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FRANCOIS VISSER
pop.see.cul : Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do?
Francois Visser : Francois. Lives in Cape Town. Takes pictures. Often ocean bound. Likes films by Kusturica.
pop.see.cul : When did your interest in photography start?
Francois Visser : When i was in school, taking pictures of the sea, developing black & white prints. A friend later showed my an essay & book curated by John Szarkowski which changed the way I looked at photography entirely.
pop.see.cul : What inspires you?
Francois Visser : Books, films, conversations, music, paintings, new experiences, anything that fuels one’s imagination.
pop.see.cul : What is your typical day like?
Francois Visser : Always different, varied exploits, coffee, reading, venturing into nature.
pop.see.cul : Do you always carry your camera with you?
Francois Visser : I have a small contax that I keep close to me
pop.see.cul : What is your favorite art piece?
Francois Visser : Gustav Klimt, Death and Life
pop.see.cul : What would you do right now if you werent answering our interview?
Francois Visser : Writing a letter
pop.see.cul : What’s the best quote you?ve ever heard?
Francois Visser : We are what we repeatedly do – Aristotle
pop.see.cul : Tell us one thing you remember about your childhood.
Francois Visser : Getting up early watching the wind sweep white cloud dust across an empty beach, and a siamese cat named Lou
pop.see.cul : If you could meet a person- living or dead- who would it be? and what would you tell him/her?
Francois Visser : Maurice Sendak. Thank you for the wild things. They made wonderful childhood memories.
pop.see.cul : What is your favourite city and why?
Francois Visser : New York, interminable energy. I would like to visit Kathmandu.
pop.see.cul : What’s the song you can’t stop listening to nowadays?
Francois Visser : Nick Cave, red right hand
pop.see.cul : What are your plans for the future?
Francois Visser : Follow my intuition, work, collaborating with interesting people, new adventures, and hopefully a little wiser.
pop.see.cul : Our last interviewee, Samantha Casolari would like to know: Where do your ideas come from?
Francois Visser : Often personal experiences and time spent alone – a mix of invention, observation, & chance.
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Francois Visser : What are you working on at the moment?
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SAMANTHA CASOLARI
pop.see.cul : Can you tell us a bit about your background?
Samantha Casolari : I did not study photography. I actually went to school first for foreign languages and literatures and then international affairs. Photography has always been just a great passion, but for many years only that.
pop.see.cul : When did your interest in photography start?
Samantha Casolari : I always took a lot of pictures but never understand the meaning of photography fully until about when I was about 20 years old. Then I discovered the old Magnum photos’ reportages, Berenice Abbot and her images of NY, James Nachtwey and his heartbreaking stories and that literally changed my life.
pop.see.cul : What inspires you?
Samantha Casolari : Music, books, museums like the MET and all the art from the past, psychedelia, day dreaming …
pop.see.cul : How would you define your style?
Samantha Casolari : Daydream, psychedelic storytelling?
pop.see.cul : What do you love most about your work?
Samantha Casolari : That it is potentially aimed at bringing people to another dimension
pop.see.cul : What are your plans for the future?
Samantha Casolari : Shooting more personal projects, including videos.
pop.see.cul : What is your typical day like?
Samantha Casolari : I really do not have a typical day. Every day is always different. But it also always include lots of tea, music, reading, looking at images or shooting them.
pop.see.cul : Favorite movie?
Samantha Casolari : Amadeus by Miloš Forman
pop.see.cul : What is the song that you can stop listening to lately?
Samantha Casolari : Isle of the Dead, the symphonic poem by Sergei Rachmaninov
pop.see.cul : Best quote you’ve ever heard?
Samantha Casolari : “Mozart is the greatest composer of all. Beethoven created his music, but the music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it — that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.” by Albert Einstein
pop.see.cul : Tell us one thing you remember about your childhood.
Samantha Casolari : Happiness, and colors.
pop.see.cul : If you could meet a person- living or dead- who would it be? and what would you tell him/her?
Samantha Casolari : Mozart. And I would not really ask him anything, I would just want to see him conducting one of his work of art
pop.see.cul : What would you do right now if you weren’t answering our interview?
Samantha Casolari : I would be editing my latest video
pop.see.cul : Any advice for young talents?
Samantha Casolari : Follow your instinct, they are almost always right about what you need and where you need to go. And be humble.
pop.see.cul : Our last interviewee, James Gallagher would like to know: What do you dislike about your work?
