Showing posts with label Ganesha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ganesha. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Converse pulls shoe portraying Hendrix as Hindu god

Converse pulls shoe portraying Hendrix as Hindu god | Believe It or Not | HoustonBelief.com

Jimi Hendrix was one of the greatest guitar players ever - if you are even remotely interested in guitar, and you haven't heard his performance of the Star Spangled Banner on Youtube, stop what you are doing and go here.

However, to equate Hendix to a 10 armed Hindu god, and then to put him on Converse shoes...may be taking creativity a bit too far...add this to Ganesha on toilet seats, supermodels dressing up a Kali, and more....good cocktail party chat fodder..

Per the company, "With approval of the Hendrix estate, we applied artwork taken directly from the 1967 "Axis: Bold as Love" album cover. The cover art included images of Hindu deities. Our ambitions were to honor the music of Jimi Hendrix. It was not our intent to offend Hindu culture by having Hindu deities on footwear,"





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