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Sprayblog has a nice interview with artist Jim Mahfood… great images and insights!

ahh… David Choe, David Choe… how i love thy work.  Dithers hooked up with David Choe for an interview… very insightful!  love hearing about the inspiration  behind work and watching the artist and their technique.  i really love David Choe’s work because he approaches art head on, no holds barred!

there’s a great interview with accomplished artist Mike Stilkey, over on Fecal Face.com.  Mike’s currently obsessed with painting books… in all manners: inside, outside, on their spines. very cool!

here’s a great inside look at Joshua Allen Harris’ inflatable bag monsters… inflatable street art that comes to life when subways pass underneath the ventalation grates in sidewalks!  really great stuff!

t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts! … an essential part of my wardrobe, hopefully you’ve amassed a sweet collection of your own!  CXXVI is a collabo between Matt Gorton and Jon Contino, designers who’ve been making shirts on behalf of others for years and finally decided to venture out on their own…. to great success!  check the interview over at LimitedHype.

Brian Sorg is a photographer out of Chicago who is involved in an ongoing photography series surrounding a kid named Davy.  the series is really provocative as Brian sheds light on the life of a surburban boy making all sorts of questionable decisions.  following him for six years, Davy has left no stone unturned, no topic too risque to cover.  check out his site or the interview he did with Feature Shoot!

SwipeLife was fortunate enough to have a chance to interview Ezra Caldwell… owner, operator, mechanical mind behind Fast Boy Cycles (posted here).  Ezra talks about his background, love for bikes, triumph over rectal cancer and how he makes some seriously sexy bikes….

Swoon is one of my favorite street artists… i’ve been following her work for years, in awe of her illustrations pasted about NYC. gritty… raw… imaginative…  i love how Swoon goes in depth with her process of creating and love even more the story she tells about how her work has affected a neighborhood in which she posted, “The Secret.”  – beautiful!  the epitomy of what most artists want to achieve…

i could rave about this interview for a variety of reasons:  Shepard Fairey, known for his iconic OBEY images, work with the Obama campaign and his profound impact on society deem him worthy of our attention…. his interview with BANKSY should not go ignored by anyone.  my words do no justice; please visit the Swindle Magazine site to read the interview.  quotes:

A lot of artists can be neurotic, self-indulgent snobs using art for their own catharsis, but BANKSY distances himself from his work, using art to plant the feelings of discontent and distrust of authority that anyone can experience when he prompts them to ask themselves one gigantic question: Why is this wrong?

BANKSY’s work embodies everything I like about art and nothing I dislike about it. His art is accessible rather than elitist, since he does it on the street; it has a powerful political message that’s conveyed with a sense of humor, which certainly makes the bitter pill easier to swallow; it’s pleasing to look at, because it’s technically very strong but not overly complex and intimidating; and he pulls it off in such a way that its presence in its context communicates not only his message but his dedication to effecting the change he promotes in that message, whether he’s defying Israeli hegemony by painting the separation wall in Palestine or bypassing the elitist review board of a museum by hanging his work himself.

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HunterGatherer is a design, illustration, animation and production studio whose favorite medium is wood. a nice lil sitdown with Todd St. John (founder) and Gary Benzel (frequent collabo partner). haha – “you guys have wood on lockdown.” “what?” “wood.”