Nike Air Max LeBron VII Artist Series: DC Cynthia Rudzis

The Lebron World Tour 2009 by Nike has still been underway the past few weeks. Here is the latest pair designed by Washington, D.C. based artist Cynthia Rudzis. Via Freshnessmag.com

Whilst everyone can still try their luck to be one of the 123 snagging a pair of limited edition Air Max Lebron VII based on each stop of the LeBron World Tour 2009, only LeBron will be storing the limited edition Artist Series in his shoe closet.

For the DC leg of the LeBron World Tour, DC-based tattoo artist, Cynthia Rudzis is enlisted to help create the one-of-a-kind Air Max LeBron VII, as a part of the Air Max LeBron VII (7) Artist Series. Treating the white leather upper as she would approach a tattoo, Cynthia focused on the balance of positive and negative space. She stuck with a true DC relevant theme, “Justice For All” for her creation and worked it in with the art of tattooing. While both shoes feature a traditional tattoo scripted text on the toe box, only the right shoe features a full-on, true American motif of an eagle, and the other is kept clean in its original state– kind of like looking at a person with one tattoo sleeve.

On the midsoles, Rudzis 2009 marked the artist’s hand on the shoe that is gifted to LeBron at the presentation today. So far, the two artist series unveiled will be following LeBron around the world on tour and there are 8 more pairs to go. We will be sharing these unique artist series as the tour goes on and ends all the way back on the west coast in Los Angeles at the end of September. For those who are trying to get their hands on these tattooed numbers? Sorry, maybe it will appear miraculously someday on ebay.

Jacob Patterson: Metal Gear Solid Nike Dunks Hideo Kojima

In almost anything in life there can be many reasons why people pursue or take part in certain activities. That is definitely the case for shoe customizers, be it just to be able to create something, earn some extra money for shoes, or even meet new people. From every custom shoe made you do not know what it will bring, people are fans and obsessed with everything under the sun. So if you customize a pair of shoes on a very specific theme people that are into that theme will notice. Just take a look at these videos by Jacob Patterson and how he was able to meet video game artist Hideo Kojima with his Metal Gear Solid Nike Dunks. It has a few parts but entirely worth the watch.

PimpMyKicks.com: The Joker Nike Air Force 1 ROUND 2

Back in April we had a post about one of the better Joker custom sneakers made by PimpMyKicks.com. In case you were wondering I’ve uncovered a bit information about the artist. Going by JRow of “Born2Shine” customs and PimpMyKicks.com from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania he has created another Joker Nike Air Force 1 mid custom. Slightly toned down but still intense. The first pair had a few versions of the Joker’s image but this pair is directed more towards the Dark Knight Heath Ledger Joker of last summer. Using a palette of Joker inspired colors: purple, red, yellow, turquoise and orange JRow added details such as playing cards suits, the “hahahahah”, and “Why so serious?” in blood red. This time JRow even had fellow artist Malcolm Majiq Hamer make a matching pair of heels, cause girls like Dark Knight too.

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