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 [...]

Published by admin on June 22nd, 2007 tagged Shoefiti Theories | Comment now »

Shoefiti Strikes Pittsburgh, PA

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Published by admin on June 21st, 2007 tagged General | Comment now »

Flipperfiti

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 the person [...]

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 [...]

Published by admin on June 13th, 2007 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »