Interviews

Stu Maschwitz (DV Rebel)

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:13:30 GMT

The DV Rebel's Guide is a fantastic introduction to world of low-budget, high production value filmmaking. Its author is Stu Maschwitz, one of the co-founders of The Orphanage. [JA]

Abraham Levitan of Baby Teeth

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:24:02 GMT

â��I wanted to write a song that someone could come down from Mars and know what to do with. Just play that sucker and itâ��ll fit you just fine. Like an old t-shirt.â�� [DW]

Taniguchi Yoshihiro, founder of Digmeout

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:43:05 GMT

Meet the art director and founder of magazine and leading art movement in Osaka, Japan. Make it past the digmeout audition, and you've made it, period. Being in the magazine is the announcement. [R]

Feist

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:31:26 GMT

We catch up with the lovely Leslie Feist on the first leg of her world tour, whilst she reminds us about why she is currently rocking the world of folk. [Louise McCabe]

The Cinematic Orchestra

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:58:36 GMT

"I am not a writer or producer who can sit in the studio everyday and come up with the shit! I need to formulate some ideas and allow them to mature and resonate within me..." [SG]

Michel Gondry

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:03:22 GMT

Michel Gondry is one a handful of music video directors who have been hugely successful on the big screen. His new film is the hotly anticipated The Science of Sleep. [RS]

Masi Oka

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:04:48 GMT

Hiro Nakamura is without doubt the coolest character on Heroes, and that's largely thanks to the likeable personality of Masayori Oka who plays him. He's as cool in real life as he is on the screen. [RS]

Paul Verhoeven

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:57:12 GMT

A Q and A with Paul Verhoeven, the acclaimed director of RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct and Total Recall, who returns with his first Dutch movie in 20 years, Black Book. [RS]

Dirty Pretty Things

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:41:51 GMT

We catch a few minutes with socialites, 'Dirty Pretty Things' to chat about their tour and the big plan for 2007. [AB]

Tim Kring - Creator of Heroes

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:22:50 GMT

Tim Kring is the creator of this year's biggest ratings hit, Heroes, a TV show about ordinary people discovering they have Superpowers and is coming to the Sci Fi channel in the UK in February. [RS]

Freddie Cruger

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:49:34 GMT

"I canâ��t help but put all of these musical styles together. I just love rhythms and the result always comes outÂ sounding new to me." [Sarah Chapman]

Uncle Rock

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:41:46 GMT

"I'm a sucker for a more-hooks-than-a-tackle-box melody and a funky beat. But punk, new wave, garage rock, country, and even disco inform my work just as much" [DW]

Limmy

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:37:01 GMT

Brian Limond (aka: Limmy) takes time out from the great â��World of Glasgowâ�� podcast to give us an insight into what makes him tingle. [AB]

Lost Idol (James Dean)

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:19:46 GMT

â��Itâ��s strange, melancholic music that bears as much influence of 60s psychedelic pioneers as it does modern day hip hop and electronica beatmakers.â�� [Sarah Chapman]

Tristan Eaton

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:02:07 GMT

Born in Hollywood, Tristan Eaton spent his early teens in London before moving to Detroit and then New York. Eaton was instrumental in the formation of Kid Robot and Thunderdog. [RA]

Bey Logan

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:46:38 GMT

"I think that the goal should be not to make Hong Kong movies look like Hollywood films, but to make Asian films that have the best attributes available from east and west." [SG]

Oppenheimer

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:54:01 GMT

Pixelsurgeon interview two guys from Belfast with a pop sound that the BBC calls "all poetic and blip-tastic." Dez catches up with the band in New York City... [DW]

Trost

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:02:29 GMT

â��I am often very alone and get in those states of desperation, of fear or mania, frequently swapping my attention. This is what my album describes.â�� [Sarah Chapman]

Jurassic 5 (part 1 of 2)

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:54:12 GMT

"There are all sorts of new things that we do on stage that no one has ever thought of, stuff that no other groups do. " [JA]

Chris James Hewitt

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:41:49 GMT

Chris James Hewitt is a freelance Designer and Art Director currently based in London. Working under his Dstrukt guise Chris has produced work for a mix of high-end clients. [Benjamin Mace]

Toshio Iwai

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:44:11 GMT

Toshio Iwai is the Japanese media artist that designed the Nintendo DS music-making game Electroplankton. We talk to him about creating electronic instruments and stimulating play. [AW]

Diesler

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:42:49 GMT

â��The groove comes first. Then a dollop of drums, a sprinkling of bass, a shake of percussion and five teaspoons of vocals. Leave to simmer on CDR then serve.â�� [Sarah Chapman]

Gomez

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:18:09 GMT

"As a songwriter, sometimes you store things, you get little bits; maybe itâ��s a little bit of melody, or a guitar line, or just some phrasing, and you kind of stockpile it somewhere to use in the future." [SG]

Imogen Heap

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:10:26 GMT

"Itâ��s always evolving even now. I donâ��t get fed up of it in the slightest. I love the album dearly and want to give it the best chance in life possible!" [SG]

Liam Sharp

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 22 May 2006 09:38:13 GMT

Liam Sharp's name is known throughout both the UK and US comic book industry as a talented artist, writer and publisher. We present our second interview with him. [Jon Raffe]

Efren Ramirez

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 22 May 2006 07:42:37 GMT

Made a genuine cult superstar by his role as Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite, Efren Ramirez has completed more than half a dozen movies in the last two years. [AB]

Marina Bychkova

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 15 May 2006 10:01:16 GMT

Marina Bychkova makes the most fantastic dolls. But these are no plastic Barbie dolls, but exquisitely crafted, dark, brooding and beautiful works of art cast in porcelain. [JA]

Brett Leonard

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 15 May 2006 09:29:03 GMT

Brett Leonard, director of The Lawnmower Man, turns his attention to the strange and perverse world of Feeders and Gainers for his latest low-budget thriller, Feed. [RS]

Lint Museum

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:59:04 GMT

Lint Museum is the creative home of the Curator, an Australian lass who has travelled the world taking inspiration from everything. We love the Lint Museum and hope you do too. [JA]

Tom Judd

interviews@pixelsurgeon.com — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:52:19 GMT

Pixelsurgeon catches up with student artist Tom Judd and talks to him about the launch of a new project, 5oup, and the pressures of breaking into the design world. [Jon Raffe]