how do you say nike in chinese

ESPN recently featured Yi Jianlian, a young chinese basketball player set to enter the 2007 draft. they say he's legit and has the skills. curious. so i look around on youtube and find this fantastic commercial -- it's one of the better commercials i've seen and i love it.

damn you, gates

after a few months of not blogging, i'm back. and damn i'm addicted to my xbox. over the past month or so, i've played an average of 50 hours of video games per week. 2 sundays ago, i played 8 hours worth of boxing. ouch. at least i've finished a few games so it's not all for naught. haha.

and then i signed up for xbox live last week. what an addictive service. my user name is virtualsmack, so add me. what a great service, though. it tells you when your friends log on, you can leave voice and text messages and you can invite each other to play 1-1 matches. i've found about 3 fairly cool friends who share my enthusiasm in my xbox, which makes me feel like a really cool loser.

so that's what i've been up to; so much for picking up new hobbies. this week should be good though. power hour on thursday and a bunch of birthday and graduation celebrations will get me out of the house. yes, for some reason i got motivated for a power hour. i feel like i'm back in college. welcome to bschool.

shoe maps

check out sneaker stores, a site that uses google maps functionality to list sneaker joints — anywhere in the world. Clicking on a country, and then a listing, generates a map, directions, a store description, brands carried and the store’s website.

dope!

courtesy of hype beast

boblo

in Jan 07, I picked up a pair of Nike Boblo's after reading about them in Sole Collector. one wear and I was totally in love. in true obsessive compulsive behavior, I bought another pair a few weeks later, so that I'd have an virgin pair.

what I love about the shoes... they look like an old school hoops shoe, they have some Nike dunk flavor, and of course, camo - i freakin' love camo.


nike boblo, created for lance armstrong (10/2)


that pattern just kills me


sick pattern all around


the obligatory pose

holla

about slipping back
nothing special here, folks. i don't have any connections to bring ground-breaking news, no specific skills that I can blog about and show-off to the world, nor am I particularly good at writing or feel that I have deep insights that need to heard. but i love the web, and i am into a lot of different things, and it's a free country. that said, go canada!

about me
where vancouver, CA > pittsburgh > san francisco > los angeles
education Carnegie Mellon University > UCLA Anderson
what Associate Brand Manager, Nestle Coffee-Mate

what i’m into in no particular order
music, beats, photography
urban fashion, kicks
interior design, visual stimulation, minimalism
media
dali, justin bua, frank ghery
tempura rolls, miso soup, mom’s oxtail callos
movies, bookstores
24, heroes, espn sportscenter, the nba, hdtv, npr
lowercase

colors honey dew green, mustard yellow
magazines men’s health, living etc.
sports golf, surfing, snowboarding, traithlons, basketball, fantasy bball
books the fountainhead, high fidelity
movies fight club, about a boy, ocean’s eleven, love actually, music and lyrics
music trip-hop, downtempo, jazz-influenced hip-hop
musicians pete rock, audioslave, kid loco, daddy g, foreign exchange, talib kweli