New Shoe Sunday: Russian artist makes Minecraft-branded Converse All Stars with DIY 3D pen

While the trend toward ever-lighter basketball shoes continues — take Nike’s Hyperdunk and Adidas’ adiZero Crazy Light for example — even the airiest of the big-brand shoes are like lead weights compared to the custom Converse All Stars (aka Chuck Taylors) made by a young Russian YouTuber.

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Anastasia, the creative force behind the Kiwi Show, used an inexpensive Packgout 3D pen to trace her Chuck Taylor sneaker with turquoise-colored plastic “ink”.

Her finished shoe weighs about as much as the shoelaces do on the original Chuck Taylors. As a nice embellishment to her creation, Anastasia added a hand-drawn patch of the character Creeper from Minecraft where the Converse logo usually goes.

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Did you know that the Converse All Stars that served as the inspiration for Anastasia’s DIY project, turned 100 years old in 2017? Or that there’s a pair sold every 43 seconds? Learn these, and nine other fun facts, in Pop Sugar’s video above.