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You may remember me posting pictures of these size 7 Puma Mostros about a year ago. They are about 7 years old. I wear them a lot and they have continued to slowly disintegrate.
Recently I spent a couple of weeks hiking in national parks in Arizona and Utah. I wore these more than any other shoes, about half the time there. I hiked quite a few miles and spent several hours hiking in a river bottom in about a foot or more of water wearing these shoes. All the hiking has worn most of the rest of the crumbling rubber off the soles, exposing the plastic, which has gotten very thin, and worn through on the heels.
The soles have started separating from the uppers; wading in the river played some part in that. Then when I hiked in sand, the sand wedged itself between the sole and the upper. further speeding the disintegration. The sole on the right heel is held on by just a sliver of plastic. The left sole is very loose at the toes. Furthermore, the leather uppers have torn through at flex points and seams near my toes.
After the river walk, I pulled out the soggy, sand encrusted innersoles. I may put them back in now.
But these are still some of my favorite shoes. Now that I am home, the disintegration has apparently stabilized, and I continue to wear them regularly. I may have to eventually do emergency repairs, but for now I wear them as is.
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Disintegration - Natural state visualization
Distortion as a representation of chaos in natural cycles, modifying it's own results by continuous repetition. The images are generated from small variations in a force feedback of a closed system, creating superimposing and unique images using the generative loop as content origin.
The project is part of a process of experiments regarding the decomposition of light through video media, using live tools. Under the name PRIMORDIAL PHENOMENON
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Ediacaran Mind:
Expanding upon its commitment to offer free, public programming to the city of Miami & support artists worldwide, Faena has commissioned Kelly Breez, science/art collective Coral Morphologic, & Argentine artist Martin Borini to transform the OMA-designed facade of Faena Forum with “Ediacaran Mind.”
These Puma Mostros have been my go to shoes for some years. I've worn them for long hikes, wading in a river, for home construction projects, to work, you name it. And they have been slowly disintegrating for years. The original outersoles hardened, crumbled and have been flaking off since shortly after I got them. For the last few years the glue holding the uppers to the now super thin soles has been slowly failing. I've resisted repairs, although a year ago I reglued the tip of the toe on the left shoe back as the sole was flopping and I was tripping over it.
Several weeks ago, the tip of the right sole came unglued, but not so much, so it didn't cause a problem walking. So I left it like that, in the earlier pictures here you can see how nice and flexible the very thin soles are. My toes would comfortably hang over the unglued edges.
One day, just as I finished shopping, the rest of the adhesive on the right shoe failed, the sole was dangling, held on by the strap on the inside. But if I walked carefully, I could still wear them. Within a couple of hours, the left sole came unglued also, but did not dangle because it was still glued at the toe where I had earlier repaired it.
Now I still wore them around the house, but the sole flopped too much to wear outside. So I did a temporary repair, a rubber band around the flopping right sole. I could, and did, wear them shopping now, but the rubber band would slip off, and even on the left shoe, my toes would slide off the sole. So more permanent repairs were in order.
I first used a small amount of double back tape at the instep to stick the sole back on. That initially worked, but came loose. So I glued the instep back on. For now, I didn't glue the toe of the right shoe, or the heels, or the rest of the sides, I like them just repaired enough to stay on my feet. My toes comfortably hang over the edges of the very thin soles, which fold up nicely if I push my toes down to the ground.
I think I'll keep wearing them just like they are, minimally repaired.
The Worm Turns.
By way of acknowledgement I now wish to make a list (incomplete) of influences.
(Before beginning, I should say that this list could disintegrate into further musings at any turn and the author accepts full responsibility if this happens.)
1. Marcel Duchamp
2. James Joyce
3. Francisco Goya
4. Mathias Gruenwald
5. Jacques-Louis David
6. Elias Cannetti
7. Herman Broch
8. Luis Bunuel
9. Pier Paolo Pasolini
10. Andre Tarkovsky
11. Gitta Sereny
12. Robert Gober
13. Cindy Sherman
14. David Wojnorowicz
15. Alfred Jarry
16. William Shakespeare
17. Octavio Paz
18. Jeff Koons
19. Andy Warhol
20. Felix Gonzales-Torres
21. Nan Goldin
22. Francois Rabelais
23. Emile Zola
24. Raymond Roussel
25. Gilbert and George
26. Andres Serrano
27. Daniel Defoe
28. Thomas Hardy
29. D.H. Lawrence
30. J.M.Coetzee
31. The Marquis de Sade
32. Harold Bloom
33. Camille Paglia
34. Samuel Beckett
35. Jan Vermeer
The notion of an order in such a list is unthinkable. To see the likes of Paglia there amongst some of the others must give cause for concern. What is most impressive about her is her ability to plagiarise, to steal, and to vulgarise unashamedly and when challenged, to shrug her shoulders, claim Italian descent and some sort of amnesty for having invented opera. I find this tendency in Warhol, Sherman, Serrano, Koons and Goldin too and am in awe of their ability to plunder their most recent history. This accelerated ingestion and digestion of the recent past and present would seem to be an American attribute and one I hope I have acquired (like a virus) in my time spent there.