Samantha Casolari : I am really happy in regard to where my work is going, I have out so much effort and time and energy and passion into finding my own voice. So it would be upsetting to say that I dislike what i do.
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Samantha Casolari : Where do your ideas come from?
JAMES GALLAGHER
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‘I believe in the secret behavior of human beings. Capturing a fleeting moment or revealing a hidden world is what I strive to do. And if I’m successful, I am able to glimpse some of the beauty, ugliness, solitude, and desire that exists in us all.’
pop.see.cul : Can you tell us a bit about your background?
James Gallagher : I grew up in a small town in the Midwest where I was not exposed to art until my college years. I was quickly won over and transferred to New York City to attend The School of Visual Arts, and have been there ever since. I didn’t come from a particularly creative family, I always felt like the odd-man-out. However, I’m now raising a new generation of creative types. All three of my kids are destined to become artists, unfortunately.
pop.see.cul : When did you start making collages?
James Gallagher : I began experimenting with collage soon after graduating from SVA. Originally I was determined to be a printmaker, however with a newborn baby and not much income I was having difficulties finding the time and money to get to the print shop. I soon began cutting apart old prints and piecing them back together and realized that I was onto something. The surprising results that developed in my work completely reinvigorated my creativity.
pop.see.cul : Where do you get your inspiration from?
James Gallagher : The things that inspire me are mostly visual. It could be anything that I come across during my daily life in a city full of art, architecture and interesting people. I am often seduced by a glimpse of someone or something beautiful, which I’ll store in my head and call on later when I’m creating. Finding beautiful photographic imagery is also a huge inspiration. These images tend to be provocative and mysterious, and they help create the story lines and enigmatic situations in my work. Often my scenes create themselves as I sift through found imagery.
pop.see.cul : What is your creative process like?
James Gallagher : When I’m creating I try to turn off my thought process and just wait and see what will materialize. My images are rarely preconceived and there is a satisfying element of surprise at the end of each collage. I am trying to create stream of conscious imagery. When complete, I am often unclear about what is happening in the work, and ultimately It’s up to the viewer to decide what the scenes are about.
pop.see.cul : What is your typical day like?
James Gallagher : I pack a lot into a day. First I have to get my daughter to preschool and then hop on the subway and get to my midtown Manhattan office. I work as a creative director at a marketing firm and spend most of my day interacting with a combination of creative and corporate coworkers. After the day is complete and the kids are fed and in bed, (I have three children, ages 22, 16 and 4), I will then start cutting and pasting on the dining room table. Talking with my wife while drinking wine and making a mess with scraps and glue is my favorite way to end the day.
pop.see.cul : How would you define your work?
James Gallagher : My work stems from my own self-investigation. I have become more relaxed and open about expressing myself in a personal manner and it has become a theraputic and inspiring experience. I feel that it is a way for me to freeze my thoughts and take a closer look at them. I am interested in the mystery of human relationships, and my scenes tend to focus on subtle body language and strong emotions. Most of all, I am searching for beautiful moments. l find beauty in the most intense turmoil or the quietest movement, and especially in the human form.
pop.see.cul : Favorite song?
James Gallagher : It’s hard to pick a favorite. Lately I have been listening to the Drive soundtrack with Kavinsky, Desire and College. I really like it’s slow tempo energy.
pop.see.cul : Favorite movie?
James Gallagher : Again, it’s really hard to pick one. I recently watched I Am Love (2009) with Tilda Swinton, and I found it absolutely beautiful, plus the story was incredibly moving.
pop.see.cul : Can you tell us one thing you remember about your childhood?
James Gallagher : I was obsessed with jigsaw puzzles as a child. I couldn’t get enough of them. It seems fitting that I am now a collage artist. Still putting pieces together.
pop.see.cul : What are your plans for the future?
James Gallagher : I am interested experimenting with new ways of expressing myself through my art. I am looking forward to working with three dimensional forms, fabrics, and moving images. In addition, experimenting with scale has been something that I have been contemplating for a while now. This is a challenge when working with collage, since the size of the source material dictates the scale of the work.
pop.see.cul : Best quote you’ve ever heard?
James Gallagher : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. — Pablo Picasso
James Gallagher : This quote has been stuck in my head for the 22 years I’ve been raising my three children. It appears every time they show me a piece of art they’ve made, and that’s a lot (we have trunks full of it in storage!).
pop.see.cul : Our last interviewee, Matthew Tammaro would like to know: If you could have one famous piece of art, which would it be?
