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“What's happening, people? My name's Will Stowe. The Will everyone knows and Hackney's very own. Hey, everybody, what's good? It's your girl, Tiona Deniece, and I am here in the New York City studio and it's time to heat it up. We've obviously got Bring 'Em Out. It's myself versus Tiona. She's definitely going down.“

“This is the Concepts, the Far Out. You’ve even got the flowery swoosh here. These are the SB Dunk 'Inverts', very very strong pair.”

“The results are coming through. Looks like I'm the winner. Since the community are against me, I'm going to show some love to them on the Kickcheck."

“@firm117th with the Air Jordan 3 ‘Fire Red’. We've got at @snkrfiend713 and they're rocking the Women's Air Max 1 X atmos ‘Animal Camo’.”

"Next up we have @SneakerPhetish. We have the Air Penny 2 X Social Status with the ‘Cobalt Pulse and White’.”

“We've got to get into This Week's Heat. Very strong pairs. We're going to start off with these ‘True Blue and Copper’ 3s. These are really reminiscent of the 'True Blues', but these have a little bit of metallic copper on them.”

“I’ve got the Cortez in the ‘Gorge Green and Malachite’, I don't know how you pronounce that correctly. Definitely something timeless. If you are looking for a summer shoe, don't want to break the bank too much. $85.”

“This is the Air Force 1 Mid x Off-White™ collab and this is the ‘Pine Green’. My favorite part of the shoe is the tongue, is that graffiti-esque Air. We've got a very, very special segment coming up.”

“We have the one and only Lucian Dickson for Straight From the Source. Here to talk about swoosh right now. Will, Tiona, first of all, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me.”

“For those of you who are newer to what's been going on since I left work on the SNKRS team. I'm now working at Nike Virtual Studios. Nike's endeavor and foray into the world of Web3 virtual creations, getting also into the gaming side of things.”

“We launched our first consumer facing property, which is called .SWOOSH. It's a platform. It's a site which is swoosh.nike. So the Air Force 1 campaign is our first collection, our first collection of virtual creations.”

“A month or so long vote back campaign that we ran in SNKRS and also on our IG channel. Basically those votes, the top eight pairs made their way onto a series of…"

“Virtual posters, which we called the Our Force 1 posters. Four posters, each with five shoes. If you have that poster, you'll have guaranteed access to one Our Force 1 box, which you'll be able to purchase on May 8th.”

“These are the two virtual boxes that you can select from. New Wave is the box in the back. Classic Remix is the one in the front. Both of them are going to contain Air Force 1s that you've never seen before, OG pairs that you have seen before, and styles that were created by our community.”

“These are designs that we've created using a combination of different traits and color blocking and dubraes and heel tabs and different swooshes.”

“What is next for .Swoosh? Let's start with the Air Force 1 collection. So this is one of what we're calling generative styles. So this is…”

“A style that doesn't exist in the world and probably couldn't. You see there's motion within it. There’s a dot in front of that swoosh. So it's a Dot Swoosh original right there.”

“Longer term, what's next down is gaming partnerships and then also allowing you to own these 3D files. Would love if you guys followed along with us on Twitter and Instagram, which is @D-O-T-S-W-O-O-S-H, Dot Swoosh.”

“Thank you Looch. Hope to see you soon bro. Take care. This has been a great show. It's good to see you guys locking in again. It's good to see you Tiona. We will be back next week for some more Heating Up. Yeah, see you guys later.”

SNKRS Live Highlights: Heating Up - 04.26.23

SNKRS Live Highlights

Heating Up — 4.26.23