so as some of you guys know I took a trip to New York recently to be featured on a
billboard in Times Square and I shot a dope video well at least I thought it was dope and
during the time I was out there I knew they had a Nike store so you know I had to stop
by and do a little bit of shopping but at the top of the store they had a Nike by you so you
know what that means I had to get some kicks I recorded some of the process of getting the
shoes created so let's go ahead and hop into the footage real quick and then I'll kind of
narrated throughout and show you what the shoes looked like at the end of the video
this is a dream I've been waiting for I was sitting in meetings all the time talking
about this back home they never do it you come here we got all the options so here in Portland
we have like none of these options it's crazy because I know we're the home of Nike and all
those different things but at the same time we get no cool opportunities like this and I
always talk about this when I'm in meetings with Nike and Jordan brand on how we should get more
things like this into our city so again if you're from Portland or around the area in the Northwest
keep telling everybody keep posting keep talking about it we need to raise more awareness because
we need to have cool opportunities like this and it sucks but at the end of the day I saw
the opportunity to do it in New York and I had to take advantage looks like screen prints two
different shirts and stuff right here all the different merch you can do and then it looks
like you can do patches on a pair of Air Force Ones as well so these patches they got Stitch
patches they gotta look like some vinyl heat press patches and they got the more vinyls
over here with the Hang tags different laces Customs that go on there pretty simple process
definitely a lot of cool options right here back home in Portland it's rough it's rough for us so
how does this process work the customization yes okay so you can do apparel so t-shirts sweatshirts
okay specifically on the Air Force One okay each hit is like a price I'm assuming each
one has a base fee okay Carol is 15 that comes with one graphic any additional they charge by
size okay for Air Forces the base fee is 30 okay two Graphics you can go up to four okay
and then you just run retail on the shoe okay I feel like I should do one
I don't know I mean these are the hits I could laser them when I get back home
20. um
can you just like tat it up for me like creatively yeah only on the Hill Hits
nowhere else on the shoe though okay okay I was about to say just put them like all over
the shoe just like the front toe box put them on the back end put it back oh okay okay I got
you so at this point I'm kind of overwhelmed because there's a lot of different options and
we're in a rush I have somewhere else to be I haven't even ate yet and there's a lot of
other things going on but either way we have to get it done these all have New York based
things on there I feel like we don't need to do something that's OG with the Force logo on there
so we should probably go all New York stuff what should we put on the outside on the hill
people rocking with the Brooklyn on the outside okay that's why I go to Brooklyn on the outside
should we do that on both or just switch it up what you think uh I switch it up switch it up
okay we got Brooklyn and Harlem on the outsides we're gonna do queens and bronze on the inside
yeah the only thing I don't like what they do with the one they put it's kind of yeah that's
kind of the brown I know you could cut it off though yeah for sure for sure yeah that's what
I do it for a lot of people yeah just cut it and just put Bronx let's do that okay so and
then we'll put this worship can we put it on Rob you'll put the pigeon on the inside on the
inside okay so we'll do this with would it fit with the Bronx yeah for sure like if you cut the
and switch this yeah you can do that it'll fit on the inside yeah okay so we could do it that way
I think that'll work hopefully it works out we'll see we gotta show them all the options right here
did you show them everything down in here yeah okay so we got the lace options I like the white
laces honestly oh then we got do we get one of these keychains too we got to get a keychain
that goes along with it now the keychain Subaru yeah yeah I'll get a keychain to go along with
it though that's what I'm saying yeah I got the patches hey this patch is hard I always
like this patch this one right here yep and then you got this one I like that one that one's clean
yep the pigeon one is dope too oh they got a lot of dope options up in here even the prince with
the T okay so I gotta get the I gotta get the shoes done we're gonna go get something to eat
because we gotta make it on time for the billboard at seven so we gotta still get back to the hotel
we still gotta eat and we got to be on time we can't be late so we'll go Brooklyn on the right
yeah we can go Brooklyn on the right that'll probably look good and then
Harlem on here and then we can do Bronx and pigeon on this side if it fits
yeah it should fit oh yeah that's perfect boom just like that on the inside
and then on this one we go Queens should we do another little thing with it or should
we just keep it what you think the Queen's one is kind of big the queue is a good size
I think that's good yeah we'll just do the cleans on the inside right here
I think that'll be smooth yeah that'll be tough okay let's see what this one looks
like this way though yeah like this yeah that might be clean all right yeah let's
do this on the outside yep yep and then we'll do Brooklyn on this way
boom Queens on the inside yep and then that one right there perfect
we in there I had to do it I've been waiting I've been coming all this oh wait I gotta make my Tick
