SAY HELLO TO
CURTIS KULIG

Johnny Misheff speak to artist and writer Curtis Kulig about graffiti,
photography and his favorite New York City haunts.

Johnny Misheff: Where did you grow up?
Do you think it had an overall affect on how you turned out?
Curtis Kulig: I grew up in Minot, North Dakota.
It’s totally flat with extreme temperatures.
Lots of punk rock shows and skateboarding.  Now I’m in New York City.
It’s not flat but it does have extreme temperatures, nightclubs
and skateboarding. Similar but different.

JM: You’ve been bi-coastal for some time now.  What’s the difference
between living on the east coast versus the west?
CK: The west coast makes me lazy. The weather’s too consistent
and the driving takes a toll on my back and my brain.

JM: Talk about how you came to New York a few years ago
and immediately started making your mark.
CK: I moved here with a girl, fucked it all up with her
and just started working obsessively to get my mind off of it.

JM: What’s your take on the beef in and amongst the graffiti community?
CK: The beef is just part of graffiti.
But it’s not why I do what I do.
I like to climb things and write on things.
That’s why I do what I do.

Bowery Boy

Photographs and Interview by Melanie Nataf

Name: Sean Naughton

MN: What do you Do?
SN: My day job is in the clothing business. I worked for companies such as
Ralph Lauren and Miss Sixty before starting my own showroom called
Proper Fools, representing smaller, up-and-coming brands. My night job
is as founder and Creative Director for Bowery Lane Bicycles.

STYLE SUBJECT
KRISTIN GALLEGOS

By Matthew Edelstein
Photographed by Julian Schratter

CE Editor-in-Chief Matthew Edelstein speaks to make-up artist and style icon
in the making, Kristin Gallegos about fashion, vices and icons.

Niki Manray

Photographed by Terry Tsiolis

CE Editor-in-Chief Matthew Edelstein talks to leggy fashion model and muse,
illustrator, fine art photographer, make-up artist and girl next door
who happens to be your ultimate fantasy….Niki Manray!

A SHARK
STAYS SWIMMING

CE Creative Director Ryan Schmidt interviews rap artist and label owner Mike Tumbarello
on what’s good. Lizzy Sullivan shoots the pictures and video.

Name:
Michael Angelo Tumbarello AKA: Baje One

Age: 30

Ryan Schmidt: Occupation?
Michael Angelo Tumbarello: I run an independent record label called Modern Shark.
I also rap in a group called Junk Science.

RS: You’re Brooklyn born and bred as I understand it.
Give me a few of your favorite venues in Brooklyn:
MT:Court Street Bakery in Carroll Gardens. Di Fara Pizza on Avenue J.
Happy End (Polish lunch counter in Greenpoint).

RS: Your record label Modern Shark is fairly new, tell us how you got the idea
for the name, and why you wanted to start your own label:
MT: It was either going to be Modern Shark or Shark Deco, and I liked the idea
of the label not being tied to any particular time. They all sounded good though…
Shark Nouveau sounds cool too. Renaissance Shark.
Originally I wasn’t going to start a label at all.
The previous Junk Science record had been released on Definitive Jux
(through a license from Embedded Music) and I would’ve been happy to stay there.
But when both of those labels announced that they were shutting down,
something just clicked. I was never fully happy with just making and putting out
my own records; I always wanted to be in a position to present music to the world.
So now Modern Shark is my platform to do it,
all I have to do is figure out how to build a bigger audience.

SAY HELLO TO:
TARIK MALAK

Johnny Misheff speaks to and photographs 21st century ideas man, Tarik Malak

Johnny Misheff: Where did you grow up?
Tarik Malak: I grew up in Paris… Well, the northern suburbs actually.
Nothing fancy at all. I just played a lot of basketball and practiced martial arts.
When I was 18 or so I moved to a great downtown neighborhood and
that’s when all the good stuff started.

JM: What sort of hobbies do you have?
TM: I love watching movies. Old school French and Italian movies
from the 50’s in particular, but not only. There are some directors I really admire.
People like Kubrik, Scorcese, Truffaut, Godard, Fellini, Antonioni, Haneke,
Kusturica, Kitano, Chabrol, the Coen brothers, and so many others…
Movies inspire me every day. Hobbywise I’m pretty insatiable actually. I read online
a minimum of two hours a day. Art, technology, music, geopolitics and fashion.
I also love cooking and traveling. Man, I could go on and on…

SAY HELLO TO:
LINDSEY THORNBURG

Designer Lyndsey Thornburg talks about her loves, her dreams and growing up in Aspen.
Johnny Misheff asks the questions and takes the pictures.

JOHNNY MISHEFF: Tell us about growing up in the mountains of Aspen
that is something other than a shpiel on clean air and the great outdoors.
LINDSEY THORNBURG: Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Earth, wind and fire. No gangs.