I am weird… for the past few weeks we have been hitting the LES and SoHo and popping into all the cool sneaker stores in the city Alife, Supreme, Clientelle, Stackhouse…etc… and it has become abundantly clear to me that I am def not cool enough to be into sneakers the way that I am… I don’t wear Evisu jeans and 10 Deep hoodies, and the latest New Era fitted.. I wear the $29 Levis jeans I find on Amazon.com and the Adidas hoodie I found for $30 at the outlet… I wear my Nike SB’s with North Face climbing pants (the most comfortable pants in the world) and a Yankees jersey… and I am most certainly not a skater boy or a club boy… I am tubby old fart who lives on the UWS with a wife and two cats.. and about to start a full time job with a bank in a structured equity finance group… the anithesis of a hipster… but then again I guess this is nothing new… I have been into toys for over six years now..first just trying to block up the holes in the shelf to partition the apt.. which turned into an obsession… we hit Kid Robot on Prince St this weekend too.. I have never seen it that crowded before.. the place was packed… I mean jam packed..I used to be able to go in there and just drool over the toys that were too pricey for me… but now the place is full of ….tourists and people who have no idea what they are looking at… art….yeesh… I have been going there since they opened.. and now they are selling their clothes at Barneys.. ugh.. recently I spotted a dummy with a Kid Robot hoodie, jeans and Nike AF1′s.. at Barneys!!… I have no idea where this is going.. I guess it is just weird to be into what is currently trendy stuff.. when you yourself are anything but trendy… in any case.. I am finally going to post pics of my super cool toy collection and be proud of the uber toy geek that I am…
I did manage to come across a website that is catered to dorks just like me…
two Chinky kids from NYC who are into sneakers and toys… God bless the internet
The holes in the shelf have been totally filled.. and then some… the cubby holes are mostly full of Marvel and DC characters.. and of course Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow….the top is for the vinyl stuff
Michael Lau’s LMF series… Davy and MC Yan… and four dogs.. my fave HK designer
Some more Michael Lau, Tim Tsui, KR, Jarvis, and assorted Japanese stuff.. some of it actually purchased in Japan
Side view… Drinky Crow is very cool… the SWAT dude in the black is where it all started.. picked it up in Taiwan at a street market… had no idea what it was but just knew it was very cool.. and lots of Kubricks
Other side view… Doraeman!! Three Zero, Qee, Munny, Jarvis, KR
The whole shelf of coolness.. to be fair some of it belongs to the wife.. she is really in Tokidoki right now
