"Just as graffiti or street art, “shoeffiti” (hanging used trainers1 from overhead telephone and electric cables around town) has gone global. There’s been a lot of talk about what it means. Whether it came about to mark out turf, to flag hotspots, the sale of drugs, the death of a gang member or just as a fetishized homage to some jaunt, for me, isn’t so important. But ... it’s turned out to be the new urban metaphor.
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Greenery grows. Life within shoes.... Greenery as metaphor for the path ahead."
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artist: Fragil
location: Barcelona
i've been struggling to find out what this is, or who it's by... i'm pretty sure it's not skewville, and i've checked with berd, it's not him. either way, i like it
Hanging boobs by Chubby Boob, who proclaims '2009, Year of the Boob'.
artist: ?? let me know Chubby Boob (flickr)
location: various places around Los Angeles; this one is La Cienega & 3rd St.
mystery solved courtesy of 455er - thanks!