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Howell @ the Moon

Andy Howell’s roots are simple: skateboarding, surfing, drawing, painting, punk rock, hip hop. He grew up immersed in the 80’s Virginia and DC punk scenes, making 'zines, travelling up and down the east coast for skate contests and building ramps with his friends.

Zoe Bradley

After graduating from Middlesex University in 1997 Bradley went on to work with Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen. Spring/Summer 99 became iconic for her wooden doily punched showpieces.

Zoe's  trademark would be to create spectacular silhouettes. 

Sit on This

Walking high-wire acts? Squashing grapes beneath your toes? or just strutting your stuff around town?........ Feel like sitting? Why not have the coolest couch in town? Moroso distributes some incredible products formed by genius designers.

Shmack My Bitch Up!

Shmack has a killer new website with tons of product, seriously unreal!  The 2008 footwear collection released more creative combinations of color and stlye.  Todd Askins and the team @ Shmack will be ones to keep your eyes on as clothing progresses.  (Stay tuned for more Shmack clothing reviews)

High Speed Explosion

Destroyed Clay Art by Artist Martin Klimas!  Kilmas uses high speed cameras to photograph Knick Knacks exploding when hurdled towards earth, this is what happens when gravity takes hold.

Progresso with Gresso

Gresso is the only phone with a two hundred year history.   The phones are made of rare materials - African Blackwood.  Every phone is unique and singular, no two identical phones exist due to the NATURE of the product.  Only fifty pieces will be made for the black diamond collection - embellished with gold and black diamonds.  Makes your ears ring, huh?

Kiss My Lip

Killer Lip Watches from France!! 

WorldWide

JB Classics launched in SF during the winter of 2001 looking to add some personality and detail to the current footwear industry.  Mdot and JB joined forces to create JB Classics Lab shortly after, the two plan on covering all elements of the lifestyle.  They definitely push the limits with every collection.

Destructo y Maharishi

Destructo y Maharishi (originally produced in 1986) is bringing it back with an updated package. The edition comes with trucks and skate decks produced in conjunction with [PRODUCT] available in a wide variety of colors. ANDY WARHOL is monumental, shouldn't miss this series.

*RYAN MILNER*

RYAN MILNER

With his first solo show in Long beach last weekend,5.3.08, and his designs for Fourth World clothing company coming out in fall, Ryan Milner is on the road to success. Milner's loose rendering and unique style faces cluttered around each other is becoming his distinctive trademark, and sure to be seen on your next T-shirt. I was able to ask Ryan a few questions about his art, enjoy! And be sure to check him out at Phoneboothgallery.com!

SE: Wow, your work is incredible, how does it feel to have your first solo show? 

Ryan: Mind blowing! I've always wanted to do something like this; it's just been a matter of producing enough work to do it. 

SE: How long does it take you to finish a piece? 

Ryan: Depends on the intensity, usually a night, for the bigger more involved pieces a few days to a week. Having something to work for like the art show makes you work faster in order to prepare. 

SE: What is your best environment to work in? 

Ryan: Usually in my home studio, but it depends on the piece live art is neat because you use your surroundings to inspire you, but at home I sometimes listen to music or a movie, sometime it's nice to work in silence because your head can be playing your own soundtrack.

SE: Can you tell me something about your paintings? What inspires you to paint a particular subject matter such as the faces?

Ryan: I'm usually a very detail oriented guy, a perfectionist really and I try to get as much in there as I can. The series with the faces is a simple subject matter where I tried to get away from that and just follow one line. I chose faces because I've always been interested in crowds, when I was little I was fascinated with the faces rushing at you at the mall or a theme park. I was at an art show once and just looking around me at all the people and their quick expressions gave me the inspiration for the faces.

SE: What artists have influenced you most and how?

Ryan: My friends that are artists, just being around them and their art inspires me, but some well known artists would have to be, Phil Hail, Glen Barn, Joe Socon, I really look up to them for the way they can manipulate color and see the world in a different otherwise boring way.

"NO MATTER HOW SHITTY LIFE IS,                                            YOUR ART WILL                                                     ALWAYS WRAP ITS ARMS AROUND YOU"

SE: What advice do you have for artists just starting out?

Ryan: Just do it! Everyday let it take over and create emotions, a friend once said to me "no matter how shitty life is, your art will always wrap its arms around you" so let it, and most of all just have fun and do what you want to do!

SE: What would you like to accomplish in the art world in the next few years? 

Ryan: A career, freelance or otherwise, I need to be part of a creative environment where people don't take life to seriously because I can and I get sucked up into that seriousness.

SE: Ryan Thank you so much and keep up the remarkable work! 

Ryan: Thank you Sneakeasies!!!!!!!!!! SE

Interview: Lindsay Roman

Pictures: Chad Algorri

Please check out Ryan Milner @:

http://www.myspace.com/ryanmilnerartist

War of the Worlds

A Chanel Bazooka, A Louis V Chainsaw and A Versace AK47? Keep scratching your sockets, they are for real.  Peter Gronquist just opened his solo “The Revolution will be Fabulous” at Gallery 1988 and shows you how to manipulate in style. These blinged out weapons are for sale. From Luis Vuitton, to Takashi Murakami, and Fendi, you name it.  It might cost you your life. 

I Wishka for Mishka

Mishka NYC dreams of chainsaw wielding teddy bears and robotic horror imagery, this is exactly what they have created in and around them. Some say the label was the product of a heavy metal Satanic ritual gone horribly right. Their latest line is based on the works of famous Brooklyn based custom tattoo artist, JK5 who has worked with names across the board from Tylenol to Toy Tokyo. They are so incredibly diverse and you can tell from the helter-skeltered mixtapes that end up in their online Doombox that they are true heads for all that is beyond the mainstream.

Wheels of Steel

Power with Control: the DBS represents the synthesis of raw power, race-bred technology and design excellence. Driven by a V12 engine producing 380 kW this vehicle burns some major rubber. Beneath the flowing lines of the lightweight bodywork, the DBS’s components have been honed to create an exhilarating driving experience: taut, dynamic and monumentally fast, but always highly controlled.  Another master of design!!! Damn, Aston Martin your perfect!!

Milner Time!

GO! GO! GO! Ryan Milner @ Phone Booth Gallery!