There is a notable omission in the above list, what of Vincent Van Gogh?
Van Gogh (post-Duchamp) and the Notion of the Fake.
I have no interest in the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. I have little or no interest in painting for its own sake and can only be pulled in when I see it as a vehicle for ideas. I consumed his work when I was a teenager but, on discovering Duchamp, lost interest completely. I am profoundly interested in what Van Gogh, his life and myth, represents.
Before going there I need to hold the concept of Fakery up to the infra-thin prism and reconsider it. First of all we need to do away with judgement. Genuine is a word like truth which can be used as a weapon and therefore is immediately suspect.
In contrast to the usual definition of fake as the opposite of genuine we need to consider the possibility of anti-genuine or complementary to genuine. This puts genuine and fake as opposite but equal. Now we can start.
The Tazzo Tondo: Van Gogh is probably the most identifiable artist in the history of the world. Here in England his image was been given away to children free in a packet of potato crisps in the form of a tazzo (a small plastic disc). He adorns everything from ashtrays to place-mats. He is universal property. Situated between this universal Van Gogh and the isolated mad loner who never sold a painting in his life, and who ended up shooting himself in a field of crows, is the area I want to pillage. The story is similar to the one of the fisherman from Bethlehem who generated the myth that is responsible for the greatest flowering of Art in the history of the recorded world. Is the relationship between the universal Van Gogh on the tazzo in the crisp packet and the isolated mad painter the same relationship that exists between the fisherman and his present manifestation? And if so, which is the fake? Is it possible to generate the same without Faith? Does it matter if you have faith in the painter or the representation of the painter in the Tazzo?
Maybe we should ask Shakespeare to tell us through his prime Vitalist.
When Falstaff fakes his death to escape being killed he justifies it in the following way:
Embowelled? If thou embowel me today, I’ll give you leave to powder me and eat me tomorrow. "Sblood,’twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me, Scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die is to be counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.
The idea of Falstaff’s secular resurrection is what marks him as a true vitalist. His play here with the notion of Fake/Counterfeit and it’s complementary is transcendent.
So that which marks Van Gogh out as a Vitalist is a type of secular resurrection in the imagination of the human race combined with the actual man. The combination of his being and anti-being usher him into mythology. This I posit to be central to the continuum both of History and Art History.
Pseudopodia: Bifurcation is central to the creation myth. Eve issued from the rib of Adam. I like to think of her as a breached birth, coming feet, or rather foot, first. We have a perfect model of Bifurcation in the humble Amoeba. Central to the idea of infra-thin, as described by Duchamp in his notes for the Green Box, is the notion of the caste and mould. These complementaries generate infra-thin when fit one inside the other. Infra-thin is, of course, the infinite space generated between them. This would suggest that in the doubling through bifurcation the split is into matter and anti-matter, or subject and object, and the combination of both complementaries might negate the ego and attain towards infinity or at least towards an entropy which might act as the mulch or seedbed for the process to begin over again. The Amoeba puts it’s best foot forward and feels it’s way into the world until it finds its footing, and the courage to split. This single celled ‘Avant-garde’ foot moves forward describing the terrain to the body, to inform it as to whether it is safe to divide. The rest, creativity itself, is, perhaps, just a chain reaction.
As for Jane Seymour, she’s the fake Dr. Quinn.
Written some 20 years ago, I will soon re-write this, updating it, and including Dostoevsky, of course (amongst others), though he is somewhat included here through the Coetzee reference.
I like lists.
Russley Golf Course air crash:
On Thursday, 21 November 1957, a Bristol Freighter aircraft disintegrated above the Russley Golf Course, crashed and burst into flames. All four people on board — Robert Hamilton, Helge Torgerson, Tom O'Connell and James McLaggan — were killed. A permanent memorial was erected at the crash site for the 50th anniversary of the accident in 2007.
