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The life of a Sneaker Savant… who knows the struggle?

And now...a few low-hanging comparisons between religion and brands: --- Religion: people are loyal to their religions. Some to the point of death. (The crusades).
Brands: people are loyal to their

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Now before you get your panties in a twist…’evocative’ means ‘bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.’ — So this study I was talking about yesterday…was there a ‘link’ between brands

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Destiny? Go back to where you came from!

I guess with all this talk about how collections and collectibles have become these items that some of us ascribe incredible amounts of meaning to…the next question that came into my head is kinda wil

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Bouncing around… I found ANOTHER @nytimes article…this one was written by the one and only @questlove supreme…titled “Collecting Is an Act of Devotion, and Creation”…and if you want to gloss over my

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Caught this image on @verseone story a few weeks ago and those waffle racers caught my eye. Nothing all that amazing about them, but seeing another massive charcuterie board full of @virgilabloh @off_

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Not sure if y'all were paying attention yesterday, but @zaptio , co-founder of the NFT company that @nike purchased a few months ago, posted a quick video of him scanning a pair of sneakers with his p

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In line with the topic(s) I've been exploring lately...have you ever stopped to wonder WHY we are nostalgic for certain sneakers? I know there was a time in my life that I looked for some nostalgic

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After that post about the 'swoosh story' on Monday, it had the wheels turning... I'm not saying that I don't believe the 'waffle' story, but have you ever considered whether or not it's true? I remem

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(That's me above on the right...in like 1989...when I was going through my 'collect Bo Jackson things' phase. The stuff on the left is just a bunch of collectible stuff right next to my desk as I writ

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Is there a simpler Nike silhouette than the Cortez? One of the reasons I never really got into most of the Off-White x Nike collaboration stuff is because I always thought it looked like a pain in the

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If you consider yourself a collector, have you ever taken a step back and asked yourself…’why do I collect things?’ It’s one of those questions that I’m always kind of intrigued by. I want to know t

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From the book 'Buyology'... I know there are a lot of different versions of this story and I suppose they've probably all got measures of truth within them...but...is this the version you've heard?

If there's one thing I'm bad at, it's IG timing. I usually just post things when they pop into my head without really considering the 'hey what day is it?' kind of stuff that goes into a smash post...

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Saw these in an auction the other day... "Wack as ever... ...patent leather..." (Not sure if these are actually considered patent leather but I will say they are for the sake of justifying my own po

Some people think about others. Some people think about love and life and redemption. And these are the things that I think of.

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Was thinking about this the other day...about how there are certain attributes on certain shoes that just make me say 'yeah, no.' There's this line in an old Makaveli (2pac) song where Young Noble k

To contextualize the scene... It was 2004, and having only recently moved to New York (from Santa Cruz), I found Fulton Street in Brooklyn. As a young adult who ALWAYS wanted Air Force 1's *but had a

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With a DS size 10 on StockX for $1.6k and a DS size 10.5 on StockX for $1.7k, I find it hard to believe ANYONE would pay $1.5k for a mismatched pair of TS1's...am I wrong? I know a *collector* would

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Saw this pic on FB a few weeks ago shortly after the AM1 ‘Hemp’ drop…obviously these shoes are of a different size and whoever set up the photo didn’t take that into account, but kind of interesting t

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A few thoughts about this whole Ye situation… 1. When I was a kid, I heard about a rapper that I liked say that they didn’t want white people buying their albums. I was 16 years old and I didn’t have

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If y'all wanna help me spread the word - send me a DM and I'll send you this video...we can use all the help in the world pushing this one out there! ---- Alright y'all... #NBAOneDay boxed set of 19

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Part of the thing about creating a ‘sneaker grading’ algorithm is that I’ve spent countless hours just looking at shoes in an attempt to train myself to see things that most people might not even noti

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