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To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com At well over 6 feet tall and built like a MACK truck, when he enters the room, he’s hard to miss. Covered in tattoos and sporting a thick Hastings accent, it’s easy to jump to the assumption that this guy is more likely a cage fighter than an artist. Within seconds of talking with him however, you realize that Word To Mother is one...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Around the globe he’s known as JAZ but to his friends and family in his native Argentina his name is Franco. Regardless of what you might know him by, there’s a good chance that some of his work has popped up on a wall in your city at some point in the last few years. JAZ is one of the most sought after names in the urban contempora...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Early in his “working class” upbringing in one of East Berlin’s more challenging neighborhoods, LAKE hit the streets and started what would become a lifelong painting career that has already spanned over three decades and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. Adding rock climbing and studio artwork to his list of hobbies only...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Thinkspace Gallery first opened it’s doors in 2005 and quickly became a force to recon with in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene. In the past decade the gallery, run by husband and wife duo Andrew and Shawn Hosner along with partner L. Croskey, has helped launch the careers of many of todays contemporary art stars. Aside from t...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Any good investment advisor will tell you that the safest and smartest way to invest in your future is to have a diverse portfolio. If this is also true in the art game then Buff Monster has a bright future. With over 10 years rockin and successful ventures into everything from gallery shows, toy design, murals, apparel, collectable...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com With roots in illustration and character design and a previous career in animation Mimi Scholz has been developing her artistic vision for a very long time. Her large scale, one off, digital paintings are surprisingly fully constructed in photoshop and can take multiple months to create. The scenes she develops, densely populated wi...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Our goal here at VantagePoint, above everything else, is to create a window with each episode into the mind of our guest artist and give our listeners a greater understanding of what makes them tick… to somehow bridge the gap between the visual work we see from an artist, and the mind that created that work… Well this week ladies an...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com There has been a lot of buzz in the last year throughout the internet about a mysterious new institution materializing in Berlin. What has been written about Urban Nation as it is now known, has left most of us with more questions than answers . But fear not loyal VantagePoint listeners… we’ve got you covered. This week JB and Tom s...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Tankpetrol is a Polish stencil artist living and working in Manchester. His stunningly detailed and military themed imagery of strong women are both powerful and beautiful at the same time making him a fast rising star in the street/urban art festival circuit. JB and Tom caught up with Tank during a short trip Berlin where he was in...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com As one of the founding members of Melbourne’s Everfresh studio, REKA has put in some serious work over the last 10 years in his native Australia and worldwide. Although he now calls Berlin home, he spends a lot of time traveling and keeping busy. With murals in countless cities, and a growing list of group and solo shows around the...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Episode 004 is a banger with two artists for the price of one. Matthias and Felix Gephart have been making noise in Berlin for years with various projects which span the artistic spectrum from illustration and graphic design to music, photography and murals. The pair got their start in the late 80′s on the streets of their home town...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Christian Rothenhagen is a master of illustration and the man behind DeerBLN (pronounced ‘Deer Berlin’). With an incredible eye for architecture and the metropolitan spaces in which we live, Rothenhagen produces incredibly detailed and stylized drawings/paintings that masterfully seem to capture the underlying personality of the spa...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Buff Diss is a leading name in the street art scene and a pioneer of the relatively new surge of artists using tape as their medium. JB and Tom sit down with him this week and find out how he stumbled across such an unusual medium and was able to make it work so well. His wildly eclectic mix of tracks that he brought along with him...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com As co-founder of the Berlin based art and design company Peachbeach, VIDAM and his partner LOOK have been making big noise in Germany for years. In 2011 things got even more interesting when the pair joined up with Nychos, HrVB, and the Low Brows among others to form the mighty Weird Crew and demanded that the rest of the world take...