Today’s moniker stories come from WK, Elboe-Toe,
Klutch, Geo, Spazmat, and Dr. D.

href="http://www.wkinteract.com">WK:

regarding my name. when I
decide to take over some billboard on my city it was definitely not a good thing
to use my full name. I came up with 2 letter W&K (double time. or double impact)
for me it was more the sound… also how you pronounce it on different language,
it was easy and powerful even the letter himself have so much energy…

/>I was looking for something who will feet with my style very much industrial
completely the opposite of my culture

for many years most of the
people had no idea I was french, that was part to camouflage my past .... part
of a concept: no date, no meaning, pure action ...
after I decide to
incorporate my fingerprint: created some similarity of my large art work in
motion

the concept was not about my name but just the visual

/>and finally when I did my first interior installation at Colette in Paris I
had to find a title WK INTERACT (action, interior, intersection, in…)

/>with that name I could dissociate myself to be able to interact as much as
could for many different projects or installation ... becoming pure motion
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voila

href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/guy_on_the_streets/tags/elboetoe/">Elboe-
Toe:

“My name pays homage to several folks, musical and visual.
Musically, it’s roots can be traced to the narratives of Tom Waits and Captain
Beefheart, in their odd characters and combinations of very abstract ideas to
work in unity. Artistically, it points to Neckface, who I think has a really
brilliant moniker. I wanted to push my name to an even more absurd place, like
my work; I mean really who has ever heard of an elbow-toe, unless we are talking
about a bunion- where the big toe is bent like an elbow.”

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href="http://homepage.mac.com/klutch/Menu10.html">Klutch:

“Way
back when in 1984 I was living off and on with a couple of the guys in a
hardcore band called N.O.T.A. (None Of the Above). One very bored evening we
were sitting around drinking and watching a Disney movie called Superdad. In the
movie Klutch was a weirdo artist who was trying to scam on Superdad’s daughter,
much to the dismay of her boyfriend and Superdad. Being that I was a weirdo
artist with a liking for young punk girls my friend said, “Dude, That’s you”.
Everyone had a good laugh, agreed, and a nickname was born. It stuck so well
that a lot of people who know me through hardcore and skating are unaware that I
even have another name.”

Geo:
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My real name is a derivation of the Greek male name Georgios, which
developed out of geo (=earth), and ergo (=to work). I took the name Geo, because
it’s a short form for my real name.

Sometimes I add 0711 after Geo,
so it’s Geo0711. The number after the name is an element of the graffiti
writers.Most of them add the number of their house or street, or simply the “1”
, to their name. 0711 is the telefon code of my city, Stuttgart”


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Spazmat:
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“Spazmat” was given to me when i was about 21. There was a group of
girls that would ambitiously rally up all the artists. They knew if I wasn’t out
with them on a weekend night I was home working on art or something. “Spazmat!”
- that’s what i’d hear on my answering machine through-out a night. It’s a funny
because the next thing in mind is the burnt orange carpet, pink tile and bland
cabinets surrounding the answering machine. “freak” is another one they’d call
me, but Spazmat got lifted by the rest of the crew. I have several “monikers”
which keeps it real interesting. Noone can figure out what the hell to call me
because then they see me called something else. Skullphone has become an
abreviation for spazmat, hearing that these days too.

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Dr. D:

In the post London orbital party scene some friends and i put on an illegal party night ourselves - very small scale and ill-fated. There were Police raids due to things like them seeing smoke drifting across a motorway for no apparent reason, which alerted them to the a bunch of very happy people dancing the night away nearby. For the flyers for these nights we all adopted names - mine being ‘doctor dolittle’ due to a period of unemployment i was experiencing. The first street piece i did as dr.d (the abreviated version of my dj name) went unsigned, but after seeing a picture of it appear on a website I thought signing would be better than someone else passing it off as their own. Why not let people know of this alter ego stalking the streets not looking to do them any harm but merely trying to look out for them? ....”