James Gallagher : hmmm, i would love to have been in one of picasso’s late period pieces. the erotic ones. I have this on my mind not necessarily because I’m a dirty old man (like picasso) but because I just found a copy of Avant Garde magazine from the sixties, with all of picasso’s erotic etching in it. so good. but it would also be nice to have the iconic quality of a Warhol or the Munch scream. interesting question.
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
James Gallagher : What do you dislike about your work?
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MATTHEW TAMMARO
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pop.see.cul: Can you tell us a bit about your background?
Matthew Tammaro: I am from a country town that overlooks Toronto, Canada, and just last week I moved to Los Angeles. I went to Ryerson University in Toronto for photography, and have spent most of my time there.
pop.see.cul: When did your interest in photography start?
Matthew Tammaro: I started photographing in high school, and really liked it, but continued to pursue drawing and painting. I stopped that after a short stint at another university, and realized that I’d rather be a photographer.
pop.see.cul: What inspires you?
Matthew Tammaro: I don’t know if I ever go to one or two sources for inspiration. And it’s always changing, but really it can range from so many things. I’ve just spent a week in LA now, and hadn’t been too inspired until yesterday. The light is great here, and there are so many colours that don’t exist in Toronto. So I guess there’s a novelty aspect to me being inspired. And also, nature and environment is very important to me. I also really like figurative painting. People and their emotions are huge inspirations. And of course constantly looking at what other people are doing in photography and art.
pop.see.cul: How would you define your style?
Matthew Tammaro: I don’t really know. I don’t rely on one or two techniques so it’s hard to say in terms of that, but I do know that there’s some common thread between my images, I just couldn’t narrow it down in words too easily. But it’s mostly figurative.
pop.see.cul: What do you love most about your work?
Matthew Tammaro: I love the pieces when I feel like I’ve found some sort of harmony in them. It’s not for every one, but I do feel like I’ve gotten there at times, and it can be as a portrait or landscape, or whatever really, but that’s what I love. I figure I’ll try many different things photographically throughout my life, so what I like is when I can reach a harmony in a piece. That feeling is really what it’s all about.
pop.see.cul: What do you hate most?
Matthew Tammaro:That I don’t shoot enough.
pop.see.cul: What are your plans for the future?
Matthew Tammaro: I really want to keep developing here in Los Angeles, and continue to book more clients, but also to explore more and to go more places. It all plays into my work, I think–I guess it means to keep on seeking more inspiration, and doing more with what I find. And I’d love for that to keep on getting me work, and to work with more people and magazines and clients, but also to refine my personal work.
pop.see.cul: What is your typical day like?
Matthew Tammaro: Right now, I still haven’t really adjusted to the time change, so I’ve been getting up around 6, which is great–I love that! Then coffee/shower/eat. Then getting to work, which usually means any sort of administrative stuff, and then I’ll work on photos until I can’t see straight anymore, and then I’ll make dinner and eat with my girlfriend. And lately I’ve been going for walks in the canyons here, which is so beautiful (the plants are like nothing else!). Then come home, and if I’m lucky I’ll get some reading done, but I still can’t shake this time change, so I usually pass out pretty early.
pop.see.cul: Favorite movie?
Matthew Tammaro: Right now: Le Mepris
pop.see.cul: What is the song that you can stop listening to lately?
Matthew Tammaro: I actually haven’t been listening to too much music lately, which definitely is weird. It’s been a long time since I found anything really great…
pop.see.cul: Best quote you’ve ever heard?
Matthew Tammaro: “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” — Hemingway in A Moveable Feast
pop.see.cul: Tell us one thing you remember about your childhood.
Matthew Tammaro: This road trip that my mom took me on when we were living in Vancouver, all the way down the West Coast across the South, up to Great Lakes, and back across to Vancouver. You see so much so fast when you’re driving for such long days.
pop.see.cul: If you could meet a person- living or dead- who would it be? and what would you tell him/her?
Matthew Tammaro: I think it would be really neat to speak with Matisse. He supposedly had a very grounded idea of his art, and wasn’t as zealous as Picasso. And I would just want to spend a whole summer, photographing, conversing, and eating good food with him in the south of France.
pop.see.cul: What would you do right now if you weren’t answering our interview?
Matthew Tammaro: Making breakfast and going for a hike.
pop.see.cul: Our last interviewee, Vicki King would like to know: Out of all the work you have made which piece do you feel encapsulates you and what you are about over the rest? And why?