The flight plan:
Woodbourne to Paraparaumu
On Thursday, 21 November 1957 at 9:07am the Straits Air Freight Express Ltd freighter, ZK-AYH, left Woodbourne Aerodrome bound for Paraparaumu.
On board were the captain, Robert Hamilton, two first officers and the company’s founder and general manager, Tom O’Connell. As two officers were on board, training exercises were conducted: one of which was the feathering and unfeathering of the starboard propeller. Two minutes after this exercise there was a sudden and severe vibration through the aircraft. However the flight continued without interruption and the plane landed in Paraparaumu at 9:30am.
At Paraparaumu the plane was emptied and reloaded with cargo, two Aberdeen Angus cows travelled in specially constructed wooden crates. One of the first officers disembarked. James McLaggan, a university student boarded as a passenger.
Paraparaumu to Oamaru
The aircraft left Paraparaumu at 10:09am heading for Oamaru via Timaru. The trip appeared uneventful with routine position reports being transmitted by radio at Wellington, Blenheim and Kaikoura. There were strong north-westerly wind conditions with some severe turbulence.
At 11:27am the aircraft gave its position as 10km north of the Waimakariri River mouth at 914 metres. From there it was intended to begin the descent into Timaru.
The crash:
A sudden gust of wind registering 33 knots (61 kmh) was recorded at Harewood at 11:33am. At about this time the plane was seen by a number of witnesses on the ground to literally fall to pieces. The starboard outer wing folded upwards and backwards and then separated, falling and landing on open farmland. The nose doors, the floor of the freight compartment (with the freight in position), and the rear portion of the fuselage with the fin and rudder attached all separated from the rest of the aircraft just before impact.
Pieces were scattered over an area of more than a square mile (2.5 square kilometres).
The rest of the aircraft ploughed nose down into a row of pine trees on the south-east boundary of the Russley Golf Course. Here the flight deck and front section erupted in a huge sheet of flame and spread to the trees as the unused fuel sprayed over the area.
Rescue attempt:
The control tower at Harewood did not receive a distress call, but emergency vehicles were soon on the scene. Some golfers, unaware of the disaster, were annoyed at their game being disrupted by heavy vehicles rumbling over the golf course.
One of the four passengers was found to be still breathing but he died before medical aid arrived. The front portion of the plane was still burning and nothing could be done for the rest of the passengers as they were tangled in the wreckage.
The cattle also died instantly; one of the mangled carcasses was found draped across the branch of a blackened pine tree about 3 metres above the ground.
An eye witness account:
Pauline Uhr was hanging out washing at her home, on the corner of Harewood and Gardiners Road when she saw the freighter. She reported hearing a harsh rending sound and had seen one wing tear from the aircraft. There had been no rocking or bucking of the plane beforehand and once the wing came off the fuselage plummeted to the ground.
Air accident investigation:
An investigation by the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents into the disaster concluded that the cause of structural failure was metal fatigue and the severe gust of wind had just been the last straw.
It was found out that a fatigue failure originated in the outermost 0,25 inch bolt hole drilled in the wing front spar during the incorporation of Bristol Modification 1169. This modification prolonged the life of the aircraft to 10,400 hours because it moved the point of stress concentrated in the boom to a new location. The modification was carried out on January 21, 1954 and the aircraft made 4,880 flying hours since (while 7,400 hours extended lifetime had been guaranteed).
Probable cause:
"In-flight structural fatigue failure of the starboard front lower spar boom. The circumstances which made the accident possible were created by the assessment of a life which was materially in excess of the safe life. The error in life assessment stemmed from the fact that simulated operational conditions from which the lifeing data was evolved were not truly representative of actual operating conditions."
Modifications were made to this type of plane to prevent future such failures.
Memorials:
In November 1992, on the 35th anniversary of the crash, a memorial cairn dedicated to the four people who had lost their lives in this tragedy — pilot, Robert Hamilton; first officer, Helge Hall “Harry” Torgerson; and passengers Tom O'Connell and James McLaggan — was unveiled.
This memorial was under three birch trees in the grounds of the Brevet Club, not far from the original site of the crash. In 2007 the Russley Golf Course approved the placement of a permanent memorial to the crash on the original site, at the initiative of club member, Phil Boyd. It was completed by 21 November 2007 in time for a 50th anniversary service.
