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I'd like to meet:

The Most Amazing Woman In The World... Ooops I guess I already did...

My son, I was waiting for you to show up...

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And furthermore... off the top of my head...
Murakami,
David Mamet,

Buckminster Fuller,

Paul Simon,
HR,
Kami,
Tom Sachs,
Krishnamurti,
Biz Markie,

Mos Def, Billy Corgan,
Maria McKee,

Jodie Foster,
Edward Norton, Felini, Stanley Kubrik, Michel Gondry, Laura Dern, Isabella Rosellini
Gerry Lopez

Nicola Tesla,
Victor Moscoso,

Liberatore,

Royal Raymond Rife, MLK Jr,
Howlin' Wolf,

Lightnin Hopkins, Muddy Waters,
Bella Fleck,
Coen Brothers, Clayton Brothers, Pettibon,
Francisco Goya,

Doc Watson,

and all my best friends on a little island getaway in Kawaii...

Music:

Older Skool Hip Hop: Native Tounges, Black Sheep, Tribe, JB's, De La, Biz, Lord Finesse, Big L, Biggie, 3rd Bass, KMD, Nas, EPMD, Eric B and Ra, PE, Big Daddy Kane, Special Ed, Brand Nubian, Violators, Freestyle Fellowship, Beastie Boys (Paul's Boutique days), Q-Bert's Wave Twisters Movie, DJ P's funky cross pollenation, now Mos Def, Aesop Rock, Jay Z's Black Album, anything that still holds creative value, Rick Rubin's shit // Jazz: Miles, Courtney Pine, Chet Baker, Milton Nasciemento, Dexter Gordon, Bird, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, so many // Blues: BB, Muddy Waters, Lightnin Hopkins, Howlin Wolf, Johnny Winter, Doc and Merle Watson, all the Bluegrass greats, Bo Didley // Country/Folk: John Denver, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Pheobe Snow, Carole King, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Rickie Lee Jones,
(wait did somebody say sake?)
Emmylou Harris, Watson Family from the Smithsonian Collection // // Classic Rock: Are you kidding? Of course! Van Morrison, Stones, Steve Miller, Queen Live killers Album, Foreigner, GnR, Glam era, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, ACDC, Sabbath, Metal,Punk: Bad Brains, Sex Pistols, Minor Threat, COC, TSOL, GWAR, Strontium 90, all the new wave stuff Cure, Smiths, PIL, and Squeeze etc, Buzzcocks, Ramones, geez can't think of em right now // radio just anything that sounds nice, Dirty South (its been a long time Lil Jon, playa), Senor Coconut, Mano Negra, Manu Chao, Leonard Cohen, Phoebe Snow, Fisherspooner, Interpol, Radiohead, Daniel Mead, if there's passion behind it and I feel it, the genre really doesn't matter much...

Movies:

Dithers, Wild Style, Brazil,
12 Monkeys, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, House of Games, Homicide, Spanish Prisoner, Confidence, Rushmore,

Royal Tennenbaums, Closer, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Basquiat, Calder's Circus, 5th Element, Akira, Heavy Metal, Ghost in the Shell, Run Ronnie Run,
White Squall, Something About Mary, O Brother Where Art Thou?,
Amelie, Chocolat, Dirty Pretty Things, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Secretary, Eternal Sunshine OF the Spotless Mind, Natural Born Killers, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Before Sunrise, Fight Club, Matrix, Waking Life, True Romance, Requiem For A Dream, Dolce Vita, Every Which Way But Loose, Mystic River, Boys Don't Cry, Kids, Bully, Romper Stomper, Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish (and everything Tim Burton),Diner, Trainspotting, Angel Heart, Cape Fear, Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut, American History X, Caligula, Pink Panther, History of the World I and II, Space Balls, anything Monty Python, The Party, The Trip, 2001, Alien, Convoy, Airplane, 48 Hours, Nutty Professor, Blue Velvet,
Wild At Heart ('This is my snakeskin jacket...') , Blazing Saddles,
16 Candles, Animal House, Blues Brothers, Back To School (Triple Lindy), Caddyshack, Stripes, anything twisted and everything funny too many to list...

