Although this Greenepeace ‘Detox’ commercial has some sort of message about how Nike and Adidas are polluting the environment or something, I was too busy looking at all the cool sneakers to notice it.

Ensuring their new “performance” cycling sneaker won’t be taken too seriously, adidas curiously collaborated with two brands with only the faintest interest in riding bikes. Streetwear website Hypebeast and Berlin sneaker shop Solebox helped the footwear giant design their own Zeitfreis, matched with a couple custom painted Bianchi track bikes as “The Complete Ride.” Asked about their biking habits and local fixed gear scene, Jason Chow from Hypebeast and Hikmet from Solebox laid it all out to Crooked Tongues:

Jason: I don’t ride regularly due to the fact that living in Hong Kong with the traffic and killer summer humidity it makes for an unbearable situation. To me, cycling is a great exercise and leisure hobby. I’ve ridden a few fixes and is something I might explore on a more permanent basis in the future but until I find more time, I don’t think I’ll splurge my paycheck on a bike just yet.

Hikmet: I would be lying if I am saying, that i am a cyclist. I know how to move a bike. But thats it. But I loved as a child to look the indoor cycle championships on TV. Especially the crashes. The fixed bike scene is still at the beginning, so there will be more attention directed to it in the future over here in Germany.

While it’s good to know they share our enthusiasm for watching pile ups on the velodrome, their disinterest in actually riding bikes makes it hard to believe that they were even recruited to sell the so called “innovative cycling” sneakers in the first place. Also, for the price they’re asking, $150 and $200, you may be better off copping a pair of real, stiff soled cycling shoes, even if they don’t have a half-cocked track bike to match.

Is it art? Well, it’s currently being exhibited at the Today Art Museum in Beijing and the Cité des Sciences in Paris, so some people think it is. What I know about art—to paraphrase many including the great Tom Waits—could fit inside a thimble and there’d still be room for you and me. What I do know is that sports are filled with cool sounds. And those sounds provide the soundtrack for this three-minute video—only a heartbeat has been added as a back beat. Being a hockey player/fan, my favorite sports sound is the booming crack of a 100mph slapshot, which disappointingly is not including here (the hockey sound is a goalie skating across his crease.). But play the video twice, the second time with eyes shut. All the clips are from the Adidas archive. It’s certainly closer to art than Nike’s much-touted (I say ‘pedestrian’) Olympics commercial.

If keeping up with all the new sneakers, Japanese toys, prints, and limited edition crap out there has become nearly impossible, welcome to Survival of the Hippest. It’s the all purpose dump for the stuff you may never end up buying, always question it’s purpose, but still find intriguing.
After the jump we continue to trend-hunt and cool-gather all the items that are sure to make you all the talk of Max Fish.

Although your vegan friends will hate you for buying them, here are Adidas’ Americana snakeskin sneakers. They come in both Capt. America red-white-blue or slime green. Wear them to PETA rallies at your own risk. SlamXhype

Way before anyone ever heard of Kid Robot, their was Bounty Hunter. This Japanese artist is best known for his designer vinyl toys but also dabbles in t-shirts and now apparently jewlery too. Not even Jacob the Jewler can offer bling like this. High Snobiety

These pairs of Nike 180′s were created for Kanye West and aren’t they are just fabulous? Complete with leopard print backs and light blue trimmings, your only chance of grabbing these are via Ebay. So log on, bid, and be all the rage of Christopher St. But if these don’t tickle your fancy there are always the sneakers inspired by people who don’t wear them or these love puppies. Hypebeast

The ubiquitious Space Monkey makes his way onto a new surface, this time adorning a LOMO camera. Graffiti artist-designer Dalek agreed to create a slew of stuff for LOMO’s super sample pack. So not only will you get a camera with the Space Monkey but a book too. Josh Spear