Adidas Skateboarding Mark Gonzales x Adidas Doley

Mark Gonzales is one of the oldest and grandest of O.G.s of skateboarding. If Tony Hawk is King of the Birds and Christian Hosoi is the legendary Golden Child, Gonzales is the magical unicorn. Known chiefly as the godfather of street skating (essentially inventing the ollie and the grind), his energy and creativity proved too boundless to be confined by the just skateboarding, bleeding over into painting, poetry, sculpture, filmmaking, and even quilting. His work has been featured in galleries on both coasts, and he’s done a myriad of collaborative projects, including a recent NY show with Hosoi.

This week Adidas Skateboarding released a sneaker collabo featuring the Adidas Doley, newly released this summer. While the original is all-white, this special edition comes in a creamy off-white with black trim and features original artwork by Gonzales, along with his name scrolled along the heel. Pricing is, as of yet, available, but word is that the folks at SlamJam will have them available for purchase quite soon.

View: www.slamjam.com

(more pics and video after the jump)

*Here’s a music video featuring footage from Cheryl Dunn’s “Back World for Words,” shot at a museum in Monchengladbach, Germany. Watching him skate is a bit like watching Federer play tennis or Zidane dribble down the pitch–beautiful. The video is evidence that Gonzales was an artist well before his paintings were in galleries; skating was his first medium.

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(For more on “The Gonz,” peep this NY Times piece from 2000.)