/>ELPH.MSC.LV.16K.2004

Age: 26
/>Hometown: Edinburgh
Where do you now
live?: Edinburgh
Where would you most like to
live?: I liked Berlin or Tokyo, but I think Edinburgh is good for
now
Who was your first “hero” in life?: Alex Higgins, The
Hulk and my Dad
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off
from work?: Beer and Blether with mates
What is your
favorite color?: Light Blue
Who (or what) do you
love?: Hels(my wife) Oscar (my cat), My family, friends and the Many
Styles Compadres

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

I
look at a lot of stuff all the time, but a short list would be Vampyr Films,
Ninja Films, Anime (from Akira to Tottoro), Style Wars, Juxtapoz, HipHop, Beer
and Alchoholism, Type Ornaments, Cartoon Network, Soul Music, Trash 80’s movies
and bad films in general.

What other artists do you most
admire?

I like a lot of dudes stuff, I’m a drawing geek,
but here’s a smaller list, MIEONE, Bernie Reid, Peter Howson, Delta, Yalt,
Mode2, Reas, Phil Frost, Twist, Build, Spumco, Francis Bacon, Dondi White,
Picasso, Falcoon, Carl 123, ELK, Buro Destruct, Alphons Mucha, Derek Hess,
Robert williams, David Choe, Ashley Wood, Jangs! I could go on forever, there’s
a lot of good guys out there, I could really write out a couple of
pages.

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

Imagine being in a pub in the 70’s,
every one is bevvied and unhealthy, some old mens noses look like rasberries and
have stupid stories to tell you, there eyes look like pissholes in the snow, at
first glance they’re frightening but there eyes are friendly… kindo like that.
Or some folk would say ‘wee men wi big noses’.

What
other talent would most like to have?

Music, being able
to make insane funk or soul tunes, or be a ninja would be good too.
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What do you fear the most?

That bit in
Private Ryan, where they land on the beach, being in the front row, and you can
hear the Ping, Ping, Ping, then the doors come down and whizz and your insides
explode out your back and in an instant everyone else is dead or lying pissing
themselves in a sea of blood with large holes where their 16 year old face once
was, I fear that, cause it sounds like hell.

What is
your greatest ambition?

To make enough money from
drawing to live pretty comfy or to be a bankrobber.