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December 11, 2003
Profile: manifiesto:79
manifiesto:79 - The Vitals:
Age: 24 years.
Hometown: Cali, Colombia, third world.
Where do you now live?: In Cali, Colombia, third world.
How long have you been creating street art?: One year approximately.
What did you do last night?: I watched Kill Bill (the new movie from Tarantino).
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: Colombian, Italian and Mexican food.
Who is your favorite fictional character?: Really, I love a lot of fiction characters, but some of my favorites are Darth Vader, Blue Demon, Frankenstein, Astroboy, Batman and Bela lugosi.
What do you currently have in your pockets?: Pencils, coins, bills, papers and knickknacks.
If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?: I will spend it doing all the projects that I have in mind, and that I can't do, because I don't have enough time.
Who do you love?: My girlfriend and graphic design.
manifiesto:79 - The Q's:
Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?
manifiesto:79: Really it was a long process, not spontaneous. This year in Cali, when Coca-Cola made the launch of the new campaign, me and some friends from the EL PASKIN collective ( CPK), which I make part off, and we edit a fanzine called MUSAENFERMA, decided to make a kind of publicitary sabotage, intervening with stencils all the Coca-Cola Bus stoppers. At the same time I was working in a small intervention campaign. Using stencils, posters and stickers with the image of one of my great idols Bela Lugosi, drawing him with alien characteristics, making him more bizarre from what it actually is.
Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?
manifiesto:79: The truth is that I don't only admire street artists, I admire every new graphic artist that make not only street art, but motion graphics, design and art in general, like Bansky (UK), Dr.Hoffman(SP), Doma Collective (ARG), Space Invaders (FR), El tono (SP), Acamochi (MEX).
Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
manifiesto:79: I don't really have an specific place, I think that every place of my city, its great, the secret is to know how to use them, so they can say something.
Wooster: What inspires you now?
manifiesto:79: I'm inspired by Kitsch, Vintage, Punk, Situacionism, Dada, Serie B movies, world situation and specially in massive consume culture.
Wooster: What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?
manifiesto:79: I don't want to keep using stencil as a unique technique, that's why I'm experimenting with the combination of collage of photocopies and stencil to generate new ideas, playing with irony and double sense in my compositions.
For more informaiton on manifiesto:79, check out the Airport section of the Joystickers website.
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