Television:

very rarely, just movies, but Boobins loves to watch Animal Planet...
so i have been mostly doin' this kinda stuff...
http://andyhowell.com
http://portfolio.andyhowell.com
http://eggprojects.com
http://un1versalmind.com
http://betterchemistry.com
http://militree.com

NEWS

Launching in Fall 2005!!
Art, Skateboarding, and Life
by Andy Howell with Amely Greeven
304 page hard cover book with DVD including interviews and videos with Andy Howell, Shepard Fairey, Ed Templeton, and other artists...
Contributors: Tony Hawk, Shepard Fairey, Patricia Arquette, Dallas Austin, Ed Templeton, Natas Kaupas, Tommy Guerrero, Chris Miller, Dave Kinsey, David Choe, Kent Parker, Blake Ingram, Gregg DiLeo, Anthony Yamamoto, Bryce Kanights, Chris Hall, Rodney Smith, Sal Barbier, Salman Agah, Damon Way, Paul Schmitt, Johnny Schillereff, Alyasha Owerka-Moore, Miki Vuckovich, Kenton Parker, and more!!
DVD includes interviews with artists and skaters and full length videos from New Deal, Freedom, Underworld Element, and more!!

Represent Creative Conference // Sydney Australia // October 14-15, 2005
Featured Speakers including Andy Howell will present views, design, art, and collective experiences within the subcultures of Skateboarding, a skate culture inpired art movement and it's far-reaching cultural influences...
http://www.rprsnt.com

