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January 28, 2004
Profile: J-F Fury (Melbourne City Fury)
J-F Fury (Melbourne City Fury) - The Vitals:
Age: 26
Hometown: Melbourne (City Fury)
Where do you now live?: Same
How long have you been creating street art?: Hmmm I think that would be around 6 years now
What did you do last night?: Went to New Years Stencil Exhibition party, (featuring the whos who of Melbourne street art)... got really dizzy from paint fumes in an enclosed space... it rocked!
What is your favourite thing to eat for dinner?: Pizza and Beer!
Who is your favourite fictional character?: Homer Simpson... and The Bride (from Kill Bill)
What do you currently have in your pockets?: Keys, Wallet, Phone and an UZI! BORING know
If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?: More art... more writing... More love~
Who do you love?: TONI!!!!
J-F Fury - The A's to Our Q's:
Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?
FURY: It all started when Shepard (obey) Fairy came to town... its a familiar story and you have all heard it... Me and my friend started a little sticker campaign based on 80's Icons... called it Robot Ink... started stencilling in a small way after that. Dropped street art for a while to work on my zine PDWG..(I was mad into Mexican wrestling you see) it ran for 6 issues... and after that started with the stencils again... this time seriously... and constantly fuelled by the talent pool of Stencilrevolution.com
Wooster: Why Tony the Tiger?
FURY: My girlfriends name is Toni... and I was sitting on the train with my sketch book one day and the idea came to me... very simple really... in fact its bordering on corny... but hey, it works... I was Trying to recreate the feel of old cereal packages. But my art extends further... I am working on heaps of freehand stuff sketch stuff at the moment (for posters and stencils) trying to get the honesty back up in my work, Tony was a specific image for a specific Piece
Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?
FURY: Aww man.I knew you gonna ask this. I would have to say, in the first instance Obey, Banksy and blah blah blah. we all know em. but Melbourne (and the rest of Australia) has a lot of talent and I reckon that my main inspiration comes from right here. Prism, Tusk, Meggs, Victim, YOK, Bungle, Monkey, Satta, 610, Xero, HA-HA, Reka One, Synk, Perks and Mini and everyone else who rocks Melbourne (sorry if I missed you.)
Wooster: What's your favourite city, neighbourhood, or block, to post and/or
to see street art?
FURY: Croft Alley in Melbourne. Melbourne in General. it's a living breathing gallery, Oh and Newcastle in NSW is always fun
Wooster: What inspires you now?
FURY: Everything and anything, Friends, Old school characters, Kubricks, Cool Package design, Comics, Cartoons, Japanese Horror Punk bands. Who knows. it is impossible for me to pin Inspiration to one or two things.. I find that riding the train everyday (sketchbook on lap.pencil in hand) is a really good way to create stuff.. Ideas seem to just flow. Oh and MUSIC.. that's a big one.. Punk, Ska, Rock. whatever.
Wooster: What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?
FURY: New poster Campaign under the name "Jelly Bean", some collaborations and hopefully a lot more stencil work (time permitting) also formulating on a new "one off" zine called GPD (Geriatric Profanity Disorder). And hopefully some freelance graphic work. No Sneak Peeks. sorry (but some stencil work is viewable on stencilrevolution.com)
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