Happy No Fear
41 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA podcast hosted by CHASE (@theartofchase) // Tune in for talks with artists and creatives discussing life in the arts and tricks of the trade.
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Episode 41: Pref_ID
March 22, 2023 20:36 - 1 hour - 124 MBPrefID (@pref_id) is a British artist who paints around the world. We talk about dating fellow artist Adele Renault, hard kombucha leading to amnesia, moving to LA, how their dog came into their life, his love for Belgium’s excellent beer and food items, his process, the reason for not using tape in his murals, the pursuit of perfection, taming the medium, his hate for typography, how letters can communicate beyond their usual means, the trajectory to authenticity, how his collabo...
Episode 40: Scien (123KLAN)
January 19, 2023 20:46 - 1 hour - 139 MBWe talk about recently surviving a heart attack, working at Riot Games as an Art Director, moving to Venice Beach from Montreal, the benefits of Kung Fu, discovering Hip Hop and graffiti in the late ‘80s, working with the first Mac to start working with Adobe Illustrator, being vectorheads, feeling-based outlines, Designer Republic, partying in Belgium and getting influenced by the club scene there in the early ‘90s, skating in Ostend at a Leffinge Skatepark, trusting artists with t...
Episode 39: KLOR (123KLAN)
December 09, 2022 01:58 - 1 hour - 137 MBKlor is a French artist and partner with Scien in 123KLAN, who paints worldwide. We talk about growing up in the north of France/south of Belgium, being there at the beginning of the movement, being married to Scien for 28 years, working on each other’s work with full trust, coming up as a girl in the graffiti scene, always including graffiti lettering in projects, the preciousness of the lack of access before things became a trend, how they ended up in Montreal, moving to LA, thei...
Episode 38: Davey Leavitt
November 29, 2022 19:29 - 2 hours - 249 MBDavey Leavitt is an artist and designer and the former co-founder of Cyrcle. He lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about low-key chic living in Los Feliz, the apprehension for learning new things, Kung Fu George popping up at the right time, joining a lesbian basketball league, becoming conscious, every artist dealing with trauma, living with depression, vanilla granola, mustard seeds of faith, healing from pain and becoming of service, the benefits of Intensive Short-Term Dyna...
Episode 37: Skount
November 18, 2022 18:54 - 1 hour - 134 MBSkount is a Spanish artist and a master chef living in Amsterdam. We talk about the Holy Waters of Lourdes, the almost non-existent lockdown during the pandemic in Amsterdam, turning clubs into gyms, the can-do spirit of the Dutch, painting in Copenhagen, the crazy story of how he ended up living in Amsterdam and most likely avoided jail time in Panama, creating menus, meeting in Venice 12 years ago, taking cabs around LA, the importance of signing and copyrighting your murals, gett...
Episode 36: Steve Saiz
November 10, 2022 20:33 - 3 hours - 382 MBSteve Saiz is a legendary professional skateboarder and artist/designer living in Los Angeles. We talk about the US Angeles group show he curated, skating with Spike Jonze, Freestyler Magazine, the resurgence of skateboarding in the ‘80s, touring Europe with the Bones Brigade, the beauty and far reach of skateboarding, Stacey Peralta’s influence, building skateparks for Native Americans, the story behind his iconic board graphic, George Powell’s involvement in Powell Peralta, the wi...
Episode 35: ZLA
October 20, 2022 20:34 - 1 hour - 213 MBZLA is an artist an illustrator in LA. We talk about having a studio for the first time, making the switch from working for an advertising agency full-time for 10 years to working part-time to focus on making art, growing up in Glendale drawing mazes, why the senses are time-machines, having an older brother who was into graffiti, going to UC Davis and Art Center Pasadena, hand-me-down knowledge, keeping bridges in order, infusing walls with love energy, knowing when you’re ready to...