In4mation x Andy Howell Special Edition Print / Mar 2005
http://www.in4mants.com
DC Shoes Artist Projects Launches September 2004!
http://dcshoes.com
Go To Products/Artist Projects
Arkitip Show and Exhibit 2004
http://www.arkitip.com/exhibitions/exhibition0005.html
686 Snowboard Apparel Andy Howell Jacket!
http://686.com/
Flesh Imps destroy Singapore! http://fleshimp.com/
http://fleshimp.com/fleshimp_collaboration2.html
Dave's Crazy Arm experience:
http://franmagazine.com/AndyHowell.html
Evil Monito Magazine http://www.evilmonito.com/love&hate15/
Flavorpill review of Howell / Therapy show at Kantor Gallery
http://la.flavorpill.net/mailer/issue24/index.html..therapy
Noun Magazine http://www.noun.ws/home.html
Goto People section Andy Howell
Twenty Four Seven Skate Mag Online http://247sk8mag.com/2g3/
City Beat San Diego http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=406
Antipoda Artists http://www.antipodawear.com
Scion x Howell Artist Collaboration
http://www.scion.com/installation/artists/howell.html
Howell Skate Videos
http://www.angelfire.com/band2/azzizz/SKATEVIDEOS.html
StrangeCo News: Dithers Release Party San Francisco
http://www.strangeco.com/News/Events_Dithers.html
Analogue Books Dithers Review
http://www.analogueshop.com/misc/Dithers_DVD
San Diego City Beat Interview
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=406&atype=
Skateboard.com's Site of the week
http://www.skateboard.com/frontside/HangOut/SiteOfWeek/andyh owell.asp
The birth of 411 Magazine
http://www.411vm.com/skate/TempArticle1.html
Being Hunted / Interview Reid Van Renesse
http://www.beinghunted.com/v40/features/2004/dithers/
Transworld Business video interview for 686 ACE project show opening
http://www.twsbiz.com/twbiz/video/0,21395,1007284-787306,00. html
skateboarddirectory.com link
http://skateboarddirectory.com/dir/Sports/Skateboarding/Skat ers/
Freshness Mag
http://www.freshnessmag.com/archive2003/0803.html
Heavyweight story about 32 Inch Canvas opening
http://hvw8.com/9_1_04.php
Tricks and Trinkets Howell Review
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/ctt250.htm
CCS Howell for DC Shoes Review
http://www.ccs.com/connect/lowdown/ld_041304.asp
EXPN Keep A Breast
http://expn.go.com/lifestyle/s/board_for_breast.html
Wooster Collective Interview
http://www.woostercollective.com/2003_03_30_newsarchive.html ..200065920
Dec 29 2004 Angry Woebots vs Andy Howell in Honolulu!
http://www.lightsleepers.net/06NEWS.shtml
Giant Peach Howell at MAGIC
http://www.thegiantpeach.com/news/db/archives/2005_02.php
Recent Pubs and in Print:
WARP Magazine Tokyo Interview
Risen Magazine Interview
Happy Magazine Orange County, CA Interview
CyVogue Magazine Tokyo Interview
CLARK Magazine / (Paris) Cover and Interview
Refill Magazine Australia Interview
Sidewalk Magazine (London UK)
Beautiful Decay (Los Angeles)
Freedom / Book for sale (San Francisco)
Concussion Magazine ..21 / (NorCal)
http://www.concussion.org/new_site/art/howell/index.html
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Selected Exhibits:
BayCat San Francisco / April 14, 2005
LoDown Magazine Dressed To Kill Group Show Dec 28
In4mation Honolulu, Hawaii
Howell Solo Show and Live Art with Angry Woebots Dec 2004
Honolulu Hawaii
32 Inch Canvas / Livestock Calgary Canada
http://www.freshnessmag.com/content/features/files/1004/32in ch/index.php
http://giant45.com/32inchcanvas.html
Jan 2004 Nelson Tokyo Japan / Collaboration with Marke and Eva Newton
April 2004 / Los Angeles County Museum of Art / LACMA group show / SCION Manipulation
Militree Presents Artillery Benefit for the removal of land mines
RE:UP Gallery San Diego / 2004
Skateboarder Art / 2004
32 Inch Canvas Canada / 2004
Photocopy Paris Fall 2004
REFLECT / Planet Rooth Gallery Ray Street San Diego / Dec 2003
ZOOLOGY San Francisco / October 17 2003 / 111 Minna Gallery
THERAPY Solo Exhibition Aug 9-Sept 6 2003 at Kantor Gallery LA
http://www.kantorgallery.com/gallery-artists.htm
http://www.kantorgallery.com/andy-howell.htm
Absolute Arts Review of Howell / THERAPY 2003 show:
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/08/27/31328.html
The Great Divide Exhibition 2003 http://www.basefield.com/
Chapel Off Chapel Gallery
12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia.
Ph: +61 03 8290 7011
Nikao Youth Project :Reconstruction 2003 http://www.nikaoyouthproject.org/
Modart Munich Germany, February 2003 http://www.modart.com
8 1/2x 11 Black and White Show, 2003 http://www.faesthetic.com/
NYC urban experience / Installation Scion show, April 18, 2003
85 South St New York, NY 10038
http://scion.com/installation
AIRPORT 2400 ArtWalk San Diego April 26,27, 2003
http://www.artwalkinfo.com/artist2003/Airport2400/airport240 0.htmMass Distraction Group Show May 3, 2003 at Ducky Waddles Emporium Gallery
http://www.duckywaddles.com and http://www.radioactivefuture.com
Tel: 760-632-0488
Singapore Sling June 1-21, 2002// Andy Howell, Sam Flores, Bigfoot
Television and Art Exhibition // Singapore

Books:

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, The Bridge Across Forever, One, Celestine, Krishnamurti, Anais Nin, Miller, Burroughs, Chester Himes, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Joseph Campbell, anything Neruda especially 100 Sonetos De Amor, Frost, Tamara De Limpicka's biography, art books, Lodown Graphic Engineering, King For A Day: Basquiat, Keith Haring Biography, Tesla Biography, Warhol's book from his last SF show, Dave Choe's books, Moebius, Liberatore's Ranxerox, Milo Manara's Click, Fucked Up and Photocopied, Post No Bills, Sam Flores' book, Tiffany Bozic's art book, all the Ryan Mcguiness ones, GAS and the other japanese design books, Nederlanden design books, etc etc etc... Oh yeah, mine: Art Skateboarding & Life

