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THE BIG BUBBLE ERA 26 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
Watching this 2005-era Fall documentary in between morsels from Gucci Mane’s new mixtape trilogy, it’s clear that Gucci may well be rap’s own Mark E. Smith — the occasionally unintelligible delivery, ...
ANIMALS IN DENIM 22 Aug 2013 | 04:52 am
I’ll update this blog properly in a few days. Tonight, instead of visiting this site, I recommend listening to the mighty Tim Westwood mistake human immunodeficiency virus for a high street CD/DVD ret...
SYNTHETIC CHINCHILLA & ZEN LAYERING 19 Aug 2013 | 03:42 am
Because I’m currently helping to design colouring in some stuff for a project, I found myself looking for inspiration and ended up back at Patagonia. Again. The brand that helped pioneer the protectiv...
MORE GOOD STUFF 15 Aug 2013 | 04:07 am
At least three times a year for the last five years, I’ve been sent an enthusiastic email with the Powell Peralta SUPREME campaign tee attached as a jpeg. It’s a weird coincidence that somebody was th...
HOUSTON CHAMPS 12 Aug 2013 | 03:39 am
I botched this blog entry. Earlier this week I wrote a piece on Run-D.M.C. and their relationship with adidas, their sweatshirts and the Fleetwood/Eldorado/Brougham/Ultrastar release. Then I got annoy...
OLD MUSIC 8 Aug 2013 | 03:58 am
Forget a pop-up store or concept “space.” In 1986, they were shifting Air Jordan 1s from DIY stores. Lightbulbs, a grass trimmer and some cut-price metallic swoosh AJ1s were all available in one Sunda...
SKATEWEAR 5 Aug 2013 | 04:54 am
British skaters are getting it bad this week from the press. The week started with the usually likeable Billy Bragg defending the Southbank against those pesky kids and turning it into a class war (an...
TATTOOED BY SADE 2 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
Usually I hurl multiple topics at a single blog post to reflect my general state-of-mind, but you’ve got to give the whole post to this one. Seeing as he just messaged me at the same time as I was wat...
ADS 29 Jul 2013 | 04:25 am
I’ve been transcribing too much this week so text here will be at a minimum tonight (though you can click here for a one-hour conversation about shoes with my friend Gary Aspden). When it doubt, revis...
SCROLLS 25 Jul 2013 | 05:19 am
Remember Dead Shoe Scrolls? Back in summer 2000, Mr Mike Chetcuti’s graduate project catfished footwear connoisseurs by posing as an online store that had access to a mysterious warehouse of deadstock...
