Red Figure Converse All Stars

Converse All Star shoes hand-painted with red-figure scenes.

The story

I stumbled upon this magnificent and unique pair of shoes on an eternallycool.net post. This post tells the story of the shoes much better than I could and instead of copying information I refer you directly THERE.

I should stress that the original uploading of the photographs on Flickr was by jere7my whose mother was the creator of this unique pair of "Chucks", who hand-painted them for Jeremy's wife.

More photographs in Jeremy's photostream HERE

Here I only make some brief notes on the iconography of the four sides of the shoes, identifying three of the depicted scenes.

Left shoe -

Out: Odysseus tied on the mast of a ship with his sailors and a Siren plunging from her rock

Source:

Attic red-figure stamnos by the Painter of the Siren (480-470 B.C.)

In: Apollo resting on a rock playing the lyre accompanied by a panther.

(could not identify precise source)

Right shoe -

Out: Hercules attempting to capture Cerberus in Hades with Athena overlooking at the left.

Source:

Attic bilingual amphora by the Andocides painter (520-510 B.C.)

In: Ajax or Achilles playing dice

Source:

Attic biblingual amphora by the Andocides painter (520-510 B.C.)