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"These were actually made for my barber nicknamed "Lucky".

He wanted a pair of kicks designed as if he just kicked his foot in a puddle of blood.

However, I put more of a "Tech Challenge" style to the splatter to make it more my style.

Not usually my thing but I feel I made it work nicely."- C2

Now that he's done with high school, imagine what he'll do with all that time on his hands!

MGS4

Rainbow 6

Gears of War

i played the demo, i think the parodies are better lol.

i really relate to the Rainbow 6 video, a friend of mine bamboozled me into buying that game.

"Stéphane Bucco, the graphic artist, internationally renowned as Sockho, has created STRING REPUBLIC in 2004 to illustrate what happens when graphic arts and daily life merge. After renowned exhibitions and collaborations, Stéphane wants to find new Material supports of creation. Like the designers of the 50’s, STRING REPUBLIC wants to enhance products and make them more beautiful. And Stéphane likes to quote Raymond Loewy who said that “ugly things sell badly”. Nowadays... useful things sell badly. The amazing revival of the flip flops and the clogs remind him of the espadrilles his grand-father used to offer him every summer when he was a kid. The concept is born; see an old product like the espadrille differently! The espadrille is given as an anachronistic material support to about thirty of the greatest international grafic artists, who evolve in very different aesthetic universes."

Summer is here and not all ladies want to rock forces and jordans that act as humidifiers in the dog days of summer.

Enter Stringer Republic. 

Stringer Republic shows a strong pallette of colors combined with intense graphics.

These shoes are catchy and the artwork is infectious. 

If they ever come up with mens line, id be down.

The graphics speak for themselves, with artists such as Skwak, Attaboy, Keepmesane, Nate Williams and of course Sockho himself, Mr. Stephane  Bucco making contributions.

There's also some ladies underwear too with similar work.

www.thestringrepublic.com

from various sneaker messageboards

"inquired. 5-600.....
Pass like nash......price is normal, but I'd pay that price for a meth."

" (These could be from 2004)

These guys are two of my favorite customiser, EVER, but they're blowing it... twice. w/e  "

"so simple and yet one of my favorties from sbtg"

personally, i enjoy them as a custom.

but for it to be a collaboration between AKAlazy and SBTG it's a dissapointing. 

C2 reigns supreme again, this time with the repro of an unreleased nike sb supreme sample.

purchase now or be left out in the cold. 

i was a judge for this months contest, there were alot of entries. some better than others, some interesting, some not.

sometimes its difficult to be not biased in these things, once you get familiar with people's work you kind of know who did what shoes becasue you can see the person's style.

i'm not told who did what, but you can pretty much narrow down who did what if that clears my pervious statement up.

what's up with all the horror/portraits this month, i felt like there was a theme and no one told me lol.

with the portraits and use of characters, make sure you can nail it down. some of the work done had some charatcters looking like anorexic or fatty mcfatfat versions of them.

this made me take some points off. and another tip, dont use the characters from already used artwork.
i mean who wants to see a pre-established rendering on a shoe, i loved the Jason's because i have not seen that artwork before and assumed it was original.

while i hated the batman vans, because a) the characters looked semi-wack b) ive seen that artwork before and it did no justice for the most part.

i liked these for the most part, i really didnt enjoy the blue in the logo. i felt a better color could have been used.

these are sick, i love them. i wish they could win, but they can't. it's just a low of the gucci dunks. and unoriginality is a points killer. but for technical work i salute these. 

and these.

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Every so often we get mail from young up and coming sneaker heads who want to know about how to open sneaker stores, or if they can intern at Sneaker Freaker (unbeknownst to them we are on the other side of the world). Once in a while we have a “Dangerous Minds” moment, where the movie plot goes as follows; young kid emails their favourite magazine, explains how such magazine has inspired their class to use their vision in a creative format. Said magazine gushes with pride, returns email and invites student to submit a pictorial story to show the world just who is the “world’s best sneaker boogazine”. Magazine then publishes said pictorial story, the school gets props worldwide, inspirational rap song by current hip hop sensation swells and many a high five ensures! With thanks to Talia M. and her teacher, sneaker freaker Mr. S. along with photographer Eric Steinberg, we proudly show why we are indeed the best of the best!

Students at my school, Ward Melville High School participated in a project inspired by Sneaker Freaker. It all started when Mr. Swierupski, known as Mr. S, brought in the Sneaker Freaker book. All the kids checked out the unique sneakers and decided that a sneaker project was in order. Next came demos by Mr. S, like how to tape off areas of the shoe and how to use letter stickers to create colored words. Then everyone brought in their own pair of plain sneakers, whether they were Nikes, Converse, or Adidas, and treated it like a clear canvas. With paint, paint pens, and spray paint available in a variety of bright and metallic colors, each student came up with their own original design, hoping they would hear Mr. S’s catch phrase, “Yeaaaa, nobody’s got that!”

Some students just revamped the colors in their shoes or painted a cartoon character or symbol, but other artistic kids had graffiti art or their own original drawing. Fueled by the sick designs in SNKR FRKR magazine, some students took their shoe production to the next level by bringing in new fabrics. Many kids put great effort in detail, such as Corinne R., who brought in fabric and cut, glued, and pressed in pieces of it to cover the Nike Swoosh and other areas of her shoe. Then she accented the shoe with old paint, to compliment the gold thread in part of her fabric. The result was a new shoe, completely different from the plain white ones she started with. Another student, Rob G. used different color paint pens to create an eye-catching image on his shoe. One shoe reads ‘Rob’ in graffiti and the other shoe reads ‘Big.’

All of the kicks, displayed in a case outside the classroom with a graffiti sign drawn by Mr. S reading ‘Sneaker Freaker,’ drew much attention from other students. “I think it’s a great project. It’s a great way for students to express their creativity,” says Jose R., a senior at Ward Melville. The project is definitely a good way for the students to express creativity, and it's probably the first time that sneaker production has been a graded class project.

Yes, this project is taken seriously, and each student has to fill out an evaluation sheet when they are done that basically describes how detailed they were in their project and what materials they used, as well as if they brought in their own extra stuff. It is clear that this is one special class, and all of us kids are grateful for Mr, S, knowing he brings in innovative ideas and then the little bit of hope that we will leave with our own personalized merchandise. “This project is sick, I wish I was doing it. All the shoes are coming out so crazy. I’m definitely taking this crafts class next year,” says Justine M., a junior at Ward Melville. This project shows the hard work, creativity, fun, and gratification that comes from designing a sneaker, and has created an entire class of new generation Sneaker Freakers.

Essay by Talia M.
Photos by Erick Steinberg

From Sneaker Freaker