A brave captain, an old DC-3

When Ryan was little, he lived in Haiti. When Ryan lived in Haiti, he got to fly an old Pearl Airways DC-3 from Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic because a very brave (and maybe not so smart) Captain let him sit in the cockpit the entire time. At one point the Captain had Ryan sit in his chair and bank the plane to the left - with a plane full of passengers.

Ryan was intoxicated.

He lived in lots of different places and he loved the trip to the cockpit, of course, but he also loved seeing the world and getting to look out airplane windows at cities and oceans and clouds.

Sea-Tac, a VHS camera and a scanner

When Ryan moved away from Haiti, he was very sad, because he moved 6 times and he didn't like leaving his friends again but he did move to Seattle where he got to visit Boeing a lot and where his dad took him to Sea-Tac to film planes landing and taking off with an old VHS camera while listening to Air Traffic Control with a scanner he got for Christmas.

Some bad fish, one good idea

As Ryan got older, he grew to love other things, like his wife Heidi, his 3 kids, traveling on airplanes with them, seeing the world with them, and art and design. He wanted to decorate his house with all the things that represented all his loves.

But they didn't exist. At least none he could find.

Ryan ate some fish in Mexico in 2013 one night and got very sick, but in the middle of the night, he thought, other people might want art that represents all the things he loves and in a way that he loves them. Modern. Sophisticated. Delicate. Powerful. Beautiful.

08 Left

So he started a site to sell his art (08 Left) in 2014.

Ryan still loves window seats, and flight trackers and in-flight movies, and new countries and experiences and his house is filled with artwork and his closet filled with apparel that is worthy of all that love.