RD: When did you start painting??

Seak: First pirate ships (ships of the line)..hmmm 9years
First comics with 12 years
First tag/graffiti with a spraycan with 15years in my little suburb.
First full piece on a wall with 19years as well as the first train.
First canvas with 20 years, aswell as first time officially inivited on a jam.
First canvas showed in a museum with 21years

RD: Where are you from??

Seak: Iam from the southern suburbs of cologne (koeln), Germany fourth biggest city. From the beginning of my graffiti carreer I started travelling and painted alot in other citys and countrys. Thats propably the reason why most people in the scene esspecially in states cant really relay my to a certain city For me the best in graffiti and art is the opportunity to travell. When i stay longer then 3 weeks cologne i get really frustrated. For the last 2 years i started to focus besides international invites to jams, exhibtions, and projects to focus on cologne.

RD: Main art influences??

Seak: In the early years the heros i had in graffiti. Unfortunatley i had too less skillz to bite there style, thats why are started to blend into a personal style at the very beginningg.

RD: Do you have to get in the "zone" to paint, or do you just jump right into it??

Seak: Well, thats my main problem. I have too much respect fromm y own fame, that blocades me alot of times ot make new experiments. And when break thru this wall, and jump over my shadow i get that kick of riding the perfect wave. When i think about it, always after a great sexual expierence i am motivated for a couple of days. Swingerclubs, when they are top notch are a great opportunity.

RD: What kind of Music do you listen to??

Seak: Everything, as long as ist good. Hiphop, rap, rnb, metal, rock, guns n roses, acdc, bastard pop, iam a huge fan of rodney carrington. nwa, i love nina gordons version of straight outta compton, i recently did a canvas for timo maas, thats one reason why starting to dig also into house.

RD: How did you develop your stylle??

Seak: I had the balls to not go with mainstream, and to take a lot of shit from the keep it real styler in the mid 90ies. I integrated influences out of my personal history into my work. Starwars, amgia500 bootblock intros, mid 80ies computer games like rtype2, piercings, the european comic movement,

RD: Do you have any crazy art gallery moments??

Seak: Not at the moment.

RD: Whats your biggest accomplishment in terms of Art??

Seak: Ive invented the Antenna`s as an alternative to the classical arrows, i was part of the movement which esstablished threedimensional graffiti (3d style) and gave him street credit, i invented fur on graffiti styles, with my crew cns (cnskillz) we made a certain way of painting conceptual murals popular. Esspecially walls which are realized in 1 or 2 days, at the moment ist scary who many people all arround the world bite my style or base there visual language on mine.

RD: Do people ever send you pictures of tattoos of your work??

Seak: ??

Seak: i was recently invited on a big festival in london and there was one fan of my work and he had a tattoo of my small a on his shoulder...... in terms of body art i got a prince albert, and fineline tattoos from mr. Cartoon aswell as a neckless from posk(madrid). Over the heart is graffiti, in the middle is my way and on the other side of the chest is ficken (german for fricken/to fuck).

RD: What do you think of porn??

Seak: Ist bad, bad, bad, cause increases my appetite, on a level which no girlfriend can hold. Iam propably addicted. There is nothing more relaxing than flipping thru a well curated jpeg folder and relief.

RD: What kind of girls are you into??

Seak: Hmmm. Tattoos, punk style, tomboy style, domatrixes, latin, asian, black, white, preferable dark hair, blondes only when they are super dirty and have very attraktive face, lolitas, mature woman.

RD: Do you have any "art groupies"??

Seak: probably a couple of 10thousands fans, groupies propably although but localy they are too shy to out themself,.

RD: Any Crazy Sexual Exploits to brag about??

Seak: lately i had a few tetete`s with a nice girl from the south of italy. She was 21 and i was shocked about the sexual expierence she had. In the end that really made jealous about the possibility women have when the want. Nothing to brag about. For a couple of years i did a lot prostitutes, swingerclubs and sexline dates. That formed my character and my art.

RD: What do you think of razordolls.com??

Seak: iam curious how it will develolop in the future and who it will specialize into the different sub tastes.

RD: Whos your favorite razordoll??

Seak: I cant decide, i need a razordolls getting off history to name a number one, ask me in a couple of weeks.

RD: Do you think Porn will ever be an accepted art form??

Seak: The question is oilpainting art. The answer most oilpaintings are propably not art.

RD: What upcoming artists should we look out for??

Seak: It will take a few years but maybe china will be interesting in the future.

RD: Do you like Horror Movies??

Seak: After my amiga500 computergame years i swapped my collection of copied games against the opportunity to get acess to a very very large horror movie collection of a local video guru. Thats where i became an overkill on splatter. If so Whats your Favorite??

Seak: Hmmm, malo or better down as the 100days of sodom. Ist a mixture out fo porn and horror. Really heavy stuff. ....ahh and the day after. It was banned for 10 years in germany.

RD: Whats your opinion on the art scene today??

Seak: The leipziger maler schule Is propably overrated

RD: What would you say is the biggest problem with society today??

Seak: Corruption, religion of any kind (buddism maybe excluded), uneducation, the lobby network of bush senior, intolerance, people know more about mel gibsons drunk driving than the war on lebanon.

RD: Anything you want to plug, do it here??

Seak: A butt plug for you thoughts...ahh and listen to david deangelo and neil strauss. Check out: www.seakone.com or www.myspace.com/seakthing