Your Shoe Is Jacked into My Eye

But what does it mean? (Via The Cut; photo credit: David Byun for Surface.)

[#1 posted by JimXugle , November 12, 2008 10:28 AM]

It's a warning. "Do not kick people in the face when you have heals full of data."

[#2 posted by Phos.... , November 12, 2008 10:34 AM]

Some art—no matter who makes it or talks about it or what's said about it, or where it shows up, or what context it's in, or how iconoclastic it or its creator is ,or how high it reaches into the stratosphere of oddness, or so-called "coolness,"—is worth no more than a passing glimpse.

This is one of them.

Even people whose collected output I love manage to produce some clunkers.

[#3 posted by mdh , November 12, 2008 10:45 AM]

It is exactly why I refuse to make eye contact with women who know they are hawt ("I think you are really fit, you're fit, but my gosh, don't you just know it" --The Streets), and men in Italian sportscars or American musclecars ("with large fuzzy dice hanging like testicles from rear view mirrors" -- Cake).

They want you to focus on their outsides. The like the attention, but want to keep control of what you see of them by distracting you with the flash - keeping your attention plugged into something they can control.

I see it as being about not liking who you are without accessories / armor.

That's my take on it.

[#4 posted by ed_g , November 12, 2008 10:55 AM]

pah ha ha ha ha

where are the superimposed ones and zeroes, to you know, signify the information superhighway?

[#5 posted by dbarak , November 12, 2008 11:02 AM]

Now we know how this woman REALLY lost her eye...

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/12/call-to-makers-woman.html

I'll keep an eye out for other boing Boing story connections.

[#6 posted by midknyte , November 12, 2008 11:04 AM]

Mind, baud E, and Sole

[#7 posted by jahknow , November 12, 2008 11:06 AM]

"Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more, now. Buy, and be happy."

[#8 posted by Anonymous , November 12, 2008 11:14 AM]

@midknyte - that is THE best ever comment - very clever

[#9 posted by Anonymous , November 12, 2008 11:39 AM]

shoes and apparel are messages the wearer sends. These messages are received by observers through the data intake port of the eye.

[#10 posted by bcsizemo , November 12, 2008 11:52 AM]

How about, "I can see your soul."?

[#11 posted by jeshii , November 12, 2008 11:58 AM]

The loud noise that deafens you is the shoe you cannot see.

http://panadero.dyndns.org/foi/extras.php?eid=1

[#12 posted by Richard Steven Hack , November 12, 2008 12:01 PM]

When I saw the headline, I assumed it had something to do with the recent scene in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" where Cameron was fighting the other female Terminator and stuffed the other Terminator's shoe heel into her eyeball...

Yeah, I watch Terminator. Sue me - it's Summer Glau!

[#13 posted by wolfiesma , November 12, 2008 12:05 PM]

It kind of reminds me of an edward hopper painting. That blue light is mesmerizing... but the haircut really scares me!

[#14 posted by mxjohnson , November 12, 2008 12:12 PM]

What does it mean? Phos says, not much. And yet
let's Make a web cam eye, a brave new phiz,
a window one way, Moody's patch, to set
things right for one eyed Jill, no Maker wiz.

A shame it is no new idea. G'kar
had one. In Ender's Game, as well. And ere
it's built, and on, and we can spy from far
away her day to day, 'tis vaporware.

No way to hide a battery, and wires
won't do. No robots, we. Our guts, our chains
we hide beneath our skins: we all are liars.
It's art that tells the truth, and not our brains.

And where to hold the ones and ohs that spew?
A thumb drive, or an EyePod? or her shoe?

[#15 posted by wolfiesma , November 12, 2008 12:14 PM]

But I'm pretty sure it is supposed to represent a cyborg getting her inputs on American culture to better take over the world, surrerptitiously, through couture.

[#16 posted by minTphresh , November 12, 2008 1:06 PM]

the eye is the windows of the sole? its by b. gates.

[#17 posted by fistula spume , November 12, 2008 1:40 PM]

I think it is making a statement about online shoe fetishists and the inablility to truly see the shoe but connect with it.

[#18 posted by Anonymous , November 12, 2008 2:01 PM]

It's a stalker threat. "I see everywhere you go"

[#19 posted by Kieran O'Neill , November 12, 2008 2:29 PM]

Kick in the Eye, by Bauhaus:

And he spoke of pastures green
I was never told why
Each journey lasts an age
And my throat feels dry
It must be the lesson
Hidden deep inside
It must be the lesson
So roll the tide

So I began the crossing
My throat burned dry
Searching for Satori
The kick in the eye
I am the end of reproduction
Given no direction
Every care is taken
In my rejection

Kick in the eye (x4)

Every care is taken
With my rejection
And my abduction
To my addiction
Every care is taken
With my protection
And my abduction
From my addiction

Kick in the eye (x4)

[#20 posted by Anonymous , November 12, 2008 3:24 PM]

"Women be shopping."

[#21 posted by HatOfEdshu , November 12, 2008 4:05 PM]

Reese's:
Hey, your shoe is jacked into my eyeball!
Your eyeball is jacked into my shoe!

or

1984:
If you want a picture of the future, imagine an electric boot recharging from a human face— forever.

[#22 posted by Robert , November 13, 2008 6:53 AM]

It's a prototype of a device used to inspect for foot diseases such as trenchfoot without having to remove the footwear.

[#23 posted by Teller , November 13, 2008 9:14 AM]

One man's seeing is another man's floor.

[#24 posted by kapusta , November 13, 2008 9:22 AM]

...from this we may learn the ultimate essence that pervades widespread ubiquitous all over the place...

[#25 posted by Anonymous , November 17, 2008 10:54 AM]

You might have to see the whole story to give context.. the other images which accommodate that image explain the premise. The green models (hello, they are aliens ) are studying earth objects/collecting data on artifacts (old computers, shoes, etc)- story title was ' Earthly Delights'- Oh, and I believe thats a male alien, not a female--its actually a clever commentary by the photog-addressing the issues which a few people just sl-ogged/ slop-blogged about in passing. An alien trying to download an artifact of american consumerism.. snicker