I heard my boy, and friend of the site, RHog, talking about ‘shoe-shi’ this morning, and I thought he was starting to suffer from some sort of speech impediment. Then, I realized my guy is purposefully stating, ‘shoe-shi,’ and that it’s a real thing that people are blogging about. So, you guys know me (or maybe you don’t and I’ve created this entire site and readership in my mind) by now – I’m thinking, “RHog has done it again – just gone and handed a story straight to me. Doin’ my job for me!”
And, I know my audience. I know this is EXACTLY what you guys want to see! Tiny shoes made out of sushi…
an artist and chef in milan is making waves with these sneaker-shaped sushi bites, which see food take the form of familiar kicks. yujia hu’s ‘shoe-shi’ bear comical monikers, like the NIKE ‘wasabi’ kyrie 2, the supreme ‘sticky’ sliders, and the yeezy ‘seaweed stripes’ zebras. while rice forms the significant part of each shoe’s silhouette, tuna, salmon, and seaweed have been used to form familiar footwear features and recognizable brand markings.
yujia hu — who goes by the name theonigiriart — makes ‘shoe-shi’ at the sakana restaurant in milan. hu carefully places each of the ingredients on a meticulously-shaped pile of rice, intricately attaching tiny sheets of seaweed or fish to each form. miniature details — like thin stripes on the adidas ‘nori’ NMD, or the swoosh on the NIKE ‘original sushi sneaker’ air jordan — are applied using a toothpick. while those in milan can feast on the footwear in person, prints of the shoes are also available to purchase online.
I feel like I’m in a Gorgeous Boyd column gone horribly wrong.
And, to be honest, I’m not really sure what else to do with this news. It’s kind of a frustrating discovery….like, we can’t wear the shoe-shi….but I don’t want to eat it either. It would be like eating art. I mean, you wouldn’t go around eating paintings, would you? But, then again, you wouldn’t wear raw fish on your feet!
Or, maybe you would. Maybe that is exactly what art is – maybe art IS eating paintings and wearing shoes made of fish and rice. Art has no rules.
Damn. We’re on a different plane now.
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