{"id":58816,"date":"2019-04-29T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/?p=58816"},"modified":"2019-04-29T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:46:48","slug":"hypest-infinity-gauntlet-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/hypest-infinity-gauntlet-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Hypest Infinity Gauntlet Came to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if Thanos had a huge love for sneakers? What if Michael Jordan captured the Infinity Gaunlet in his prime? Which iconic Jordan 1 colorway would look best in some Avengers gear? These are questions you would never be able to answer, until now. Thankfully, artists Freehand Profit and Boss Logic were able to do the impossible, creating an insane\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freehandprofit.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/22\/jordan-1-infinity-gauntlet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan 1 Infinity Guanlet<\/a>\u00a0that has been blowing up on social media. StockX hit up Freehand Profit for a quick interview to discuss his version of the most powerful item in the Marvel Universe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwlKzjaHRzs\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwlKzjaHRzs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A post shared by Freehand Profit (@freehandprofit)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-04-23T02:09:29+00:00\">Apr 22, 2019 at 7:09pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>1.) <strong>What sneakers \/ materials did you use to build this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I opted to use the Chicago 1.5s to ease the pain. The soles are actually from Satin 1s, leftovers from a recently completed mask.<\/p>\n<p>2.) <strong>How long did it take to make?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It took about 6 weeks, most of that time was modeling, 3D printing and adding Swarovski crystals to the oversized ring on the back of the hand.<\/p>\n<p>3.) <strong>What has it been like seeing the reactions to the infinity gauntlet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always nice to see the impact hard work can have. @bosslogic and I have been looking forward to collaborating for a while now so we knew it had to be special.<\/p>\n<p>For full details on this insane piece, make sure to hit the man&#8217;s own blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/freehandprofit.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/22\/jordan-1-infinity-gauntlet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. And even if you can&#8217;t cop the Infinity Gauntlet yourself, we picked out some sneakers that would match up perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StockX hit up artist Freehand Profit for a quick interview to discuss his sneaker-centric version of the most powerful item in the Marvel Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":58843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"brands":[],"series":[],"verticals":[1692],"class_list":["post-58816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sx_vertical-sneakers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How the Hypest Infinity Gauntlet Came to Be - StockX News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"StockX hit up artist Freehand Profit for a quick interview to discuss his sneaker-centric version of the most powerful item in the Marvel Universe.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/hypest-infinity-gauntlet-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How the Hypest Infinity Gauntlet Came to Be - 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