Hap, Hap, Happy day. After much searching, teeth gnashing and finally finding (at the right $$) my HUF/TWIST Adicolor series 1 have arrived. If you have had the pleasure of being bored senseless personally by me, you'll know all about 'em. However for the massive readership out there unawares check this straight fire:




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These were part of last years adicolor series . A colab* (* destined to become 2006 most overused word of the year) between HUF (skate/shoe shop in San Francisco run by Keith Hufnagel) and Barry McGee (aka TWIST) an artist who I am a big fan of:





The Ray fong character created by McGee is a fictitious uncle / Bail Bondsman,a very American profession if there ever was.(Think Robert Forster in Jackie Brown). I love the art on the box, these are definitely a pair for my " but really these are just like superannuation and we get some cool art at the same time ' kidding myself collection. Check out his work, easy to find all over the net.
When the shoes were released there was a minor outcry that the fong character pictured on the toungue was racist, a stylised "yellow peril" from 40's propaganda. Mcgee (who is half Chinese) said it was a self portrait of him as a kid. Adidas (allegedly) responded by saying that they would stop selling the shoe, which was itself ridiculous, as with only a highly anticipated 1000 made they had sold out straight away


Pics from www.pickyourshoes.com ( not where I scored these, but a great place to keep yourself poor), flickr and somewhere else I can't remember.