January 29th, 2010 - Marisa -
To us Aussie’s, Tishon is quite an unusual name. We’re more familiar with names like Ben, John, Wayne or Michael. Prior to meeting Tishon, who features in this here little interview, I had never met anyone with his name. And like the uniqueness his name suggests, the 26-year-old Brooklyn-based self-described “graphic designer art director, writer, and oatmeal lover”, who has already worked for clients including Ubiquity Records, Tortured Soul Records and artist Jeff Cylkowski amongst others, is pretty on-point and/or spesh. Tishon has got it going on (we also wonder how many times he’s had to endure that little rhyme… at least it’s complimentary).
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January 18th, 2010 - Marisa -
Usually these kind of Q&A articles need a little introduction to get the ball rolling, but Brooklyn-based musician Paul Holmes evidently is not only an entertaining song-writer, but an entertaining question-answerer as well. His band Paul and the Patients, has been coming along very nicely of late (they played last year’s CMJ Music Marathon twice), buoyed by catchy melodies that often belie their sad lyrical content. Song titles like “Die,” “Desperate Times,” “Hope Is Dead,” and “Burned” may conjure up images of a ‘tortured artist’, but in person, Paul is far from it. Which is probably a good thing because who likes to be around a mopey no-hoper anyway.
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January 11th, 2010 - Marisa -
Artist Laura Adel Johnson, is a fine example of an Australian doing it, and doing it well in New York. Being half Perthian and half American, she’s lucky enough to have one foot planted in the sunny land of beers and universal healthcare, and the other in the country of extreme possibilities but every (wo) man for himself/herself.
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December 1st, 2009 - Marisa -
By Unemployed Lloyd
Since I can remember, Mean Red Productions and my crew Da Hardy Boyz have wanted to collaborate on a party. A perfect match up if you ask me. Them, a group of established promoters and us, a motley crew of musicians and DJs with an unquenchable thirst for partying.
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November 18th, 2009 - Marisa -
Bed-Stuy – do or die. This Brooklyn neighbourhood has been made famous by the rhymes of local figures such as Biggie and Mos Def, and also immortalised in picture thanks to Spike Lee and his seminal films such as Do The Right Thing and Crooklyn. Dozens of recognisable names have grown up in this area – Chris Rock, Michael Jordan, Aaliyah, Jay-Z and Talib Kweli to name a few – that New York Times states it as the “largest predominantly black neighbourhood in New York City”.
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November 9th, 2009 - Marisa -
I first met artist Denise DeSpirito in New York in the summer of 2005. She was a friendly face amongst a sea of Williamsburg/Lower East Side posturing, and as far as I knew, the only girl running with a riff raff crew of street art boy renegades. Visually, her own work needed no crutches (I think she was making particularly striking detailed drawings at the time), and from what I could gather for our handful of brief hangouts, for her there was little distinction between art and life. It was all one and the same.
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