It would be a waste of time to write a proper introduction for Broke Ya Neck. They don’t bother much with formalities or perfect spelling so I’m not going to either. If you’re having fun, it shows. There’s no need to candy coat it. Here’s BYN.

“a lot of people think of byn as just a blog i think. it’s more than a blog, it’s a lifestyle. shitting like 8 times in a day, rooftops, hot girls, loud music, getting into events but at the same time getting kicked out of events. it’s a whole mess of things, runs hand in hand with the jerklyn lifestyle. swolla.”

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Format Magazine has a nice interview with NY based artist Matt Ernst about his layered canvases.

Broke Ya Neck took time to talk with Gore B about painting freights, putting up wood signs, and french toast.

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It seems like A.M. Breakups has been making beats since the time I first met him. Fast forward 7 or 8 years and he’s still making music, on his own and with 11:00A.M. On Monday we’ll hit you with a new mixtape he gave us, so stay tuned. Here’s A.M. Breakups.

“…MTV tried to sell us some crappy deals for using our songs in the backgrounds of reality shows or whatever. I don’t really think I want my beats on MTV though, I might get sued.”

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L’amour Supreme is keeping busy. When he’s not painting beautiful images of Kaiju monsters or t-rex track cyclists, he’s modeling toys, collaborating with other artists, and spending time with his daughter. It’s a pleasure to share with you his artwork and back story and we hope you enjoy it like we do. Say hi to L’amour Supreme.

“I remember drawing skulls, with barbarians holding up chopped heads with naked women at age 7 really well. Adults would all look at me like I needed some sort of psychotherapy at the time but I could probably thank Frazetta for that.”

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Calling in Sick

Sean Star Wars has a reputation for making badass woodcuts and drinking tons of Mountain Dew. With no plans to slow down on the work or the dew, he’s plastering every square foot of the Ad Hoc Gallery (49 Bogart St, Brooklyn) with hundreds or thousands of his southern style woodcuts for Wall to Wall Woodcut Chaos, which opens Friday, April 27 from 6 to 10.

Check out more of Sean’s woodcuts at www.seanstarwars.com.

You’re constantly referred to as an outlaw printmaker, and it seems appropriate. How does this title differ from a regular printmaker?

There is a core group of printmakers that coexist in the real art world as well as the virtual reality of academia. They are well known within that artificial world and largely looked upon with disgust, or disdain. The problem is that they make prints that people want to look at. Big prints of ugly faces with bug eyes buck teeth and drooling mouths for example, prints with impolite content like shit eating kids, cannibal pigs, war victim/soldiers, pirates, wolves, child molesting clowns. That group includes Tom Huck, Dennis Mcnett, Bill Fick, and a handful of others including myself. We make prints that are the archenemy of the kind of bullshit stuff that universities have been teaching kids to make for the last 25 years. No science diagrams, no cancer cell studies, no quiet whispering prints dressed up in frilly gowns. We make holes in teeth, as they say.

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Everything artist Steve MacDonald touches turns to gold. Also known as Ramblin Worker, he uses golden canvas to embroider scenes of imposing skyscrapers, crimson mountain ranges, and wild animals from tigers to track bike riders. Also embroidering cuckoo clocks, skateboards, messenger bags and sound bombing tanks, Steve MacDonald is proving that unlike King Midas, his touch on his vintage Singer sewing machine is anything but a curse.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

I’m an artist and I live and work in San Francisco.

What got you started on the sewing machine?

Sewing was the only thing I didn’t try in art school. But, I discovered it one day at my friend’s house. His name is Tim Clinton, and he gave me my first sewing machine and from that point on, I kept experimenting with it. I used it make little things and also to draw with, which I kept pushing and pushing. Drawing with a sewing machine is a lot like drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch. One of my Etch-a-Sketch drawings.

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HOST18’s Revamped and 90s pieces.

Although Revamp the 90s is a retrospective graffiti project it never gets lost in nostalgia. Instead, it explores the differences between graffiti then and now in order to move styles forward. In the project, graffiti artists revisit one of their own pieces from the previous decade and rework it on a wall with the ideas and skills they’ve developed in all the years since. Two of the artists involved, HOST18 DYM and RIME MSK aka Jersey Joe, who’s also the driving force behind the project, were kind of enough to talk with Razor Apple about the project, innovating styles, and early 90s metal.

Razor Apple: How did the Revamp the 90s project come about?

RIME MSK: The idea came from my working on The Exchange project. Through attempts at trying new ways of painting I thought it made sense to return to early ideas and build from there. Often writers will look at photos of past pieces and bitch about what should of been different. Revamp the 90’s is sort of a second chance, a throwback to a different frame of mind.

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