‘The Box’ started with a question. It started with a question that I kept asking myself. I kept asking myself because I really couldn’t answer it. And because I couldn’t answer it, I made some rash decisions. Decisions that I still kinda regret to this day – nearly 10 years later. I had spent 48 […]
I would like to sincerely thank @thechickswithkicks for the shoutout on their story as their reach is immense and it’s great to see support from something I put a lot of time and care into. That being said…I realized that I never really thanked or even gave a shoutout to those who have supported throughout the years […]
(12/12) Let me first say that I appreciate the encouragement on yesterday’s post – I had no intention of having that post come off the way it did (I’m over it it was like 3 years ago), I just wanted to share my experience…So what’s the moral of the story? I don’t know that there […]
(11/12) After a while I hadn’t heard anything. And I wasn’t seeing any activity in the system. I sent Jay a few texts and he responded but I didn’t hear anything all that conclusive. One of my friends said ‘send them an invoice’, So I created invoice #1 and Joanie responded with ‘we didn’t sign a service […]
(9/12) One thing you might not know about products and product delivery – it takes a long time to develop a product and it takes an even longer time to have it created and it takes an even longer time to have it delivered from China. Once I got word from Jay that we were […]
From @bigwallerballer : This is my Chocolate Lab, Kodiak Bear. He’s always been a great dog, but, like a lot of puppies, he really enjoys the taste of sneakers – not just any sneakers – but my favorite sneakers. The first time I wore my Kobe 1 UNC’s, I remember being a bit self conscious – ‘they’re […]
(8/12) Dad jokes. My last day at Urban Necessities was filled with hope and promise and then it quietly fell into…confusion. @twojskicks , @cease91 , @joaniebean and I discussed next steps and I had my laundry list of things to do. I won’t lie – I was *kinda* showing them vaporware and I told them as much. If you don’t know […]
(7/12) @twojskicks@cease91 and I sat down on the Shea Stadium seats in the shop and talked about grading. We sat side to side and I tried to explain different shoes and different grading metrics I picked up on. I think the shoe we were using as our example was the Saucony x Solebox Shadow 5000 (swipe)…Jay asked […]
(6/12) I called my cousin, @djklick : “Hey man, I think I just landed a deal at @urban_necessities you got any interest in a quick trip down to Vegas?” My cousin picked me up about 36 hours later and we packed his truck full of graded shoes – about 150 pairs. We left Oakland at 9am and listened to […]
(5/12) When I answered the phone, I was nervous as all hell. Here was something I had worked on for 2 years and this was my first time showing it to somebody in the sneaker world. I definitely felt like I put myself on the spot, but also felt like this was the dude I […]