Wale @fortunesound
Wale was recently in our city, and we had the pleasure of having him come through our Gastown location. Check the pictures below of him rocking our new city tee and the de la soul dunks, which are BOTH available at our west 4th location. Peep the video snippet of his performance that night at Fortune Sound Club. Shout outs to both Dj Hedspin & Dj Marvel for warming the crowd up right, and Mark Gutknecht on the photo’s.
VICE VBS partnership with CNN
We all know VICE , an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. They have been running an interesting broadband television network VBS.TV since 2007, and within the three years that they have been around, they managed to intrigue the big dogs over at CNN, who were interested in their journalism techniques.
VBS.TV is overseen by creative director and renowned filmmaker Spike Jonze, along with Vice founders Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi.
Since January 20, 2010, every wednesday a new episode from VBS.TV will be featured at www.cnn.com/vbs. This section of the site also will include behind-the-scenes essays, photo slideshows and archives of VBS.TV stories that have been featured previously on CNN.com.
Check out the video here of their Guide to Travel
DOPE
What a week !
About a month ago I was down in LA hanging out with the guys from the hundreds. The topic of the olympics came up and I was asked if I had planned on going. I said no and really had no intentions in partaking with the up coming event. Thanks to NIKE I have avoided one of the biggest disservices I could have ever done to myself. Photos are taken from the big picture on the Boston Globe
Over the past 6 days I have been a tourist in my own city, one of the lucky people to be a NIke guest. I along with a few “key retailers” was hosted by the swoosh for the last six days of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. They put us up at the Loden hotel in Coal Harbour area of Vancouver. If you ever get the chance you should stay here the service and food was amazing.
My olympic adventure was a little skewed towards hockey. We saw 8 games in 5 days. I’d only been to two hockey games in the past and they did little to prepare me for the full force of Canadian hockey fans. The first day I saw team USA play and they seemed like they knew how to take care of some biz.
Team Canada’s loss to the US and a tie in one other game set us up to be knocked out by the gold medal favourites. The Russians.
who are lead by this guy…….. looks like he’s ready to take car of some shit. To bad for him team Canada handed them an embarrassing 7-3 win. After a 3-2 win over slovakia that set up the Canada Vs USA gold medal game and a jackpot for scalpers. As we were leaving the game there were dudes with signs “gold medal game tickets $4,000″, rumours had them going for as much as $20,000 a ticket for prime seats
Of all the things I watched it was coolest to see the ladies hockey team win gold. For sure the mens was insane but the ladies are all amateurs, and there is no level for women like the NHL. This is the highest level for them, was dope to see.
Overall the Olympics were amazing for Vancouver, for Canada and for myself. Again a huge thank you to nike for the love.
Nice Kicks First Flagship Store opened FEB.27
Big ups to our friends over at nicekicks.com
This past Saturday Feb.27 our good friends to the south decided to step outside of the digital world and into the retail realm with their first brick and mortar on 2815 Gudalupe Ave. in Austin Texas. We wish these guys the best of luck for their great future ahead. Check the video of them gettin it poppin in the durrty
Calgary Livestock Sale!!!
Look out Calgary, we are having a winter SALE!!! Head down to the Hi Fi Club, where Giant 45, Group 7, and Livestock are joining forces for a one day sale with up to 80% off!! Be sure to roll through and cop some goodies to rock for spring.
raekwon X Livestock
Raekwon was recently touring his new album OB4CL2 and made a stop in our lovely city of Vancouver. The Chef was kind enough to stop off at our Gastown Livestock location to cop some AF1’s, Alife chucks, and of course some freshly designed Livestock tees, one of which he rocked at the show later that night! Rae was definitely feeling the BBC selection as well, most notably the bbc ski mask.
