Bill McRight
Bill McRight
Bill McRight - Blackjaw McRaw
FOCUS: yo
Sent at 9:56 PM on Wednesday
Bill: yo
FOCUS: i am busy but it's good. are you busy?
Bill: nah.... there are canadians installing a show and listening to music really loud
it is also hot and I am kind of sweatty
FOCUS: you keep canadians in your house to show to people? I don't understand. why are there canadians, and what kind of show are you talking about?
Bill: I am at space. I have not hooked up my computer at home. I am more of a computer retard than bocksel they are listening to billy idol and playing a recorder
Sent at 10:02 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: that's enough to make someone go insane.
your lucky that your on the internet. i heard that the network at 1026 is always down.
--- just so you know this is the interview ---
you are being interviewed
recognize.
Bill: i hear that it goes down like 3 times a day but I don't really believe it. I could give a crap if the intternet is down I deleted my my myspace.... the only web stuff i care about is... um... flickr... thats the new myspace and better looking
Sent at 10:07 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS:....what the exactly is space 1026?
Bill:This sums it up
FOCUS: do you work there? do you work for them?
Sent at 10:12 PM on Wednesday
Bill: Okay the real space 1026 definition..... this is sort of tricky.... it is a gallery and studio spaces that has been running for about 10 years in philadelphia. it is where i carve blocks and print stuff but i can't take much credit for it beyond cleaning the bathroom and mopping the floors and smoking more cigarettes than any one else.
Sent at 10:14 PM on Wednesday
Bill: it is kind of a disfunctional family of a ton of people with about 30 members who have studio space currently and then a bunch of members (like gonzo) who have moved away but stay part of the fam.... we do projects and shows together and independantly.... it is pretty magic but not in a hippy way.
i think hippie is actually spelled hippie....
there are screen printing tables and art shows at space as well....
FOCUS: that explains the canadians.
Bill: screen printing is important
yeah the canadians are having a yard sale at their opening tomorrow.
are you coming to philly this weekend?
FOCUS: i am not. i'm working, but if i weren't i'd probably be going to Connecticut to skate at that new standford park. i heard it was sick.
Sent at 10:19 PM on Wednesday
Bill: I went to the dust bowls last weekend and am supposed to go tomorrow.... that is my favorite thing to skate besides the bro bowl in tampa
Sent at 10:20 PM on Wednesday
Bill: word
Sent at 10:29 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: `you only skate on weekends. are you a weekend warrior? you don't live in jersey do you?
Sent at 10:32 PM on Wednesday
Bill: naw man i skate way less than i would like to.... i have to retire when it gets cold and once it warms up i am sweating so much i might as well be surfing.
I am from the dirty south not the dirty jerz.
Sent at 10:34 PM on Wednesday
Bill: i have been riding my mountain bike through the city and driving since i gotmy car fixed after four months of it sitting on reed street
i like to push through the streets and the skate ditches and curbs
i do only skate on saturday though
the boards not the day of the week.
FOCUS: that's right your doing graphics for saturday skateboards. how did you get hooked up with that?
Sent at 10:36 PM on Wednesday
Bill: I have done things here and there for saturday since they gt started. a shirt here a colab deck graphic there... and then a couple months ago dave called me out of the blue and said he wanted me to do the art direction for them.....
Sent at 10:38 PM on Wednesday
Bill: it's crazy because i haven't lived near charlotte in 4 years but dave wanted to do some new stuff with saturday and has always been really supportive of what i do
I just finished up 3 boards and a bunch of shirt designs and have a couple of things more to wrap up
i guess i got hooked up southerners have to stick togehter
Sent at 10:41 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: saturday definitley has a good thing going on, and it's awesome that you still have a creative outlet
...aside from the streets that is.
Bill: yeah.... it is rad to be doing stuff with a smaller company that i believe in and know that good people are running
Sent at 10:43 PM on Wednesday
Bill: well th streets, skateboards, and a decent amount of gallery stuff lately too.... i was making a lot of clothes for a while.....
there were really only available at minnow (rip)
Sent at 10:45 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: yeah minnow had the best vibe. it's a such a shame that the kids didn't give back to minnow. every month was nothing but awesome events and it was the best reason to have fun.
Sent at 10:47 PM on Wednesday
Bill: metal and everyone involved with minnow were super supportive and put heart and soul in to everything that went on in there..... at least logan is my helper now and i met him through him interning at minnow
FOCUS: ....and the saga continues...