Heroes:

anyone whose passion for life or craft inspires me to push through my own fear and limits
From Transworld Skateboarding Brain Floss 1995
Intro, Written by: Jose Gomez (Emmy Award winning Founder of Shilo Studios, co-creator of Rhythm Skateboards and Adio Shoes)
“I first met Andy in the summer of 1991. And what a meeting it was. Being that he was was one of my favorite pros and by far one of my favorite artistS at the time , you can imagine how nervous I was to meet him. I thought he would be a little full of himself since he was so on top of his game. But I was to be proven wrong, from the first time we hung out together he was one of the most down to earth people I’d had ever met. We soon became close friends and I got to see how much more creative he was than I could had ever imagined. He got me started in this crazy business in that same year with a job at New Deal doing skateboard graphics with him and our friend Gorm Boberg. The next four years that followed being there working with him were some of the best years of my life. Andy always inspired me to do things I thought I couldn’t do, things I thought I’d never do. He used to always say stuff like “ Hey Jose don’t you feel like directing some music videos ,we could make the dopest shit, come on let’s call MTV”. And some how he would have the craziest shit set up for us that following week. Who knows how he hooked it up but he would always come through with the opportunities of a life time. That’s the kind of stuff that Andy gets a rush out of, doing something that he has never done before and doing it better than anyone else before him, not just to be better than anyone else but just to see if he could do it. That’s the kind of attitude that spawns the most powerful creative feeling in someone, doing or creating something not just to please people or to try to do better than the next guy but doing it and creating it for yourself just to see if you can and nine times out of ten you can. And that’s what it’s all about being as creative as possible .Creating something from nothing that’s the rush. And that’s what Andy is best at: finding that rush, that feeling and passing it on to you if you what to join in. An artist in the truest sense. Andy Howell, my friend.”
"Since the start, style and sophistication sets the approach for all of Andy's angles." -Victor Chu, New York City (designer Tommy Jeans, designer Polo Jeans, East Coast Correspondent Sputnik Comm, creator of tommorow’s clothing communication)
“Andy has been an inspiration since I first saw him skate at the Savannah Slamma 2 in 1988; soon I became aware not only of his creativity as a skateboarder but also as a visual artist. Andy almost single handedly ushered in Hip-Hop and Graffiti as the ruling aesthetic of skateboarding through his artwork for New Deal, Underworld Element, and Sophisto, as well as his personal style as a pro skateboarder. Needless to say, with his ambition and amazing skills as an illustrator and graphic designer the H-Bomb has been quite influential; I wouldn’t be where I am as an artist without him. Thanks Andy.” -Shepard Fairey, Los Angeles CA (creator of the OBEY and GIANT phenomena, Black Market Communications, Visionary)
“Andy is one of the most eccentric artists of our generation, his ability to take street elements and personify that realism through animation is incredible.” -Dallas Austin (Grammy Award winning Producer and Songwriter, Visionary)
“Andy exudes a sense of individual style into everything he touches...Music...Skating...Design...Life itself. He has an understanding of real life and expresses that in the things he does and says.” -Michael Higgins, Atlanta (Creative Visual Director, Design Coup, Inc, ATL)
“Andy Howell is an imaginative and creative person. He jumped out into the public’s eye and made an impact in skateboarding with his creative & stylish use of his skateboarding abilities. Then a few years later he put his artistic abilities to use as the creative partner in New Deal Skateboards. There he put his creativity into skateboards, T-shirts, advertising, Videos, etc. Andy’s art inspired many a skateboarder in the early 90's to go out and have fun on a skateboard.” -Paul Schmitt (Master Skateboard Builder, Owner New Deal Skateboards, PS Stix Manufacturing, 411 Video Magazine, Element Skateboards, Mad Circle Skateboards)
"Through my years of progression as an artist, Andy has been an inspiration for technique and determination in testing my skills and pushing my thoughts and ideas into reality."-Dave Kinsey, Los Angeles CA (designer Black Market)
"Andy puts a different spin on everything, gives things another dimension, and a new perspective. He uses all sorts of elements from pop and skating culture to come up with intelligent, creative ideas. We've been working and sharing ideas together for about six years now and it never ceases to amaze me what Andy brings to the mix." -Camara Alford (President of UOMO Entertainment, VP International Rowdy Records).
Set it off:

All up on it, grab it like you want it,

if you could wear a dick bitch

You would flaunt it..