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Accident report
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The Final Flight - The SafeAir Story
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfDYgoXFjY&t=93s
Photo: Dakman
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A study in disintegration, a run-down dairy farm buildings and silos near Eagle Island State Park, Idaho. During a brief trip to Boise, Idaho I visited Eagle Island State Park along the banks of the Boise River. Photographically speaking, there wasn't much the state park had to offer in the way of landscape scenery. The most intriguing photo subject I found at the park was a dilapidated dairy, complete with decaying buildings, silos, barns, fences and other structures. The weeds had taken over, adding to the feel of decay.
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On 12 March 2015 The Polish Institute of International Affairs, The German Marshall Fund of the United States and Heinrich Boll Stiftung organized the expert workshop at PISM in Warsaw titled: Integration and Disintegration in the Euro Area: Which Way Forward?
Since 2007, financial, sovereign debt and banking crises have put the euro area to a serious test. The governments and EU institutions have responded with rescue packages, ad-hoc institutional changes and domestic reform as well as consolidation programs. Since 2012, markets have calmed down and, compared to 2007/2008, the euro area has better tools to prevent and handle financial shocks and macro-economic imbalances. However, recent developments in a number of member states point to potential political crises in an environment of low growth and rising inequality that may undermine efforts to stabilize the euro area. The challenge is to bring back growth and employment and improve the governance of the euro area at a time of rising criticism of the EU. If the euro area is indeed further deepened, the question arises how non-euro area member states can be most closely involved with the currency union as a way to improve the chances of future accession.
Photo by Jadwiga Winiarska
You may remember me posting pictures of these size 7 Puma Mostros about a year ago. They are about 7 years old. I wear them a lot and they have continued to slowly disintegrate.
Recently I spent a couple of weeks hiking in national parks in Arizona and Utah. I wore these more than any other shoes, about half the time there. I hiked quite a few miles and spent several hours hiking in a river bottom in about a foot or more of water wearing these shoes. All the hiking has worn most of the rest of the crumbling rubber off the soles, exposing the plastic, which has gotten very thin, and worn through on the heels.
The soles have started separating from the uppers; wading in the river played some part in that. Then when I hiked in sand, the sand wedged itself between the sole and the upper. further speeding the disintegration. The sole on the right heel is held on by just a sliver of plastic. The left sole is very loose at the toes. Furthermore, the leather uppers have torn through at flex points and seams near my toes.
After the river walk, I pulled out the soggy, sand encrusted innersoles. I may put them back in now.
But these are still some of my favorite shoes. Now that I am home, the disintegration has apparently stabilized, and I continue to wear them regularly. I may have to eventually do emergency repairs, but for now I wear them as is.
Fading, disintegrating, and letting nature take over, a long abandoned house sits alone in an open field, as an old oak tree leans towards the road, while 214 races north in the distance.
Nikes with disintegrated soles
Not comfortable with innersoles now, although the innersoles provided protection from junk on the ground. I found a long time ago that stepping on debris was rarely an issue, particularlt when my soles toughen up. The only thing I am afraid of is doggie doo!
My first School - I was there between 1967 and 1969 - Lea Road County Primary (as it was at the time).
For at least the last thirty years of it's life this was an infants (up to age 7) school, but in times past it had served all school ages. The School finally closed in 1992, by which time it had become known as "South County Infants School".
The school had opened as Lea Road Council School in 1906, and there must be a fair proportion of native Gainsborough folk aged 21 or older who have attended this school at one time or another. I know my own Mum (born 1924) spent some time here, as did my Brother & Sister. My nephews also attended, and I was a pupil from 1967 (aged 5) until 1969.
After closure, the building was rented out as office space, but that use ended a few years ago with the opening of a modern business centre elsewhere in the town.
What future now for this striking and important building, I wonder? It is up for sale, but I can't imagine that anyone will buy it for any reason other than to flatten it and build housing on the site, sadly. Already, after only four or five year's disuse it is begining to disintegrate. Weeds are pusing through the concrete of the drive, and the building has recently fell victim to lead theft as well.
I can't imagine I will be able to take another shot of the old school in say another five years time.
