Mike Giant

So I think I wish I, I wish I had been more thoughtful, certainly with what I produced earlier, but I was more just obsessed with, um, emulating things I loved.

I remember when I showed up to art school, my favorite artists were artists that Antonio Colombo had shown, like Mike Giant and David Cho.

And I had come from this obsession with graffiti, and I thought this was the pinnacle of art.

And so when people started bringing up Robert Ryman or whatever it was, Duchamp, I had no idea what they were talking about.

Before that, like...

It was funny, like, to go back in time, like, when Rebel 8, on their website, they were doing, like, Mike, the Mike Giant was one of the first vloggers.

And he was in Japan tattooing over there at hotels and stuff and going to Europe and tattooing.

I was like, oh.