Purple Sector…

What’s good.

Remember way back when, when i had a fashion update ay’day?

That’s deaded, waaaay too much for me. it started to become borderline distasteful to me. now? We got one for you once a week. from now on, I’ll take the best fashion find from each day, but since I just decided this, it’s a bunch from today, courtesy of HypeBeast, which they won’t all come from.

First up is the Medicom Toy Exhibition. They laid out it out very minimal, and they had their full arsenal on display, though there were many a bearbrick, they did well not to limit the display to our small round-faced buds.

Next up is the Nike jordan IV, in Red and Blue. I gotta have both, just me personally. They’re bound to be a big hit, so whenever these joints drop my ankle better be 100%, cuz I may have to stomp me a fellow size twelve rocker. Just sayin’.

Next is the Lasonic iPod Boombox i931. It takes an ipod, and has a battery option to rock a la Radio raheem. Coming out over at honeyee, in black and white.

Aaaaaaaaand finally, the obligatory G-shock, this one is a collab with the Brooklyn Circus. Swayt.

It’s my first opinion piece of the new year, and I figured I would tackle the one thing that people hate talking about. Not politics, religion, or child-rearing, but dreams.

Yes, Dreams.

Think about it, we all have some wild or unorthodox dream we’ve only shared with a select few, if anyone at all. Why only a few? Why are we so ashamed of the lofty goal our brain and heart collaborated to create? And what does popular opinion have to do with our dreams? Are they any less valid if they’re any less common? No, of course they aren’t, we all know and have been taught as much throughout our lives, young and old alike. So then, why do we clam up when it comes to talk of our ideal selves and life situation? My opinion is this: if you don’t let people know what you’re trying to do, they’ll never be able to tell if you failed. If I told you I was trying to make $1 Billion this year, and came up $990,989,429 short, I’d be a bigger flop than Nelly’s last album. However, if I simply told you I wanted to make money, $10 mil is not a bad haul, and by no means a failure at the goal i outlined in our talks. The bar, no matter how high we may want to set for ourselves, is only truly set that high when we place it out for others to see. Humans and their nature are complex. We strive for independence, yet remain heavily dependent on the thoughts and opinions of others to sustain our thoughts and opinions of and about ourselves. Though we yearn to carve out our own path, leave an individual mark, and be remembered as one-of-a-kind, it’s nearly impossible to do without recognition. What would have Clint Eastwood have accomplished if no one saw his movies or nominated him for awards? If Michael Jordan dominated teams with no crowd or television audience, with no sneaker contract, who would he be? Surely their actual accomplishments would have been no less amazing, had they done the same things they’re known for. However, who could tell you? who could show you or describe? Who would sing their praises, harp on their flaws, propel them to legendary status in their respective fields? Nobody, almost nullifying the accomplishments altogether. Dreams work in the same way. No one dreams a dream that does not include some sort of recognition. Missionaries are recognized by God and the ones they help, athletes by fans, doctors by patients, veterinarians by pet families, trashmen by their neighborhoods. If the recognizers are removed from these, one does not exist, and the others at worst unnecessary, and at best trivial. Dreams are founded on recognition, without this, there are no dreams.

So, now that we’ve covered dreams, why are we so afraid of failing to realize them? Dreams are intangible, until accomplished, they exist only in our minds and hearts. So, by failing at them we lose only something we never actually gained, because it never existed in the first place. After losing it, all we are left with is the opportunity to craft a new dream in its place, or take another stab at an old one. So, what’s the loss? Do we attach our dreams to our own self-worth? Are we measuring ourselves against the grandeur and feasibility of our dreams? Is failing at our dreams failing at being a good person, a better person, or simply at being us, in our minds? And what then of success? Does it validate our place here, giving us a reason to take up space and hog up air? I’m not asking because I have somewhere I want to go after this, I’m asking because I’m genuinely unsure.

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, Jordan Lebeau and Lee Beard Present to you:

Long Weekend!

