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Dizzy – Levity ~ Q&A

Name: Dizzy

IG: @sheisdizzy/@pwrh_

Age: 22

Sign: libra

Craft(s): painting. Clothing design

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  1. When did you realize you were interested in art?

When I was five years old. I’d get punished for drawing and painting on the walls at home.

 

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  1. What Influences you and where do you get your inspiration?

God influences me. My inspiration comes from anything I see, hear, or think about.

 

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  1. Who are your top 5 favorite artists?

Jean Michael Basquiat

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Vincent Vangogh

Jackson Pollock

Vladdi Nikolova

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  1. If you could work with anyone dead or alive who would it be?

Any of my top favorite artists

 

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  1. What differentiates you from other artists?

I have bipolar disorder which is reflected in my work. My style is inconsistent.

 

  1. What impact do you wish to leave with your art?

The biggest one possible. I want people to see what I’ve done and be inspired too.

 

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Mike Boyd – Vivian ~ Q&A

Name: Mike Boyd
Twitter: The_gholdenboyd
IG: Freemikeboyd
Age: 24
Sign: Scorpio
Craft(s): Photography, Mixed Media, Directing

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1. When did you realize you were interested in art?
I’ve always been generally interested in art. I was a drummer before all the photography and i’ve travelled all over the U.S. I grew up in the music scene and shortly everyone around me was an artist of some sort. I was in boys choir in middle school, double magnet at arts school for high school and then I transferred to another school and finished in theater. I’ve worked odd jobs all throughout my late teens until about now and i’ve come to understand regular-shit-day-jobs just isn’t my thing.

Mike Boyd 22. What Influences you and where do you get your inspiration?
A number of people “influence” me. I try to take a little bit of something that I saw, that I liked, and try to flip it to fit my cannon of getting things done. I took an art history 101 class and was instantly like, shit, this ancient knowledge has some actual practicality to it. So i try to gather as much as i can from there and then branch out. As far as inspiration, anything can help me develop an idea into something tangible because similarly to how I am influenced I also gather inspiration. A little here, a little there, and I’m good.

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3. Who are your top 5 favorite artists?
Helmut Newton, Gordon Parks, Jackson Pollock, Dali, Edward Enninful

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4. If you could work with anyone dead or alive who would it be?
Gordon Parks or Stanley Kubrick.

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5. What differentiates you from different artist?
I just don’t want to make money I want to be great. So I don’t mind taking time to become perfect, enduring the losses, the failures and sacrifice to reap the blessings when all is said and done.

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6. What impact do you wish to leave with your art?
I just want people to go see it in a museum. I want people to get that feeling I get when I see something, a one of a kind, hanging on a wall. To connect briefly artist to person and hopefully inspire them to do some dope shit.

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Yancy E. – Now I Gotta Rap (New Release)

Yancy E. Is an upcoming DMV rapper who just recently dropped his second project titled, “Now I Gotta Rap.” The tape had a cartoon-ish feel , as if charlie brown one day decided to rap about his daily life. If Chalk Zone were to exist in 2015, then Yancy definitely took his skills back to the pavement. Produced by Yung Lysol , “Now I Gotta Rap” is a self-portrait of the new chapter that Yancy attempted to draw with only a bucket of chalk. If “Bitz’ N Bops” was his debut, then “Now I Gotta Rap” is Yancy E.’s “The Dark Night.” With this project, he really experiments more with his production while the lyrics stay true to his lifestyle and personality. It’s as if Stan Lee drew a comic about his life as an innocent bystander making appearances in super hero scenarios. My favorite song off the project was “Pussy Scoring/Tity Drop” because I liked the ferocity of the instrumental and lyrics. Maybe the rap game doesn’t need anymore super heroes, since we have people like Yancy who can create comic book-like portraits of their experiences. After experiencing an amazing tape, we believe Yancy will keep balancing on water with his Air Jesus 11s. Check out “Bitz’ N Bops” and “Now I Gotta Rap” on yancye.com, and follow him on Twitter & Instagram @yunglysol.