Straight from the pages of Sky Mall (and barfers Jessica and Gracie) comes the spelling-challenged Gravity Defyer shoe.
Oh yeah, and there’s also something wrong with its logo.
The website has a helpful diagram of the shoe itself, labeling important parts, such as the “Slick Seed of Life Logo”.
Slick.
Edit! Thanks to Barfer Shawn, there’s a confirmation from Gravity Defyer that this is actually a sperm.
From their press release:
GRAVITY DEFYER™ LOGO CAUSES PULL OUT – pain free/comfortable footwear line still swimming upstream despite retailer outrage.
Sherman Oaks, CA (August 31, 2010) Online shopping giant QVC and catalog mailer Seventh Avenue are the latest to run from the Gravity Defyer™ “seed of life” logo controversy.
Alexander Elnekaveh, founder and CEO of Gravity Defyer™, states, “Our logo is deliberate. Our customers feel like they are getting the beginning of a new life when they try our shoes. Pain and fatigue are alleviated, energy is restored; they can walk and exercise again. What represents that? The seed of life. We’re not embarrassed by it, nor are our customers. We are currently working with some of the best retailers in the world and look forward to future business opportunities with companies that are liberal enough to embrace this concept. There’s no shame, there’s pride.”
Holy balls.
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So… the shoes make you run as fast as sperm?
Funny, the first thing I think of when I mix seed and shoes is a slipping hazard. Maybe a logo of an oil slick?
Yeah, using “Slick” right over the image of shoe REALLY makes me feel like the shoes are not grippy. And that possibly their soles are slathered in spunk.
Chubby and cute sperm!
Gym shoes. Jism shoes. All sounds pretty much the same.
Will there be a contest between the right and the left shoes regarding who gets there first?
Sperm has to combine with egg to make life! Dumb sperm can’t do it on its own. They are expendable!
i feel like the shoes are not grippy but shoes make you run as fast.
You wear this shoe when you go swimming in a pool of semen. Isn’t that what sperms do? Swim in semen??
athletic semen………..
Someone actually got paid for that design ,and someone thought it was GOOD?
amazing……what a clouring shoe…wheanever anyone wear it..he will be looking a hero……
So whose sperm are they going to use as a brand ambassador?
i feel that shoes are like burning train, which help u to run faster ever
use this shoes while swimming in pool of semen
nothing it can do other than this.
I think train shock absorbers fixed to this shoe. It is not useful anywhere. ha ha..
Is it just me, or does the logo look like sperm? Does this mean these shoes are going to make you more likely to meet chicks? And reproduce with them? I need to get me a pair of these!
You’ve gotta love that “seed of life.”
Lol, flying at the speed of sperm. This is an unfortunate marketing call.
I think these are very useful for skipping
Along with the advertising of sperm Shoes we can also endorse “condom socks” – To keep the sperm feet safely inside cover
I think the reason why they use the gravity in the name is because they want to make sure you don’t float off into space not to mention they think that this shoe is actually going to take the pain and faigue out of all that floating I will be doing when I get out into space I guess tha’s where we will plant the seed of life that is in it and sprout.
shoes and sperm…… what a combination…………..woh……
How many sperms to create 1 pair of gravity defying shoes