- August 8, 2003
- Posted by Marc
Orko - The Vitals: Age:
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Orko - The Vitals:
Age: 27
Hometown:
Caterham
Where do you now live?: Whitechaple
East London
How long have you been creating street art?:
About Five Years
What did you do last night?: Eat
icecream and went to bed
What is your favorite thing to eat for
dinner?: Chilli/Pasta/Roast Beef
Who is your favorite
fictional character?: Batman / Planet of the Apes / Max - Where The
Wild Thing Live
What do you currently have in your pockets?:
Nintendo SP / Wallet / Phone / Silver Rizla papers / Ipod
/>If you were given “more time,” what would you do with it?: Go
Fishing
Who do you love?: ER
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Orko - The A’s to Our Q’s:
Wooster: How did you get started
in creating art for the street?
Orko: I have always
drawn monsters from a really young age but started scrawling on walls after see
the work by Phil Frost.
Wooster: What other street
artists do you most admire and why?
Orko:
href="http://www.kawsone.com/">Kaws / Phil Frost / Espo / Reas / Space Invader /
Kosta / Giant / Dalek / D.face The list can on and on so many great artist out
there.
Wooster: What’s your favorite city,
neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
/>Orko: East London - Shoreditch / Lower East Side NY
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Wooster: What inspires you now?
/>Orko: Every thing from the way school kids tie their shoe
laces to hand writen signs in shop windows.
Wooster:
What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?
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Orko: I have got a gallery show at Ruby Low in the
West end and doing some stuff for Sneaker freak in Sydney.
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