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Shoefiti Strikes Midtown Manhattan
We continue working through shoe reports from the boroughs. Today’s update comes from Midtown Manhattan via The Known Universe:
While walking in Midtown the other day, I saw a pair of dangling sneakers and wondered whether or not I should take a picture of them. I�ve taken a lot of dangling shoe [...]
Published by admin on November 4th, 2005 tagged General | Comment now »
Shoes Hanging from a wire at the University of North Texas
Shoefiti strikes the University of North Texas. A PhD student at UNT documented the case near the Colosium on campus:
He’s not getting worked up in a frenzy about the shoes, but does theorize that some shoes that went missing from his porch could have, “suffered a similar fate.”
Published by admin on October 27th, 2005 tagged General | Comment now »
Shoefiti = Drug Sales in Northern Idaho?
The Blondest Brunette (aka. Alaina ) comments on what sounds like seminar by a local cop visiting a university campus reminding students to drink safe:
First,
humurously, there is a member of Post Fall’s Finest (here to serve and
to protect ), telling us how to rob a bank, and the code behind shoes
hanging on a telephone wire [...]
Published by admin on October 4th, 2005 tagged General | Comment now »
Shoefiti Mapping Update
I’m currently experiencing some technical difficulties with our shoefiti map, so I’ve temporarily removed it from the homepage. Click here to view the map. It’s working better with Firefox browsers than Internet Explorer, so if you don’t have Firefox yet, here’s one more reason to get it.
Twin Cities visitors: The motivation behind shoefiti.com wasn’t as [...]
Published by admin on October 2nd, 2005 tagged General | Comment now »
Xcel Energy Deserves a Break?
While shoefiti falls down the priority list a few notches below dealing with power outages, watching Xcel Energy’s response to the current outages caused by a storm a full five days ago helps explain why they’re so slow to respond to shoefiti.
It’s four days and counting for thousands of Twin Cities residents
still without electricity [...]
Published by admin on September 26th, 2005 tagged General | Comment now »
Update on Changes to Shoefiti.com
Shoefiti.com is less than two weeks old, but has already undergone a series
of changes in an attempt to make the site more user friendly:
RSS Feeds: you can now view Shoefiti.com using your favorite
feed reader. This is an easy way to keep up to date without having to stop
[...]
Published by admin on September 25th, 2005 tagged General | Comment now »
Welcome to Shoefiti.com
Welcome to Shoefiti.com. This site will attempt to be the #1 resource on the web for dealing with shoes hanging from powerlines. Sounds crazy? Well, sure, but there are a few good reasons to do so. The most important being the association shoes hanging from powerlines have with blight. If this site can help people [...]