News
Thousands Of Shoes Appear On Miami Expressway
A few days ago on January 2nd thousands of shoes appeared on the morning Palmetto Expressway disrupting traffic for hours. Included were work boots, running shoes, womens heels, tennis shoes and maybe even a pair of Air Force Ones or Nike Dunks. Nobody is quite sure where the shoes came from but it took a crew several hours to sweep up all the shoes and push them to the side of the Expressway. They were all then loaded into dump trucks and taken out to the an empty field in northern Miami-Dade County where non-profit organizations such as Soles4Souls are taking the shoes and distributing them to the poor. This is defiantly a pretty crazy news story, to just come across thousands of shoes in the road and have no idea where they came from. I wonder if anybody stopped and picked up any heat before the cops got there.
Hit the jump to check out a quick CNN news clip of the event.
We’re back after a brief delay
Im sure a lot of you have noticed since Thursday of last week Sneaker Obsession was offline. The site was not accessible and a message displaying the site as disabled was shown. We were experiencing difficulties with our server and have since “set up shop” with a new server. It took quite awhile to get the box setup and to transfer all the files and change DNS nameserver info and all that mumbo jumbo. Fear not though since we are back in action after that brief delay. After working out some more of the minor bugs on this new server we will carry on with your regular daily updates. My appologizes for the misinterruption.
Chicago House of Hoops – November Grand Opening
Chi town is gonna be blessed with something im sure all sneakerheads in the area can appreciate. The 3rd House Of Hoops location will find its home in Chicago at the North Riverside Park Mall. The Chicago location will join forces with the already very popular House of Hoops NYC and LA storefronts. With a total of 3 House of Hoops locations we can only imagine all the exclusives that will be released. For an extact date and more info on the Grand Opening of the House Of Hoops Chicago location keep it locked to Sneaker Obsession.
Sneaker Obsession V2
Well im sure all the daily readers have noticed the new changes right off the bat. Sneaker Obsession has been updated with a whole new look. This is a layout i have been testing on another (test) site of mine. Maybe youve seen the style on the other site, maybe you havent, but either way it has found its home at Sneaker Obsession. Along with the new layout i have also made a few other changes.
-For one, the long list of categories have been removed and updated with a drop down list which you can find over to the right hand side. You can access a single category by selecting the category link within the post itself or you can select a category from the drop down menu.
-Image sizes within the posts have been scaled down a little bit to make load speeds easier on our readers with a slower connection speed. It has been a PIDA for users with a slower connection to load pages which may contain up to 10 or more good size images.
-On the right hand side you will also find sections for the newest Dunks that have been posted, newest Air Jordan posted and newest custom sneakers posted. Since these are by far the most popular sneakers we have highlighted the most recents posts for those categories within the sidebar. Whenever a new post is added to the genre the links will be updated automatically.
There will be more small changes coming along the way, such as graphics being updated and this and that so bare with us as we finish the complete update. Along will all of this i will also be providing you with more sneaker news as requested by many readers, instead of just the usual custom sneakers being posted. The site has been online for just over a year now and i thank all you dedicated readers for sticking with the site through thick and thin. We will always stive to better your viewing pleasure. Take care readers.
Site Will Be Under Maitence Tonight – 8/22
Sneaker Obsession will be under going maintenance at some point later tonight. I am going to try and hold off on taking the site offline till as late as possible, maybe by 11pm EST or so. Hopefully the updates will be quick and painless and things will be back up and running again in no time what so ever. Dont quote me on that just yet though. If things go well you will see Sneaker Obsession with a somewhat updated look which should benefit you, the readers at large. If something goes wrong and things do not go as planned then the site will be back up with no change at all while i continue to work out the bugs. For now carry on with your regular reading.
Sneaker Obsession delay due to sickness
Whats going on guys and girls. Many of you who visit the site daily have probably noticed nothing has been posted since Saturday. I am currently fighting a sickness that has had me laid up in bed since Sunday night. I attended the NHRA Super Nationals at Raceway Park in NJ this past weekend and i have either come down with food poisoning or sun poisoning. I havent really done to much besides pray to the toilet god since i got home Sunday night. This all comes with a killer migraine too. If youve had a migraine then im sure you know my pain right now. I cant even look at the screen for longer then 5mins. Its killing me just to type this but i wanted to let all the daily viewers know that tomorrow i will carry on with the regular posting you are use to. I am about 50% better right now so come tomorrow i should (hopefully) be at 100% and good to go again. Make sure to keep it locked cause i’ll have a lot of new customs coming your way within the next few days.
