Last summer, I was interviewed for an Australian film about Shoefiti (shoes hanging from powerlines) called The Mystery of Flying Kicks. The film now exists and had a showing at South by Southwest back in March. I received a DVD of it from Adelaide this week. Sure enough, I’m in it: Here’s the trailer: The [...]
I decided to take my Run Minneapolis project to North Minneapolis on Saturday with The Other Mike. We ventured to the Western end of 26th Ave N where it meets Theodore Wirth Parkway where kids push their dads down sledding hills. From there, we headed East on 26th past Amazing Oriental Supermarket (live bait). We [...]
Shoefiti is a worldwide phenomenon. We spotted shoes hanging from powerlines near the airport in Montevideo, and in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thanks to Katie for the photo help.
I can count on my friend Dusty Olson checking in from time to time from some cool location with a quick voicemail. For example, I mentioned on here a little over a week ago that I was quoted in a newspaper in Newark about Shoefiti. It turns out that the Newark story received quite a [...]
For those of you who follow shoefiti as closely as I do (LOL) it should come as no surprise to hear that Newark, New Jersey has a shoefiti problem on their hands. I had a chance to discuss New Jersey’s shoefiti issue with a reporter from The Star Ledger last week for an article that [...]
Shoefiti was covered by Charlottesville, Virginia’s Daily Progress newspaper: ‘Shoefiti’ phenomenon has no clear answer Ed Kohler is the creator of shoefiti.com, a Web site that tracks shoefiti across the country and world. He says he created the term in 2005, after noticing shoes on utility lines near his Minneapolis, Minn., home. Nobody’s ever been [...]
Very cool: Word Spy – shoefiti shoefiti (shoo.FEE.tee) n. One or more pairs of shoes tied together by the laces and dangling from a powerline or other type of overhead wire. And they even called shoefiti.com “oddly compelling,” which pretty much nails it.
Shoefiti.com got some press in the Lawrence Journal-World today. Laces wild | LJWorld.com That’s the same question Ed Kohler’s been pondering seriously for three years. After he bought his first home in Minneapolis in 2004, he started noticing that a lot of shoes seemed to be popping up on power lines in his neighborhood. Long [...]
IMG_0097.JPG, originally uploaded by edkohler. Jeremy snapped this shot in Sunnyvale, CA just after sunset. Don’t worry, we weren’t hanging out waiting for perfect light. Shoefiti.com is undergoing some serious upgrades. I’m shooting for having it back online by the end of the year. BTW, it looks like the term I coined is catching on. [...]
