If Vans can come back from the brink to become a major player (pre-Geoff Rowley, their shoes sucked), and Nike SB is doing Dunks in old Airwalk colorways (black/turquoise/white), what’s stopping Airwalk from coming back? Vans owned the ’70s, but Airwalk was the king of skate shoes in the late ’80s/early ’90s, no question about [...]
No offense, I like Complex magazine, they do some very nice shoots and they’re always on top of shit, but their new issue has a big hole in it. (And I don’t mean that corny chick from Danity Kane. I know Complex is veering strongly toward Maxim, but c’mon, there must be more credible options [...]
Only a few Nike SB accounts are getting these joints… Hit Hot Rod up if you can’t get ‘em at your dealer. Tell ‘em Vapors sent ya. And thanks to Woody at snkrfrkr for the second shoe pics. On another note, I know very few SB fans actually skate, but I’m compelled to try to [...]
Apparently Futura didn’t already have enough collabs in his closet. I kid. I don’t see much art to it, but this is a very cool color combo.
Primitive’s partners—Paul Rodriguez, Andy Netkin and Jubal Jones—stopped by the Vapors office in late July, and in between bouts of skate-talk (the $100,000-for-first Maloof Money Cup, which P-Rod took the next weekend, and Cameron from Hot Rod’s switch back tails), we talked about their newest hustle. From the get-go, Primitive is a store that looks [...]
WHUT?! You have to listen to this early ’80s rap, Futura backed by The Clash. Slideshow of Futura’s art is rad, and the song almost sounds like a Blondie track from that era. This is stolen in its entirety from one of my favorite sites, lostinasupermarket.com. Bookmark that ish. If you’re into electronic music you’ll [...]
Nike just sent out another helping of the Lobster Dunks, so pick some up from your local SB provider–mine’s Hot Rod. (I only plug Hot Rod because it’s my roommate’s store, and because Chris Candy, my fellow Canuck and the son of the late, great, Canuck comic John Candy, works at the store today. He [...]
Just kidding. An old skate homie of mine, Dirk “Diggler” Vogel of the Euro skate mag Kingpin, called me out of the blue last weekend. (I’ll never forget the time he put me up on his couch in Frankfurt after I got the worst sunburn of my life the day before. Still owe him for [...]
They’re being delivered to Nike’s SB accounts, if they’re you bag. Still can’t believe Paul just won $100K in a skate contest… Dayum. What makes you think I stole this photo?
Kind of interesting because it is clearly “inspired by” (sounds more polite, right?) a classic Airwalk colorway. I could just ask my roommate who has a complete collection of original Airwalks from the 720s on down, which he bought hoping Airwalk will make a comeback a la Vans. (Or he may be trying to work [...]
