Archive for September, 2005
Shoefiti Strikes New Zealand
A woman in New Zealand has discovered shoefiti in her “rural countryside town” and has heard second hand that it signals a nearby tinny house (explained below): What is happening to our lovely little rural countryside town we live in? Have you ever driven along the road and seen a pair of shoes hanging off [...]
Published by admin on September 30th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoefiti Sighting in Philly
A blogger from the University of Pennsylvania notes seeing a pair of shoes hanging from a telephone and/or power lines during a spring walk around Philadelphia: Anyways, in no particular order, some images and signs I ran across: A man with a lit cigarette, and presumably his young young daughter (5-ish? ) walking beside him. [...]
Published by admin on September 30th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | 1 Comment »
Wilkes-Barre Gang Activity? What do the Shoes Tell Us?
Can cliques be gangs? Or are gangs a form of cliques? Beats me. Based on my reading the news story below from the Times Leader, I don’t think this Wilkes Barre, PA community has much of a gang problem. Dana George, who is entering her senior year at the high school, said there Òcould be [...]
Published by admin on September 29th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
When is Shoefiti almost certainly not Gang or Drug Related?
A woman blogging her summer motorcycle trip across the desert from Sherman Oaks, CA to Flagstaff, AZ, mentions spotting shoes hanging from a smoke tree near Amboy, CA. Lookie there, it’s the World Famous Bagdad Cafe, ratty and run-down yet still open for business, apparently. It’s worth stopping for a picture. Just outside of Amboy, [...]
Published by admin on September 28th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoefiti vs. a Llama Walking Down the Street: Hmmmmmmm
If you were walking down the street and spotted a pair of shoes hanging from a telephone wire, would you stop to ponder who may have thrown them up there, and why? If yes, would seeing a woman walking a llama down the street distract you? Apparently, it’s enough to distract one Wisconsin man: Growing [...]
Published by admin on September 27th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoefiti Reaches Buenos Aires, Argentina
A blogger from Buenos Aires mentions in a post that she’s heard of a shoefiti problem in a district of her city: In Plaza Miserere, according to Austin, there are several pairs of shoes hung over telephone and electric wires. Then later notices some Nike Shoefiti as reported to her by her friend: However, today [...]
Published by admin on September 27th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoefiti is North of the Border too: Vancouver, BC
Wade of Wade’s CyberPlace has been wondering about this Hanging Shoes thing too, and decided to snap a few photos of shoefiti for his blog.Wade, too, has more questions than answers about why they’re there. Interestingly, he also found shoes in an alley in Vancouver. What’s with alley shoefiti? It’s far from the most prominent [...]
Published by admin on September 26th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Xcel Energy Deserves a Break?
While shoefiti falls down the priority list a few notches below dealing with power outages, watching Xcel Energy’s response to the current outages caused by a storm a full five days ago helps explain why they’re so slow to respond to shoefiti. It’s four days and counting for thousands of Twin Cities residents still without [...]
Published by admin on September 26th, 2005 tagged General | Comment now »
Shoefiti Spotted in Missouri
Another example of shoefiti being associated with blight. This time by someone visiting Missouri. “How was MO? I’ll sum it up:Shitty roads, masonginistic road signs, supposedly crooked Amish, spare tire on the railroad tracks, pairs of shoes hanging from power lines, Confederate flag with the phrase “Git er done” written on it, dilapidated buildings, rusted [...]
Published by admin on September 25th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Update on Changes to Shoefiti.com
Shoefiti.com is less than two weeks old, but has already undergone a series of changes in an attempt to make the site more user friendly: RSS Feeds: you can now view Shoefiti.com using your favorite feed reader. This is an easy way to keep up to date without having to stop by our site to [...]