Camera: Nikon F65
Lens: Nikkor 35-70mm zoom
Film: Fujicolor C200
The soft fluff from the heads of these cattails was drifting into my face as I shot this. Apparently the fluff can be used as tinder for starting fires
These Puma Mostros have been my go to shoes for some years. I've worn them for long hikes, wading in a river, for home construction projects, to work, you name it. And they have been slowly disintegrating for years. The original outersoles hardened, crumbled and have been flaking off since shortly after I got them. For the last few years the glue holding the uppers to the now super thin soles has been slowly failing. I've resisted repairs, although a year ago I reglued the tip of the toe on the left shoe back as the sole was flopping and I was tripping over it.
Several weeks ago, the tip of the right sole came unglued, but not so much, so it didn't cause a problem walking. So I left it like that, in the earlier pictures here you can see how nice and flexible the very thin soles are. My toes would comfortably hang over the unglued edges.
One day, just as I finished shopping, the rest of the adhesive on the right shoe failed, the sole was dangling, held on by the strap on the inside. But if I walked carefully, I could still wear them. Within a couple of hours, the left sole came unglued also, but did not dangle because it was still glued at the toe where I had earlier repaired it.
Now I still wore them around the house, but the sole flopped too much to wear outside. So I did a temporary repair, a rubber band around the flopping right sole. I could, and did, wear them shopping now, but the rubber band would slip off, and even on the left shoe, my toes would slide off the sole. So more permanent repairs were in order.
I first used a small amount of double back tape at the instep to stick the sole back on. That initially worked, but came loose. So I glued the instep back on. For now, I didn't glue the toe of the right shoe, or the heels, or the rest of the sides, I like them just repaired enough to stay on my feet. My toes comfortably hang over the edges of the very thin soles, which fold up nicely if I push my toes down to the ground.
I think I'll keep wearing them just like they are, minimally repaired.
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1st attempt at photoshop for disintegrate effect:
GH4
12-35mm F2.8
Bowers Flash w/ Cactus Softbox
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Following the brief Soviet-Japanese War in 1939, numerous flaws were discovered in the Red Army's mainstay T-26 light tanks: their gasoline engines were too prone to explosions and the armor tended to disintegrate under relatively light Japanese antitank fire. Soviet tank designer Mikhail Koshkin was already working on a medium tank design to replace the T-26, and convinced Stalin to allow further work on the project, which was designated T-34. Despite resistance from the Red Army (which insisted there was nothing wrong with the T-26 and preferred the KV-1 heavy tank), the T-34 entered service in 1940.
When Nazi Germany invaded the USSR in 1941, the appearance of the T-34 took them completely by surprise. Unlike the heavy French Char series, which were slow and unwieldy, the T-34 was fast and mobile, operating in areas the Germans thought impassable for medium tanks. Shells from German 37mm and 50mm guns bounced off the T-34's armor. The only guns the Germans had that could knock out a T-34 were 88mms, and there were only so many to go around. In contrast, the T-34's 76mm gun could defeat any German tank in 1941. Captured T-34s revealed the strength of the tank: its wide tracks and hull gave it better purchase in the mud common to the Russian steppe, and its sloped armor increased armor protection without adding weight. The overall result was a superb blend of speed, protection and armament, the three factors central to tank development. This was not to say the T-34 was perfect: the small turret meant that the commander had to act as both gunner and commander, which could easily result in him becoming too busy; T-34 platoon commanders could not effectively direct their units due to poor optics and a lack of radios. The 76mm was also slow to load.
Nonetheless, the T-34 was such a shock to the Germans that plans were undertaken to counter it, which led to the Panther and Tiger series. The Russians were not idle, however, and began an upgrade of the T-34, with a redesigned turret that allowed for a dedicated gunner, and a relocated radio that allowed the tank commander to communicate with other tanks. The gun was upgraded to an 85mm, resulting in the unofficial designation T-34/85. These retained the mobility and speed of the T-34/76, and would carry the Red Army to Berlin, even if it was still notorious for breakdowns. Though the T-34 series was becoming obsolete by late 1944, the USSR chose not to attempt to replace it to keep production at full speed; 85,000 were produced, second only to its successor, the T-55.
Even after the war, T-34s were common sights. The US Army fought North Korean and Chinese T-34s in the Korean War, while Israeli Shermans and Centurions faced them throughout the Arab-Israeli Wars. T-34s were still seen in action as late as the 1990s.
This view of a T-34/85 at the Evergreen Aviation Museum shows the tank's profile, and the somewhat nose-heavy look of the later 85mm equipped T-34s. It also shows the "shot trap" beneath the turret--a shot there could either blow the turret off, or deflect downward and kill the driver. The museum has two T-34s in their collection (both T-34/85s), but for some reason, there is almost no evidence as to where the museum got these tanks.