Tock too so I ended up shooting a couple tick tocks and then running downstairs to grab some
food I grabbed a burrito real quick from spot down the street honestly it wasn't that good
but I was hungry and I needed to eat something and I ended up getting back upstairs to get the
shoes so let's go ahead and get back to the footage all right so we're on the first floor
right now we got to get back up to the fifth floor we have to go get something to eat real
quick but the shoe should be done soon or now I don't know we'll see so let's uh go ahead and
see what we can find up there perfect thank you I appreciate it all right let's look at these
shoes real quick we got hop in the elevator you wanna go down the stairs we can do an elevator
follow me guys I know you can still hear me but you can't see me but
we got sail laces right here and then we got the shoes oh we got the shoes
I'll show you guys when we get back home so as you can see right here you have your Classic Air
Force One box you pay retail for these I think I got the receipt in here to show you the final
price of everything and I think there's taxes and stuff too so the shoes was a hundred and
ten dollars Air Force ones are 110 now damn okay um the custom work is thirty dollars and then I
added two extra patches on there and a hang tag so it was three additional dollars per item so
you had 110 33 3 and 3. the total was 149 taxes 9.77 and additional tax 81 for something else
I don't know and then that's some New York stuff right there and then uh the final price was 159.58
so that's what I ended up paying uh final sale all sales are final all those different things
now let's get into the shoes so starting off with the first accessory right here you have a
Nike gold hang tag which I did decide to add and then it comes complimentary with a second pair
of laces so I just went with like a sale kind of vintage wash kind of lace to that right there to
add to these but honestly I think I'm gonna just keep it clean with the all whites I don't really
want to change anything up when it comes to that aspect so looking at the left shoe right here on
the hill we took the Bronx logo and cut the dove part off of there because it says dub Bronx we
cut that off and actually swish it up and added a pigeon right here in that place so you got the
pigeon reading the I think it's a magazine yeah so just do it magazine or newspaper and then you got
the Bronx right there just behind that and then on the inside of the heel we got the Harlem hit
right here looking really clean I like this font a lot I think both fonts honestly look really dope
and represent New York really well so this is a nice clean look on the shoe and again you guys
have some detailed looks at it right there just to show you how nice it is when it comes to the
print I feel like they did a really good job on this and make it look like it was already on the
shoe next up right here on the right foot on the outside of the heel you have a Brooklyn logo right
here the font is similar to the one that you saw with the Harlem right there on the inside
of the Left Foot Right There so another clean look I really like that and then you got the
Queens right here on the inside of the foot as well in a different font so I like how they have
the different ones with the different fonts and the representation of the different Burrows in
the area so for me I thought it was super dope to try to get as many areas as I could on the sneaker
as they would allow me but I thought it would have been even Doper if they would have let me do hits
like like I said in the video just tied up the shoe like all over the toe box in different spots
like this but unfortunately they didn't have the stuff to be able to do that so I understand why
they couldn't do it because they wanted to make sure that it's simple and easy for everybody when
they come in and they can just rinse and repeat for each person that's shopping with them so
honestly I think it was a really dope experience a nice subtle clean hit to the shoe didn't take too
long and it's a nice shoe to have in my collection for a nice ID option so if you're ever looking for
Nike by you you can do dope things on the website as well with customizing with different colorways
and different things like that but when they have different pop-ups in different cities they
also give you these exclusive options that you can only get in that area so to get different things
like this and add it to my collection I know it may not be like all some resellable shoe or some
crazy girl for everybody but it's always nice to have a little story piece and a time stamp shoe
something like this to represent you know going on the trip being on the billboard different things
like that and honestly I like it so let me know what you guys think about these Down Below in the
comment section I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you want to see any other things like this
when I go out in the wild and shoot stuff I'll try to remember to keep the camera on so we can
catch as much as I can and if not I'll make sure I narrate as much as I can for you guys so I'll
see you in another one I'm out yo before you go I just launched my sneaker head Academy where we
got everything on the inside I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years when
it comes to sneakers scaling real estate you name it we talk about all of it in there and there's
an eight week program plus a bunch of monthly giveaways I give away shoes literally way too much
honestly but either way I'll see you guys on the inside hit the link Down Below in my description
or pin in the comment section for DJ Sneakerhead Academy and I'll see you guys over there
thank you