The Melo 5.5 product feature launched a few days ago on the Jumpman23.com site. The B More commerical is aight, but I wasn’t feeling the hovering helicopters with the spotlight. It felt like an overused visual metaphor to sell home the idea of ‘this is what it feels like to be from the hood’.

Anyway, check out the Melo 5.5 Feature.

ALSO KNOWN AS v1 – NOW AVAILABLE! 12ozPROPHET presents ALSO KNOWN AS – a 190 page, full-color, perfect-bound, graffiti-obsessed, street culture bible. Its focus is on dear and dirty destruction; the glorious variety of fuck-you graffiti that offers no attempt to make friends. Each copy of ALSO KNOWN AS VOLUME 01 is individually numbered and comes with a kiss-cut sticker sheet, a special fold-out poster, vinyl stickers, and much more. Instant classic status guaranteed.

Check out the book.

To kick off the holiday season properly, FOURTHEHARDWAY.com will have 50 copies of the GOLD EDITION of ALSO KNOWN AS v1 for sale starting now. Once the gold copies have sold out, they’ll release 100 more copies in the SILVER EDITION. Throughout all of this, there will also be plenty of ALSO KNOWN AS – NEUTRAL EDITION copies for sale at the same time. Product is first come, first served, so get it while you can.

Check out the AKANYC site.

Here are some photos of the Royal Elastics-produced L.A.M.B. shoe collection. It will be on sale during Holiday ‘05 exclusively at the Madison Avenue and Beverly Hills Barney’s stores and at select Barney’s CO-OP doors. Only 600 pairs exist, Each pair is numbered.

Here’s a new audio show/podcast experiment coming out of Boston called Weeklydrop. It’s done by the guys at Dropform. Check out their Flickr photostream. Nice photos in there.

These guys are producing a weekly podcast that looks into current sneaker news. They also spend some time interviewing designers and artists in the sneaker world and listening to their first hand experiences on the creative processes that went into some of the kicks we wear and love.

Though the focus is sneaker centric, these guys are by no means limited to them, they also explore urban art, fashion and more.

Check them out.

This film is currently on tour with Resfest. It’s the first documentary on one of pop culture’s biggest phenomena, Just for Kicks charts the athletic footwear fetish from sneakers’ early adoption by the style warriors of 1970s New York City to their status today as a de facto apparel of choice for an entire generation. The film looks closely at the $26 billion industry engendered by this fashion choice, and the hip-hop community that helped popularize it. From Run-DMC’s role in catapulting Adidas into the consciousness of global youth culture to Nike’s visionary marketing strategies targeting urban populations worldwide, Just for Kicks turns interviews with personalities like hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and urban culture chronicler Henry Chalfant, as well as an assortment of sneaker freaks, music legends, break-dancing greats and product designers into an entertaining exposition on the history of the world’s most popular form of footwear.

Watch the Trailer.
Check out Resfest.

This is the ultimate tennis ball sneaker (brought to you by New York’s Alife and Reebok). Thanks to Al Cabino for the photo!

[via Sneakersnstuff]
The Pelé replica collection is brought to you from the Puma Archive. This is where you can take a peek into their heritage and learn something new, rediscover old friends and find out about the Puma legends and style icons that still live on to this day.

As a former Puma sponsored athlete Pelé‘s love for the game and his record-braking career became part of Puma‘s history. A common theme of the Pelé concept will derive from his birthplace in Brazil – Três Corações. Translated as “three hearts“, the town‘s meaning correlates directly to his passion for football and the three stages of his career. The exact replica of PUMA‘s 1970 Pelé collection is offered in a vibrant palette of blue aster and aspen gold.

Check it out.

Thanks to Coach, Scott Nelson, for sending over this link.
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Here’s an interesting AF1 Business Week article from this past summer. Thanks to Omid Fatemi for the link.

Read the article.