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Rizon is a 3D Designer, Illustrator and Creative Director who lives in Antwerp, Belgium. We talk about the early graffiti days in Antwerp, first trips to NY, glass eyes in sandwiches, seeking refuge in clubs because it was too cold outside, the beauty of early adoption and fighting for the art form, never finishing high school, odd jobs and faux-finishing, building Zillion, figuring out the flier business, learning Strata off of video tapes, 10 years of 14 hours a day of learning programs, Beeple's work and success, NFT hesitancy, the power of working client-direct, agency hi-jinx, his long-standing relationship with Nike, the story behind founding the 'Us By Night' design festival in Antwerp and its challenges, and the superpower of being insecure and vulnerable.

https://www.rizon.be
IG: @rizon_parein_3d

Pez is a Spanish artist who paints worldwide. We talk about early beginnings, positive graffiti, Barcelona shutters, his show at Thinkspace Gallery in LA, the barrier of the mind, the scene in Bogota/Columbia, cops that write graffiti, the Visual Arts Rights Act, Amsterdam adventures and more.

IG: @pezbarcelona
www.el-pez.com

Recorded at Modern Multiples Studio with Lionel Deluy and Montana Mills on the signing day of "Angelina", we talk about how the collaboration edition came about, details of the production, the story behind the Angelina Jolie shoot back in the early '90s and how she knew exactly what she wanted, working with the drum-scanned polaroid because Vogue never returned the negatives, the many firsts that are happening on this collaboration and Lionel's technique of signing with his fingerprint that contains a little amount of his blood.

www.bigbropub.com
IG: @modernmultiples
IG: @Lionel_Deluy

Montana Mills is the Director of Modern Multiples, a fine art printmaking studio in Los Angeles specializing in serigraphs and digital giclees. We talk about the founder of the studio and Montana's uncle, the artist and printmaker Richard Duardo and the legacy he created and left behind, LA's Chicano Art movement, Hecho in Atzlan, the difference between an archival digital print and a multiple, the true meaning of the word "giclee", the art of printmaking, creating the Chicano Collections with Cheech Marin, the process of serigraphy, working with Richard Sera, Ed Ruscha, Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Chaz Bojorquez and others, and the intense production of our upcoming collaboration release "Angelina" with photographer Lionel Deluy.

www.modernmultiples.com
IG: @modernmultiples

Fabian Alomar is a professional skateboarder and actor living in Los Angeles. We talk about being freshly released after being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison for 4 years, making the 'Cholos Try' videos, staying sober and clean, celebrating too much, self-help programs in prison, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), spending time in the hole, being friends with people who's faces he's never seen in SHU, how to make a kites and lines to communicate with and pass items to fellow inmates, how he got into skateboarding, how Menace got started, getting turned pro by Mark Gonzales, having Danny Trejo as a mentor, being a part of DOC, the first tagging crew that had professional skateboarders in it, doing what comes from the heart, what the pandemic was like in prison, and how to stay smooth like dolphin.

IG: @fabianalomarofficial

Nychos is an artist who was born in Vienna but now lives in Los Angeles and paints around the world. We talk about quitting sugar and alcohol, meeting at See No Evil 2 in Bristol back in 2012, getting into Lords Crew and JBCB, opening the Rabbit Eye Movement Gallery and Studio in Vienna, doing 4 solo shows in a year, hitting San Francisco hard, getting sick with a mysterious sickness which took many years to figure out, having a life-changing 5-MeO-DMT trip, doing tai chi everyday for 8 months straight, life/death consciousness, clearing out past karma, regressing to 12 past lifetimes, getting visited by the white rabbit, the price of entry to America, surviving 10 near-death experiences and losing the fear of death, healing yourself with what you paint, and what's coming up next.

https://www.rabbiteyemovement.at/
IG: @nychos
IG: @rabbiteyemovement_official

MadSteez is an artist living and working in New York. Recorded at his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we talk about making up meanings for the paintings after the fact, why Mr. Ween is number 1 and how the Weeniverse got started, working at Rusty as an assistant Art Director without them knowing he was still in High School, how Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Picasso owned Wiener dogs, why you can go backside on the Ween, his thinking behind packing everything up and driving from Orange County to New York with his Wiener dogs 3.5 years ago, doing art for 20 years, proper challenges, putting on your own art shows, why New York is freestyle all-day, strange presentations of one's self, bad taste in art buying, relating the hip-hop world to the art world, longevity and staying relevant, making art as a way to immortality, leaving art on the sidewalk, hanging on to one painting every 2 years for your own collection, getting a development deal for an animated show based on his Weenimals with Erkel doing one of the voices, how paintings painting themselves, Warhol's first stencil, flooding the whole Costa Mesa basin with fluorescent green silkscreen ink while working on a massive painting that took 10,000 pounds of sand to clean up, why New York has better waves than Newport Beach, waking up at 9:44 AM every morning, and starting an OnlyFans called OnlyWeen where he's gonna paint in the nude.

www.madsteez.com
IG: @madsteez

We are also joined by writer Anna Del Gaizo.
IG: @thisannaisbananas

Enrique Lorenzo is a professional skateboarder who lives in Barcelona. Recorded from the steps at MACBA in Barcelona we talk about funny trick trends poppin' up accidentally through the socials, skateboarding being an art or a sport depending or your perspective, how he ended up skating for World Industries, getting the call from Rodney Mullen on a Wednesday, foregoing his high school studies to skate, how most of his footage from his Trilogy part was sponsor-me footage, raids at the Courthouse, things being really tight-knit, how Nike got into skateboarding, living in LA for 22 years on-and-off, romance pulling him out of to LA, being able to film all day every day in Barca, loving what you do, starting the clothing line 'Great Tomorrow' and dealing with opening multiple stores, staying humble and feeling like you haven't done shit, and dining and ditching.

IG: @enriquelorenzoo
https://www.greattomorrowclothing.com/
IG: @greattomorrowclothing

Allison Bamcat is an artist living and working in LA. We talk about growing up with Scientologist parents, how Dianetics saved the day when food-poisoned once, starting to paint walls two and a half years ago at the age of 30, getting taught by graffiti artists, the scene in Boston, how to get boomlifts to stop beeping, painting in the rain, painting 8 walls in the last 2 months, loving to paint, honoring the past, developing original characters rather than using known properties, coming from the world of footwear design at Converse, not relying on the background color to cut back in, what the best spray paint is and why, the short-cut to making PDFs, sending out personalized postcards to curators in order to get noticed, the benefits of business cards and brochures, if it's not positive don't do it, living with mental illness, the power of breathing, expressing your struggles, one's taste level being higher than the work one creates, and incorporating symbolism.

www.bamcatshop.com
IG: @allisonbamcat

Gsulf is a graffiti artist from Paris who now lives in LA. We talk about moving to LA in January of 2020 right before the pandemic, the power of the bidet, wiping from the front just to be safe, abandoning the technical side of painting, spray paint as a tool, focusing on gesture, being free to try new stuff with the option of not showing it, maintaining focus on the letterform, abstract painting as a way to unlearn how to paint, trusting every mark and mistake, painting as a game, never using a sketch, incorporating the old painting when painting over it, the accidental beauty the buff leaves behind, the LA homeless situation versus the Paris homeless situation, why it's time for an alien to show up, virtue signaling, being able to chill for free in Europe, living in a car culture without a driver's license and what's 'Bon pour le Morale.'

IG: @jathieumulien