Archive for December, 2005
Shoefiti Strikes Hoboken, NY. Video Proof
Peter Van Dijck shot a video blog of his time in Hoboken, NY on February 6th, 2005. Shoes on powerlines perplexed the vlogger, who stated that it appears to be a common thing in NYC, but doesn’t know the story behind it:
Comments on his site lean toward drug dealling. Check the link above to view [...]
Published by admin on December 7th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoes and Shoes on Wires. Coincidental?
The Comb in the Urinal and Other Perplexities of Life, by Thomas J. Neviaser, raises questions about shoes on power lines on Page 91:
As we stopped at a stop sign, I noticed a pair of paten leather shoes tied securely together hanging from a telephone or electrical wire crossing the street. I mentioned the unusual [...]
Published by admin on December 5th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoes on Phone Lines are Ghetto Advertisement?
Stephen J. Cannell, a former writer/producer for The Rockford Files, Baretta, and The Commish, provides an answer to the tennis shoes on phone lines issue in his novel, Riding the Snake on page 293:
“That’s my nephew LaFrance’s glass-house Impala out front. He’s a kitchen-table drug dealer and a big family problem. Those tennis shoes hanging [...]
Published by admin on December 4th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Seriously Deep Insights into the Meaning of Shoefiti
Redirecting the Gaze: Gender, Theory, and Cinema in the Third World, by Diana Robin and Ira Jaffe takes a seriously deep look at what shoes hanging from powerlines may mean:
“Shoes hanging from city wires” is a vivid illustartion of New Wave polysemy. Rather than attempting to deconstruct the ritual to retrieve a particular meaning, I [...]
Published by admin on December 2nd, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
In the City of Shy Hunters walks the streets of New York
In the City of Shy Hunters, a novel by Tom Spanbauer, mentions shoes on telephone wires on page 352 where a group walks the streets of NYC:
Up Avenue A, Harry and I were following the MacIlvane men. Margo and Fiona werwe arm in arem, in the lead.Connecticut Matron meets Leather Queen.On all the street corners, [...]
Published by admin on December 2nd, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoes on Lampposts Mark Deaths in New York City?
Page 107 of The Rough Guide to New York City explains how rough things were in the early 1980’s, including a reference to shoes on lampposts:
Like Tompkins Square Park, this was not long ago a notoriously unsafe corner of town, run by drug pushers and gangsters, with cars lining up for fixes in the street, [...]