The Interviews

Josh Farria is a local photographer that we previously featured. Hit the jump read of his journey from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to our own neighborhood, San Francisco.
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Goñi Montes is an immensely powerful wizard (featured previously in April 2010). Some have tried to challenge him, their shattered souls lay as testaments to their own foolishness sprinkled about his Tower. We begged him not to crush us with his voice as he gave responses to our interview, he responded “Why not employ...
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We were treated to the photographic endeavors of Matthew K. Mayes, or Mojokiss in September of 2010. Now he’s given us a peek into his mind, with great pleasure, we share that glance with you. Read on intrepid cosmonauts.
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Back in August of 2010, our own Konahrtist presented us with the stunning and colorful art of Sara Blake. Well well well, now we get to delve a little deeper with an exclusive EMPTY KINGDOM Interview that she granted us!
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Gehard Demetz is a favored artist here at EMPTY KINGDOM! Demtez was featured back in August 2010, January 2011, and was chosen for the EK TOP 100 Artist of 2010! And we got to interview him! I want one of his pieces so I can just sit and stare at it for hours. Check...
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We’re gunning for an interview with every artist listed in our Top 100, but this particular one will hold a special place in my personal vault. Miru Kim’s Naked City Spleen series is probably the most audacious of all the art I’ve come across on the inter-tubes. Plus she’s legit enough to have had...
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The art of Gianmarco Magnani, or Silence Television and The Jetpilots is clean. So clean that it turns Mr. Clean on and makes his bald head sparkle like emo kids when they walk out in the sunlight. Empty Kingdom was treated to an interview with him, and who are we to be greedy greedies?...
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Our previous post on Jung-Yeon Min was one of our most popular last year. We hit her up with some questions. Hit the jump for her answers.
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When asked if she would do interview with us, the wonderful Sarah Harvey replied “but of course.” So we made a list of questions, checked it twice, sent it on over, and what we got in return were only some of the most honest answers we’ve ever seen. This girl is thinking outside the...
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We covered Derek Gores’ dope collage art in this post, and also featured him in our 2010′s Top 100. We recently got in touch and he told us about an upcoming show he has in LA. Never ones to miss an opportunity, we offered to give him a plug in exchange for an interview....
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Last year, our noble Konahrtist posted some of the work of the gentlemen of Bicicleta Sem Frieo This year, we asked them to tell us a bit about themselves and their work and they kindly obliged. Here’s the interview, check it out.
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Empty Kingdom recently had the honor of interviewing UK artist Mark Demsteader (featured previously in December 2010), his answers follow. Read on.
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Serge Birault is a freelance digital illustrator from France. If you missed out on his EMPTY KINGDOM feature last year, make sure you check it out here. Today, We bring Mr. Birault back to EK for an interview in order to get further acquainted with the man himself, and his pinup-influenced digital illustrations.
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Ethan Murrow is an awesome illustrator we had the privilege to feature on Empty Kingdom (definitely check out his previous EK feature). Now we’ve been given the further honor of an interview with him. Join us as we take a peek at the insides of his brain.
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Wow. I want Fumi Nakamura to blow up just so that I can beg her for another interview. Here are the answers she gifted us with, they’re as intriguing and provocative as her art. If Empty Kingdom was a church, I believe she could become an arch bishop at the very least. If you...
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Over here at EK, we don’t care if you’re conservative, liberal, moderate, green, blue, two feet tall, or ten… etc. etc.  (Although if you were blue and 10 feet tall, you’d probably be Nav’ii, and I definitely would like to meet you) But some people in the US government have proposed to cut federal...
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The lovely Elle Muliarchyk was previously featured on EK back in November 2010, which was a treat for us! Born in Belarus, raised in Vietnam, discovered in New York. Speaks five languages. Is she a spy? No, she’s an awesome photographer. She first gained attention as a model taking photographs of herself in boutique...
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Our very own Konahrtist featured Maykel last year (here’s the post). We figured it was time to find out more about the artist who turns notebooks into dopebooks. Check his words out below:
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We were fortunate enough to find Jose Rivas’ work (featured previously here), and now we can double down on that because he granted us an interview. We gave him questions, he gave us answers, read one, the other, or both -but either way, take a look:
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