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manifiesto:79 - The Vitals:

Age: 24 years.
/>Hometown: Cali, Colombia, third world.
Where
do you now live?: In Cali, Colombia, third world.
How
long have you been creating street art?: One year approximately.
/>What did you do last night?: I watched Kill Bill (the new
movie from Tarantino).
What is your favorite thing to eat for
dinner?: Colombian, Italian and Mexican food.
Who is your
favorite fictional character?: Really, I love a lot of fiction
characters, but some of my favorites are Darth Vader, Blue Demon, Frankenstein,
Astroboy, Batman and Bela lugosi.
What do you currently have in
your pockets?: Pencils, coins, bills, papers and knickknacks.
/>If you were given “more time,” what would you do with it?: I
will spend it doing all the projects that I have in mind, and that I can’t do,
because I don’t have enough time.
Who do you love?: My
girlfriend and graphic design.

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manifiesto:79 - The Q’s:

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

manifiesto:79:
Really it was a long process, not spontaneous. This year in Cali, when
Coca-Cola made the launch of the new campaign, me and some friends from the EL
PASKIN collective ( CPK), which I make part off, and we edit a fanzine called
MUSAENFERMA, decided to make a kind of publicitary sabotage, intervening with
stencils all the Coca-Cola Bus stoppers.  At the same time I was working in a
small intervention campaign. Using stencils, posters and stickers with the image
of one of my great idols Bela Lugosi, drawing him with alien characteristics,
making him more bizarre from what it actually is.

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

manifiesto:79: The truth is that I don’t
only admire street artists, I admire every new graphic artist that make not
only street art, but motion graphics, design and art in general, like Bansky
(UK), Dr.Hoffman(SP), Doma Collective (ARG), Space Invaders (FR), El tono (SP),
Acamochi (MEX).

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

/>manifiesto:79: I don’t really have an specific place, I
think that every place of my city, its great, the secret is to know how to use
them, so they can say something.

Wooster: What
inspires you now?

manifiesto:79: I’m inspired by
Kitsch, Vintage, Punk, Situacionism, Dada, Serie B movies, world situation and
specially in massive consume culture.

Wooster:
What are you currently working on?  Can you give us a sneak peek?
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manifiesto:79: I don’t want to keep using stencil as a
unique technique, that’s why I’m experimenting with the combination of collage
of photocopies and stencil to generate new ideas, playing with irony and double
sense in my compositions.

For
more informaiton on manifiesto:79, check out the href="http://www.joystickbcn.org/eng/airport/index.html">Airport section of
the Joystickers website.