Shoe knows

Shoe knows
Matthew Bate obsession with the sneakers he frequently saw hanging from overhead wires began innocently enough as he wandered the streets of New York City on a 2006 holiday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
At every other intersection and street corner, whenever he looked up, there seemed to be another pair of shoes swaying gently in the breeze. Who put them there,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he wondered, and what did they mean?
Bate,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a filmmaker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], began to ask locals for their theories. Then he searched the internet where he found an extraordinary number of blogs devoted to the phenomenon some have dubbed .
By the time Bate arrived in the of shoefiti San Francisco he begun to ignore his long-suffering girlfriend in favour of documenting hanging shoes in a thousand different photographs.
a beautiful image, he says, sipping a cup of espresso in his Goodwood kitchen. an incongruous image too because here this thing that made to exist on the Earth and there it is hanging in the sky. I liked the idea there was more to it than just some kid throwing them up. The theories explaining why cover the great themes of murder, sex, death, politics and art. subsequent investigation became an award- winning short documentary, The Mystery of Flying Kicks. Rather than travel the globe in search of information, he decided to get others to bring the information to him. He set up a flash looking website with a teaser trailer and a free Skype hotline, and then posted messages on sneaker-freak sites and web radio shows with names like Obsessive Sneaker Disorder. Essentially he put out the call for people to submit their theories, footage and photos. never actually wanted to answer the question, he says, speaking in the kind of philosophical manner you might expect from a man with a vaguely trendy haircut and who dresses entirely in black. like: what the meaning of life? 42 is not the meaning of life,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it a lot more complex. of people before Bake have attempted to find the reason for the shoes on the wires,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the phenomenon has clearly exercised a great deal more thought and time by otherwise intelligent members of society than it should have. The Scottish believe it the result of young men celebrating after relieving themselves of their virginity, while in some parts of NSW it reportedly a buck night tradition in which the groom gets hammered and attempts to repeat the phrase the galosh three times in quick succession. If he can he has to perform the trick and spend the rest of the night sans shoes.
There are many tales of bullies who steal the shoes of smaller children and throw them over wires as an act of intimidation while in the US military the tradition is said to announce the end of basic training, a new posting or of leaving the service. In the sillier backwaters of America, some people claim with a straight face that shoefiti is evidence of alien abductions. Apparently, UFO tractor beams don work properly on sneakers so they drop off and wrap around overhead wires (although this doesn explain how the laces get tied together first.)
Anecodotal evidence suggests that Adelaide residents are no different to the rest of the world in that the most commonly cited explanation for shoefiti is that it a type of street denoting a purveyor of illicit herbs and medicines.
classic theory is the sneakers represent someone who is selling drugs, says Bate. Some go so far to suggest the colour of the sneaker denotes which type of drug is on offer. Of course, the logical problem with this theory is that if drug-addled users can work out the symbolic meaning of the sneakers, so too can the police. For this reason,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], drug dealers have traditionally been loath to advertise.
Bate believes the drug dealing theory may have been true in a specific location at a certain time. He theorises that it entirely possible that in 1974,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in a particular suburb of Los Angeles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there may well have been a shady looking character selling crack to street urchins underneath a pair of swinging pink Chuck Taylor All-Stars. The story then probably spread from suburb to suburb, city to city, country to country until the entire world believed it to be true. to work tomorrow and ask people, advises Bate. say drug dealers. is exactly what they said. what people say because they heard it from friends,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or in newspapers, or on radio,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he says. it becomes true. It interesting how truth becomes myth becomes legend. />In some parts of the world, shoefiti is a signifier of gang territory or a marker of organised crime. you in Brooklyn and you see a purple and gold Puma Klein, you know you in Decepticon territory,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said one caller to Bate Skype hotline.
In Argentina and Spain, the hanging shoes are symbols of the Mafia. have a gentleman agreement with the local cops that if the gangsters toss up these sneakers in a particular neighbourhood,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that a sign for the cops to stay away so they can get on with their nefarious activities, says Bate.
Given such associations it no surprise that shoefiti has become a potent symbol of urban decay in the US. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn declared war on shoefiti,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], proudly boasting in a newsletter to residents in early 2003 that council workers had removed 800 pairs from the East LA area.
LA residents fear these shoes indicate the sites at which drugs are sold or worse yet, gang turf, read Hahn newsletter, next to a photograph of the Mayor on a cherry picker removing shoefiti. the case may be, people are often frightened and intimidated by the sight . They are a blight to the community. The Mystery of Flying Kicks isn the first time that wire-hanging sneakers have appeared on the big screen. In Tim Burton Big Fish,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], protagonist Edward Bloom loses his shoes to a girl called Jenny Hill. She doesn want him to leave town, and tosses his sneakers over a telephone wire. In the satirical war film Wag the Dog, a public relations firm co-opts the practice and pretends it a spontaneous mass cultural outpouring of emotion in tribute to Sgt William Schumann (Woody Harrelson) who has supposedly been shot down behind enemy lines in Albania.
It turns out the whole thing is invented as part of a campaign to distract the public from a presidential sex scandal. And in Australian documentary maker George Gittoes Rampage, shoefiti is used as a tribute to a fallen comrade. After the funeral of rapper Marcus Lovett his brothers toss his sneakers up on to a wire outside their home and pour beer out onto the ground.
Bate believes the deeper significance of shoefiti lies in a reaction to mortality and the human condition. want to leave their mark on the world and so they tag a bus shelter or they create a great work of art or they make a film or they have children, he says. want to leave some reminder that they existed on this planet and I think that a very beautiful and poetic way of thinking about why people toss up sneakers on telephone wires. pauses a moment and then laughs at the absurdity of speaking so philosophically about the deeper meaning of sneakers hanging from wire. But that not to say he doesn think it true.
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