Matthew Tammaro: This one because it is such a great reflection on the emotional state of where it was photographed. The sun had set, but the colours are so lively and bright.
pop.see.cul: What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Matthew Tammaro: If you could have one famous piece of art, which would it be?
VICKI KING
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pop.see.cul : Can you tell us a bit about your background?
Vicki King: I am from the very middle of England, I always knew I wanted to escape to London at the first possible moment, so that is what I did. I completed a degree in Photography from London College of Communication in June and since then I have been freelancing as a photographer.
pop.see.cul : When did your interest in photography start?
Vicki King : I did a foundation at London College of Fashion, thinking I wanted to be a designer, I sucked so much at sewing its quite hilarious. We started to incorporate photography towards the end of the course and I felt like it came much more naturally, and I could express myself through making images much more clearly than through design.
pop.see.cul : What do you love most about your work?
Vicki King: I am very self critical, so I’d be wary to say I love anything.. Being dissatisfied makes you progress.. But I do like how intuitive it is.
pop.see.cul : What do you hate most?
Vicki King: How still it can be.
pop.see.cul : What inspires you?
Vicki King: The sun, London at night, people, sex, certain colour pallets, songs, I get healthily obsessed with things.
pop.see.cul : What are your plans for the future?
Vicki King: To grow, to keep making work and exciting myself.
pop.see.cul : What is your typical day like?
Vicki King: Wake up, either do some researching, emailing, planning for shoots, or some editing, meet a friend for lunch or drinks in the evening. I also work in a studio, so if I’m there I get up at 6am or something silly like that.
pop.see.cul : Favorite movie?
Vicki King: Hm, I have lots for different reasons, but maybe Melancholia because it’s so weird and beautiful
pop.see.cul : What is the song that you can’t stop listening to lately?
Vicki King: Fourtet’s mix of Skin by Grimes, its addictive
pop.see.cul : Best quote you’ve ever heard?
Vicki King: Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. -Betty Smith
pop.see.cul : Tell us one thing you remember about your childhood.
Vicki King: Most of my memories are of my sister and I, we had great imaginations and grew up on a street where everyone had massive beautiful gardens. We used to climb over our fence and run into the neighbouring gardens, at the time they seemed like these huge forbidden forests and jungles, we got in a lot of trouble for that.
pop.see.cul : If you could meet a person- living or dead- who would it be? and what would you tell him/her ?
Vicki King: I would love to meet PJ Harvey, I’d ask her if we could make some art together.
pop.see.cul : What would you do right now if you weren’t answering our interview?
Vicki King: Venturing out into the snow, you guys are saving me.
pop.see.cul : Our last interviewee, Rebekah Campbell would like to know: If you weren’t an artist, what would you be?
Vicki King: Probably very miserable.
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Vicki King : Out of all the work you have made which piece do you feel encapsulates you and what you are about over the rest? And why?
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REBEKAH CAMPBELL
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Rebekah Campbell : I grew up in a tiny city in Oklahoma and traveled around my highschool year in Asia and now I’m attending the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, where the south collides with creative minds every second. Ever since I can recall, I’ve been interested in art and creating things from my imagination – which lead me to where I am today.
pop.see.cul : When did your interest in photography start?
Rebekah Campbell : Around the age of 15 I started playing with my father’s digital camera, and I really began to conceptualize ideas using it. Then I found people on the internet who really began to inspire me, and I was hooked.
pop.see.cul : Has there been a particular project you found to be the highlight of your career so far?
Rebekah Campbell : It’s hard for me to answer this, because most of the projects I do have something personal connected to them, but I think my couple’s project (we are this) using 35mm black and white film had an influence on where my work is today. It seemed like other people enjoyed it as well.
pop.see.cul : Where do you usually take your inspiration from?
Rebekah Campbell : Usually my everyday life is a constant muse, exploring other artist’s work, music I listen to, and people I’m close to; they tend to inspire me a lot more than they know.
pop.see.cul : Can you tell us about your project ‘we are this’ ?
Rebekah Campbell : I photographed ten different couples in the Savannah area, I didn’t personally know all of them until meeting them to take pictures, but they all were such sweethearts allowing me to delve into something so personal. I have always perceived love to be either fleeting or altruistic. As a person who has yet to find it, this project studies the nature of identities and psychological behavior in these relationships. I aspired to study how these individuals relate to each other. Photographing the following couples has enabled me to learn more about them, while, discovering for myself, the engaging acts of something fascinating, and in turn, permitting myself consider this poignant facet of life that becomes for many the light at the end of the road. You can see a few more images here .
pop.see.cul : What are your plans for the future?
