http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/08/a-different-kind-of-sneaker/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/08/a-different-kind-of-sneaker/comment-page-1/#comment-11269 Dave Shires Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:02:50 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2008/08/a-different-kind-of-sneaker/#comment-11269 I love this shoe - it's well designed, well intentioned, well sourced, etc... the thing is I'm totally over adbusters. They claim to be anti-brand by putting this black dot on the shoe, but all they are doing is creating a new brand, which is, if anything, complete snobbery. As much as I hate giant corporate brands taking over everything, adbusters comes across as really, really arrogant. If we have to live with brands, then let's fix the ones we have, hopefully this helps, but in the meantime I don't think hipster tyranny is any better than corporate tyranny. One less fixie!!! I love this shoe – it’s well designed, well intentioned, well sourced, etc… the thing is I’m totally over adbusters. They claim to be anti-brand by putting this black dot on the shoe, but all they are doing is creating a new brand, which is, if anything, complete snobbery. As much as I hate giant corporate brands taking over everything, adbusters comes across as really, really arrogant. If we have to live with brands, then let’s fix the ones we have, hopefully this helps, but in the meantime I don’t think hipster tyranny is any better than corporate tyranny. One less fixie!!!

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