"The Space Probe Disintegration" -- Wolowitz tries to distract Raj, who is anxiously awaiting data from a space probe he helped launch, on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, Jan. 8 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Melissa Rauch Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS é2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
These Puma Mostros have been my go to shoes for some years. I've worn them for long hikes, wading in a river, for home construction projects, to work, you name it. And they have been slowly disintegrating for years. The original outersoles hardened, crumbled and have been flaking off since shortly after I got them. For the last few years the glue holding the uppers to the now super thin soles has been slowly failing. I've resisted repairs, although a year ago I reglued the tip of the toe on the left shoe back as the sole was flopping and I was tripping over it.
Several weeks ago, the tip of the right sole came unglued, but not so much, so it didn't cause a problem walking. So I left it like that, in the earlier pictures here you can see how nice and flexible the very thin soles are. My toes would comfortably hang over the unglued edges.
One day, just as I finished shopping, the rest of the adhesive on the right shoe failed, the sole was dangling, held on by the strap on the inside. But if I walked carefully, I could still wear them. Within a couple of hours, the left sole came unglued also, but did not dangle because it was still glued at the toe where I had earlier repaired it.
Now I still wore them around the house, but the sole flopped too much to wear outside. So I did a temporary repair, a rubber band around the flopping right sole. I could, and did, wear them shopping now, but the rubber band would slip off, and even on the left shoe, my toes would slide off the sole. So more permanent repairs were in order.
I first used a small amount of double back tape at the instep to stick the sole back on. That initially worked, but came loose. So I glued the instep back on. For now, I didn't glue the toe of the right shoe, or the heels, or the rest of the sides, I like them just repaired enough to stay on my feet. My toes comfortably hang over the edges of the very thin soles, which fold up nicely if I push my toes down to the ground.
I think I'll keep wearing them just like they are, minimally repaired.
These were one of the many pair of sneakers I purchased in the late 1990's when a sneaker chain near here folded and sold their remaining stock for a few dollars a pair. Most of them have fallen apart, but these were still in good condition until about a year ago when the air sacks crumbled. No problem, I actually find airless Nike airless air sneakers more fun to wear. Actually, after a few minutes I don't even notice the difference.
Anyway, the soles had started to crack. Then I wore them to a trade show, and the heel of the outersole on one sneaker came detached from the air sack and was dragging on the floor as I walked. I had to borrow some duct tape from an exhibitor to make a repair. I intended to glue the heel back on, but I've worn these from time to time since, and the duct tape is still holding.
When I started my walk, the Shox on one side were a little loose, but then they completely tore loose, and by the time I dragged them home, the other side was coming loose.
I am trying to decide what to do? Glue them back together (I do kind of like these)? Do a quick repair, perhaps with some wire to keep them from flopping so far, trying to keep wearing them as they are (not easy, the Shox keep flopping all the way under my toes as I walk), or tearing the Shox off completely and wearing them with no heels (as I've done with a couple of other pair of disintegrating Nikes.)
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An update, I "repaired" the flopping heel with a piece of wire under it tied through the unused lace holes. That limited the amount of "flop" to make them wearable again. A most interesting feeling as the Shox units slip sideways out one side or the other. But now I see the sole on one side holding the Shox heel to the front of the shoe has cracked through, only the other side is holding it on.
I'll keep wearing them around the house like this, but think I'll have to do a more solid repair before wearing them outside, unless I must decide to let the Shox heel part fall off completely. We'll see.
When I started my walk, the Shox on one side were a little loose, but then they completely tore loose, and by the time I dragged them home, the other side was coming loose.
I am trying to decide what to do? Glue them back together (I do kind of like these)? Do a quick repair, perhaps with some wire to keep them from flopping so far, trying to keep wearing them as they are (not easy, the Shox keep flopping all the way under my toes as I walk), or tearing the Shox off completely and wearing them with no heels (as I've done with a couple of other pair of disintegrating Nikes.)
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An update, I "repaired" the flopping heel with a piece of wire under it tied through the unused lace holes. That limited the amount of "flop" to make them wearable again. A most interesting feeling as the Shox units slip sideways out one side or the other. But now I see the sole on one side holding the Shox heel to the front of the shoe has cracked through, only the other side is holding it on.
I'll keep wearing them around the house like this, but think I'll have to do a more solid repair before wearing them outside, unless I must decide to let the Shox heel part fall off completely. We'll see.