Archive for April, 2007
Shoefiti Strikes Houston, Texas
A Houston, TX photographer captured a great photo of shoefiti, and included the following commentary: Shoefiti « xnomad photography There are quite a few shoes flung in the innner loop neighborhoods. They are usually in low income regions of these inner city neighborhoods. If shoefiti’s correlated with low-income regions, it has the potential to effect [...]
Published by admin on April 13th, 2007 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Shoefiti Crops up Where Government Failed in New Orleans
Nineteen months after Katrina. Nineteen months after promises were made to rebuild New Orleans, sections of the Ninth Ward remain in shambles. But one thing has cropped up: shoes hanging from the power lines. Bevvie Tales: How’s New Orleans Doing? 19 months after Hurricane Katrina I went on what my friend calls the destruction tour [...]
Published by admin on April 12th, 2007 tagged Shoe Sightings, Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
Shoefiti Marks Drug Dealing in Canton, Ohio
The Canton Repository ran an article on April 5th, where a Canton police sergeant explained that shoes hanging from power lines are a sign that illegal drugs are for sale nearby: Shoes over wires: Could signify drugs, cause power outage Don’t pound the “for sale” sign into your front lawn just yet. That pair of [...]
Published by admin on April 11th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti in the Press, Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
Movie: Sandlot Features Shoefiti
I haven’t seen the movie, but from the sound of things, it featured a scene with shoefiti: Nats Blog: The Sandlot Wow, the Sandlot is a very old movie. So is the Sandlot 2. They left both in the dust until around 2004, 2005. Then they decided to continue on the story left off from [...]
Published by admin on April 10th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Rural Shoefiti Just Teenage Fun
An Arizona resident recalls his attempts to throw shoes over power lines as a teen: Dubious Maxims: The Shoe Monologue I can understand the pair of shoes hung over the telephone pole. What teenager growing up in a rural area hasn’t tied the shoelaces of an old pair of sneakers together and tried to toss [...]
Published by admin on April 9th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
Shoefiti is a Dignified way to Say Shoe Flinging
A Creswell, Oregon, reporter covering the outbreak of shoefiti in her city explains that the term, “shoefiti” is more dignified than “shoe flinging”: The Creswell Chronicle in Creswell, Oregon – Community News and Visitor Information Consistent with national trends, a rather strange phenomenon is becoming more common in the state of Oregon. Though a fairly [...]
Published by admin on April 8th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
Shoefiti Inspires Chicago Artist
A Chicago artists created an exhibit called, “THROWN SHOES: EXTINCTION OF A GHETTO ARTIST” based on shoes hanging from wires: ENTORNO: GRASS GROWS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE Stating this, my installation work calls for people to recognize the “foundation” before we will “extinct” it. If we are to go forward in the area of [...]
Published by admin on April 7th, 2007 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Shoefiti Marks Where Drugs are Sold
Can you trust a blogging drug dealer? If so, here is what sneakers hanging from telephone wires means – at least in Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque Drug Dealer: Sneakers hanging from telephone wires For all you folks out there who don’t know what it means when you see some tennis shoes hanging from the power [...]
Published by admin on April 6th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
Shoefiti’s Effect on Property Values
Ashyknees includes shoes handing from phone wires among her factors in assessing a location’s value: Ashyknees’ Time Killer: Less Arrgg Signs that the location will not be a “good investment”: more than one storefront church per block more than one pair of athletic shoes dangling from the phone wires young man on porch is already [...]
Published by admin on April 5th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
Shoefiti Test of Air Purity?
The Terrorism and the Mafia blog explains that unevenly hung shoes from powerlines can symbolize “air” that is impure: Terrorism and the Mafia These two symbols appear to be the origin of the sign of the sports shoes hanging from overhead telephone lines or other electrical wires. It appears to be a Masonic sign. Someone [...]