Shoes hunging from overhead wires

I use to wander myself about the meaning of such tradition of throwing

shoes and leave them hanging from overhead wires. I use to see that

only in some American movie about detective stories of some suburbs.

It was November of 2009 when I went to Mallorca to visit my friend In Mallorca when suddenly I sow some shoes hanging from a power cable, obviously I thought it was some kids stuff, but still.. I was pretty sure it was a proper meaning for shoes hanging from overhead wires and it did not take long to find out the meaning by internet.

A number of sinister explanations have been proposed as to why this is done:

Some say that shoes hanging from the wires advertise a local crack house where crack cocaine is used and sold.

Others claim that the shoes so thrown commemorate a gang-related murder, or the death of a gang member, or as a way of marking gang turf.

Other less sinister explanations have been ventured for the practice.

Some[who?] claim that shoes are flung to commemorate the end of a school year or a forthcoming marriage as part of a rite of passage.

In Scotland, it has been said that when a young man has lost his virginity he tosses his shoes over telephone wires to announce this to his peers.

It has been suggested that the custom may have originated with

members of the military, who are said to have thrown military boots,

often painted orange or some other conspicuous color, at overhead wires as a part of a rite of passage upon.

However, I would believe that children were just messing around and

there were no much to take seriously and basically it was just out of curiosity..

PRAHE-JUNY09(MIGHTY SOUNDS) FESTIVAL

PRAHE-JUNY09(MIGHTY SOUNDS) FESTIVAL

Czech Republic 2009

It was a good chance to visit Prague when friends of mine playing with “La Gossa Sorda” told me were going to put on concert in a Czech festival, such event called mighty festival were in Olsi, a small village about 15km from the South Bohemian town of Tabor, around 100km south of the capital city Prague.

Prague was already one of my future destinations, as I new such city was not going to led me down.. and actually it didn´t is more beautiful and charming than I was expecting. I could even feel I was in the meddle age, and nothing to envy other European city with entertainment in the night.

I could really enjoy by myself the first couple of days before the festival in the capital were I met some American people who were staying in the same hostel like me.

My second I made my way to Tabor to arrive on time to watch Mark foggos´s concert. I have to say the weather during the day was great but however as sun was getting dark the rain was coming and we were forced the stay with the mud for a while.

Although “La Gossa sorda” was arriving the day after I decided to cover the festival as a press photographer. I had fun with all that Czech people and a really enjoyed the festival but had to be postponed for a while because of the rain.

Second day of the festival, as son I wake up I wonder if my friend already arrived and I went to VIP zone to have a look and snidely I sow them just getting off from the couch, such a surprise when I thought was going to be hard to find out about one each other.

I have to say the Gossa sorda´s gig was successful. I never thought north European people was that much on Ska music I could see hundreds of people, their lyrics, in Catalan and the way they staging made the first experience of La Gossa Sorda abroad something to be proud of..

spite of the weather people were still getting overexcited with

Such a mixture of rock, punk, reggae and ska interacting a hard social critic against the right-winged establishment, seething for a change of mind and political status of their country.

After stay over night in house in the country side we went to Prague to fulfill a perfect trip having fun and visiting all those places this offer to everyone.

ARCHWAY LONDON

I will never forget about this place.. As I decided to move from camden I found a single room in this flat in Archway above a discotheque which has as well a pub in the first floor. All what I can say is that it was such a experience actually first time ever when I was basically living by myself. I can still remember I didn´t know anyone around my flat and neighbour when the winter was coming.

Going out in my own was how I got to know the underground places in London were I meet crazy people actually, and still having a kind of relation ship although most of them are gone.

Imperial War Museum

Reserch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum

"""The Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire. Today the museum gives its mission as 'to enable people to have an informed understanding of modern war and its impact on individuals and society'.

Originally housed in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, the museum opened to the public in 1920. In 1924 the museum moved to space in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and finally in 1936 the museum acquired a permanent home which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark. The outbreak of the Second World War saw the museum expand both its collections and its terms of reference, but the post-war period saw the museum enter a period of decline. The 1960s saw the museum redevelop its Southwark building, now referred to as Imperial War Museum London, and which serves as the organisation's corporate headquarters. During the 1970s the museum began to expand onto other sites. The first, in 1976, was a historic airfield in Cambridgeshire now referred to as Imperial War Museum Duxford. In 1978 the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast became a branch of the museum, having previously been preserved for the nation by a private trust. In 1984 the Cabinet War Rooms, an underground wartime command centre, was opened to the public. From the 1980s onwards the museum's Bethlem building underwent a series of multimillion-pound redevelopments, completed in 2000. Finally, 2002 saw the opening of Imperial War Museum North in Trafford, Greater Manchester, the fifth branch of the museum and the first in the north of England.

The museum's collections include archives of personal and official documents, photographs, film and video material, and oral history recordings; an extensive library, a large art collection, and examples of military vehicles and aircraft, equipment and other artefacts. The museum is funded by government grants, charitable donations and revenue generation through commercial activity such as retailing, licensing, and publishing. Admission is free to Imperial War Museum London and Imperial War Museum North, but an admission fee is levied at the other branches. The museum is anexempt charity under the Charities Act 1993 and a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The current Chairman of the Trustees is Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Squire. Since October 2008, the museum's Director General has been Diane Lees.""""