• August 19, 2004
  • Posted by Marc

Profile: Akiro


/>Age: 21
Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland
/>Where do you now live?: Aberdeen, Scotland
Where
would you most like to live?:
Melbourne or San Francisco (anywhere I
can get at least 2 warm days a year, we didn’t get a summer this year, well not
yet anyway.)
Who was your first “hero” in life?: My uncle,
if someone can live life to the most with M.S then they deserve to be a hero.
/>What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?:
Drawing.
What is your favorite color?: I love my greens,
but you got to love beltons evil olive.
Who (or what) do you
love?:
I love what I do, I have a low paying job, have bills to pay,
all my cash goes back into my art. Yet none of that mater’s when I pick up a
pencil, cut a stencil, hold a can in my hand or make some silly art.

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/>Who and/or what are some of your influences?

My
influences can come from anything, from people in the street, fellow artists or
how I feel at that moment. There has been hundreds of artist that have
influenced me over the years. The most significant would have to be href="http://www.samflores.com/">Sam Flores, href="http://www.andyhowell.com/">Andy Howell, href="http://www.kinseyvisual.com/">Dave Kinsey, href="http://www.123klan.com">123 klan and Pete.

/>What other artists do you most admire?

I admire
any artist, who does it because they love it, not for fame, or they want to be
“cool” because it’s the “in thing” to do. Out of all my favourite artist that I
truly admire, one of the top would be Pete. He handles himself in such a
professional manner, is friendly, helpful and always willing to give advice. I
have had the great honour of being in two shows with him this year, which is 2
more than I ever thought I would be.

How would you
describe your art to someone who could not see it?

/>Ehhhhhhh…............. That’s a hard one. See I don’t know, to me its just my
drawings. If I had to would just say “its illustrations to make people smile”,
that’s a shit answer, sorry Wooster. I bet once this is posted, a better answer
will come into my head


What other talent would most like
to have?


To be able to pull off them fancy cocktail
tricks, like the mad spins with bottles and stuff. Would find it funny to do
that at my work while some crazy punk band is on. Might get me more tips, ether
that or will need a set of tits. “tits = tips” I like it!!!!

/>What do you fear the most?

Dieing
without saying a final goodbye.


What is your greatest
ambition?


To have my own graphic design company, and
give young people the chance to get the foot in the door to the
industries.


No wait, put that down as my second, to
kick bush in the balls live on TV. I know you should never kick a man in the
balls, but this could be a freebie. I see a huge runway with bush at the end, me
running, camera keeps jumping between me and the face of bush, the duel of the
banjo’s plays in the background, then BAM. Crowd cheers! That would be fun!





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