Episode 34: Kii Arens
August 02, 2022 17:48 - 1 hour - 143 MBKii Arens is an illustrator, artist, musician and director who lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about painting the facade of the Roxy on the Sunset Strip, spin art, opening up for Gangstarr back in the day, performing at Prince's 31st birthday party, designing the last Van Halen poster, the gig poster world, poppers, designing for Woodstock '94 and '95 and playing the festival as part of the agreement, the Warhol tribute show 'Diet Warhol' at La-La Land Gallery coming up, Pau...
Episode 33: John Park
June 13, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 218 MBJohn Park is an artist living in LA who paints around the US. We talk about Cannibal Flower, coming up in Ohio, attending RISD, the CIA using Modern Art in a covert operation in the '50s to combat the cultural Cold War, soft power flexes, Alphonse Mucha, Frog Tape, the 28,000 square feet Nike job, cracking sidewalks with lifts, hand-painted giant advertisements, the process of painting a basketball court, investigating the things that scare you, the power of saying yes, regulating s...
Episode 32: Nychos: The Awakening
February 16, 2022 19:06 - 41 minutes - 76.2 MBNychos is an artist from Vienna who lives in LA and works around the world. We talk about his upcoming show with @mirusgallery in LA: 'The Awakening' and the 100+ paintings in it, getting healthier and more clear in mind,body and soul the closer he got to finishing the work for the show, painting as a way to clear out and let go, being the sickness and the medicine at the same time, taking accountability for your own bullshit, the 5 collaborative paintings in the show with @saturnoa...
Episode 31: Rizon
February 04, 2022 22:24 - 2 hours - 285 MBRizon is a 3D Designer, Illustrator and Creative Director who lives in Antwerp, Belgium. We talk about the early graffiti days in Antwerp, first trips to NY, glass eyes in sandwiches, seeking refuge in clubs because it was too cold outside, the beauty of early adoption and fighting for the art form, never finishing high school, odd jobs and faux-finishing, building Zillion, figuring out the flier business, learning Strata off of video tapes, 10 years of 14 hours a day of learning pr...
Episode 30: PEZ
December 10, 2021 21:31 - 51 minutes - 94.5 MBPez is a Spanish artist who paints worldwide. We talk about early beginnings, positive graffiti, Barcelona shutters, his show at Thinkspace Gallery in LA, the barrier of the mind, the scene in Bogota/Columbia, cops that write graffiti, the Visual Arts Rights Act, Amsterdam adventures and more. IG: @pezbarcelona www.el-pez.com
Bonus: The Making of the Angelina Print
July 07, 2021 14:03 - 23 minutes - 43.3 MBRecorded at Modern Multiples Studio with Lionel Deluy and Montana Mills on the signing day of "Angelina", we talk about how the collaboration edition came about, details of the production, the story behind the Angelina Jolie shoot back in the early '90s and how she knew exactly what she wanted, working with the drum-scanned polaroid because Vogue never returned the negatives, the many firsts that are happening on this collaboration and Lionel's technique of signing with his fingerpr...
Episode 28: Montana Mills of Modern Multiples
June 30, 2021 17:43 - 1 hour - 162 MBMontana Mills is the Director of Modern Multiples, a fine art printmaking studio in Los Angeles specializing in serigraphs and digital giclees. We talk about the founder of the studio and Montana's uncle, the artist and printmaker Richard Duardo and the legacy he created and left behind, LA's Chicano Art movement, Hecho in Atzlan, the difference between an archival digital print and a multiple, the true meaning of the word "giclee", the art of printmaking, creating the Chicano Coll...
Episode 27: Fabian Alomar
December 28, 2020 18:42 - 1 hour - 170 MBFabian Alomar is a professional skateboarder and actor living in Los Angeles. We talk about being freshly released after being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison for 4 years, making the 'Cholos Try' videos, staying sober and clean, celebrating too much, self-help programs in prison, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), spending time in the hole, being friends with people who's faces he's never seen in SHU, how to make a kites and lines to communicate with and pass items to fellow...
