rage

i try to be a pretty positive person. i said i try. i fail at this a lot but i think its the effort that counts. that being said this post is a long time coming and im sure that if you know me well at all you wont be surprised that i am addressing this topic. now let me just reiterate that i LOVE dunks. i love the concept of dunks, the sweet designs, the stories behind them, the inspiration. BUT there are some major flaws that i feel it is my duty to point out:

1) apparently the people at nike think that they are mainly designing women's dunks for japanese people and six year old girls

case in point: the new "loganberry" dunk was rumored to only be released in asia. hmm i wonder why? but it actually is a united states release and thank god cause i was just thinking how much i needed a shoes covered in screen printed flowers in a really awesome grey and white colorway. please. walmart called, they want their hideous kiddy designs back.


really? ok lets see which colors go the best together hmm... probably hot pink, mustard yellow, grey, and gold right? no they dont. this is one of the easter women's dunk from this year (admittedly, the other one is MUCH better) it looks like someone ate some glitter glue then puked all over this shoe. its especially bad because the individual parts alone would be pretty decent. i like gold accents, i love hot pink on almost anything, im not crazy about mustard yellow really but wow this shoe is an abortion.





2) nike's pathetic customization tool on their website. i know a lot of people who ordered basketball shoes and whatnot from nike id and in my opinion they just looked like every other goddamn shoe but with the person's initials on it. when i heard dunks would be on id i was skeptical but hopeful. but then i saw the huge TWELVE COLOR selection they have including daring colors like grey and powder blue. wow. the worst part of this is that the colorways are barely even customizable because the "accent" color you pick covers nearly the entire shoe. seriously, im sure anyone could find a premade dunk thats better than anything you could make on here and get it for 20 dollars cheaper. if you want serious customs, just use one of the many great shoe artists out there. yeah you will be paying $200.00-$300.00 but you will get an actual one of a kind shoe that looks clean as hell, not some crayola mess.

3) this rant isnt really directed at anyone or anything in particular except for the pieces of shit that sell fake shoes. my problem isnt that theyre fake necessarily, just that they are passed off as real on places like ebay and people get ripped off. now, to my knowledge i have never bought fake shoes (thought i did once, but confirmed theyre real) but its just so lame to try to trick someone. if you wanna sell fake shoes, just say theyre fake and sell them for 30 bucks. people will buy them and you still will make an 800% profit. fakes these days sometimes are of very high quality anyway. my favorite is when some dumb motherfucker tries to put like 10 pairs of tiffs on ebay and have the buy it now price at like $90.00. in those blatant cases, it is actually the buyer who is at fault because thats about $450.00 less than the tiff market price.

damn all this negativity is bringing me down, and thats tough cause im 10 days sober now and feeling gooood!!!

-DB