You may have seen them on t-shirts…or in the lobby of Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale. These, my friends, are the shoes off of David Filo’s feet. While I will be conducting an interview with Filo sometime in the next few days, if luck is on my side these might be in my possession before the post is up.

How, you ask? Today is a great event at Yahoo! called the “Free is Good Fair”, where Yahoo! is working with Freecycle to have employees bring in stuff they don’t want or need, and in turn they can take stuff they want from what has been brought in by others. Think of it as Craigslist without money…or “one man’s junk is another man’s treasure”.
I brought in several things, including sneakers and some snazzy soccer cleats–all in great shape. My guess is that you too have some sneakers you can part with–donate them to Freecycle and let someone else get some use out of them…

If you happen to have sneakers that are beyond passing along to others, I offer the following suggestion–Nike’s “Reuse a Shoe” program, where they take the materials from any brand of shoes and make them into baskbetball courts, tennis courts and other surfaces for kids to play on…Check out their website here or send them to:
Nike Recycling Center
c/o Reuse-A-Shoe
26755 SW 95th Ave.
Wilsonville, OR 97070

Fabulous photo courtesy of the charming and omnipresent shutterbug Nicki Dugan

With woven tweed, a translucent swoosh, black and white color palette, and cool embroidery on the heel, it almost makes me wish I was a father–although it will not stop me from picking these up if I can.

With the success of the Opening Day pack, this is sure to be a success–so grab a pair for yourself and for dear old dad…Thanks to our friends at High Snobiety for the image.

Reading Kanye West’s blog is often like seeing where style and fashion is going to be several months from now. A voyeuristic trip down super expensive luxury items that very few people can rock–unless you have Kanye cash. The sort of money that says, “I will pay for them, I will wear them and I don’t care what you think.” And you will probably be jocking them six months later.

Exhibit A: Ato Matsumoto cow hide boots in metallic silver, black patent and white. You may not have West’s wealth, but with a little bit of cash and some luck, you too can walk a mile in his shoes.

Courtesy of our friends over at Slam X Hype is a sneak peek at the simple, yet striking interpretation of the Nike Tennis Classic shoe in red, grey and blue by Fragment’s Hiroshi Fujiwara.

The APC version of this shoe that dropped last year portrayed the same simple elegance in solid leather with the APC tennis/guitar logo. Odds are that people will pay the same big bucks for these clean lines this time around.

For anyone who grew up skating in the 80’s with stickers, clothing and boards proclaiming your allegiance to the Bones Brigade, Vision Street Wear, and reading Thrasher, odds are that your life today is not just half pipes and tailgrabs.

Sometime, for posterity’s sake, we might break out the old Powell & Peralta board and see if we still have what it takes. But for a few rare people, life has taken a different path–like the one that has allowed skater Tommy Guerrero to follow his passion, expand on other intrerests and continue to be a relevant cultural force yeards after he started skating for fun.  
Between his skating, music and job at DLX, Tommy was kind enough to take some time to speak with SneakerBlogger:

So what are you working on right now?
I just dropped a new album, Return of the Bastard in February and my other project is called jet black crayon.  we have a new
record dropping next month..
it has a dvd with 7 films that accompany the music..good stuff….

For those new to the game, can you give a quick history of Tommy G
and shoes? (And do you still have any of your ‘84 P&P pro models lying around?…)

hmmm…it would be difficult to edit my life into a sentence…i’m old
ya know..lots has happened…
as far as shoes go i have never had a pro model..

What do you get when you pair a new brand of soccer boots with one of the most creative acts in music? The answer is an amazing new video that cuts across the intersection of shoes and music, one of the longest standing relationships within sneaker/sports culture. LCD Soundsystem, famous for the track “Daft Punk is Playing At My House” and one of the best live shows around, created a track to coincide with the launch of Nomis’s new line of football boots [soccer shoes for those of you stateside]. Sit back, relax and enjoy some fresh tunes from LCD Soundsystem–and figuer out how to start playing soccer just to be able to wear these flashy kicks…

The mock-ups of the Nike Lobster kicks have been floating around for a long time, but it looks like they are finally coming to market. In conjunction with Boston sneaker boutique Concepts, Nike SB is dropping the Lobster, which will have a number of cool details that East-coast lobster-noshers will savor: paper wrapped like NE lobster sellers use, a box that looks like a lobster holding tank, and general stylings that will make you want to break out the bib and butter.

As a bonus, the first 200 pair will come with a t shirt, a condiments pack that has a lobster cracker, fork, bib, wet nap and extra set of laces. If you are lucky enough to be in the Boston area when they drop on May 31st, stop by Concepts to have some good eats by East Coast staple Legal Seafood.

Photo courtesy of our friends at Hypebeast.

Following a successful lunchtime event at our company HQ, I can now share that David Filo, co-founder and Chief Yahoo! is now one pair of Adidas shell-toes poorer and I, your humble scribe, am one richer.

Check out the gently worn kicks in the photo…along with my sincere gratitude and lolcatz inspired humor (thanks to the folks at ICanHasCheezeburger for their photo editing help).

Courtesy of our friends over at Slam X Hype is a sneak peek at the simple, yet striking interpretation of the Nike Tennis Classic shoe in red, grey and blue by Fragment’s Hiroshi Fujiwara.

The APC version of this shoe that dropped last year portrayed the same simple elegance in solid leather with the APC tennis/guitar logo. Odds are that people will pay the same big bucks for these clean lines this time around.