Wednesday, March 12, 2008

When dogs fly

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A team of twin brothers from Skewville started making wooden sneakers and hanging them up around NYC and other major cities all over the world as an urban tribute to those days when city kids would throw their sneakers over telephone polls everywhere. Instead of using spray paint or stencils, the Skewville twins http://www.whendogsfly.com/ constructed, by hand, hundreds of wooden sneakers, painted them and threw them up just like when they were kids with their real sneakers, creating a new way to voice their presence and make their mark. Since the inception of their sneaker project, they have had offers from major corporations, including Converse and Nike, to do projects for them; the twins from Skewville refused, claiming that "we had the opportunity to sell out but we turned them down;" their hand-made sneakers are their project, their own corporation of sorts.

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