818 - The Vitals:

/>Age: 27 and 24.
Hometown: Bologna,
Italy
Where do you now live?: Bologna, Italy
/>How long have you been creating street art?: Both of us have
been writing graffiti for ten years now and to be honest we don’t believe that
818 productions have to be considered as street art, they aren’t born in and for
the streets, they have been done for clients that let us free to create and
evolve our works painting things that have gone through our minds in the last
few years, obviously influenced by our graffiti writers’ experience.
/>What did you do last night?: We should have gone out to
paint but we ended up in a confectioner’s shop eating freshly baked stuff.
/>What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: Tortellini in
brodo, the most typical dish from our hometown, Bologna. We’d like to use
this space to tell everybody outside Italy that here the famous Spaghetti
Bolognese (that means spaghetti with the typical Bologna sauce)  DON’T EXIST: we
do have a sauce with meat and tomato (never with paprika or raisins as you may
find it in England or France pretending it to be the original) but nobody here
thinks about using it with spaghetti, it isn’t just the right sauce, they won’t
fit, it is just a horrible touristic lie. That’s it.
Who are
your favorite fictional characters?: Thomas Sullivan Magnum (played by
Tom Selleck) from the serie ‘Magnum, p.i.’ and Miami Vice’s lieutenant Martin
Castillo (played by Edward James Olmos).
What do you currently have in your
pockets?: Handkerchiefs, keys, driving licence and a good-luck piece.
/>If you were given “more time,” what would you do with it?: To
be honest, we don’t really know; what we do has a strong relationship with the
deadline we are given, so, if we had more time we would probably take it easier.
We also have ideas of more complex stuff so we hope one day to have more time to
develop them all.
Who do you love?: Kermit the frog.
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818 - The A’s to Our Q’s:

Wooster: How did you
get started in creating art for the street?

818: As
we told you, we never really started to create art for the street, we have
started doing graffiti in the same old way: we were impressed by graffiti around
town, we loved to draw, you can guess how it continued… We started 818 nearly
by chance, we are now quite happy with our works and we’ll keep on working.
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Wooster: Why 818?

818: It’s
very simple if you think about our first names…

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

818: Space Invaders, ‘cause the idea of the
invasion from space was really genial; Space3 and SOL, ‘cause they proved to be
different from those too many guys doing always the same things and they keep on
evolving.

Wooster: What’s your favorite city,
neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?

/>818: It’s good to see different places with different people
trying to create something, we really like the Mascarella and University areas
in Bologna where you can easily find Blu’s characters. 

/>Wooster: What inspires you now?

818:
Everything… as always.

Wooster: What are
you currently working on?  Can you give us a sneak peek?

818:
We are thinking about creating three-dimensional objects shaping them
with resin. We also want to work more with wallpaper ‘cause using it in one of
our last works brought us to have a lot new ideas to develop.

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