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
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AEST’s graffiti interest started in a somewhat generic, funny way as he explains with a southern drawl, “Mang, I remember when I was a kid, I used to get my haircut at this barber shop and there was this hip hop, skyline, b-boy character thing they had going on. I never knew who did it, … Read more
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For the past 25 years Derek Riggs has supplied us with countless images of the most well know monster in heavy metal history, Eddie Maiden. Eddie has transformed Iron Maiden into a merchandising giant. The attraction to Eddie is as strong today as it was with his first appearance in 1979. Riggs is opinionated, upfront, and … Read more
We are sponsoring a show at Flatcolor Gallery in Seattle. If you are in town stop by to check it out. They will be giving out free copies of The Art of Storytelling Magazine to the first 50 attendees. The posse hooked up a nice show, Chip, Bigfoot and El Kamino. Check back next week for photos.
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Okay, so I moved to New York City when I was eighteen having grown up and spent my real formative years in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I started my life in San Francisco, California and spent my first four years in the Los Angeles area. When I was seventeen I managed to graduate high school. I got out a year … Read more
Some old friends just opened up a record shop in Brooklyn. I missed the opening night but from what I heard the space, concept, and merchandise is on point. Stop in and check it out the address is listed below and you can click here to view their facebook page.
BLACK GOLD RECORDS
461 Court Street
Brooklyn NY
11231
Open daily except Moday. 11am-9pm Sundays 11am-5pm.
F or G train to Carroll Street. WE BUY RECORDS!!!
I came across a great interview today on SLAMXHYPE, with Erik Brunetti of FUCT. Over the years I haven’t kept up too much as to what was going on in the street wear world. Recently I started to gain an interest again and obviously I went back to what I knew as a kid, FUCT, SSUR, FRESHJIVE, and X-LARGE. Anyway, it seems like Erik doesn’t do a lot of interviews, … Read more
Last night we co-sponsored an art show at the Zakka Shop in Brooklyn. The event was hosted by Mathmatiks and the turnout was great. It featured works by Nick Kuszyk, Jade Kuei, El Kamino, Chip 7 and Pars Kid. We gave out over 100 copies of The Art of Storytelling magazine and we also released our first figure called eyeball kid which was a collaboration between The Art of … Read more
D-Nice has been putting out these videos for a while now, they are called True Hip-Hop Stories. I might have posted one up in the past, but Chip actually brought them to my attention once again. They are really well put together, both the video quality and content is on point. It is refreshing to watch a hip-hop interview and not listen to some thugged out bull shit. I posted … Read more
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For me it all started out in North New Jersey. Most people know my history with Lords of the Underground, but I guess what they don’t know is that before Lords of the Underground I was also a solo artist.
New Jersey kind of ran the hip hop scene in the 90’s. You had Lords of the Underground, Naughty by … Read more
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