Nike’s designer geniuses, Tinker Hatfield and Mark Smith, explain the design, concepts. and fits of the new Jordan 2010. Although, I can appreciate the level of thoguht and workmanship of the shoe, the 2010 just reminds of some Payless-type show (XJ-900, anybody?). Great vid and promotion but not feeling this shoe this time around.
Nike put up a dope site that is an interactive pop-up book of all the Jordan shoes and some dope moments in the year that the shoe was released. For J0rdan heads, this is a good little trivia quiz for oneself to see how much you actually know about the man and the shoes. Cool fact is that they plan on releasing a white version of each show to commemorate the 25th edition. All the shoes at the site are in the all-white versions. Check out nike.com to check out the site.
Big Boi addresses his recent spotting at a Sneaker Pimps show where he was wearing fake Jordans. He didn’t know and in this video, he admits to that fact. As a sneakerhead, I constantly hate on fake Jordans. I think its just derives from the fact that I got duped on eBay for $400 on some Jordan 4s 6 years ago and haven’t let go of that anger. Big Boi is like most sneaker heads where we didn’t start buying shoes until we actually had a salary. And by that time, we are making up for lost time. Glad he admitted his naivety and just said, “move on”. Thanks to Gotty & Co. for the inspiration to post this.
$port, great producer and Way More Fresher representative, was in Phoenix last week for the beatmaker convention known as the One Stop Shop (jealous!). While he was there, he was able to sneak an interview with Jayson Mayden, intern-turned-Senior Designer at Jordan. Read some cool insight he gave about the design of the 2009 Jordans (shout out to all industrial designers!) and his love for hip-hop. I’ll post the full interview after the jump because sometimes all 18 of the KTL readers can be lazy but you should check out WMF after you’re done.
Apparently even these Jordan’s are timeless. From one of my favorite websites, nicekicks:
“The list of shoes that feature Air Jordan shoes is quite lengthy, but you can add the upcoming Star Trek to the list. Spotted in the trailer by Nice Kicks reader Scott N., a young James T. Kirk is wearing what looks to be a modified pair of shoes that feature the unmistakable sole from the Air Jordan XX3.
Click here to see the whole trailer, trekkies.”
I’m excited about the movie.
ESPN did a small video on Jordans called “The Sneaker That Changed It All”. Dope cameos. Not as good as Just for Kicks but cool to see this on ESPN. (Source: SF)