Bill: i thought you were going to heckle me more
FOCUS: ...i was planning on it but i'm so distracted by my job.
sorry.
Bill: it's fine.....
FOCUS: why do you draw drooling lurker scum?
Sent at 10:53 PM on Wednesday
Bill: ha! it is a self portrait in some ways, I like scumbags and the "bad element". half the time it is drool and half the time it is puke or blood. I just don't really care about using color for the most part. sometimes i draw it as a decapitated head because i like the idea of a living severed head. i have draw those so many times it is second nature to me now.
Sent at 10:57 PM on Wednesday
Bill: i draw them because i like drunks and people who get beat up.
that's the short alternate answer
Sent at 10:58 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: i thought it was because you wore busted shoes and lived in a purple room.
Sent at 11:05 PM on Wednesday
Bill: yeah let me shout out dave and everyone at saturday, jon bocksel, my homie dennis mcnett, cannon ball press, you, mom and dad, metal, the dutch press, space 1026, dirty printmakers, crooked crooks team skeleton, rezeon scum of the terrible whore and scum brothers, and la familia
FOCUS: Bill you forgot to mention your site: Fantastic Lurking...
Bill:....yeah.....i need to go home and get some sleep, i have to teach kids how to paint murals and hate athority tomorrow. that is the site!
FOCUS: damn straight. who put you in charge of adolescent minds? that person should be fired.
Bill:....oh yeah big up focus for helping me spread my filth
Sent at 11:12 PM on Wednesday
Bill: i am supprised i got that job and have made it through the summer. i am definately on the level with the kids. none of us like the administration very much and we all would rather be doing something else but we are getting paid to be there.
Sent at 11:14 PM on Wednesday
Bill: I was going to say it is funnier that i teach college to but my and the college students get real psyched on making stuff..... I had a couple come out to an art show i did and even more started going to space openings.
it's okay for me to cuss in front of college kids too, i can bum smokes off of them as well.
alright if you think of more stuff holler. i'll check in with you tomorrow....oh yeah big up my turtle cooter also.
FOCUS: big up to cooter in general.
peace.
Bill: no doubt
peace
Sent at 9:56 PM on Wednesday
Bill: yo
FOCUS: i am busy but it's good. are you busy?
Bill: nah.... there are canadians installing a show and listening to music really loud
it is also hot and I am kind of sweatty
FOCUS: you keep canadians in your house to show to people? I don't understand. why are there canadians, and what kind of show are you talking about?
Bill: I am at space. I have not hooked up my computer at home. I am more of a computer retard than bocksel they are listening to billy idol and playing a recorder
Sent at 10:02 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: that's enough to make someone go insane.
your lucky that your on the internet. i heard that the network at 1026 is always down.
--- just so you know this is the interview ---
you are being interviewed
recognize.
Bill: i hear that it goes down like 3 times a day but I don't really believe it. I could give a crap if the intternet is down I deleted my my myspace.... the only web stuff i care about is... um... flickr... thats the new myspace and better looking
Sent at 10:07 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS:....what the exactly is space 1026?
Bill:This sums it up
FOCUS: do you work there? do you work for them?
Sent at 10:12 PM on Wednesday
Bill: Okay the real space 1026 definition..... this is sort of tricky.... it is a gallery and studio spaces that has been running for about 10 years in philadelphia. it is where i carve blocks and print stuff but i can't take much credit for it beyond cleaning the bathroom and mopping the floors and smoking more cigarettes than any one else.
Sent at 10:14 PM on Wednesday
Bill: it is kind of a disfunctional family of a ton of people with about 30 members who have studio space currently and then a bunch of members (like gonzo) who have moved away but stay part of the fam.... we do projects and shows together and independantly.... it is pretty magic but not in a hippy way.
i think hippie is actually spelled hippie....
there are screen printing tables and art shows at space as well....
FOCUS: that explains the canadians.
Bill: screen printing is important
yeah the canadians are having a yard sale at their opening tomorrow.
are you coming to philly this weekend?
FOCUS: i am not. i'm working, but if i weren't i'd probably be going to Connecticut to skate at that new standford park. i heard it was sick.
