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142 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.17 ARTS RESIDENCE IN "He did a whole Adidas line," Louisville visual artist Ryan Daly says, sliding on a black track jacket with red stripes down the sleeves. Daly turns in front of a closet in the living room of his Schnitzelburg home to reveal an image of a spider with "Adidas x Boneth- rower" stitched near the bottom of the jacket. Bone- thrower is David Cook, one of Daly's old friends. Before the Adidas skateboarding collection, Juxtapoz Magazine interviews, New York, L.A. and 100,000-plus followers on Instagram, Bonethrower — or "Dave," as Daly refers to him — was a skate- boarder and artist running a record shop in Louisville. "I met him in high school through skateboarding and punk rock music," Daly says. "He was kind of like an older brother/mentor." In 2003 Daly gifted Cook a book about bird anatomy that he bought for 25 cents at a yard sale. It inspired Cook's first paintings: spray-painted birds on particle board. "He did this whole series of bird wall hangings that were made to go around door frames. He lived in this old Civil War hospital/mansion on Rosewood Avenue (near Tyler Park). They had a ton of door frames, so he made like 50 of these bird "Bird Painting" by Bonethrower paintings," Daly says. Soon after, Cook moved to New York. But before he left, he gave Daly one of the four- foot-tall paintings. What Daly describes as a "cardinal rooster" hangs in his kitchen, near a walkway that leads to a room where he works on his films, photog- raphy and other projects. — Kaঞe Molck Artists, construction workers, drug addicts, the mayor. Twenty-two- year-old U of L student Turner Mayton has captured all of them and more on Starঞng With LOU, the collection of street portraits he's been posting to Instagram and Facebook every day since July 1, 2016. Just a photo and a few things the unnamed subject has to say: "My daughter is my legacy"; "Most difficult thing I've dealt with? Being mixed"; "This is my first time being homeless. Sometimes sleeping in the park is cool. Other times it is scary." It's Louisville's version of the popular Humans of New York blog. "Who's to say we can't learn a lot from Sally who's a second-grader but also from Jim who's a 75-year-old recovering alcoholic?" Mayton says. "Everyone deserves a chance to be heard." A fellow U of L student, 19-year-old Joshua Jean-Marie, recently reached out to Mayton about the project and has started contributing photos and interviews. The duo take their Canons throughout the city, often downtown or in Old Louisville. "If you can get someone to open up about how their day was," Mayton says, "I'm convinced you can get them to open up about how their life is." — Nick Amon MEET