• March 30, 2003
  • Posted by Marc

red79 - The VitalsAge: 23

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red79 - The Vitals

Age: 23
Hometown: Perth, Australia
Where
do you now live?:
Vancouver, Canada
How long have you been creating
street art?:
quite a few years on and off
What did you do last
night?:
set out on a motorcycle trip then watched my friends band
S.T.R.E.E.E.T.S play a show.
What is your favorite thing to eat for
dinner?:
anything from the "http://www.dininglounge.com/cocktails.htm">“Foundation” restaraunt in
Vancouver
Who is your favorite fictional character?: “Bo Bo Gnar
Gnar”
What do you currently have in your pockets?: Passport, a mix
tape, key for my honda CB500T
1975 motorcycle
, brown bandana, swiss army kinfe and 32 cents.
If
you were given “more time,” what would you do with it?:
  probably try to get
onto some of the many projects that get neglected due to trying to do to many
things.
Who do you love?: My friends that are my family and my
family that are my friends.

red79 - The A’s To Our Q’s

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

red79: I was always interested in graf when I was
younger but liked the idea of doing something different as I got older more
interested in other forms of art. Some of shepard faireys ideas about
phenomenology were an definate influence. MONTANA represent!!

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hspace="10">Wooster: How did you come up with the people that you use in
your art?

red79: It seems like they all come from old 70’s
records.

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

red79: anyone doing something different and not for
self promotion. esentially I like street art when it makes you stop and question
what is going on.

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

red79:
Perth city is fun to put stuff up because it is kinda quiet at night.
Vancouver has some some good original street art going on.

/>Wooster: What inspires you now?

red79: Living
life.