Rebekah Campbell : Finish working towards my BFA, hopefully move to a city where I can have a job, and keep photographing things I love and never fall into a rut of not making work. I never want to stop doing personal work.
pop.see.cul : What is your typical day like?
Rebekah Campbell : Wake up, check my email and browse some sites, make breakfast and drink coffee, get ready for my day, either have a class for school or bike around the city/see some friends, try to do something productive towards my art, eat something in between tasks, and end my day back at home.
pop.see.cul : Favorite movie?
Rebekah Campbell : I’ve always hated this question, I never can say just one. Here are a few favorites – Un femme est un femme, An Education, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Bright Star is lovely.
pop.see.cul : What is the song that you can’t stop listening to lately?
Rebekah Campbell : Dark Horse by Other Lives on their Tamer Animals album.
pop.see.cul : Best quote you’ve ever heard?
Rebekah Campbell : I’m the type of person who devours quotes 24/7 so I don’t have one favorite, but here’s a really helpful one for anyone interested in the arts. ”Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery-celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.” – Jim Jarmusch
pop.see.cul : Tell us one thing you remember about your childhood.
Rebekah Campbell : Visiting my great aunt in Atlanta, who was an artist herself in all forms of the word, and being in awe at the young age of 7 of all the sketchs around me and boxes full of negatives, posters covering the walls, and sitting in her lap downstairs in the basement drawing with her.
pop.see.cul : If you could meet a person- living or dead- who would it be?
Rebekah Campbell : There are so many humans I want to meet and talk to, but recently I’ve been interested in Lee Miller, Man Ray’s assistant, lover, and muse, in photo history, she is such an interesting person and I doubt I’d be able to stop asking her questions.
pop.see.cul : What would you do right now if you weren’t answering our interview?
Rebekah Campbell : Not procrastinating and finish some homework or edit photos I’ve been meaning to get to.
pop.see.cul : Our last interviewee, Kayla Varley would like to know: What do you think about late at night in the moments before you fall asleep?
Rebekah Campbell : I think about things that happened to me during the day, and I usually make up situations had they been different, and it goes on and on until I close my eyes at last and start to dream.
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Rebekah Campbell : If you weren’t an artist, what would you be?
KAYLA VARLEY
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pop.see.cul : Can you tell us a bit about your background?
Kayla Varley: I was born in Bakersfield, CA and I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17 to attend Art Center College of Design. My first camera ever was a Kodak Easyshare. I think it had 4 megapixels….so I started taking self portraits and whooooosh, here I am now.
pop.see.cul : When did your interest in photography start?
Kayla Varley: I was 12 or 13 when I took a photo with my fathers camera and became obsessed. I’m sure it’s like this for a lot of photographers, that ‘holy shit’ moment happened really early for me.
pop.see.cul : Can you describe your style?
Kayla Varley: My style is surreal. But it is also very realistic….I always said that I wanted people to understand me when they looked at my photos. I’ve created a fantasy land in my head where every girl is beautiful and every moment should be captured…
pop.see.cul : Where do you usually take your inspiration from?
Kayla Varley: My inspiration comes from the every day, the way crust forms over my eyes in the mornings, the way some nights I cry myself to sleep. It comes from my bones. I stare at light and shadow and constantly point up and every which way, never wanting to let go of a moment. That’s my style, if you want to call it one.
pop.see.cul : What are your plans for the future?
Kayla Varley: My plans for the future are to a) get out of bed and b) take over the world.
pop.see.cul : What is your typical day like?
Kayla Varley: My days start with coffee, but before that I stay in bed replying to emails (like what I’m doing right now). After coffee, exercising, and usually a photo shoot in there somewhere. Speaking of which there’s a model coming at 10am and I have to get up!
pop.see.cul : Favourite movie?
Kayla Varley: Trainspotting, Coming to America, Get him to the Greek, etc
pop.see.cul : Favourite song?
Kayla Varley: none
pop.see.cul : Best quote you’ve ever heard?
Kayla Varley: “Everywhere you go, there you are.” I don’t remember who said it but it’s true and it’s something I’m always thinking about. You cannot run away from yourself.
pop.see.cul : Tell us one thing you remember about your childhood.
Kayla Varley: I had a rough childhood. Can I pass on this question?
pop.see.cul : If you could meet a person- living or dead- who would it be?
