The next step in custom Nike Air Foamposites has been reached: light up LED soles. Titled “Lights On” these creations are from an expert in Foamposite customization, Sole Swap aka Jason Negron, who has built a niche using mostly this high end Nike basketball shoe as his base. Upwards of 30 LEDs used take great…[Read More]
If given the chance most people that recently saw Disney’s TRON Legacy in 3D at IMAX theaters around the world would jump at the opportunity to experience the digital world of The Grid. Light Cycles, identity discs, lighted battle armor, Light Jets. How far down the line are we from seeing TRON like outfits used…[Read More]
Florida based shoe customizers Diversitile Custom Clothing had an interesting year with their take on an custom Iron Man Sneaker, that eventually had to be released under another name due to trademark issues. That other names were “Cease” and “Desist” and instead of red and gold and silver they were white and black. But the…[Read More]
At the end of this past summer emmanueLabor was working over time to finish a slew of decon-recon custom shoes. I recently caught up with him for a few quick questions about his Darth Vader inspired Nike Blazers complete with black patent leather cut and sewn to recreate Vader’s helmet and light up Swooshes to…[Read More]
Earlier this year Diversitile caused quite a ruckus with their Iron Man and War Machine custom Nike Dunks enough to upset Marvel Inc. Deciding to fulfill a custom he wanted to make in 2008 emmanueLabor went a slightly different route instead of painting like the Diversitile crew he created a complete decon recon pair based…[Read More]
I really only like to post up customized shoes that are truly wearable, but these beat to death Nike Terminators were too cool to pass up. Instructables.com member: “frenzy” was recently inspired by those tiny wind up toys, specifically the little shoes, that walk by themselves. He figured he could make his own full size…[Read More]
What do you do when “the man” is trynna keep you down in the custom sneaker game? Change up the colors and remove the trademarked name so you can service the wants and desires of your fans. That is what the crew Diversitile Custom Clothing did in response to receiving a cease and desist order…[Read More]
Iron Man was my guess as what will be the most used theme of 2010 for custom shoes. Unfortunately that might be shut short because not many shoe customizers are going to be able to top the latest customs from Diversitile: Iron Man and War Machine Nike Dunks. Gold and red for Iron Man and…[Read More]
Sneaker enthusiasts may have seen the work of Gabriel Dishaw out on the sneaker blogs this past year, actually I can almost guarantee you have. Remember those Nike Dunks made out metal and recycled computer parts? 7 of those 1:1 scale reproductions of collectible Nike sneakers made out of recycled computer parts, electronics, found metals,…[Read More]
Ohhhh buddy, each battle of the Clash of the Customizers just keeps getting better and better. Battle 22 was an all female battle between YoaKustoms and Qustom Queen. It seems to be a big deal in the forums that this was woman customizer against woman customizer but thing is they could easily take on any…[Read More]