(Cheers, deafening applause)

Seriously though, Lee, the beat king and Me, Jordan, Mr. Awesome himself, hooked up, minus the alcohol and drunken regret, and formed a duo by the name of Long Weekend. Why Long Weekend? We bounced name

This picture has been leaked by an anonymous Jordan Brand sales rep, who mentioned they “might” drop in March. Nike took the famous Air Max 90, “Infrared” colorway and apparently applied it to these.

LMAO this kid already creased them.

I like the original better.

CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) — He has thrilled sports fans for over twenty years
with his hitting and fielding exploits. But can Major League baseball star Ken
Griffey, Jr. hit a grand slam for the State Department?Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Griffey a public diplomacy
envoy Tuesday, tasking the All-Star slugger with spreading “the values of the
United States” in large part by helping to spark “interest in America and in
our culture.”

“Public diplomacy must be a dialogue,” Rice said after meeting with
Griffey in Washington. “This dialogue must extend to every citizen in every
country, especially to young people.”

She noted that Griffey is uniquely qualified to engage young people given
his stature as one of the best-known players in what is arguably the country’s
most famous sport.

“This is quite an honor,” Griffey noted. “I think youth is the most
important thing. (I am) looking forward to this opportunity to teach kids (and
help) develop them.”

Former baseball star Cal Ripken Jr., figure-skater Michelle Kwan and
actress Fran Drescher have also chosen to become public diplomacy envoys in
recent years.

Griffey’s first trip as a diplomatic envoy will be to Panama in January.

Griffey, who turns 39 on November 21, recently filed for free agency
after the Chicago White Sox declined a $16.5 million option on his 2009
contract. He was first drafted by the Seattle Mariners in 1987.

Griffey is currently ranked number five on the all-time homerun leader
list. He won ten consecutive Gold Glove awards between 1990 and 2000.

This guy was everyone’s idol who wanted to play baseball where I grew up. Kids used to rock his cleats like shoes, they were that fresh. Outside of MJ, this guy had more fans and followers than anyone. If he stayed healthy, we wouldn’t care about Bonds, he’d have hit 800 homers. Yeah, I said 800. Congrats, Kid Griffey.

So, this Jordan/AF fusion thing is getting out of hand. The 3’s they just put out are fresh in white, but these are not. This is the first time I can honestly say I hate something with the infared color on it. Peep these, compliments of HB yet again:

Stop sullying the good Jordan name further. Just end it already.

So, apprently the Jordan line will continue beyond 23, sort of. They will be marked by the year in which they are released, no longer as a number in the chronological order. Seeing as how they really haven’t put out a great shoe since the 19 (although, a certain store has a small run of the 23 Lows which are hot in Red), I’m kind of saddened by this. I’ve never worn an non-numbered Jay in my life, excluding the Spizzikes. It’ll be kind of weird, especially if they happen to luck onto an actual hot pair in the near future. But all good things that turn mediocre must come to an end, I guess.

I have to say, this is the first pack which contained two shoes I liked. I also have to say, I slept on the 19s when they dropped. but, who could blame me? A New Jay is usually (or, at least for the past 7-8 years) has been about as exciting as a colonoscopy. But this is a great pack, if only my NTB connect would get at me! *Image from Hypebeast*

A few months ago, I kind of blasted Gourmet Footwear for being a bunch of Jordan knockoffs. And, to be honest, while I still think that’s true, I love them. I just copped a pair of the ones that look like the 10 in all purple, and I’ve warn them about 6 times in as many days of owning them. They aren’t shoddy, they’re extremely comfortable and the suede is also pretty stain resistant. They’re selling them over at Karmaloop, who, by the way, have an amazazing new store to brag about, and you should get some, especially if you’re a 12, cuz I’m fixin’ to cop em all, shawty.

MJ+Heavy D+Jacko=Childhood GOLD.

In addition to all the other Fly ish I copped a few posts down, I just snagged the Escape packs, along with a pair of DS De La Hi’s size 13, and a pair of white/cement IIIs, beat that friend of mine. Pics to come later today.

*Note, the white, female feet are not mine. That would just be weird.