Kayla Varley: Freud.
pop.see.cul : What would you do right now if you weren’t answering our interview?
Kayla Varley: Responding to any of the other emails in my inbox.
pop.see.cul : Our lastest interviewee, Rhianne Butler would like to know : if there was to be a film made of your life who would you want to play you and why?
Kayla Varley: I would hate to have a movie made about me!
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Kayla Varley: What do you think about late at night in the moments before you fall asleep?
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RHIANNE BUTLER
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pop.see.cul: Can you tell us a bit about yourself. You might want to start with why you love rabbits so much!
Rhianne Butler: My family say I’m only ever happy when I have a pen in my hand & I’m drawing dresses & that is how its been my whole life. When I finished high school I went to college & studied Fashion Design. For my final collection I made three dresses inspired by fruit which were very heavily embellished with buttons & all with matching berets, tights and orange net capes, it was called ‘Dial f For Fruit’ I then went to the University of Brighton to study Textile Design for Fashion. I specialised in woven textiles and learnt so much & so many amazing skills, because I used to think weave was just all dodgy 1970′s carpets but its so much more & woven textiles play a huge part in fashion. One day when I’m old and lonely I want to be able to just sit at a loom and weave my days away making brightly coloured tartans and check patterns. Ah, well then my love for rabbits goes back to my childhood & a rabbit being my first pet, well I had two, twins, Sophie & Sarah. Rabbits are just so so cute & easy to talk to because there noses twitch, it is kind of like they are answering you in a secret code. I remember writing letters to the Queen filled with drawings & tales all about my rabbits, I don’t think my Dad ever posted those letters because if he did believe me I would of got a reply! And lastly Katie Grand loves rabbits too so I am in very fashionable company!
pop.see.cul: Can you tell us about your project ‘A Garden Party on Acid’
Rhianne Butler: A Garden Party on Acid, was my graduate woven textiles collection but now it seems to be a huge part of my life. I thought I would leave university, just put it in a suitcase under the bed & discover it again years later but I decided to develop it into a larger collection with new woven pieces & use it more to show my fashion styling skills. When I designed the collection I didn’t really look into trends for Spring/Summer 13 I just created what I liked but I seemed to have made each design relate to the summer trends, which is great! I was just really that I want to make a matching tartan twin set like Cher & Dion’s in Clueless. But overall A Garden Party on Acid takes inspiration from a bright & colourful garden party, which the Queen, Cher Horwitz & Emma Watson are of course invited. It is psychedelic, full of very sickly sweet colours such a pink, purple, yellow, orange & green. It is your Sunday best, when you wear floral cigarette trousers, clashing patterns & tangles of pearls. It’s a bold but fresh look. For the young, individual woman. The woven fabrics in the collection are created using a variety of different & traditional weaving techniques. They are infused with ribbons & a various amount of different yarns in both bright & pastel colours to give a unique and most importantly a very British hand made quality to the collection. I also have a wide range of hand woven fabrics which support the development of the collection.
pop.see.cul: Where do you usually get your inspiration from?
Rhianne Butler: I tend to find an image that I love & I know I love it when I keep going back & looking at it over & over again. The image can be of anything from a pattern, print or street style photo. Then I develop an idea from the image. I try to then link two other images with the main image so it kind of becomes like a maths equation and then the end designs are the answer to the equation. I always end up working backwards though. I know what I want the end garments to look like so I design them first and then develop the mood of the collection, the customer and main inspiration from that. I think I live in my own bubble & I just seem to find anything I can as inspiration
pop.see.cul: What are your plans for the future?
Rhianne Butler: I am currently preparing for a styling video shoot for ‘A Garden Party on Acid’ which I have coming up in February. Making new garments & sourcing props for the shoot, it is so exciting! Then my main aim is apply for my Masters, I am hoping to gain a place at Birmingham City University on the Fashion Styling & Promotion MA in September, so I’m working on my portfolio at the moment too. I just hope one day to be working as part of a trend prediction team or as a stylist, so maybe Katie Grand & her rabbits need to watch out! But I think my just going to try & roll with it and let my career take me where it may. But my ultimate dream would to be the new Luella Bartley, because I miss her label, I really do! Oh & if they ever re-make the Clueless film or TV show I would like to be the costume designer or you know be Cher Horwitz!
pop.see.cul: What is your favourite era in history and why?
