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Mike Giant Podcast

Michael LeSage

Mike GIant presents interviews, mixes, lectures, etc.

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Episode 23: Adam Hathorn

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2020/02/20

Giant's interview with Adam Hathorn, a tattoo artist based in San Diego, California. Recorded in Giant's studio in Miramar on Wednesday, February 19, 2020. Topics discussed: Big Trouble Tattoo, the totem pole of talent, humility, photos of tattoos, Instagram portfolios, growing up in New England, skateboarding and drawing, filming friends, ollies and slap pies, Kien Lieu, Pushead, copying logos, mail order, herbs and druggies, Dogtown skateboards, difficulty with art teachers, ADD and meds, marry

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Episode 22: Vernon Courtlandt Johnson aka VCJ

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2020/02/10

Giant's interview with Vernon Courtlandt Johnson, a fine artist based in Santa Barbara, California. Recorded in his home on August 10, 2014 for Monster Children magazine, vcjgraphics.com Please follow this link to see a video of our meeting. https://vimeo.com/113684648

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1:29:21

Episode 21: Dave Persué

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2019/10/28

Giant's interview with Dave Persué, a fine artist based in San Diego, California. Recorded in their studio in Miramar on Monday, October 23, 2019. Topics discussed: Per-Sway, growing up in San Diego, Star Wars, sports, getting forced outside to play, drawing, Nikol Schattenstein, William Randolf Hearst, inspirational mother and grandmother, absent father, soccer, discovering alternative music (Visage, Roxy Music, Ultravox, Adam Ant, Duran Duran), Morrisey-style, electric bass, high school bands,

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1:29:50

Episode 20: Mike Maxwell

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2019/10/22

Giant's interview with Mike Maxwell, a fine artist based in San Diego, California. Recorded in Giant's studio in Miramar on Monday, October 21, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in El Cajon, isolation fostering creativity, discovering graffiti as an early teen, Tower Records, 1990s graffiti magazines, childhood drawing inspirations, reading George Orwell, Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouak at 14, defying parents, atheism, altruistic anarchism, tribal life, The Tipping Point by Malcolm

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1:29:48

Episode 19: Bobby Ruiz

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2019/10/18

Giant's interview with Bobby Ruiz, owner of Tribal Streetwear. Recorded in Mr. Ruiz’s office at the Tribal headquarters in San Diego, California on Thursday, October 17, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Hacienda Heights, moving to south San Diego in 1972, initial exposure to lowriding, skateboarding, gang culture, moving to Mira Mesa (the suburbs), gang writing, musical influences, stoner culture, high school, Chicano Power movement, appearing in Lowrider

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1:29:57

Episode 18: Francisco Agudo

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2019/07/12

Giant's interview with Francisco Agudo, a tatttooer and fine artist currently based in Los Angeles. Recorded in Francisco's guest house in Mid City, Los Angeles on July 5th, 2019. Topics discussed include: growing up in the East Bay, writing graffiti at 12 years old, playing with freight trains, the late 1990s Bay Area graffiti scene, youth sports, early drawing influences, copying skateboard graphics, Jase, the Upper Playground studio, setting goals, leaving home as a teenager, selling drugs,

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1:29:23

Episode 17: Deb

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2019/07/05

Giant's interview with Deb, a fine artist and muralist from Australia, currently based in Los Angeles. Recorded in a guest house in Mid City, Los Angeles on July 4th, 2019 during the set-up for a party. Topics discussed include: a difficult birth, growing up in Melbourne, art programs in private/public school, vandalizing desks, anorexia, recovery, pre-internet networking, being a female artist, getting a graphic design diploma mid-20s, the early years of computers and cellphones, pager codes, the

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1:24:37

Episode 16: Leo Gonzales

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2019/07/02

Giant's interview with Leo Gonzales, a tattoo artist and fine art painter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recorded in Mr. Gonzales' home on June 30, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in Pojoaque, NM, drawing at 2 years old, replicating Disney characters, Garfield, Prince Valiant, Dungeons and Dragons, The Hobbit, browsing book and album covers, frequency range, music/audio books as background noise, mindfulness, Cat Stevens, Kansas, KISS, Lorelei, Sikhs, Logical Nonsense, the punk

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1:22:21

Episode 15: Mike Peters

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2019/05/16

Giant's interview with Mike Peters, a custom automotive fabricator based in Denver, Colorado. Recorded in Mr. Peters' garage in Northglenn, Colorado on May 12, 2019. Topics discussed include: Moving to San Diego from Denver in 1983, skateboarding, running into cars, litho printing in high school, hot rod/custom family, car shows in the 1980s, lowrider love, El Cajon, The Phantom, ditching at the ditch, backyard half pipe, skating vert, injuries, tagbanging, witnessing murder, graffiti as a career,

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1:29:42

Episode 14: Jeremy Fish

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2019/05/02

Mike's interview with Jeremy Fish, an artist based in San Francisco, California. Recorded at Black Book Gallery in Denver, Colorado on April 14, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in the Northeast, Saratoga Springs, smuggling, art teachers, winter activities, crafty moms, Lee J. Ames, Hip-Hop, DJ Pink Panther, BMX, skateboarding, Caroline Street, Saratoga Springs Skatepark, local pros, Lake George, Burden Lake Pool, Santa Cruz Skateboards/Jim Phillips, high school advertising class, Chuck

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Episode 13: Derek Keenan

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2019/03/31

Mike's interview with Derek Keenan, an artist based in Denver, Colorado. Recorded in Mike's home in Boulder, Colorado on March 31, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in Arvada (Colorado), ’57 Chevys, learning from older siblings, organized sports, skateboarding, BMX bikes, Yellow Designs, DIY entrepreneurship, art education, Colorado Institute of Art, industrial design, marker rendering, internships in footwear business, working as a technical aviation illustrator, working as a picture

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1:29:32

Episode 12: Derick Montez

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2019/03/15

Mike's interview with Derick Montez, a tattoo artist based in San Francisco, California. Recorded in Mike's home in Boulder, Colorado on March 15, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in the North Valley of Albuquerque, drawing, attention to detail, skateboarding, browsing at magazine racks, Scribble mag, graffiti writing at 12 years old, purpose, outdated printer paper, graffiti spots, Officer J.D. Knight, Burque writers, L.A. Underground, Jukes, road trip to San Francisco in 2002, cities

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Episode 10: Damon Soule - Part 1

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2019/02/17

Mike interviews Damon Soule, a fine artist based in Grass Valley, California. Recorded in Mike's home in Bouler, Colorado on February 15, 2019. Topics discussed include: Live painting at Mirus Gallery in Denver, collaborating with Oliver Vernon and Mars1, the Denver art scene, growing up in Atlanta in the 1970s, H.R. Puffnstuff, childhood influences, combat play/drawings, moving to New Orleans, Varanasi, public school, mathematics, fractals, skateboarding, Thrasher, Florida, Colorado Springs,

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Episode 11: Damon Soule - Part 2

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2019/02/17

Part two of Mike's interview with Damon Soule, a fine artist based in Grass Valley, California. Recorded in Mike's home in Bouler, Colorado on February 15, 2019. Topics discussed include: The dead junkie, The Pork Store, hiding from cops, pot brownies, climbing out of closets, cafe/salon shows, drawing on discarded blueprints, Art World tiers, Juxtapoz, Acme Gallery, 111 Minna, cluster headaches, psylocibin mushrooms, micro-dosing, tripping in Tokyo, race safety, trippy visuals, artistic

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Episode 8: Ben Lovejoy - Part 1

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2019/02/02

Mike interviews Ben Lovejoy, a creative director based in Boulder, Colorado. Recorded in Mike's studio in Boulder on January 30, 2019. Subjects include: growing up in Massachusetts, breakdancing, skateboarding, leaving high school early, working as a janitor, Innerskate 91, skate camp, the New England Hardcore scene, “friendship books”, Dave Schrieber, Tommy Guerrero and Jim Thiebaud, moving to San Francisco, screen printing skateboards, Ron Allen, Keith Hufnagel, Think Skateboards, Fausto

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1:01:06

Episode 9: Ben Lovejoy - Part 2

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2019/02/02

Part two of Mike's interview with Ben Lovejoy, a creative director based in Boulder, Colorado. Recorded in Mike's studio in Boulder on January 30, 2019. Subjects include: Spacegallery, Robert Goldberg, starting an ad agency, tattoos, sobriety, meditation, Dharma Punx, Waldorf Roulette, Boulder, cycling, live speaking, “Scream to Meditate”, the Gaia network.

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1:25:34

Episode 7: Rebecca Ashley

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2019/01/09

Mike interviews Rebecca Ashley, a tattoo artist based in Denver. Recorded in Mike's studio in Boulder on January 8, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in rural Connecticut, drawing dragons, moving to Georgia, bias in teaching, Psycho Tattoo, Neurosis, heavy metal’s connection to classical music, getting started in the tattoo business, Pearl and Whole Foods, humility, making tattoo needles, working for drug addicts, traveling for tattoos, Todd Noble, Thomas Hooper, blackwork, Boulder,

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1:32:02

Episode 6: Nani Chacon

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2019/01/01

Mike interviews Nani Chacon, a fine artist and muralist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recorded in her studio on December 14, 2018.

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Episode 5: JP Rodman

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2018/12/18

Mike interviews JP Rodman, custom painter and fabricator based in Raton, New Mexico. Recorded in JP's showroom on December 12, 2018.

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1:20:01

Episode 4: Sam Parker

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2018/12/08

Mike interviews Sam Parker aka CERO, a veteran graffiti writer and professional tattooer currently living in Broomfield, Colorado. Recorded in Mike's studio in Boulder, Colorado on December 5, 2018.

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