Mike sits down with Al Baker, the artist behind Deadstock Anatomies, for a Coffee Time Kicks conversation about turning sneakers into framed art pieces inspired by entomology, the science of pinning insects.
Al breaks down how a wife’s passion for bug collecting led to taking apart a Jordan 1 and never looking back, the time he split a Red October down the middle and made $6,000 doing it, why the Reebok Above the Rim line still has him hunting Poshmark for old Steve Francis ATRs, and what it felt like to hand A’ja Wilson a piece made from her own signature shoe.
Plus, the daily-driver Mars Yards he can’t stop wearing, why he stopped chasing hypebeast clients, and the grail Jordan 1 he’s still trying to track down in a wearable size.
Find Al on Instagram at @DeadstockAnatomies or at dsanatomies.com.
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