In case you happened to go online or watch TV without hearing about the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton you are in luck because you just came across easily the coolest result of this day of matrimony. No this is not about the Royal Wedding Pizza by Papa John’s. The British website…[Read More]
Too bad Lebron James did not end up on the New Jersey (or soon to be Brooklyn) Nets in last summers free agency fiasco because Nets colors go well on his kicks. Case in point these “NYC” Nike Lebron 8s by shoe customizer Conor Burns aka C4 based off a photoshopped design by a cat…[Read More]
Have you been fiending for your own pairs of Sekure D and Diversitile custom sneakers? Well here is your limited chance to get a custom shoe from both Sekure D and the Diversitile crew with one stone…well actually money, I doubt they are accepting stones as payment. A combination of hand painting and clean brush…[Read More]
This is the best weekend of the year, NBA All Star Weekend 2011. The cold of winter heats up with basketball festivities of the celebrity game, Rookie vs. Sophomore game on Friday night, of course the Saturday night line up of the 3 point and dunk contests, with the weekend peaking as the East and…[Read More]
Two shoe customizers emmanueLabor and Qustom Queen, living roughly 4,700 miles apart between Seattle, Washington and Glasgow, United Kingdom worked together for a 1 of 1 Zartan from G.I. Joe themed custom Nike Dunk. Each shoe customizer brought to the project their specialty: Qustom Queen color her changing paint and emmanueLabor his decon-recon skills. The…[Read More]
Washington D.C. based shoe customizer theMenace is right on schedule with his latest Vans Sk8 Hi decon-recon custom shoes but this time it is a collaboration with JBF Customs. From theMenace: Originally inspired by a high-end wallet, I reached out to fellow sneaker customizer, recon-artist and friend JBF to help bring this idea to form….[Read More]
Next week 30 different pairs of Vans creatively made into custom Vans shoes will be up for auction in the 1 of 1 project put on by Chris Watchorn in Winnipeg, Canada. 23 artists were given a blank Vans sneaker to customize with the ultimate goal to help grow the local Winnipeg creative scene and…[Read More]
Online sneaker community NikeTalk.com has teamed up with 5 different shoe customizers to have their first custom sneaker charity auction to help raise money for Doctors Without Borders and their Haiti earthquake relief efforts. Shoe customizers involved are 1of Customs, Evolved Footwear, JBF Customs, JGoods Custom Sneakers, and Revive Customs. 5 different Nike shoes have…[Read More]
If you are in and around LA this Saturday February 20th I suggest you sign up for this custom kicks workshop with Jacob Patterson and Sole Junkie at the Hammer Museum put on by the Hammer Student Association. Sign up quick space is extremely limited: 16 participants and one pair of Nikes deconstructed into 16…[Read More]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin based shoe customizer Chris Hui better known as C2 Customs completed his first ever custom Nike Air Force 1 high for CounterKicks.com. The result is what happens when two entities near the top of their respective fields come together: C2 being custom sneakers and CounterKicks being sneaker information blog. PaintOrThread has been following…[Read More]
