 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 narrate it 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 there meetings all the time talking about this back home. They never do it 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'll 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 it looks like you can do patches on a pair of Air Force ones as well So these patches they got stitch patches They got look like some vinyl heat press patches And they got the more vinyls over here with the hang tags different laces Customs that go in 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? Yes, okay, so you can do apparel so t-shirts sweatshirts Okay, okay, each hit is like a price 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. Yeah, I could be dope Can you just like tatted up for me like creatively 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. It's like front toe box 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 had 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 on New York stuff. What should we put on the outside on the hill? Brooklyn people rockin with the Brooklyn on the outside, okay Let's rock with the Brooklyn on the outside. Should we do that on both or just switch it up? What you think? Switch it up. Okay. We got Brooklyn and Harlem on the outsides. They do Queens and Bronx on the inside The only thing I don't like what they do with the money put the bronze on you can cut it off though Yeah, just cut it and just put Bronx. Let's do that. Okay, so and then we'll put this where she can Put the vision on the inside on the inside Okay, so we'll do this with would it fit with the Bronx? Like if you cut the and switch this 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 got to show them all the options right here. Did you show them everything down in here? Okay, so we got the lace options. I like the white laces honestly Although we got do we get one of these key chains to we got to get a key chain that goes along with it Yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah, I'll get a key chain to go along with it though. That's something yeah They got the patches. Hey, this patch is hard. I always like this patch This one Yep, and then you got this one. Yeah, I like that one. That one's clean Yeah Pigeon one is dope too They got a lot of dope options up in here even the Prince with the tee Okay, so I got to get this I got to get the shoes done We're gonna go get something to eat because we got to make it on time for the billboard at seven So we got to still get back to the hotel. We still got to eat and we got to be on time. We can't be late We'll go Brooklyn Yeah, we can go Brooklyn on the right down probably look good and then Harlem on here and then We can do Bronx and pigeon on this side if it fits Yes, it fit. Oh, yeah, that's perfect. Boom Just like that on the inside and Then on this one we go Queens So we do another little thing with it or should we just keep it? What you think? The Queens one is kind of big the queue is good size. I think that's good. Yeah, which is the Queens on the inside right here Think that'll be smooth. Yeah, okay. Let's see what this one looks like this way though 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 Way in there I had to do it I've been waiting we're coming all this. Oh, wait. I gotta make my Tiktok to you So I ended up shooting a couple tiktoks and then running downstairs to grab some food I grabbed a breeder 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 had to go get something to eat real quick, but the shoes should be done soon or now I don't know. We'll see so let's go ahead and see what we can find up there Perfect Thank you. All right, I appreciate it All right, let's look at these shoes real quick. We gotta hop in the elevator and we'll go downstairs We're doing elevator Follow me guys I know you can still hear me, but you can't see me but We got cell 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 110 dollars Air force ones are 110 now. Damn. Okay. Um The custom work is 30 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 30 3 3 and 3 the total was 149 taxes nine dollars and 77 cents And additional tax 81 cent for something else. I don't know and then that's some new york stuff right there And then the final price was 159 dollars and 58 cents. So that's what I ended up paying 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 complementary with a second pair of laces So I just went with like a sale kind of vintage wash kind of laced 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 dub part off of there because it says dub bronx We cut that off and actually switched it up and added a pigeon right here In that place. So you got the pigeon reading the I think it's a magazine Yes, 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 hill 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 hill 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 had 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 I'll just tad up the shoe like all over the toe box and 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 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 sneakerhead 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 pinned in the comment section For dj sneakerhead academy and I'll see you guys over there