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How evil are you, would you steal candy from a baby?

I really don’t think I am evil. I would rather share candy with a baby than steal it from a baby, I’m not even sure what kind of candy a baby would be eating or have on them at any given time of the day – and if they did happen to have candy, they’d prob­a­bly be eating it and baby’s are way slob­bery – so say I was going to steal it, I’d nab it and it’d be all slimy w/baby slob­ber & It’d prob­a­bly slip out of my greasy hands – but even if I was going to share it, I’d still have the same slip slime prob­lem & if I didn’t know the baby all that well I don’t think I’d wanna chomp into a slobbed up candy from some weird little kid.

How many toys do you own and do you play with them?

I own a bunch of toys. Once some­one sent me the head of a big pee wee doll.

I usu­ally just set them up around where I work & live because I enjoy toys & look­ing at them can some­times cheer up your day. – - but I recently have started play­ing with them again thanks to The Noto­ri­ous AEA. We recently picked up a little Ewok, a mini Mike Tyson and the purple alien from that pro­gram Battle Star Galac­tica – when we got home we played w/these guys along side some farm ani­mals & a piece of yarn.

What is the longest length of time you have spent on a project and what was it?

I’m not sure. Some­times it takes me for­ever to even figure out what I am sup­pose to be doing, but then maybe like two weeks later some­thing will click & I’ll get it all done in one night.

If I had to pick one thing it would be the process of design­ing & then get­ting a sculpt made & approv­ing it for my Evil Ape figure, that took awhile – just because I was overly picky with it & asked for changes & changes (toy2r had great patience with me!) – so maybe that is the thing I stayed with the longest – from orig­i­nal draw­ings to hold­ing a vinyl proto-​type in my hands – you’re prob­a­bly want­ing to know how long it took, I can’t remem­ber – but it was awhile…

Apart from illus­tra­tion what other things are you into?

Talk­ing to & observ­ing Old people (you can learn a lot), going to the store and look­ing thru mag­a­zines, eating pizza, I like to go to new york & just ran­domly walk around neigh­bor­hoods I don’t know, making videos, star­ing blankly at the wall trying to figure out what my prob­lem is, going to see chop­per, watch­ing movies (just watched a scan­ner darkly last night – it was pretty good, Philip K. Dick seemed like a wild guy..), I like to make record­ings, listen to music – all that stuff… A friend just gave me the new TV on the Radio – def good…

Who are your favourite artists &/or illus­tra­tors alive today?

I like Mickey Duzy, James Jarvis, Joel-​Peter Witkin, Magmo the Destroyer, Ben Jones, Barry McGee, Le Merde, Fawn Gehweiler ,Ray­mond Pet­ti­bon, Todd James, Har­mony Korine, Paul McCarthy, Kaws, Ari Mar­copou­los, Fafi, Daniel John­ston, Kid Koala, Neck Face, Wrecks, Ken Kagami, James Quigley – this is a par­tial list, just off the top of my head here & now – lots of good folks out there….

Which gal­leries have you shown at and which gal­leries would you like to show at?

I have shown at the Orchard Street Gallery (NYC), Adi­color Studio (Berlin), Drive-​In Stu­dios (NYC), MF Gallery (NYC), Stephan Weiss Studio (NYC), MODA3 (Milawau­kee), David Adam­son Gallery (Wash­ing­ton DC), Gomi Gallery (Austin, TX), 147 Wooster Gallery (NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC), MASS MOCA, Ziet­gist Gallery (Port­land Oregon), Somerville Arts Center (MA), Com­pound Gallery (Port­land, Oregon), The Show­room (NYC), Mixi-​Bang (Pasadena, CA), Gallery 1988 (LA, CA).

As far as which gal­leries I’d like to show at… If it’s a good show – any!

Are you involved in any col­lab­o­ra­tive projects at the moment and is there anyone you would like to work with?

I like doing col­lab­o­ra­tions. I kinda have an ongo­ing collab w/Magmo – we pick it up when we have time & see what hap­pens – we may do another show together this year.. I have also been work­ing with Niko Stumpo & I think we will go wild in ‘07 with new stuff, There is talk to do a collab zine w/WRECKS (if I ever get some draw­ings done!) & I think myself & Cupco will be doing a doll design together – -that’ll be fun…

What’s next in the pipeline for Evil Design?

New toys – the Evil Apes series will con­tinue, WZRDS will be out soon & new guys… I have a few Buds coming out w/Jamungo, pos­si­bly some Mimobots, a Teddy Trooper in the series 2 roll, a pillow & shirt w/ Owl Move­ment, maybe some bags w/TRK&FLD, a puker CiBoy… Bunch of stuff…

Umm… I might bust back into doing more shirt designs – I got kinda bogged down w/other work, but folks are asking for tees & stuff – so I hope to get goin on that soon… Not sure what else – - – we’ll see, we’ll see…

Shouts?

A big shout out to James Brown (both of em…)

Car­rots or Peas?

I like em both. Raw car­rots are good. Have you ever had pea pasta? It’s nice.

Freddy or Jason?

Inter­est­ing Question… Can you choose?

1st thought was Jason, he came out first & one of the first R rated Hor­rors I saw in the the­atre at the mall was the Friday the 13th w/Crispin Glover & Corey Feld­man in it – & that’s an awe­some one – when Feld­man recre­ates Jason as a boy – - clas­sic clas­sic scene..

But Freddy is cool too… That 1st Elm St is a great movie – Johnny Depp get­ting all sucked into the bed & is that the one where the girl eats coffee grinds & washes em down w/coke – that’ll freak you out… You ever try it? Wild wild – - and that part with all the scream­ing faces in Freddy’s belly – I think that’s in a later one… Anyways….

I dunno – tough to choose… An’ ya know what… I never watched the pic­ture Freddy vs. Jason.. Maybe deep down there is a reason I pass that video up at the rental shop — I cant choose one to root for… I couldn’t bear to see em fight – maybe they become friends in it – -I’ll never know….

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