Episode 26: Nychos
December 08, 2020 00:45 - 3 hours - 434 MBNychos is an artist who was born in Vienna but now lives in Los Angeles and paints around the world. We talk about quitting sugar and alcohol, meeting at See No Evil 2 in Bristol back in 2012, getting into Lords Crew and JBCB, opening the Rabbit Eye Movement Gallery and Studio in Vienna, doing 4 solo shows in a year, hitting San Francisco hard, getting sick with a mysterious sickness which took many years to figure out, having a life-changing 5-MeO-DMT trip, doing tai chi everyday f...
Episode 25: MADSTEEZ
November 02, 2020 16:48 - 1 hour - 117 MBMadSteez is an artist living and working in New York. Recorded at his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we talk about making up meanings for the paintings after the fact, why Mr. Ween is number 1 and how the Weeniverse got started, working at Rusty as an assistant Art Director without them knowing he was still in High School, how Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Picasso owned Wiener dogs, why you can go backside on the Ween, his thinking behind packing everything up and driving from O...
Episode 24: Enrique Lorenzo
October 14, 2020 17:01 - 37 minutes - 68.6 MBEnrique Lorenzo is a professional skateboarder who lives in Barcelona. Recorded from the steps at MACBA in Barcelona we talk about funny trick trends poppin' up accidentally through the socials, skateboarding being an art or a sport depending or your perspective, how he ended up skating for World Industries, getting the call from Rodney Mullen on a Wednesday, foregoing his high school studies to skate, how most of his footage from his Trilogy part was sponsor-me footage, raids at th...
Episode 23: Allison Bamcat
October 07, 2020 20:01 - 1 hour - 140 MBAllison Bamcat is an artist living and working in LA. We talk about growing up with Scientologist parents, how Dianetics saved the day when food-poisoned once, starting to paint walls two and a half years ago at the age of 30, getting taught by graffiti artists, the scene in Boston, how to get boomlifts to stop beeping, painting in the rain, painting 8 walls in the last 2 months, loving to paint, honoring the past, developing original characters rather than using known properties, c...
Episode 22: Gsulf
October 03, 2020 20:30 - 1 hour - 134 MBGsulf is a graffiti artist from Paris who now lives in LA. We talk about moving to LA in January of 2020 right before the pandemic, the power of the bidet, wiping from the front just to be safe, abandoning the technical side of painting, spray paint as a tool, focusing on gesture, being free to try new stuff with the option of not showing it, maintaining focus on the letterform, abstract painting as a way to unlearn how to paint, trusting every mark and mistake, painting as a game, ...
Episode 21: Shplinton
July 29, 2020 05:40 - 1 hour - 134 MBShplinton is a Los Angeles based artist. We talk about being locked down, Covid craziness, erring on the side of caution, people moving away from LA, doodling in his Bible as a kid, growing up in South Central, art as escapism, the gentrification of Venice, AR, renting out paintings, washing fruits and veggies, training for a cross-country bike trip, staying motivated no matter what, music as a time machine, and witnessing a crazy car wreck from his window. https://www.shplinton.co...
Episode 20: Keta Meggett
June 11, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 209 MBKeta Megget is an actor, fighter, pro-wrestler, 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt and the founder of Team Bully Buster. We talk about having helped saved a stranger's life who was just hit by a car who turned out to be a Trump supporter from Minneapolis, why it's time to be sensitive and understanding, being called the N-word when she was 8 years old, looking at the ugly truth, fact-checking your posts, how being bullied as a kid motivated her to start a school to empower kids throu...
Episode 19: 2501
April 09, 2020 17:20 - 46 minutes - 107 MB2501 is an Italian artist that travels and works worldwide. We talk about how we came up with his name, Brasil, painting graffiti and trains for 10 years in the 90s, why painting letters and characters became too restrictive, the journey of making work, the scene in Milan at the turn of the century, how his video work is a part of his process, committing to being a full-time artist in 2007, being a nomadic artist, learning from artist friends like The London Police, BO130, Microbo a...
