Reggae, Hip Hop, Oscar White, Afrika Bambaataa, Furious Five, Electro Cypher, Incredible Bongo Band, The black bird, Sugarhill Gang, Krs One, mobb deep, Heather B, Channel Live, D.I.T.C., Milano, Terror squad, Keith Murray, Das Efx, Gangstarr, Black Moon, Dj Premier, Dj Honda, Jeru the Damaja, Group Home, AZ, Pete Rock, Onyx, Eazy-E, Gravediggaz, Shabazz The Disciple,Sean Price,Heltah Skeltah, O.G.C., Boot Camp Click, Scarface, Geto Boys, Smif N Wesson, A Tribe Called Quest, Capone'n'Noreaga, Lost Boyz,Jurassic 5,Trigga tha gambler, Alkaholiks,Cella Dwellas, Wu-Tang Clan, Lord of the underground, Prince Far I, Cornel Campbell, Barry Brown, Anthony Johnson, The Gladiators, Linval Thompson, Jonny Osbourne, Heptones, Wagon Christ, Luke Vibert, The Herbalizer, Bonobo, Animals on wheels, Nightmare on wax, Funki Porcini, Hextatic, Thievery Corporation, Ursula 1000, Amon Tobin, Neotropic, Dj Cam, Dj Krush, Lee Perry, Aggrovators, Augustus Pablo, Barrington Levy, Barry Brown, Big Youth, Brigadier Jerry, Cornell Campbell, Dennis Alcapone, Dennis Brown, Dillinger, Gregory Isaacs, Heptones, Horace Andy, Hugh Mundell, Jah Stitch, Jhonny Clarke, John Holt, Jonny Osbourne, Junior Murvin, King Tubby, Scientist, Mad Professor, Marcia Griffiths, Max Romeo, PRINCE BUSTER, RANKING JOE, Sister Nancy, Tappa Zukie, U Roy, Yellowman
Joe R. Lansdale, Fred Vargas, J.R.R.Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft, R.E. Howard, Edward Bunker, Cornell Woolrich, Raymond Chandler,Philip Pullman, Transmetropolitan, HellBoy, 100 Bullets, Lobo, Sin City, Watchman, Professor Bell
About me:
El Gato Chimney was born in 1981 in Milan, where he currently lives and works.
He started his career as a self taught artist, developing an early interest in graffiti, which made him pursue a successful journey into street art, that he still cites as one of his ispirations, along with steampunk culture and surrealism.
If you allow him to take you on a not easily forgettable ride into his work, you will discover a Bosch-like world where fields made of melty pink icing goodness leave place to abandoned carnivals dripping with desolation and rust - a world seemingly unhabitated by humans, even though flying teapots and tiny metal beings call it their home.
Beware, though, as in his art nothing is as it seems and nothing is left to the case: the artist's goal is to make the beholder think and wonder instead of being a passive observer in front of the umpteenth meaningless painting.
In the end, numbers and symbols might or might not offer you a solution to the enigma, but they surely will make you want to take in every little detail of the dreamy landscapes, bursting with vivid colours and amazingly lively creatures, only waiting to tell you their own version of the story.
Who I'd like to meet:
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We are glad to announce the launch of the new Otaku Magazine issue, which has the theme “THE END OF THE WORLD” and encompasses various themes, from Godzilla and Gundam, to otaku survival methods. (more info: otakumag.com)
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!