Hi Y’all,

Saturdays are the good days. My personal favorite day of the week.

This was supposed to become a Friday’s kicks edition, but alas I faced some issues with the local ISP and thus had to postpone the posting until this morning. But hey, Saturday is as good day as any for another kicks edition.

Plenty of great kicks/ kicks news out this week. Kicks galore I could almost say. You know, there are so many new shoes out every day of the week, that I prefer to pick my personal favorites and post some of them (hopefully) on a weekly basis. Funny enough, this weeks all of my picks are from Nike. Maybe Nike is rallying their fall/winter collections and thus they’ve got the spotlight.

So starting off with a twist of past meets present and a bit of future. Not full of all the metallic accents we see so often today, but instead royal blue foamposite. The Nike Blazer Foamposite. Inspired by the original foamposite brought to the courts by Penny Hardaway. The swoosh has nice jet blac shine and brings contrast to the blue upper.

Picture courtesy of footlockerunlocked.com.

Another Nike highlighted this week is the Zoom Janoski launcehd in celebration of Gardener 10 Tenth by Michael Lau Exhibition.

Michael Lau, a pioneer in the vinyl toy movement works with a primary medium of 12″ figures for the Gardeners. The figures are inspired by his friends as well as famous individuals worldwide. The new line of Nike SB’s is inspired by the theme of Lau’s exhibition and features wood pattern. The shoe is naturally available in extremely limited numbers and the exhibition runs from September 30th until October 3rd in De La Barracuda in LA. For more info you can visit Mindstyle.com.

Pictures courtesy of highsnobiety.com.

UK rapper Dizzee Rascal has collaborated with Nike in a Nike Air Max 90 aptly titled Tongue N’ Cheek. According to Dizzee the shoe is, “Stylish but simple. The Air Max 90 is pretty much the street shoe, ‘innit? It’s quite sporty, but when you get the right colours you can wear it with anything. But with this one we tried to keep it quite plain so it could complete any outfit. It’s functional and there was a pretty deep design process involved”. The shoe carries itself with premium grade soft leather and high knap suede with graphics in-line with the shoe’s title with pink tongue and the letter U in a form of a tongue.

Picture courtesy of kix-files.com.

Below a fresh little ad clip for the shoes.

Last pick of the week, and probably the most detailed as well as futuristic kicks are the Nike x Playstation Air Trainer 1, shoe featuring multiple graphic elements on a black base. The shoes are truly extreme also in availability. The shoe will never be released for the public and there are only 24 pairs, making the shoe a holy grail of many sneaker lovers. Most of the shoes will go to charity auctions.

Pictures courtesy of solecollector.com.

That’s all for now. Weekend is looking sunny and bright, hope it stays that way. Be easy Y’all and catch you later. Now, I’m out.