1. Where were you born, and were do you reside?

I was born in Santa Monica, CA and I live in the San Fernando Valley

2. What types of hobbies do you do besides photography/music video directing as a profession.

As a hobbie, I still take pictures and film, I like to look at art, go to art shows, photo exhibitions, ride my motorcycle, lowride, hangout with the family, bbq and hangout with the kids. I also used to skateboard when I was younger at the Del Mar Skate Park, play volleyball, chess, surf, whatever. That’s pretty much it besides working

3. How many kids do you have?

4, one boy, 3 girls.

5. You mentioned going to art shows and photo exhibitions, who are your favorite artists or photographers?

Chaka, Saber, REVOK, RISKY, a lot of Seventh Letter Artists, Retna, Chaz, and more.

6. I know you did that wall piece with Retna as a collaboration, that was really sick.

Yeah, it’s up on Pico and Fairfax. We are going to do a couple more coming up soon. Going back to some of my favorite artists, I like OG Abel and Cartoon of course. Then there are tattoo artists that I like Jack Rudy, Mark Mahoney, and Jose Lopez.

7. I know you started taking pictures of Cypress Hill during the mid ‘90s. Give me a history of how you go into photography.

My dad and my step-mom gave me a camera in the early ‘90s and then I started taking pictures here and there and then during the mid ‘90s people started noticing my photos, and then I started getting professional work around ’97. Around that time I started doing videos and directing them, and I haven’t...................

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There Goes The Neigborhood
By Shelley Leopold
LA WEEKLY, June 5-11, 2009 / Vol. 31 / No. 29

If Retna and El Mac were a team that worked in a more corporate environment, Retna would be the type guy, El Mac would be the photographer. But they don't make ads or album covers (yet), and they identify as graffiti artists. Retna is one of L.A.'s most prominent writers (and LA Weekly favorite) that has graced most of our city's billboards and blank walls with stunning Heiroglyphic type-forms and textures, now concentrating on legal spaces. El Mac hails from Phoenix and creates beautiful photo-realistic portraits, at monumental scale, mostly of women. They team up on a regular basis, notably for the towering Buddha murals on the gas station at Marathon and Western and the long-standing "Girl with Headphones" at La Brea and Third.

This new show of work at the recently configured Mid-City Arts space will feature live painting, a large-scale indoor mural installation accompanied by smaller pieces and serves as an homage to the neighborhood, something Retna promises with every work he completes, whether its inside a gallery or out in an alley. "These blocks and corners were where I was given the opportunity to do my art and was shown a lot of support by the community," Retna explains. "Communities like these are where we come from and it feels good to give something back to the future generation of kids doing this."

Word.

Mid City Arts, 5113 W. Pico Blvd., L.A.; Mon-Sun., noon-8 pm; through July 5; reception Sun., June 7, noon-6 pm www.micity-arts.com

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