Sent at 10:19 PM on Wednesday
Bill: I went to the dust bowls last weekend and am supposed to go tomorrow.... that is my favorite thing to skate besides the bro bowl in tampa
Sent at 10:20 PM on Wednesday
Bill: word
Sent at 10:29 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: `you only skate on weekends. are you a weekend warrior? you don't live in jersey do you?
Sent at 10:32 PM on Wednesday
Bill: naw man i skate way less than i would like to.... i have to retire when it gets cold and once it warms up i am sweating so much i might as well be surfing.
I am from the dirty south not the dirty jerz.
Sent at 10:34 PM on Wednesday
Bill: i have been riding my mountain bike through the city and driving since i gotmy car fixed after four months of it sitting on reed street
i like to push through the streets and the skate ditches and curbs
i do only skate on saturday though
the boards not the day of the week.
FOCUS: that's right your doing graphics for saturday skateboards. how did you get hooked up with that?
Sent at 10:36 PM on Wednesday
Bill: I have done things here and there for saturday since they gt started. a shirt here a colab deck graphic there... and then a couple months ago dave called me out of the blue and said he wanted me to do the art direction for them.....
Sent at 10:38 PM on Wednesday
Bill: it's crazy because i haven't lived near charlotte in 4 years but dave wanted to do some new stuff with saturday and has always been really supportive of what i do
I just finished up 3 boards and a bunch of shirt designs and have a couple of things more to wrap up
i guess i got hooked up southerners have to stick togehter
Sent at 10:41 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: saturday definitley has a good thing going on, and it's awesome that you still have a creative outlet
...aside from the streets that is.
Bill: yeah.... it is rad to be doing stuff with a smaller company that i believe in and know that good people are running
Sent at 10:43 PM on Wednesday
Bill: well th streets, skateboards, and a decent amount of gallery stuff lately too.... i was making a lot of clothes for a while.....
there were really only available at minnow (rip)
Sent at 10:45 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: yeah minnow had the best vibe. it's a such a shame that the kids didn't give back to minnow. every month was nothing but awesome events and it was the best reason to have fun.
Sent at 10:47 PM on Wednesday
Bill: metal and everyone involved with minnow were super supportive and put heart and soul in to everything that went on in there..... at least logan is my helper now and i met him through him interning at minnow
FOCUS: ....and the saga continues...
Bill: i thought you were going to heckle me more
FOCUS: ...i was planning on it but i'm so distracted by my job.
sorry.
Bill: it's fine.....
FOCUS: why do you draw drooling lurker scum?
Sent at 10:53 PM on Wednesday
Bill: ha! it is a self portrait in some ways, I like scumbags and the "bad element". half the time it is drool and half the time it is puke or blood. I just don't really care about using color for the most part. sometimes i draw it as a decapitated head because i like the idea of a living severed head. i have draw those so many times it is second nature to me now.
Sent at 10:57 PM on Wednesday
Bill: i draw them because i like drunks and people who get beat up.
that's the short alternate answer
Sent at 10:58 PM on Wednesday
FOCUS: i thought it was because you wore busted shoes and lived in a purple room.
Sent at 11:05 PM on Wednesday
Bill: yeah let me shout out dave and everyone at saturday, jon bocksel, my homie dennis mcnett, cannon ball press, you, mom and dad, metal, the dutch press, space 1026, dirty printmakers, crooked crooks team skeleton, rezeon scum of the terrible whore and scum brothers, and la familia
FOCUS: Bill you forgot to mention your site: Fantastic Lurking...
Bill:....yeah.....i need to go home and get some sleep, i have to teach kids how to paint murals and hate athority tomorrow. that is the site!
FOCUS: damn straight. who put you in charge of adolescent minds? that person should be fired.
Bill:....oh yeah big up focus for helping me spread my filth
Sent at 11:12 PM on Wednesday
Bill: i am supprised i got that job and have made it through the summer. i am definately on the level with the kids. none of us like the administration very much and we all would rather be doing something else but we are getting paid to be there.
Sent at 11:14 PM on Wednesday
Bill: I was going to say it is funnier that i teach college to but my and the college students get real psyched on making stuff..... I had a couple come out to an art show i did and even more started going to space openings.
it's okay for me to cuss in front of college kids too, i can bum smokes off of them as well.
alright if you think of more stuff holler. i'll check in with you tomorrow....oh yeah big up my turtle cooter also.
FOCUS: big up to cooter in general.
peace.
Bill: no doubt
peace
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