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December 2, 2003
Profile: 818
818 - The Vitals:
Age: 27 and 24.
Hometown: Bologna, Italy
Where do you now live?: Bologna, Italy
How long have you been creating street art?: Both of us have been writing graffiti for ten years now and to be honest we don't believe that 818 productions have to be considered as street art, they aren't born in and for the streets, they have been done for clients that let us free to create and evolve our works painting things that have gone through our minds in the last few years, obviously influenced by our graffiti writers' experience.
What did you do last night?: We should have gone out to paint but we ended up in a confectioner's shop eating freshly baked stuff.
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: Tortellini in brodo, the most typical dish from our hometown, Bologna. We'd like to use this space to tell everybody outside Italy that here the famous Spaghetti Bolognese (that means spaghetti with the typical Bologna sauce) DON'T EXIST: we do have a sauce with meat and tomato (never with paprika or raisins as you may find it in England or France pretending it to be the original) but nobody here thinks about using it with spaghetti, it isn't just the right sauce, they won't fit, it is just a horrible touristic lie. That's it.
Who are your favorite fictional characters?: Thomas Sullivan Magnum (played by Tom Selleck) from the serie 'Magnum, p.i.' and Miami Vice's lieutenant Martin Castillo (played by Edward James Olmos).
What do you currently have in your pockets?: Handkerchiefs, keys, driving licence and a good-luck piece.
If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?: To be honest, we don't really know; what we do has a strong relationship with the deadline we are given, so, if we had more time we would probably take it easier. We also have ideas of more complex stuff so we hope one day to have more time to develop them all.
Who do you love?: Kermit the frog.
818 - The A's to Our Q's:
Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?
818: As we told you, we never really started to create art for the street, we have started doing graffiti in the same old way: we were impressed by graffiti around town, we loved to draw, you can guess how it continued... We started 818 nearly by chance, we are now quite happy with our works and we'll keep on working.
Wooster: Why 818?
818: It's very simple if you think about our first names...
Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?
818: Space Invaders, 'cause the idea of the invasion from space was really genial; Space3 and SOL, 'cause they proved to be different from those too many guys doing always the same things and they keep on evolving.
Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
818: It's good to see different places with different people trying to create something, we really like the Mascarella and University areas in Bologna where you can easily find Blu's characters.
Wooster: What inspires you now?
818: Everything... as always.
Wooster: What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?
818: We are thinking about creating three-dimensional objects shaping them with resin. We also want to work more with wallpaper 'cause using it in one of our last works brought us to have a lot new ideas to develop.
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