Back in like ‘96 I hunted this magazine down just so I can read the NACE interview.  I finally found it in Philly.  I remember it was $5 and that was all I had on me.  It was either get this magazine or a cheese steak. I got the magazine, and I starved for the rest of the night, but it was wort it.  On August 12, 2001 NACE passed … Read more

Let’s start off with where you’re from, where you’ve been, and where you’re at now?
I was born in Atlantic City, NJ, lived in Manahawkin, NJ (really amazing place) until I was 19, then I moved to Arizona for about 9 years. I met my wife in NJ, so I packed up and left Arizona for NJ again. So what got you interested in tattooing? Well besides being a total fuck-up … Read more

Little Sammy has been holding it down on the video tip.  This video was done by  the same dude responsible for the Rime / Trailer Park fiasco.  I was just with Sammy this weekend at the Chiller Show and we were throwing around ideas for some new video content for the Art of Storytelling.  At any rate, check out this new Young Zee and Mr. Green video.  You may remember … Read more

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I want to say it was 2002 or 2003, I was already established in skating and I was riding for a company called USD. My problem was that I had my head wrapped around a lot of projects. I had one distribution company that I worked with making my wheels/hardware, another company I was working with doing a street … Read more

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When I first started Beautiful Decay Magazine, one thing we always did was throw release parties. At the very beginning, the release parties were vital to the business because advertising didn’t cover the cost of publishing the magazine, let alone making a profit. So my friends and I would throw warehouse … Read more

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So where did your interest in Bigfoot come from and why did you decide to startpainting Bigfoot characters?
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It’s been about 14 years now since I decided to start writing Bigfoot. I realized the symbolism of Bigfoot was the culmination of all things I was into portraying, nature, magic and an opposition to the modern human … Read more

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There was this spot on other side of my town that I started hearing about when I was really young. Some of the older kids said, ‘’You got to go to the spot on the other side of town; it’s called “The Bowl.” We had our own jumps that we called “The Brook” because you had … Read more

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So where in Jersey did you grow up?
Monmouth County, Eatontown.
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How did you get involved in the hardcore scene?
Like a lot of kids who get into hardcore, especially kids from down the Jersey Shore at that time, I found music through skating. Prior to high school, I mainly learned about hardcore from skate magazines. I’d read the “Notes” section of … Read more

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Conversation with Fred Gall’s Mom:
Freddy got his first skateboard on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. He won one of those real cheesy boards. Freddy was playing one of those big spin wheel games and he won, but it was one of those games where you could win really big prizes. They had washing machines, TVs, and … Read more

Most of you already know that in the first issue of our magazine we did an article on CLOWN the founder of  T.I.T.S crew.  When we put the issue together, we had a lot of east coast content and we wanted to do something on a west coast writer. CLOWN immediately came to mind.  Everyone here at the mag referenced him as a major inspiration, especially since most of the … Read more

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I found a video of you doing a live set with Morcheeba from England. That bugged me out. It got me so amped up because I would never have expected seeing that combo. A lot of times artists stick to what they know and are too scared to do collaborations with artists outside their genre. … Read more

It is that time of year again for a brand new installment of the “Friends With Knives” stencil group show which will be held at Crewest Gallery in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, August 9th. This year PaperMonster has brought together an impressive lineup of artists including: Blek le Rat, Broken Crow, Chris Stain, Dave Lowell, E.L.K, Greg Boudreau, HAHA, Joe Iurato, Koleszar, Henry Quiara, Leckomio, Mefee, Nathan Phaneuf, PaperMonster, … Read more