Archive for June, 2007
Shoefiti as a Tribute to a Band that Rocks Hard
If a band throws down hard in a live performance, should they be honored by throwing shoes over a powerline as a memorial to their awesome performance?
There Should Be Pairs of Shoes Hung From Wires in Memorial
So, uh, where were you last night at around 10:20 p.m.? What’s that, not at the Pour House? [...]
Published by admin on June 22nd, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
Shoefiti Strikes Pittsburgh, PA
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, originally uploaded by simple pleasure.
Shoes hang from a line near Immaculate Heart of Mary church on Polish Hill in Pittsburgh. Great shot, simple pleasure.
Published by admin on June 21st, 2007 tagged General | Comment now »
Flipperfiti
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Shoes? On Powerlines, originally uploaded by kmikeym.
It’s not clear from the Flickr posting of this flippers version of shoefiti where this photo was taken, but I think it’s safe to assume it wasn’t Nebraska or [...]
Published by admin on June 20th, 2007 tagged General | Comment now »
Shoefiti = The Ghetto?
Wirthless5502 correlated shoes hanging from electrical wires iwth the ghetto in a recent post on his LiveJournal blog:
wirthless5502 - The Adoptee
However they didn’t light up the old lady. They merely went from house to house, into the confines of the neighborhood to attempt to stash themselves away into the crack-house like homes in my [...]
Published by admin on June 20th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
Shoefiti Strikes Portland, Oregon
Jay Lichtman has captured a great photo of shoes hanging from a powerline in Portland, Oregon.
Published by admin on June 19th, 2007 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Shoes Hanging in Poems
Oyshtiknakhes starts a poem on his blog with a shoefiti reference.
Blog message of oyshtiknakhes on Netlog
Dear woman, whom I love
not any longer, have you ever seen
a pair of tennis shoes hanging from a leafless tree
in a student neighborhood, in autumn, overlooking
crushed beer cans and torn sofas?
Click through to find out how this turns [...]
Published by admin on June 18th, 2007 tagged Shoes in Trees | Comment now »
Shoefiti and Gangs in Philadelphia
Old MD Girl gives her take on shoefiti in the Philadelphia area:
The long road to medical school: Choleliths
In other news, ever since I learned that hanging pairs of shoes from telephone lines is a gang sign, I keep seeing fresh pairs of shoes hanging from various lines on my walk to school. As much [...]
Published by admin on June 17th, 2007 tagged Shoe Sightings, Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »
A California Shoe Tree
A group on a motorcycle tour spotted a shoe tree on a trip from Eureka to Napa, California.
Published by admin on June 16th, 2007 tagged Shoes in Trees | Comment now »
Jessica’s Shoefiti Theories
Jessica’s MySpace page offers a great brainstorm of shoefiti theories:
blog.myspace.com/mizkempka
Is this some teenager’s way of getting Mom to buy a new pair of sneakers? Was someone shoe jacked? Is there someone, working for the power company, whose sole job is to REMOVE tennis shoes from power lines? And….most importantly, why isn’t [...]
Published by admin on June 15th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Theories | 1 Comment »
Shoefiti Artist Caught in the Act in Berkeley, California
Fish on Land has a first-hand account of watching a shoefiti artist at work in Berkely, CA earlier this month:
Fish on Land: Write Away
Earlier this week, after a morning appointment, I was walking down a busy street in Berkeley. A young and seriously out of shape guy with a floppy mop of hair walked [...]