Big up to Pete Dzuban, who I met yesterday in the Corner Bakery™ downtown. BTW, If you'e ever in the midwest, stop in this place and cop ANYTHING. The baked goods are top notch fa' sho! Pete works for this high end cardboard company in the Chicago suburbs. High end cardboard!?!?!? WTF is that? He designs archival boxes for museums, for storing old bones, Cain and Abel's wifebeaters, King Tut's truck jewels, etc. Pete does not collect anything, nor does he have he desire. But this cats knowledge on the archiving and the safe storage of things, like say, clothing and sneakers is, for lack of a better term, vast. The things that he explained to me may have me just f*ckin' change the game on yall.
I told him about my collection of things- comics, trading cards, clothing, and sneakers, and how I stored them. He told me that I'm slowly destroying everything that I've amassed by leaving them the way that they are. Firstly the sneakers should be taken out of the boxes, and the tissue paper. Thats whats making the soles all yellow and sh*t, the acids in the cheap cardboard and tissue paper. The clothing should be taken out of the plastic bags too. The plastic is killing the gear. As the conversation went on, this dude had me wanting to just make the mad dash to the crib and take all my joints outta the box...early!
Now peep the business model.
With the onslaught of
sneaker hoarders who collect high end goods that they've stood in line for days on end to purchase, the packaging that the shoes and hats come on is horrible and downright detrimental to the product. What if I create a high end acid free cardboard archiving system, with boxes to fit sneakers - high top and low, and baseball caps and shirts with a clear plastic slot on the front of each box to place a picture of the shoe, so that the box isn't opened repeatedly. And a giant box for separate storage of the original shoe and hat packaging. Let's say I'd splash out the boxes with a mean, uniform color, that'll give your closet a really polished look.
Wow.
As Pete and I brainstormed, the ideas started to get ill! You know that feeling you get in the pit of your gut when you think you may really be onto something? well, I got that yesterday. My new homey Pete said he would point me in the right direction as far as the science and manufacturing in the R&D of this thing....Word is Bawn! i'm getting that feeling as I type this...gotta do more research...
Sneaker Fiends, collectors, Lo' Heads...I'm taking the ball and runnin' with this one---let me know your thoughts on this!
Good looks on that Pete, I'll definitely be at the party Friday!
Growing up on the Jersey Shore, you absolutely HAD to be into skateboarding and the lifestyle. There were skateboard and surf shops everywhere, so at some point, you had no choice but to embrace some part of it. I always took the train to NY for my hip hop game, but I loved the way skateboard companies like Ocean Pacific, Vans and Stussy put it on. Mixing and matching was my crews thing, and we would stay stuntin' on cats. Nowadays, I dont fux with skateboarding, but every now and then, I'll catch an item that I'll have to cop for the books. These STÜSSY X PRO KEDS collabo's are definitely firestarters! that I caught in San Diego a few years back. I'm still looking to find the other two colorways to complete the set, so if you see 'em, get @ me!
I caught this STUSSY x JAM HOME MADE wallet chain last year from my Hong Kong connect. I took a couple links out and made it into a bracelet that murders 'em every time, B!
This ottoman thats covered with a crazy assortment of sneakerboxes is one of them joints that any sneakerhead would love. Once I saw it, I started to think of legit reasons of why I really NEED to have it. But common sense prevails...DAMMIT! and of course the fact that if my girl saw this purchase on the credit card bill, me and my ottoman would be on the curb. This piece of furniture would be so sexy in my 2nd bedroom/makeshift walk-in closet. At $658.00US, this can be shipped from Japan at 
Posts
