Custom sneakers have been described as a tattoo you can remove. Well a t-shirt could be that too…while sneakers will always be thought of as a more interesting canvas for graphic art before shirts. Yet sneaker customization has a ways to go to reach the level of tattooing. But what if you truly combined the art of tattoos with those of sneakers? No not just a tattoo artist painting shoes but one going at a sneaker with their tattoo gun. Victor Aguiar thought the tattooed shoe was worth trying. Check the outcome in his video below titled Second Skin: Shoe Art Project II.
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South Beach Miami Inspired Nike Lebron 9 low: GourmetKickz vs eXpression Airbrush
The Nike Lebron 8 South Beach is officially 2 years old this month. A way to measure the impact that colorway had on the custom sneaker game does not exist but it surely became the elephant print of 2011 to early 2012 with many a customizers taking the colorway to other shoes. A big impact of that is because customers loved the colorway themselves.
RedBullUSA.com: Creating Custom Kicks with Sneaker Artist El Cappy
No stranger to this site Detroit, Michigan based sneaker customizer Eric Lowry who goes by El Cappy recently hooked up with Redbull to give insight to his interest in sneakers and art. Check the video below as Redbull spent some time with El Cappy around his customizing workspace, sneaker boutique Burn Rubber, and city of Detroit.