We’ve done plenty of Interviews over the years… some print, some videos. I must say after a while the novelty really wore off especially when the same questions kept being asked. Now I’m obviously being a bit partial here, but when Greg showed me this Digital Gravel video done while I was away I was skeptical at first, but it actually was really well done, funny and most importantly really fun to watch!
Props to Nima and DG for putting this together and dropping by while he was in NYC a few months ago! Those of you curious as to our day to day and offices, well then here you go! I apologize for the mess though, we only just moved in recently!
I can’t believe how charming, interesting and funny this video makes Greg seem…
You may remember that a short while ago we did a small feature about legendary heavy metal artists Ed Repka to coincide with his Lobotomizer T-shirt from our Spring ‘08 collection. It’s sad to think that our little feature may have been the most in-depth thing written recently about such an influential artist! Shortly after premiering the article Noise Magazine out of France contacted us about transcribing the article into French for an upcoming issue. We were very honored that a music mag of Noise’s caliber thought our feature was worthy enough to be translated and grace their pages!
That issue featuring the Repka Interview, now translated into French will be hitting the stands on Monday. So for all of our fans and friends out in France, keep a look out! We can’t wait to get our copies in the mail!
I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d ever be posting Fred Durst related news on the Bloglin but this was just to awesome to pass up. It seems the Limpest of all Bizkits has hit some sort of mid-life crisis. Fred’s got a whole new outlook and a whole new style! It seems he’s channeling our very own Mike Jones right down to suddenly developing a souther drawl! (WTF!??). This may be me but I’m pretty sure Fred Durst had a nasally white boy voice earlier in the decade. I kinda hope for his own sake Fred Durst is just a poor method actor and he’s just still “in part” for whatever the (straight to DVD) film he mentions acting in several times during the interview. Other highlights include Fred explaining his trademark Red NY Yankees Cap and just why you never got another Limp Bizkit album you were all hungering for. I think the best part though comes when Fred removes his ball cap…
My good friend and Mr. T collecting buddy Mike Essl and I were interviewed this morning for and upcoming A&E Biography on Mr. T
We got to take some of our memorabilia out of storage, set up a mini-shrine in his apartment, and talk about everything and anything T! I am sure we will post the YouTube clip when it comes out in 6 months. Such fools!
This past week I had the pleasure to meet one of my favorite artists, Carlos Enriquez. Carlos is a Venezuelan artist whose hand-painted fiberglass figures are the perfect mix of fine art sculpture and sick twisted Kaiju.
I was introduced to Carlos by my friend (and Mishka collaborator) Lamour Supreme. We met him and his wife Daniella at Toy Tokyo and then went over to Kenka for some drinks and dinner. I tried to get our friend Henrik to eat the Bull Penis from the menu but unfortunately it didn’t come in a child’s portion.
After dinner and getting to know one another, we went back to the apartment where Carlos & his wife were staying at so we could see a few of his newer pieces that he had brought with him. I had seen a couple of his pieces online, and when I saw them in person the Kaiju Invades NYC show last month, I was blown away and I couldn’t wait to see more!
Needless to say I was floored again! Getting to see The Mushroom Carousel in person was truly amazing! The details, the colors, the weirdness, it was great! The colors of the paint totally reflect differently depending on the kind of light hitting it. If I had $3500 I would have bought it from him in a nanosecond. Another of my favorites was The Vagina Brain. Check out the video below of Lamour Supreme asking Carlos about the meaning and inspiration behind The Vagina Brain.
Carlos later showed us a DVD with some of his up and coming work. One of the photos was of a 14 foot Kaiju that he carved out of wood, and then used the carving to make a mold of a just finished a 1/1 fourteen foot fiberglass Kaiju. You can check out some photos of him making the mold in his myspace gallery. He told us it was going to take him 1 month to paint it. I guess that was going to be his next project as soon as he got back to Venezuela. I am sure he will send us some pictures as soon as he is finished with it.
Peep this funny little diddy of Redman being interviewed by VICE MAGAZINE’SChris Nieratko. It involves Nieratko in a chicken suit asking borderline offensive stuff, and asking Redman about personal hygiene. I say it’s one dirtbag interviewing another. Definitely very entertaining and retarded.
PS- WTF IS IN THE BOTTLES THAT HE IS HOLDING RIGHT HERE?!
Warp Magazine out of Japan has it’s new issue on the newsstands right now. Inside you’ll find a nice little feature and interview with us.
All of the product is from our Summer 2008 collection due to drop in the next few weeks.
For better pictures I guess you’ll have to head over to your favorite Japanese bookstore… or give us a couple of weeks and we’ll do the whole preview and look-book thing.
I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with Format Magazine, but if you aren’t you should be and it should be on your daily list of spots to check. It’s a great magazine focussed on music, fashion, art and everything else that makes life worth living. We were fortunate enough to recently have Format do an interview with us which is live on their site right now. Read the interview here!
This Spring 08 season we got together with the undisputed king of Thrash Metal art… Ed Repka to create the Lobotomizer graphic.
Ed, who is best known worldwide for his iconic work during the 80s and 90s with Megadeth and Vic Rattlehead, their roguishly evil skeletal mascot. It was truly an honor working with Ed now a few times actually! He is not only one of my favorite artists but a huge influence on not just us at Mishka but metal music in general.
So we’re beyond thrilled to present to you an in-depth interview we got to conduct with the self professed “connoisseur of grotesque”! We hope it sheds some light on probably Thrash Metal’s most overlooked influence as well as what it’s like being a successful working artist for so long
Repka has painted brutal covers for many other members of metal’s finest such as Death, Nuclear Assault, Violence, Possessed, Defiance and more recently, Municipal Waste and 3 Inches of Blood. And we’re thrilled that Lobotimizer, our lament to teenage brainwashing by the Man is now part of his illustrious career!
Did another Born Jamericans post here on the bloglin some time back, but I had to put this up cause its too SICK! Notch! Best flow and voice out there!! Love it!!
Man, its the day of “everything you didn’t give a fuck about knowing and didn’t give a shit to ask about the MISHKA brand and the boneheads who run it!”
Boundless NY recently put up our entire (well pretty damn close to all of) Spring 08 Collection. Te$ley $nipes also did a 5 question interview with me. You can check it out HERE.
I also mention in that interview that my friend Mike Essl and I spoke to a class of 3rd graders this morning about Mr.T. What a mind trip man. I was in 3rd grade in like 1988. It was so crazy that these kids knew who Mr.T is/was and that they loved him! It gives me faith in the youth of today!
BME, the purveyors of basically everything fucked up in the world of body modifications, have just published an interview with “One Hand Jason.” Long story short, Jason staged an elaborate “accident” in an attempt to free himself of what he perceived as a birth defect. I’m not making this up. It’s an interesting read, to say the least, but I’m still not convinced that this level of modification isn’t completely fucked. As they say, to each his own.
I wonder how many female stump fetishists are looking for a guy like Jason to fist them? Inappropriate? Perhaps, but you probably don’t care if you’re reading the Bloglin.
Mishka contributor Robin Nishio gets an interview courtesy of our friends over at Inquiring Minds. Check it out for a glimpse of some unseen graphics from future Mishka releases.