Episode 18: SheOne
March 17, 2020 21:10 - 1 hour - 205 MBSheOne is a British artist who lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. We talk about the presentation and arrangement of the work, the importance of scale, abstracting the alphabet, painting for your peers, starting writing graffiti in London in 1984, Covent Garden meetings, the medium being the message, the thinking behind the name SheOne, crushing self-doubt, growing up around musicians, his first show in NYC upon Crash's invitation in the late 90s, living in Barcelona aggro-free, th...
Episode 17: Zosen
March 02, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 225 MBZosen in an artist living in Barcelona and working around the world. Recorded at his studio in Barcelona, we talk about hijinx with David Choe and Saber in Barcelona, the pill of youth, the early scene in Barcelona, backjumps with Flying Fortress in Lisbon, Zorlac shorts and Pushead graphics, being in a relationship and working with the artist @mina_hamada , making a documentary about the Barcelona creative scene and its history, gentrification, Venice Beach and its influence, the p...
Episode 16: Jaune
January 20, 2020 18:25 - 54 minutes - 126 MBJaune is a Belgium-based stencil artist who is active worldwide. We talk about the meaning behind his name, the benefits of working with modular elements, working site-specific in an improvisational way, traveling with suitcases filled with stencils, working on a 100 square meter commission, working as a garbage man early on and getting inspired to paint the city workers, being in a relationship with the artist Perversa and collaborating in the street, growing up in Waterloo, makin...
Episode 15: Malkovich
October 21, 2019 19:50 - 1 hour - 228 MBMalkovich is an emcee and a world traveller. We talk about his #onebag project, his Iranian roots, recording albums with producers around the world for the last 7 years, how to set up shop in a new country in a day flat, understanding big data, being in prison in Namibya, living in Vietnam, living in Malaysia, doing business in Southeast Asia, dating in Mumbai, the problem with immigration officers, why Cambodia is the new Wild West, setting up his media marketing company in Saigon ...
Episode 14: Rise One
October 02, 2019 12:20 - 1 hour - 270 MBRise One is a graffiti artist, illustrator and painter from Antwerp, Belgium. We talk about his show at Ewkuks in LA, organizing the Meeting of Styles in Antwerp, earning the right to paint big walls, bad curation, working with commercial clients, the American Dream, painting clean, having a dad that's a painter, trying to predict future styles, old masters and a lot more. IG: @RiseOne_AK
Episode 13: Vyal One
August 23, 2019 00:20 - 59 minutes - 135 MBVyal One is an artist who lives and works in LA and around the world. We talk about going from letters to painting characters, painting the OG graffiti pits in Venice Beach, the pre-internet world, following freely, funny posts on Craig’s List, gentrification, working with kids, early Chicano murals in Los Angeles, being weird, the limited options for posing in pictures, how removing your nipples may increase your followership, being into what’s beneath the underground, and going to...
Episode 12: Cocovan
August 14, 2019 04:40 - 53 minutes - 122 MBCocovan is a singer and a performance artist who lives in New York and Paris who works all over the world. We talk about making the shift from being a pop singer to becoming a performance artist, being inspired by 'Exit through the Gift Shop', her first performance piece on a bed in the streets of London, Poetic Interventions, being introverted at home and extroverted while going out, the surprise of being really well-received, setting up in the streets without permits, starting the...
Epsiode 11: Sean Kushner
July 18, 2019 21:10 - 55 minutes - 128 MBSean Kushner is a painter and sober companion who lives in Venice Beach. We talk about surfing with sharkie-sense, growing up in south Florida, going down the deepest burrow of the rabbit hole, waking up with seizures in ambulances, coming to California and getting sober, getting into social commentary paintings, becoming a sober companion and helping people with substance abuse problems and mental illness, doom and gloom, and why giving is receiving. www.seankushart.com IG: @sean...
