Archive for January, 2006
A Love Story Mentioning Hanging Shoes
Mara of ideaofthememory mentions shoes hanging on power lines in a story about clowns and ballerinas:
“Greeley has shoes hanging on power lines and I think about the feet that went into those shoes and all the places they could have possibly been.”
Published by admin on January 31st, 2006 tagged General | Comment now »
A follow-up from Ned Nederlander on Hanging Shoes
Ned Nederlander jumps into the Shoefiti issue in BC:
The deal with the shoe pictues is that there are many pairs of shoes
hanging around mount doug school and between there and UVic. I always
wonder how they got there. Are they cast-offs that somebody didn’t want
anymore? Did some poor kid have his gym shoes stolen? We’ll never [...]
Published by admin on January 29th, 2006 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Hanging Shoes have a Story to Tell?
The 3 Amigos Sector uses hanging shoes as filler when they run out of other material:
Published by admin on January 29th, 2006 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Hanging Shoes Mark Murder Locations?
A student in Canada (not sure where, but it sounds like somewhere in BC) explains what shoes on an electrical wire signify:
Did you know that if you see a pair of
shoes hanging on a electrical wire it means someone in the near
proximity has been murdered? Apparently this is true and there has been
2 killings since [...]
Published by admin on January 28th, 2006 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | 1 Comment »
A Hanging Shoes Competition
A blogger in Leamington Spa, UK, has decided to run a contest to see how many shoes could be hung from a wire before someone removes them. He was inspired by the shoes he saw there and decide to take things to another level.
For a bit of fun, I�m proposing a sweepstake on how many [...]
Published by admin on January 27th, 2006 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Shoefiti Strikes San Francisco
Shoes hanging froom a power line in San Francisco’s Glen Park. The photographer associates the shoes with drug dealing and ghettos in their post on Flickr. Anyone familiar enough with Glen Park to know if that’s the case?
Published by admin on January 25th, 2006 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Dangling Shoes in Washington, DC
A pair of dangling shoes in Washington, DC hanging from a street sign are said to memorialize a murdered local:
Published by admin on January 23rd, 2006 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Hanging Shoes in Los Angeles
You know you’re from Los Angeles when…:
The three hour traffic jam you just sat through wasn’t caused by a
horrific 9 car pile-up, but by everyone slowing to rubberneck at a lost
shoe lying on the shoulder.Half the power lines here also has shoes hanging from them.
Hat tip vulpyful.
Published by admin on January 22nd, 2006 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoefiti Strikes Israel
Even the high security in Israel isn’t enough to protect against shoefiti:
Source
Published by admin on January 21st, 2006 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Eternal Enigma Of The Dangling Shoes
The rabbit + crow blog hasn’t resolved the eternal enigma that is dangling shoes yet either.
Click for a photo.