A friend who lived in a barrio in Houston once told me it was in memory of someone who had left the neighborhood. Never seen it with boots though. Heh.
Yeah people do this in Ireland to advertise the fact that they sell drugs…though it’s a bit odd to have the stilletto boots there. Usually it’s am old pair of Nike Air runners…hm, L. O. L. I guess it shall remain a mysetery
I live there! LOL! there is no mystery! It’s because of the Tim Burton’s film Big Fish. Malasaña is a very indie-style neightborhood, so people do this kind of things, isn´t it lovely? everybody who leaves the street hangs a pair of shoes on the wire, just to be remembered.
Greetings from Madrid!
I live there and somebody told me that it was a fashion in USA in the 70’s and now it´s in Spain. It’s an artistic expresion, street art, like graffitis for example…
I’ve seen Big Fish, but even before that in America it’s pretty common for kids to do – bullies beat up kids and steal their shoes and throw them up over the power lines. You can see kids tennis shoes everywhere around here.
I doubt that’s the case with the stiletto boots though 🙂
I recently read about this in a magazine and the many popular urban myths are:
-the drug dealer
-the bucks‘ do
-the loss of virginity
-the jilted wife/girlfriend
-the gang turf marker
-the disposal method
-the memorial
-the art installation (Y)
This is done in some places America when someone dies, too. A kind of memorial, but it’s become a trend nowadays for kids to throw sneakers up there just because.
Hola, nose como llegue hasta aca pero me llama muchisimo la atencion la foto, no se donde es tomada la foto ni nada.. pero aca en argentina las zapatillas colgadas representan que hay un vendedor de drogas cerca!
besos !
there´s a common expression un mexico that can be traduced to „hung up your sneakers“ which means you died. and in some poor areas in mexico when a member of the gang dies all of the members of the gang thow their sneakers to the phone or light cables in memoriam to his partner.
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38 Kommentare
KommentierenI think people who do not like their shoes anymore, will throw them up
high-fashion crack dealing?
These pictures reminds me of a story called „till eulenspiegel“(the fourth of 96 histories).
It was just my first impression, I dont know 🙂
I think this was a tradition. A way to wish for things. If the shoe ever fell, the wish would become true, or something..
Maby they have smelly feet:)
A friend who lived in a barrio in Houston once told me it was in memory of someone who had left the neighborhood. Never seen it with boots though. Heh.
i’ve already seen it in Lisbon, too!!
maybe there’s food for birds in them 🙂
This has been done for years in America–or at least in Baltimore, where I am. Kids do it as a prank. The Spanish may have other reasons.
Yeah people do this in Ireland to advertise the fact that they sell drugs…though it’s a bit odd to have the stilletto boots there. Usually it’s am old pair of Nike Air runners…hm, L. O. L. I guess it shall remain a mysetery
*mystery.
look out: http://www.shoefiti.com/
yeah, this usually means there’s a dealer close by. Slightly unorthodox choice of footwear though?!
I`ve seen it in Flensburg (Germany) also. It were lots of sneaker hanging there… But aktually no idea what´s about it…
I live there! LOL! there is no mystery! It’s because of the Tim Burton’s film Big Fish. Malasaña is a very indie-style neightborhood, so people do this kind of things, isn´t it lovely? everybody who leaves the street hangs a pair of shoes on the wire, just to be remembered.
Greetings from Madrid!
I think you should loof for the man of the subway…
It’s pretty common here in Mexico too… Kids do it for fun… However, the boots are another story…
drug deal!!
I read somewhere it’s to show where your turf is. Maybe with regards to drug dealing I don’t know but i see them around in Australia too.
http://weheartit.com/images/thumbs/20090208223221.jpg
It’s from Big Fish, Tim Burton Film.
There is actually invisible people in the boots. Its fun to spin around and around and around and around….and around…
Unfortunately in Vancouver that usually means a spot where drugs are dealt..so maybe the boots are from someone mocking that?
They sell drugs in there. That´s what I´ve heard in my country… :@
its used by gangs…they shoes belong to the people they killed
http://dagfari.de/blog/2008/02/21/schuhe-im-baum/
i have heard that it comes from brazil and indicates there are drug dealers. we have it here in tel aviv as well.
Sorry sweetie, I live in Brasil and there’s no such thing as throwing your shoes to indicate something o.o you should read Eugenia’s comment
I live there and somebody told me that it was a fashion in USA in the 70’s and now it´s in Spain. It’s an artistic expresion, street art, like graffitis for example…
I’ve seen Big Fish, but even before that in America it’s pretty common for kids to do – bullies beat up kids and steal their shoes and throw them up over the power lines. You can see kids tennis shoes everywhere around here.
I doubt that’s the case with the stiletto boots though 🙂
The pictures are lovely.
I recently read about this in a magazine and the many popular urban myths are:
-the drug dealer
-the bucks‘ do
-the loss of virginity
-the jilted wife/girlfriend
-the gang turf marker
-the disposal method
-the memorial
-the art installation (Y)
makes me think of tim burton’s big fish !
Either Smell repeller, or Bullying 😀
Here in Argentina is common to find it in the corners and it’s sign of drugs dealers
I´ve heard,it should bring luck for the marriage…
drugs and hookers
This is done in some places America when someone dies, too. A kind of memorial, but it’s become a trend nowadays for kids to throw sneakers up there just because.
Hola, nose como llegue hasta aca pero me llama muchisimo la atencion la foto, no se donde es tomada la foto ni nada.. pero aca en argentina las zapatillas colgadas representan que hay un vendedor de drogas cerca!
besos !
there´s a common expression un mexico that can be traduced to „hung up your sneakers“ which means you died. and in some poor areas in mexico when a member of the gang dies all of the members of the gang thow their sneakers to the phone or light cables in memoriam to his partner.
I’m Spanish and here people do that to say that there is a drug dealer near