Round 1:

Writing lines, only smoke da-kine,

Pumpin gold lines, some call it a crime

It's the Swiz, I'm chillin'

Drink a ton of milk, cuz I'm top billin

Of course you're willin to listen

and dismissin, yourself

Put your career back down on that dusty shelf

Where ya found it

Only 9 months ago

your phony career was born

So slap yo self with that premature ego

You bite rhymes and styles for miles

should start cuttin your own cloth

You shoulda stayed lost in the closet

ya cloth-eatin moth

Your a slow, sloppy sloth

Must be tired from always gettin shut down

Like Basquiat, I wear the crown

Round 2:

You wear a crown to think you're down clown

Au contrair mon frair you gots no flair

Your Swizzle stick Wilt's like Chamberlain

Or a chamber maid riding the tip of the killer of Slick Rick

Conficted Compacted your trash like Cuisinart

'Oh he's an ARTiste' (oooooh) yes smooth like a fart

Bubbling in the tub while I scrub I stretch the nub

Or nib nib nibble on my nuts cuz your rhyme is cut

Like Kurt the master mix master disaster twister

Get a blister Fester testing my dome now ya listed

BLACK balled like Blacks Beacher and your blue balled

Like a daydreaming scheming student of the teach.

GAME

WORD

H43

Round 3:

Oh, I see your Tinker Toy ploy

You gots no joy for the world-

that Im runnin like Pre Fontaine

Leap over you on Lane 1 with a sorry sprain

Rocking Asics, no swoosh

No need to associate to gets a push

Crush bush, your brain is mush

Mine designed for fame

You don't deserve to mention Mix Master Kurt's name

Maybe Kurt..Cobain, your styles grungy and dead

My flow hurts your tiny head

Your scared of this battle

Catch a bus back to Seattle so start askin for change

I fine dine while you WINCE and WINE and watch

your widowed wife sell them to the world in a journal

You old spilt milk that curdled

Swept up, shoulda kept up in Atlanta back in 88

when you fell off the quarter pipe in Savannah

-witness.

Round 4:

Fell off? Meltin'?

Bitch try I'm still standin' like Elton

Beltin' verse like Morrisey crawlin out of a hearse

Disperse while I reverse the curse

And send you and your bitch ass crew back to October 1st

Rehearse, spit game, record, hit play

Watch you decay with dismay the way you gets no airplay

My flow cuts your nuts off like rusty Ginsu

I been through crusty Twizzlers way worse than you.

BooHoo my voodoo unscrew the plugs in ya hairdo

While ya crew blew every dude I ever knew

You ended up with sore lips like worn hand grips

BMX bitch ass your rumors keep spreadin'

Spreadin clap on tap ya need ta slap a trap

on that rap and flush that shit out like a crap

What's the hap? Dreamer, nothin but a dreamer,

Swizz take your finger out your ass you ho...

Uh oh, he's gone vanished dead already?

Sliced 'im up like Ono and I vanished like Freddy...

Round 5:

The bell goes ding ding and I'm dancin on your face like Travolta

Takin multiple shots like a Minolta.

I told ya, like a folder I fold ya.

Break you down and re-mold ya cuz I like your resilience

But always falling flat when up against this brilliance

Verbal bathing leaving you in disdain,

open the gate to your new house of pain

Wutcha do with yourself all day, lift weights, be gay, wearing skirts?

Try to look good in the club with your fitted black shirt?

Your busy blowin dick, burpin up giz.

I'm busy blowin horns at the spot like Diz

YOUR crew? Look around fool,

your alone, it's just you!

BMX I did, chrome moly Mongoose...What, you weren't a kid?

The only hand grips I wore were Haro's,

bustin tabletops over ya head into tomorrow.

Oops, I made you cry, go rollerblade home,