Mr Brainwash Interview

You sure his name is not Ron Jeremy? lol Looks very alike

MICHAEL JACKSON – Macaulay Culkin custom leather jacket
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"This black leather motorcycle jacket was created for Michael Jackson to present as a gift to his friend Macaulay Culkin in 1992. The jacket was created according to Mr. Jackson’s specifications by renowned artist Thierry Guetta."

artworksmagazine.com/2009/10/mr-brainwash/

"Mr. Brainwash’s introduction to the street scene came ten years ago – not with a can, but rather a camera. Thierry Guetta, as he was known back then, moved from the French projects to L.A. in 1982. He went to college, but found graduation was nearly physically impossible. “I was too artistic in my head,” he says. “I’m like a bird with A.D.D. I can never sit still. I’m always moving.” Guetta hit the ground running on U.S. soil and quickly found his stride through art. “I saw art everywhere in America,” he remembers. Guetta went to swap meets in Southern California where he began hoarding vintage televisions, typewriters, books, photos, old 45’s, anything that caught his attention. He couldn’t get enough culture. Guetta painted large, oil canvases of The Lone Ranger, Tarzan and all things Americana. Michael Jackson was so moved by Thierry’s talent and subject matter that he bought several of his pieces. Guetta documented those sales to the “King of Pop” on videotape. In fact, he filmed everything, and by 1990 he’d put down the paintbrush and permanently picked up a camera. “Movement was art to me,” he says about the shift. “It was even more powerful than one image, because it was like I was capturing life itself.”

“I used to follow old people,” he continues. “They were in their eighties and nineties, and thought I was crazy. I’d follow them for two days non-stop as they went to the grocery store, a café, basically everywhere they went – because I felt that they had something to say.” While America’s greatest generation gave Guetta perspective, he soon was drawn to an entirely different message coming from a segment of Gen X’s and Y’s. Guetta spent so much time in urban settings that he watched an artistic movement evolve from its infancy. By the turn of the millennium, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Swoon, Faile and others were spraying, sticking and pasting ideas about political and self awareness around the world. The art gave the punk rock listening, skateboard riding and countercultural crowd a mainstream voice. Guetta recorded the cosmic shift and began making the ultimate documentary about street art."

You cant help but like Thierry