Cobble zone and crazy old buildings.
This is one of them I wanted to...
So here's the invader.
There's no other art movement that I can think of
that you've got kids from every country in the world
going out and risking their lives and legal trouble
to get started.
And when you meet a lot of the guys like Roa or Retna or Doze
those are the one in a million kind of people that never gave up
no matter how hard it got.
The kind of like in sports or football
you've got all the kids that play
but how many of them actually make it to the pro all-star status
it's the same kind of thing I think.
I've worked with a lot of artists over the last few years
Doze Green, Mars One, Retna, Ben Ein,
worked with Anthony Lister a few different times.
What I like best about working with artists is
you always get to see kind of a unique side of life
and that none of their lives are normal.
One of the hardest parts of my job isn't the editing or the shooting.
That's actually the easiest part.
The hardest part is juggling personality types.
I work with artists that inspire me
so in getting to see that insight into what inspires them to create the works
it's always just amazing and you know
I trip out that it's somehow become my job.
Real. Real.
With Roa I've traveled to Miami, Florida
I've traveled to Melbourne in Australia
and here in Brussels
so it was great to see
there was an honor to be invited out
for his first big show in Belgium.
He's one of the hardest workers I've ever met.
What he creates on a regular basis
and always out of nowhere.
He doesn't ever have a plan.
He's always very embracing of the chaos
and he takes walls that a lot of other artists, mural artists
wouldn't want to touch
because there's an imperfection
or there's like a crazy doorway right in the middle of it
or a weird bend where it would mess up a lot of other murals
and Roa will take those walls
and then create something on it
that blows everybody away.
It's just fascinating to see
that he's not like a normal artist in that.
He's more about it seems like learning.
He's almost more of a biologist in a way.
Like an old world biologist is what he reminds me of.
Like those old Darwinian kind of people
that study the globe and read animal books
and go and see animals for themselves
and then translate it to the walls
which is very different than
almost all the other artists I've ever worked with or met.
