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Your Best Foot Forward: Scion and Run Athletics Launch Humanitarian Sneaker Design Contest for Soles4Soles

New York, NY, (present date) — Can sneakers save the world?  Scion and Run Athletics have launched a humanitarian shoe design contest, asking designers all over the world to put their best foot forward and create a custom Run Athletics sneaker to help raise donations towards Soles4Souls, a non-profit dedicated to providing essential footwear to those in need around the globe. All entries uploaded to http://www.runathletics.com/soles4souls will be judged by a panel of legendary urban artists with 300 limited-edition pairs manufactured from the winning design.  The winner will be announced on the website and receive their award at the closing party, where the custom shoes will be given out to donors and others in attendance. Designs from the top ten finalists will be matted and on display at the event for honorable guest Reverend Run of Run DMC to sign. The first contest of its kind, the Scion/Soles4Souls/Run Athletics donation and design campaign is spearheaded by PBM Partners, a convergence media agency helping to develop socially conscious media programs.

For more contest information or to download the sneaker design template, please runathletics.com/soles4souls. For other info, please contact webmaster at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Posted by Mare 139 on November 30, 2008 at 04:23 PM

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07 Fairings wrote… Comment #1 posted on December 11, 2008 at 07:20 PM
Hey, I've been around here for a bit and I wanted to ask you why did you decided to write about graffiti and this stuff? I mean I like it but is a unique blog.

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Carlos Mare 139 Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed artist/sculptor and pioneer in the art and culture of Hip Hop. Leading his generation into a new world of possibility with style writing sculpture, he pioneered a vision that had, before him, no reference outside of the painted subways of the time. Throughout his career as a sculpter, Mare 139 has consistently brought innovation to the genre’s aesthetic and vocabulary. Mare 139 earned the prestigeous 2006 Webby Award for his launch of the Hip Hop documentary Style Wars website. Style Wars has also garnered the COMMARTS/Communication Arts Award, Horizon Interactive Award, as well as SXSW/South by Southwest Interactive. Not only an award winner but an award designer, Mare 139 designed and created the award for the annual BET/Black Entertainment Award show, which is given annually to entertainers, athletes and actors. Recipients include Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jay Z, Prince Snoop Dog, Beyonce, Kobe Bryant, Usher, Serena Williams and many others. He also designed a G-Unit Award expressly for 50Cent given to him by fashion designer Marc Ecko. Other award projects include the 2005 and 2007 Red Bull Beat Battle Award and more recent the SPY Award for the 30th Anniversary of the Rock Steady Crew. In 2006-07 Mare 139 worked closely with Director/Actor Robert DeNiro on the film The Good Shepherd as a documenter of ‘the making of the movie’ and as member of Mr. DeNiro’s editing team. His writing has been published in Martha Coopers brilliant photo book Street Play that documents the imaginative ‘play’ of children in the streets of NYC in the late 1970’s. His writings capture the creative play and dangers of his youth in the South Bronx.

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