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Sneaker Attack!


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Jacob Dobkin

Published Mar 22, 2005

Modified Mar 7, 2008


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Published Mar 22, 2005

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Jose Serrano has made a hilarious 5-minute video entitled The Future Beautiful: Skewville, about a team of graffiti artists who throw fake wooden sneakers up on poles around the city. The guys spout on about graf, sneaker-bombing, and the art establishment- they've actually managed to create a whole philosophy based around chucking fake shoes!

You can watch the video on INdTV, where it's competing in the Pilot Project Competition. For more about Skewville, check out their interviews at the Wooster Collective and Trigger Magazine, or pictures from their show last year at Option-G.

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Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.

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