Custom Light Up Shoes and 1 of a Kind Hand Painted Customized Sneakers

For the second time I'm giving everyone the chance to win a FREE Evolved Footwear tshirt but this time I'm also throwing in the orginal tshirt from my friends at top streetwear lifestyle blog SneakHype.com via my Twitter: Twitter.com/evolvedfootwear

Here is how to win your shirt!

1 Sign up a Twitter.com account if you haven't done so already

2.Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/evolvedfootwear

3. ReTweet this contest on your Twitter. Copy and paste the following into your Twitter as many times as you wish:

Enter to win www.Evolved-Footwear.com and www.SneakHype.com Tshirts Follow @evolvedfootwear and @sneakhype now!

4.. The contest will last for a week, beginning on January 26th and ends on February 1st.

Thewinner will be randomly selected from those that both FOLLOW and Retweet. The winner will be announced on our Twitter @evolvedfootwear and http://www.evolved-footwear.com/apps/blog/ February 2nd.

Good luck...and if this goes well...the quality of products given away will continue to improve...so enter and RETWEET!

The 5th time better be the charm. 5th time meaning in a row, how many times my Alma Mater Northwest Missouri State University's football team has made it to the Division II National Championship game in Florence, Alabama. Unfortunately the previous 4 trips have been losses. Once again we are playing rival Grand Valley State out of Michigan who we lost to in 2005 and 2006. We were able to beat Grand Valley in 2007 though in a matchup at home in Maryville, Missouri in the bitter cold on ESPN(you could barely makeout my friends and I on ESPN for a couple seconds) though we lost to Valdosta State from Georgia in the championship. Last year Minnesota-Duluth handed us our 4th straight loss. But once again the entire northwest region of Missouri and alumni across the country have high hopes for Coach Mel Tjeerdsma to bring another championship trophy to Maryville. 

To show my support I decided to post up my Bearcat Nike Air Foce 1 custom shoes from years ago that have taken a beating through all the tailgating, rain in Alabama, victories at Arrowhead Stadium, parties galore, and all the bitter cold, ice, and snow Maryville has to offer. As well as a pair of Bearcat cleats that saw us beat rival Pittsburg State once again last year at Arrowhead Stadium.

B-E-A-R......C-A-T-S !!!!!!!! I wish I could make the trip to Alabama. Next year of course!

EDIT- Finally after 4 years of losing we are DII National Champions!

Bonus: Here is a couple articles that were the in school's News and Events and Northwest Missourian about Evolved-Footwear last year! 1 and 2

So this little project was really nothing like the description I posted a bit earlier, I wrote that just to throw off a friend. I actually created this painting for that friends video editing brand for his birthday. Soon it will be in his new home office. Check out his website: MTVIDYO.com

But I'd love to do a design for other companies or brands as well so feel free to email me at evolvedfootwear@comcast.net if you are interested.

You could say I'm easily influenced, well at least when it comes to reading books on the topic of business. After two blogs that I frequent: TheHundreds clothing brand and JoshSpear mentioned that they were in a newly released book I was sold. Titled "UpStarts" by Donna Fenn its about how Generation Y is full of entreprenuers and their stories. A quick trip to Amazon.com, I was again easily influenced by the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" presentation and decided to order "The Knack" as well.

Good thing Barnes and Noble sucks cause I paid $27 shipped for the two that would have been $50+ in person.

I want to be in another book.

After meeting a person last Tuesday we got to talking about what each of us do. They mentioned that they thought about having their logo painted for display in their office building. I said "Of course I could make that for you and have it done this week". I don't plan on this being the last project like this so if you are interested in having your company or brand logo "creatively recreated" on a canvas with paint or another medium shoot me an email: evolvedfootwear@comcast.net

Earlier this week a little care package from Oakley came in the mail courtesy of friend Kelley James, a rising musician out of USC. "Rising" may be an understatement as he has played in venues big and small all over the world the past few years that other people only get to dream about. His latest album comes out next week and guaranteed ladies you will love his music and guys if you do not your just in denial or your girlfriend will because he has played at over 100 college sororities all over the country on his Sorority Tour with a growing female fan base (Thats what I need to work on for EF).

I really can not thank Kelley enough. I expected 1 pair of Oakley's and maybe a shirt. Not three of each including: 1 pair of Oakley Frogskins in matte/clear grey, 2nd pair of Oakley Polarized Frogskins in polished rootbeer/bronze, a pair of Oakley Jupiters in black matte/grey, and finally three nice Oakley t-shirts.

Part of me says to take one of the Frogskins and give them the Oakley Hand Crafted Arist Series treament that Oakley released last year but the other part says they are fine as is. Either way be on the lookout for a Kelley James edition pair of Evolved Footwear custom kicks in the near future. As well don't forget to check out Kelley's work at his MySpace, website, or Itunes this Tuesday.

Like I said I'm trying to make this a more personal blog not soley about Evolved Footwear, but stuff that interests me as well. One site I check nearly 2 to 3 times a day is JackThreads.com. It is an invite only site that sells streetwear and shoes from brands like Clae, Alife, TheHundreds, Mishka, 10 Deep, Analog, Nixon watches, and many more at specially marked prices. Also known as much cheaper than retail. They have 2 to 3 new items everyday that you get updated via email. But the only way to sign up is getting an invite.

I have plenty of invites so either email me at evolvedfootwear@comcast.net or leave your email in the comments section using the email you will sign up with and I'll get you the access to some great deals I've been getting.