Skewville

‘It’s all about...going beyond those angry tags, standard stencils and corporate stickers that clutter the less popular street corners. In this case sky’s the limit.’

If you've ever noticed a pair of wood sneakers dangling from power lines, you've likely witnessed the work of New York-born identical twins Ad and Droo, aka Skewville.

As kids growing up in Queens, the brothers would toss their old black converse sneakers on power lines as a way of “representing — leaving your mark on the ’hood,” Deville said. But soon, they wanted to toss more shoes than they were wearing out. And so, in 1999, they started making wooden versions of the iconic sneakers, calling the line 'When Dogs Fly' in reference to what shoes used to be known as, 'dogs'. The brothers then began tossing the shoes on power lines and street lampposts in cities all over the world, including New York, Seattle and London.