Oh... you didn't mention when one release of a shoe includes 50 different colorways all at once. Not just Virgil's 50 Dunks. Pharrell's Supercolor Superstars way back when... Excessive, and dare I say... lazy? Curation is hard work. Identifying/eliminating bad choices is hard work.
yeah...was trying to figure out a way to put that in but just ran out of steam. I think it's funny how he said 'i couldn't come up with that many bad colorways if i tried.'
Wasn't that Virgil quote referring to the py_rates photoshopped prediction? i.e. not the real colorways he designed? I guess the colors were correct, but the _colorways_ were not.
From the Lebron line onward, I've kind of ignored all the colorway hooplah. I'll look at the new models for the design, decide I will stick to the classics that I love, and pretty much ignore all the rest. Gotta maintain my sanity. I think the last Lebron I enjoyed the look of was the Lebron 8 because of the beautiful AIR bubble, kinda like the Air Max 97, and because I thought showing off the Flywire was a nice design point.
I think the explanation is simple: Nike's success depends on buzz. Which creates more buzz: 1 million pairs of 1 colorway, or 1000 pairs only of each of 1000 colorways?
yeah but...i dunno...it's a tough problem to have. how to keep ppl interested when more and more people are coming into the hobby on a daily basis...like you have to adjust quantities, but there are a million different ways to do that.
I'm a HUGE Iverson fan, I have 8 pairs of shoes, 7 in Question, (Ba dum tss). I also have a two pairs of Paul George and three pairs of Kyrie shoes, but because they're not "popular", no one cares. I have four pairs of LeBron's, but no one cares about his either.
A lot of people are scared to like what they like, the sneaker community divides each other and that's the problem.
yeah i mean anyone who makes fun of anyone else's shoe is pretty much, by definition, a lame anyway. i'm not against anyone's choice of shoe, i just think there is definitely some overproduction in certain arenas...name the sig lines mentioned above...
Oh... you didn't mention when one release of a shoe includes 50 different colorways all at once. Not just Virgil's 50 Dunks. Pharrell's Supercolor Superstars way back when... Excessive, and dare I say... lazy? Curation is hard work. Identifying/eliminating bad choices is hard work.
yeah...was trying to figure out a way to put that in but just ran out of steam. I think it's funny how he said 'i couldn't come up with that many bad colorways if i tried.'
Wasn't that Virgil quote referring to the py_rates photoshopped prediction? i.e. not the real colorways he designed? I guess the colors were correct, but the _colorways_ were not.
From the Lebron line onward, I've kind of ignored all the colorway hooplah. I'll look at the new models for the design, decide I will stick to the classics that I love, and pretty much ignore all the rest. Gotta maintain my sanity. I think the last Lebron I enjoyed the look of was the Lebron 8 because of the beautiful AIR bubble, kinda like the Air Max 97, and because I thought showing off the Flywire was a nice design point.
I think the explanation is simple: Nike's success depends on buzz. Which creates more buzz: 1 million pairs of 1 colorway, or 1000 pairs only of each of 1000 colorways?
yeah but...i dunno...it's a tough problem to have. how to keep ppl interested when more and more people are coming into the hobby on a daily basis...like you have to adjust quantities, but there are a million different ways to do that.
I'm a HUGE Iverson fan, I have 8 pairs of shoes, 7 in Question, (Ba dum tss). I also have a two pairs of Paul George and three pairs of Kyrie shoes, but because they're not "popular", no one cares. I have four pairs of LeBron's, but no one cares about his either.
A lot of people are scared to like what they like, the sneaker community divides each other and that's the problem.
yeah i mean anyone who makes fun of anyone else's shoe is pretty much, by definition, a lame anyway. i'm not against anyone's choice of shoe, i just think there is definitely some overproduction in certain arenas...name the sig lines mentioned above...
They definitely prey on the scarcity commodity, but get mad when their shoes are replicated or customized with an ounce of blood in the shoes. Lol