Ryan Monihan is a rebel, plain and simple. He always has been, from his early exploits skating for the legendary H Street Team, his crazy European skateboarding champ years, all the way to his epically anti-commercial films and commercials he directs. Monihan is always stirring up shit in the best way possible.

He’s a rebel rouser, a brilliant thinker, and an all around super talent. Monihan has directed videos for half the rappers you like, and a few your probably don’t like. He’s made short films for people like Scion and RedBull, and directed the funniest commercials you may have ever seen. He still skates all the time, following a serious knee injury that would have made most people hang it up forever. Always the comedian, Monihan never heard a bad joke he didn’t like.

His recent project titled “The Uniform Project” with his lovely counterpart, Sheena, is a truly interesting and charitable concept. It’s one of the zillion creative things he’s been involved in over the years besides, being my video directing partner (he directs, I produce). Monihan, never one to hold back, coaxed me up to the Chelsea skate park on a windy, rainy, hot day after coming by the pop-up so I could shoot a few pics of him doing what he still loves to do, even if he it ruins his knees again! Monihan Monihan is another reason why NYC is such a great place to be.

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