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Five Tips From…...MCA

/>1) If you live in the city and want a nice pet - get a bunny, it’s great fun
watching them jump around your living room.

2) When you’re having a
bad day heat up some olive oil in a frying pan, add garlic and a little salt and
let it fry up (don’t burn it) and then pour this over angel hair pasta (cooked
of course), mix it up, add some crushed red pepper and eat - this will
definitely make you smile.

3) Even when "http://www.kidrobot.com/michaellau.html">Michael Lau or "http://www.kawsone.com">Kaws puts out a new one, try your best not to spend
rent on toys.

4) Listen to ‘I Get Wet’ weekly if not daily.

/>5) Be kind to the elderly.

(The other week, we posted MCA’s
terrific responses to our five questions.  For some unexplicable reason, they’ve
mysteriously disappeared. So, in case you missed them the first go around, here
they are once again:)

MCA - The A’s to our Q’s

/>Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?
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MCA: Well I didn’t really do it consciously, I just always liked
to draw and do comics and characters and weird graphics - then one day (way
back) a kid gave me some stickers of his band and told me he got them made at
Copy Cop, so of course I made up a sheet of the new Paul Reubens as the devil
graphic I did and got my first stickers made b&w xerox style. I don’t really see
myself as a street artist, compared to someone like Shepard is out all night
wheat pasting, but some of my stickers do end up stuck on light posts and stuff
for the kids to see which is cool.

"http://woostercollective.com/images/cornelius.gif" align= "left">Wooster:
What originally inspired you to do the Evil characters and logos? Why
Evil?

MCA: Well my grandfather was the main man who got me
into drawing from ever since I can remember. As far as the characters go, it
just was a natural progression after copying Mad magazine & Heathcliff comics to
go ahead and make up yer own folks. The Evil name came from that Paul Reubens
graphic, I just wrote “evil” under it and somehow just kept using it with all
the stuff that followed. It’s not meant in the real deal Satan worshipping way,
but more in the paranoid suburban mom way of thinking that things like punk rock
& heavy metal were evil.

Wooster: What other street artists
do you most admire and why?

MCA: Well,  "http://www.obeygiant.com">Shepard is awesome, just the way he created an
icon and ran full force with it covering most the the world along the way.  I
like Kaws a lot, he’s kind of doing a
similar thing with that recognizable skull/sperm & crossbones icon and his toys
are sick, I’d love to do toys of my characters like that. http://www.faile.net">Faile’s posters are really cool, I like the
juxtaposition of images. "http://www.graffiti.org/espo/pieces.html">Espo’s Community Improvement
stuff is nice and a great idea. There was a guy in Boston this past Christmas
stenciling "http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/025839
54.htm">“Santa is Real” on lamp posts and on the sidewalk everywhere, I
though that was pretty good way to cheer up a few of the grumpy folks bumbling
around during the holiday season.

Wooster: What’s your
favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
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MCA:  NYC is best, the whole area where you guys are always has a
bunch of new stuff to see, especially If have time to just wonder around that
area of New York and check out back alley streets, you always find cool stuff. I
have started to notice more stuff popping up in Boston recently, which is cool.
It’s always good to be walking from point A to point B and look down and see a
sticker with a sick graphic that you’d hadn’t seen before.

"http://woostercollective.com/images/blowfly.gif" align= "right">Wooster:
What inspires you now?

MCA:  I’m inspired by people with a
crazy work ethic, it makes me think I’m not doing half as much work as I should
be - which is good, you gotta push yourself.  Music is also a great inspiration,
people like Kid606, Andrew WK, Missy Elliot, the Boredoms, Le Tigre, Wire, stuff
like that can really get you going.