Rhianne Butler: Since I was 16 I have been obsessed with 1960′s. I think that came from my love of Twiggy & doing my make-up just like hers, I would draw on the fake lashes & do the big eyes. I still do my make up like it now but toned down a little bit more now. I always tend to look at the sixties for garment styles & shapes when designing because I think it is an era that everyone loves & fashion really became something then. If you look at the catwalk collections every season I think there is always a hint of the sixties, whether it be in dress shapes, accessories or make up, it always seems to be there.
pop.see.cul: Can you please explain why you’re so obsessed/ in love with Emma Watson?
Rhianne Butler: I would defend myself & say I’m not obsessed but I don’t think lying is going to get my anywhere. So yes, my name is Rhianne & I am obsessed with Emma Watson. It is because I grew up reading the books, seeing the films & waiting (still waiting) for my Hogwarts letter to come. I loved her in the Burberry campaigns & for a birthday party I had a university I pinned up photos of her on the wall & there is a photo of me that looks like I am crying with joy just to be photographed next to those photos. I think if she ever reads this I’m sure a restraining order will be issued.
pop.see.cul: What would be the first thing you would ask/tell Emma Watson if you ever met her?
Rhianne Butler: Well I would more than likely be in a state of giggly hysteria, but I would then try to pull it together & ask her if she would like to wear my designs & send her some clothes. If I ever become a big time designer, she is the person I ask to wear my collection & front the campaign, so stay by the phone Emma.
pop.see.cul: If you could meet anyone who is dead, who would that be?
Rhianne Butler: It would be Princess Diana. I always loved her.
pop.see.cul: What is your favourite childhood memory?
Rhianne Butler: I have so many but one that always sticks out is when the remix by Jason Nevins of the RUN DMC song ‘It’s Like That’ came out, I was seven at the time & we would spend most weekends at my aunties house & me, my cousin & my two brother were watching MTV & the video came on so we decided to act along & have this big dance off like they do in the video, I tried to spin on my head & we were pulling all kind of shapes, I remember telling all my friends about it at school the next day hoping someone would want to do it again. My family still talk about it to this day and I’m waiting for another dance off!
pop.see.cul: Best quote you’ve ever heard?
Rhianne Butler: The best quotes to me seen to be when they suit how I feel at a certain time at my life. Right now the best quote I have heard & I don’t know who said it but it is “Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realise why it never worked out with anyone else” I think that sums it up.
pop.see.cul: Our latest interviewee, Laura McKeller would like to know: If you could travel to anywhere in the world to live your dream, where would it be and what would you be doing?
Rhianne Butler: I would love to travel & work in New York, it comes from watching endless re-runs of Friends & the second Home Alone film too much. I also would love to travel all over America & live the O.C/90210/Clueless life. I would like to be styling or designing, just any job really as long as I would get to see the world. I think I just want to work as much as I can & then spend my later years travelling on cruises & seeing the world but never getting a tan because I love being pale.
pop.see.cul: What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Rhianne Butler: If there was to be a film made of your life who would you want to play you and why?
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LAURA MCKELLAR
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pop.see.cul : Can you tell us a bit about your background?
Laura McKellar: After high school I studied Printing & Graphic Arts and then went on to do a degree of Graphic Design. Since finishing university I have been doing graphic design and illustration freelance work. I have worked on all sorts of projects from band posters, textiles, homewares, packaging and other print jobs. I always try to make time to work on personal projects aswell and really enjoy making zines and embroideries with found images.
pop.see.cul : Where do you get your inspiration from?
Laura McKellar: I love reading through old books, lots of blogs, and films. I get so inspired travelling and finding new places to explore. I recently went to Cadaques, Spain and visited Salvador Dali’s house and it was just unbelievable. It was full of weird and wonderful trinkets and collections, you could walk through his studio which overlooked the sea and his outdoor spaces were incredible. I find it really important to do things like that to stay excited and inspired.
pop.see.cul : If you could change one thing about your career, what would it be?
Laura McKellar: I’d love to spend a shorter amount of time sitting down on a computer. I feel most inspired when I am out in the sun and unfortunately being a graphic designer means I spend a lot of time in doors.
pop.see.cul : What are the pros and cons of being an illustrator today?
Laura McKellar: pros – making a living doing what I love doing, getting support from strangers who share your work online, and just being happy to work. cons – compromising personal creativity & finding good clients who appreciate your talent, vision and capabilities.
pop.see.cul : What is your favourite thing about Melbourne? Can you tell us what a perfect day would be like in Melbourne.
