the actual design. The first one (to the left of the middle) is butt ugly. I just have a serious problem with the textured bottom. The stark contrast of black and white just draws your attention away from everything else. It should have been dark like the texture treatment on the opposite end. Then maybe it would have been aiight.
The furry sneakers?? I’ll pass on that. But I’m far from a sneaker fiend, so what do I know.
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Memorable Sneaker Fiend Post of 2008:
“Fly Wire Tech Design”
http://dallaspenn.com/weblog/?p=2626
Congrats to Dee and the peeps at OSD. you have come a long way my boy!
DP those shits look like gorilla boots. Fuckin horrible.
Good God I want those black friday ones.
I so want to do this for a living