I Heart NY

It's been a minute now, school's been busy so I haven't been able to post anything. Don't worry! I'll try to pick it up. Soooooo.... back to Flavor of Love. This past week held quite an episode. Flav opted to go on 2 full day dates with 2 of the lovely ladies. First off he took Krazy and Deelishis on a date and ended up in the shower with both of the girls (somewhat reminiscent of last year's Hoopz and Pumkin shower scene, but with more clothing). Then he took New York and Bootz out the next day and both the girls were at each other's throats all day. At the end of the night Flav chose New York to join him in his room. After all the travesty we still had the eliminations and this week Bootz was the one who had to go, although she did give Flav her number and told him to call her "once he gets sick of those bitches." So now it's down to 3; New York, Deelishis, and Krazy.
Here's a picture in memory of Bootz:

Attack of the Clones!

So apparently the new thing at Nike is to take 2 shoe styles and throw them together into one shoe. They've just announced a big campaign called the Rise of the Hybrids "One Time Only". It's slated for only Tier 0 Nike accounts (the most exclusive of all nike accounts) and Goodfoot Toronto will be having their release party friday Sept. 29th at 10 PM and the shoes will be ready to sell at 12PM that night.




Here's the commercial (part one) for the release. (Check out on You Tube for the other parts, search for "Nike One Time")

Crooks & Castles X New Era

Crooks & Castles dropped a new New Era fitted in 3 dope colors; black, red, and navy. It has a nice little broken chain in the front, a small castle symbol in the back, and for those who like to flip the brim there's a dope bandana print on the underside. The pictures show it better. Also check in at the Commonwealth shop as they just got them in. Hopefully Group Seven or Ghettoblaster in Calgary pick up the Crooks & Castles license so we can start getting some here!

































Pics courtesy of In4mation.

Let the hype begin!

A new Nike dunk SB low has surfaced and it has hype written all over it. I know it was a few months back when the first picture surfaced but now there is one that shows a little more detail. It's called the "Dia de Los Mureto" dunk, or in english, The Day of the Dead. It's slated for a November release but with Nike SB you'll never know. Enough talk, here's the picture.

YEEAAHH BOOOYEEEE!!

Flavor of Love season 2 update!! So it went down sunday night and New York has slept her way back into the final 5 of the show. As expected the entire episode was full of fight after fight all caused by the crazy bitch herself, New York. Flav goes on dates with Buckeey, Bootz and Deelishis (Bootz looked fine as hell in the hot tub) and left New York and Krazy at home to bond. Krazy and Buckeey get in a fight later and Buckeey shoves Krazy and, which i thought was bullshit, Krazy said that Buckeey almost pushed her off the balcony. Then the eliminations came up and Buckeey (who was my personal favorite) gets the boot for almost killing Krazy (again bullshit). So it's now down to 4 girls; New York, Krazy, Bootz, and Deelishis. Only about 3 more episodes to go and we'll see who will be picked. I'm going with either New York or Bootz.
Here's a picture of the eliminated Buckeey.

Group of Seven

CALGARY NEWS!!! There's a new dope skate/streetwear store in Calgary. It goes by the name of Group Seven (there is a group of seven guys who opened the store together) and it's on 4th Street right behind Henry's and above a closed down Lowrider bike shop. They've got a really dope place up there and really chill atmosphere. When you walk in there's a big ass TV screen always playing some skate video, huge open windows, a nice skateboard display on the wall and some really killer clothing lines. They carry; Diamond Supply, Mighty Healthy, Mishka, Greedy Genius, RBK DGK skate shoes, RBK Ice Cream skate shoes, Stacks and Bundles, King Stampede, I'm probably missing a few but you get the deal. They were also talking about carrying Evisu, Crooks & Castles and Artful Dodger. DOPE! Bout time Calgary got a nice skate influenced streetwear shop! They also do some hardware for skates but only a few certain brands. The sickest thing is... the entire store is skateable! From the hardwood floors to the stone ledges where the clothing sits on to the half pipe you have to walk across to go to the fitting rooms. Enough with the rundown of the store, let the pictures speak for themselves.

































Had to pick up something on the first visit, so got a nice Diamond tee.

Earthquake in the bay

These have been rumored to release for quite a while now, and they're expected to come out sometime in November. More pics have surfaced showing the dunks in the Huf earthquake pack. The pack involved an orange dunk and a green air force 1. Both looking really sick and there has already leaked some matching tees and hats. Check em out.
Here's the first picture of the kicks
















The newly release pics of the orange dunks

















The matching hat for the green AF1s with a hang tag that doubles as a sticker















And lastly the matching quake tees

Stussy X Goodfoot

These pictures have been circulating for a little while now but there's been confirmed release dates, so I figured I should post it. Stussy has just done a collaboration on some hoodies with Goodfoot and they're looking pretty nice. They come in; red/black, black/red, black/gold, and marble. The official release is today at the Toronto and Montreal stores and next saturday (the 23rd) in Calgary. Not sure how much they're retailing for but my guess is around $100. The marble one looks really sick so come and check them out!
































































And here's a tee that I think is for the Goodfoot staff only.

Into the Deep

Remember those new Chain Gang hoodies I showed a few days ago? Well Commonwealth, a shop in Norfolk Virginia, got them in and they're also on their online store! In other news, both hoodies have already sold out (that's ridiculously fast). Good news though, they got some pretty dope 10 Deep Chain Gang bandanas at $20US a pop.
Check em out before everything is gone!

Allweays Frooosh!?!