Episode 10: Bue the Warrior
July 06, 2019 07:35 - 1 hour - 161 MBBue the Warrior is a Belgium-born artist who lives and works in Mexico. We talk about hitting the road and painting all over Europe together, the way things were back in the days, improvisational painting, doing your own thing rather than following trends, why painting tons of small walls is more fun than a handful of big ones, moving to Mexico and opening up a waffle bar and becoming the waffle champ. IG: @buethewarrior
Episode 9: Nina Minnebo
June 20, 2019 01:20 - 56 minutes - 130 MBNina Minnebo is a painter that lives and works in Belgium. We talk about color as therapy, leaving a cushy graphic design job to start painting again, working with clients, giving paintings what they want, why cars are always male, gangbanging Barbies, working with Union LA, Erewhon, her residency in Bermuda, and power of just asking. www.ninaminnebo.com IG: @ninaminnebo
Episode 8: Topo
June 03, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 184 MBTopo is a traveling tattoo artist. We talk about the nomadic lifestyle, self-publishing, Riso printing, social capital, getting tongue-raped, working with the legendary Lyle Tuttle, psychedelics and bad trips on busses. IG: @topofoto
Episode 7: Jules Muck
May 21, 2019 19:50 - 1 hour - 185 MBJules Muck is an artist that lives in Venice Beach. We talk about getting started in graffiti, cement legs, the total acceptance of Venice, being obsessed with painting, patrolling walls, growing up in Greece and New York City, being mentored by the legendary Lady Pink, painting cross-country, gentrification issues, pricing work, and fake art reps. www.julesmuck.com IG: @muckrock
Episode 6: Regan Jackson
May 14, 2019 20:00 - 2 hours - 340 MBRegan Jackson is a production designer who lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about getting lost in the outback, making tea on set, learning as-you-go, hosting the Bong Olympics, working with Spike Jonze, working with 2PAC, why Alan Watts is the man, how he started working with director Hype Williams and the power of asking 'can I think about it?' www.reganjackson.com IG: @regansland
Episode 5: Lionel Deluy
May 07, 2019 16:00 - 2 hours - 304 MBLionel Deluy is an LA-based photographer. We talk about his dog pooping in Johnny Rotten's front yard, growing up in a small village in the South of France, shooting his first fashion magazine covers in Mexico, photographing Angelina Jolie before she was famous, immigrant mentality, his friendship with Gary Oldman, why we should put our IPhones down, and how living the dream in America is a big deal.
Episode 4: Gino Perez
April 27, 2019 22:30 - 1 hour - 172 MBGino Perez is an artist / ex-professional skateboarder that lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about Highland Park, the dark side, the Golden Era of skateboarding, having Mark Gonzales as a mentor, Mexican UFOs, his upcoming show at the Heritage Museum, kleptomania and being the first beard. https://www.mexican-ufo.com IG: @ginoooooooo
Episode 3: Stefan Kleinschuster
April 25, 2019 22:20 - 1 hour - 189 MBStefan Kleinschuster is a Los Angeles-based oil painter and writer. We talk about alternative venues to show art, not giving up on a painting, vibrational energy, working with clients, the problem with aesthetics, form as a communicant and embracing the unknown. https://www.stefkleinschuster.com/ IG: @soliandstefan
Episode 2: Teddy Kelly
April 25, 2019 22:15 - 33 minutes - 77.5 MB@teddykelly is a Los Angeles-based artist and designer. We talk about the use of projectors, blue tape, surfing, Mazatlan and time crunches. https://www.teddykelly.com/ IG: @TeddyKelly
Episode 1: Caratoes
April 25, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 230 MBWelcome to the first show! Caratoes is a Belgian-born artist that travels the world to paint walls. We talk early beginnings, growing up Chinese in a small village in Belgium, bio-chemistry, self-reliance, spoiler alerts, tagging in Hong Kong and leaving a cushy job to start painting, hustling walls and focusing on the now. Also feat. Sean McDonald AKA MOLMan. IG: @caratoes