Laura McKellar: I’ve travelled all over the world and i always feel happy to come home to melbourne. there are so many things i love about this place. there is always a lot going on with design and art, small laneways full of creative places and people, the food is amazing, the city has a lot of trees and parks, and there is a real creative community vibe. you will see familiar faces at exhibitions and design markets.
My perfect day in melbourne would be…
jump on the train (so I could read my book) to the city. I’d visit my favourite shops in flinders lane, curtain house and brunswick street. Have japanese for lunch with some friends, spend some time in my studio, and then head home to the beach before the sun sets.
pop.see.cul : What is the song you can’t stop listening to these days?
Laura McKellar: I was living in los angeles in 2012 with some musicians from australia. ive been listening to their new band Honeymooon nonstop and love the song Coastline.
pop.see.cul : Favourite movie ever?
Laura McKellar: The darjeeling limited, I’m a sucker for Wes Anderson films and can’t go past anything starring Jason Schwartzman.
pop.see.cul : What is the best christmas gift you had so far?
Laura McKellar: My sister made me a giant terrarium that looks like a volcano made of moss and it has a tiny fern which is the lava!
pop.see.cul : Our lastest interviewee, Fanny Latour would like to know: What to you always forget?
Laura McKellar: Not to compare myself and my work to other artists. I see so much amazing stuff online and sometimes feel that I am not working hard enough or doing enough, which is silly because I do work hard at what I do. It’s easy to get caught up on sites like Pinterest, first feeling inspired and then like its a competition!
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Laura McKellar: If you could travel to anywhere in the world to live your dream, where would it be and what would you be doing?
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FANNY LATOUR
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pop.see.cul : Can you tell us a bit about your background?
Fanny Latour : Here are some random facts : The very first word i said was “goodbye” in spanish to a rhinoceros at the zoo. When I was little I wanted to be an entomologist. My father didn’t want me to own a single barbie doll. The first thing I said to my first crush when I was 5 year old is “are you a boy or a girl?”. I like to cook. My favourite film maker is haneke. I hate beetroot and horses.
pop.see.cul : Where do you currently live?
Fanny Latour : In Paris.
pop.see.cul : What is your typical day like?
Fanny Latour : Thank God, i don’t have a single typical day.
pop.see.cul : What inspires you?
Fanny Latour : Films, experiences, feelings, locations and people.
pop.see.cul : What do you love most about your work?
Fanny Latour : Having the more beautiful memories of my life since I own a camera.
pop.see.cul : What do you hate most?
Fanny Latour : ”Which camera are you using ?”
pop.see.cul : Has there been a particular project you found to be the highlight of your career so far?
Fanny Latour : I don’t think so, all the projects are important and have been useful for me, even the “little” ones.
pop.see.cul : What are your plans for the future?
Fanny Latour : Keep going.
pop.see.cul : Favorite song?
Fanny Latour : Before the Bridge, by Future Islands.
pop.see.cul : Favorite movie?
Fanny Latour : The White Ribbon
pop.see.cul : Favorite store in your city?
Fanny Latour : Guerissol, vintage shop where every piece of clothing cost between 1 and 5 euros.
pop.see.cul : If you could meet a person- living or dead- who would it be?
Fanny Latour : Too many people.
pop.see.cul : What is your best childhood memory?
Fanny Latour : My best childhood memory was when I went to Spain with my family in a little farm totally lost in the countryside. I became almost wild during this week, spending all of my time hunting the rabbits with the dogs and then playing with the rabbits we catched (safe and alive rabbits haha). My legs were full of bruises and scratches, my hair was messier than ever, I was eating fruits in the trees, it was really amazing. I could do this for my entire life
pop.see.cul : Best quote you’ve ever heard?
Fanny Latour : It’s not really a quote but “la petite brise la glace” a french sentence that has two different meanings depending on the way people first read it.
pop.see.cul :What would you do right now if you weren’t answering our interview?
Fanny Latour : There are so many thing I have to get done that I don’t even want to think about it.
pop.see.cul : Our lastest interviewee,Douglas Lyle Thompson would like to know : ‘Now that everyone on the planet is essentially a photographer, how does that change things for our career? Is our photography world too saturated? Does that make us work harder?’
Fanny Latour : Annoying. photography makes me happy, that’s enough for me. I don’t need or want to ask myself about all those stuff, I’m already feeling really lucky to make money with what I consider as my favorite entertainement. I will keep going until it’s not entertaining / making me happy anymore.
pop.see.cul : What would you like to ask our next guest on pop.asks.you?
Fanny Latour : What are you always forgetting ?
