Take a look at the full list of interviewees at the end of this posting.
When he told us that he was going to expand on our 3,000 word essay and explore it further, we were excited because you can trust RJ to reliably investigate and seek and synthesize the moment that we are in because he’s done his homework.Īnd obviously we are not alone in that assessment since over two years of preparation RJ got some pretty heavy hitters to agree to interviews for Viral Art and the result is a colorful cross section of experts on the scene and in the street, from the past and in the very present.
Like any good Street Art/ Graffiti observer knows, a medium that began as a conversation is best served by getting more voices, not less. Some of their ideas about the internet and street art as expressed in Freed from the Wall, Street Art Travels the World, their chapter of the book Eloquent Vandals, helped to inspire this project, so I asked them some questions about street art, the internet and their work as advocates for the scene.” – So begins Chapter 2.5 of RJ Rushmore’s new online ebook that will be released Monday, and we couldn’t be prouder to be sighted as providing some inspiration for it.Ī colleague with integrity from the beginning of his online presence, RJ has evolved his site Vandalog to a high degree of quality while others have languished into irrelevancy – and he’s done it by continuously looking for new ways to open the conversation with artists, writers, fans, and the occasional hot-headed “critic” or ill-mannered commenter. The duo are two of the street art community’s best-loved advocates. “Steve Harrington and Jaime Rojo run the Brooklyn Street Art blog, cover street art for the Huffington Post, and have had two of their books about street art published by Prestel.
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