August 2011
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J. Tillman
Ok, first off- just for curious reasons-about how long have you been growing your beard? Since October or so. Over a year now, but i’ve had a beard in some variation or the other. Well you know, for the last 5 years or so. its been a constant in my life. Its been strange to watch the beard, I mean when I first moved to eattle, it was a very disturbing aesthetic to some people. And within the last...
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Joshua Callaghan
Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Age 40 and currently living in Los Angeles, California.
What made you want to decorate public utility boxes? I responded to a call for public art to the city of Culver City. They wanted to decorate boxes and I had this idea.
Where do you go to get the pictures printed to be glued on? Do the people working there think you’re crazy for blowing up...
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Hideyuki Katsumata
Characterized by his use of colors, Hideyuki Katsumata’s artwork is melodramatic as well as hectic in the way that his forms and different characters are placed in-between, around and in front of each other. Seemingly unorganized, Hideyuki’s pieces have a sense of a dynamism that is all juxtaposed with familiar color palettes. We were able to ask this Japanese artist a few...
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The xx
“Hype can be scary.” Oliver tells us, “I know I’ve reacted badly to it when it’s happened to other bands in the past. If I feel a band has been forced on me in any way I kind of don’t want to listen to them, just to prove I can think for myself.”
It’s a familiar phenomena, band’s being disregarded purely because they’re ‘the next big thing.’ But this reaction is something that Oliver, and his...
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Sun K. Kwak
Tell me a little bit about your background. Born in South Korea, I received my MA in Studio Art at New York University in 1997. I currently live and work in New York City. My drawings have been exhibited in South Korea, the United States, and Europe
How did you become interested in art? As far as I can remember I love to draw and paint, and also look at various visual images since I was...
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Nosaj Thing
I read somewhere that you were already messing around with recording software at age 13. Mhm.
What got you into music so early? I was always in the music program. I was in band since 4th grade playing the saxophone and clarinet. And then in high school I joined the drum line. But I actually got into dj’ing, when I was 13 and I was spinning hip-hop and drum n’ bass. I had a friend that had an...
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Correll Correll
How have your relationships and life around you affected your work? Our surrounding physical environment has always influenced our work, much more so than personal relationships or things like this. It is a lot about the immediate space in which we work - our workshop, the city and country we live in. But we always have a lot of projective fantasies in this regard as well: we think a lot about...
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Christian Joy
How did you get involved in costuming? It was by accident. I had moved to NYC and I was working at a stored called Antique Boutique which used to be where American Apparel is now on Broadway. The store carried a lot of small designers and I just figured that I could design too so I gave it a shot. I started off creating one of a king tees which I sold at a store called Timtoum on Orchard Street...
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Abshalom Jac Lahav
Looking at your current and past paintings, I get a sense of empowerment for the Jewish community. With this said, your art has created a voice for the Jewish community (past and present) and has generated a sort of memorial to the Jewish Diaspora. Besides art, what is another way you would have liked to do so? (ex. music, film, poetry) and do you think it would have been as successful as your...
July 2011
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Aaron Ruell
A little about your background, please. I grew up in a small California town called Clovis. I was a sophomore in High School when I started taking photos and spent the next two years in the dark room. Then I went away to film school. Then I came back to photography and have been shooting steadily for the past 6 years. But aside from my high school photography classes, I haven’t had any...
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