Forget that old Mark Messier Lay's chips commercial, but remember Foosh. Foosh is a really dope streetwear store in the provincial capital to the north of us, Edmonton. To the best of my knowledge is that it is a sister store to Giant 45 here in Calgary. They've recently just dropped a bunch of their new store tees and some are looking pretty nice. Also they've done a collaboration with New Era (seems so is everyone) and they've done well. They've got a pretty nice blog going from their store so check it out, Foosh Blog.

Step in the arena with Foosh on this tee.























A little gutter and a little bay area on this one. Probably my favorite out of the lot.























And no, they didn't forget about the ladies...























The New Eras look straight, the red one has the "Foosh" on the back, and the black has the "F" on the back.



































Each fitted has a nice hook up tee to go with it. Fresh!

DC X New Era 20/94

We all know NewEra has been making DC hats for a minute now but this is pretty big. New Era will be making a DC fitted and DC will be making a New Era shoe, all limited to 114 sets each, once every season until 2008. The series, called 20/94, stands for the years both companies were established; New Era in 1920 and DC in 1994. Here's a picture of the first set in the series:

The Green Machine

This just in, Calgary will be getting the Green Bean Air Jordan V retros! For sure Champs Sports at Chinook Centre will be releasing them on Saturday the 23rd, not sure if Foot Locker is getting them, but if they do get them, the release date is the same. This colorway isn't my cup of tea but I know some heads are gonna be rolling for these kicks! Retail on all retro V's this year is $209.99 canadian.
Green Bean V's! Here's the sample picture, the grey will be more of a reflective 3M material on the actual release.





















Verdict is still out on whether or not these holy grails will be coming to Calgary, but the Grape Air Jordan Vs will be releasing in USA on Sept. 30th. These have been my grails since I started getting into sneakers, so I will have to find a way to get my hands on these bad boys.

Here's a Twofer

What a special day today is, you get a 2 for 1 with new clothing brands coming up! A new line fresh out of Los Angeles California is Cosby. They're making some pretty inovative and fresh t-shirt designs but I'm still not into the uber-tight jeans or pants. I was going to post about this brand yesterday but I couldn't find a picture of my favorite tee from them, so without further delay here she is:
Bawk, bawk, chickenhead, bawk, bawk! Finally some love for Project Pat.




















Goldilocks...



















And last but not least a nice take on a Yay Area team.

Vinyl is the new Action Figure

I've always been a kid at heart, into toys and shit, but with this vinyl toy craze blowing up there's a few pieces i'm feeling. A collaboration has been released between Toyspain X Kidrobot X Montanacolors. A crew of little creatures have been assembled with spray can tips for heads. A bunch of graffiti artists (mostly Spanish) have come through with designing these toys. They're looking pretty sick and as far as vinyl toys go, they aren't too expensive (8 Euros a piece). There's also an online shop at Toyspain where you can pick up these.

Super Dooper Hyphy

The yay area is always bringing some of the hottest styles in streetwear as well as some of the biggest labels. Here's a new label I just came across by the name of Franco Shade. They've got a nice blog and an online store over at Franco Shade so check them out!
Here's one of the tee's that caught my eye




















Diamonds are forever! This is a sick all over beenie that's up on the Franco Shade site as well.

The first rule of Flight Club is...

As some of you may know, Flight Club is a consignment shoe store in New York and has recently opened an LA location as well. They also just released the first episode of FCTV which drops some knowledge on the newer generation of sneaker enthusiasts.











Click here to see the first episode of FCTV!

Quality Control

Just announced last week, a quiet little underground hip hop group you may have heard of is coming to the oil and gas city! November 1st at MacEwan Hall at the U of C, Jurassic 5 will be performing, with guests. Tickets are $38.50 at Ticketmaster so snatch em up before you miss the show! I will update once I find out who the guests for the show are.
Jurassic 5, sans the curly haired white man in the middle, will be in Calgary November 1st.

MM Food!

Checking over at Kickslusive and saw this teaser picture of an MF Doom dunk. It'll probably be limited to a handful for a few select folks or just a sample pair so don't look for it on the shelves. Still thought it was nice to see a big underground name up on a nike shoe.

What's really hood?

Incase you have been living in a hermit village, eating squirrels and drinking the blood of fallen coyotes, Krew skateboarding company is dropping there new fall '06 line. A bunch of new hoodies including the oh so hyped TK hoodie. For those who don't know "Compton Ass" Terry Kennedy is a pro skateboarder known for his gangsterness and thuggaliciousness who is sponsored by Krew and BBC/Ice Cream. Anyways, enough back knowledge, here's the new hood:
TK, all-over print, hypebeast, face zip, multi-colored, gold teeth.... you know the drill.






















For the Calgary heads, I know The Source (17th Ave location) recieved the solid black and the solid white versions of these hoodies, but as usual they have no idea when or if they'll be getting this one. So keep your eyes peeled!!!

Flava Flav!!

Quick update on Flavor of Love Season 2! This is to be a weekly occourance as well. I know it's not on in Canada (yet) but the episodes can be seen over at www.VH1.com. Anyways, back to last night. New York from season one is back in action, and just as fiesty as before. After a bunch of fights and New York falling for Flav once again came the eliminations. Flav boots Nibblz for being a slut and Beautuful for spreading cold sores. In a turn of events he gives New York a clock and brings her back into the game!! (and you thought this show was not going to get any better.) After this Buckwild calls out New York and hangs up her clock for good (all while losing her black accent, what a fake bitch). So we're down to five; Deelishis, Bootz, Krazy, New York, and Buckeey (my personal favorite). Stay tuned to see what happens next week!!
Here's a few bonus pictures of the sexy Hoopz who won last season: