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 framer, The Peace Corps, The Gambia, village life, Toubobs, African Mahogany charcoal, cultural differences, meditative awakenings, International Jazz Festival of Senegal, weed/psychedelics in Africa, Palm hooch, gender-based experience, Malik Njie, inside jokes/local knowledge, Not Self, hair in a bird’s nest, construction work, work options for felons, Fuzzy, toking on the job, street photography, recycling skateboards, craft fairs, earring hustle, Mukee, $15,000 laser, AT-AT, touring, support from the ladies, viral moment, booth design/fabrication, street-level business development, the stoney teepee, rubbing elbows, Etsy.

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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to detail, skateboarding, browsing at magazine racks, Scribble mag, graffiti writing at 12 years old, purpose, outdated printer paper, graffiti spots, Officer J.D. Knight, Burque writers, L.A. Underground, Jukes, road trip to San Francisco in 2002, cities after midnight, the Dubose tunnel, the Hip-Hip vibe, Baked Potatoes, DIY attitude, graffiti media, city college, Java Joe’s, first fine art show/studio, hospice, Manny at Custom Tattoo, confidence, the non-art side of tattooing, “real jobs”, character, Stay Gold Tattoo, criminal versus public introductions, apprenticeship phase, zia symbol tattoo, Henry Lewis, Mr. Went, guest spot at Everlasting Tattoo with Shawn Barber, Anubis/Haight-Ashbury Tattoo, making good money, tiers of the tattoo business, Picture Machine, Seventh Son, Everlasting, Idle Hand.

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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, being a teenage felon, New York City, Ron English, graffiti secrecy/beef, LSD epiphanies, moving to San Francisco, communal skater living, BC Surf’N’Sport, freelance jobs, Astro, racking, Maximum Rock’N’Roll, Twist, New Deal, realizing dreams, printing skateboards, Fit Skateboards, Sam Flores, Oak Street house, Burning Man, Food Not Bombs, the first Dot Com boom, Internet Yellow Pages, buying domain names, Fabric8, 214 Clara Street, Pete the Tweak, breakdancing, Q-Bert, Club Deco, subcultural variety.

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 evolution, Dalek, abstraction from fundamentals, biting, mutual inspiration, “Same Same But Different”, Nepal and India, Eastern philosophy, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, prohibition, optimistic future, accountability, Millennial thinking, novelty, swarm mechanics, moving to NYC, Joshua Liner Gallery, Salvia, the egoless state, DMT, belief, art business ethics, value, reproductions, rural living in Grass Valley, overhead, living in the same apartment building on Bush Street in San Francisco, Section 8.

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 Vitello, Craig Stecyk, EMB, House music, SF City College, photography, service bureaus.

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.

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, backpacking, tattoo exchange, patterns, tribal, Nalla Smith, spiritual tattoos, occultism, Buddhism, archetypes, psychedelics, motorcycles, tattooing at Sturgis, the zen of cycling, Coffin Cheaters, mountain living.

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

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

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.