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Hungry Eyeball interviews Portland artist and good friend Brett Superstar along with releasing some new prints online in our gallery…

> (We happen to be adding some of your prints and most of the images are birds, how do you respond to the whole “put a bird on it” from the show Portlandia.)

It is all true. There were birds on everything for a few years and well….it (like the joke) got a little “fucked out”. But birds have been in art forever. They are always fun to paint and watch in the back yard. I saw a Spotted Towhee today he was cute.
> (Being a native Bostonian, how would you compare and contrast life in Portland.)

Complete 180. In every way. Every one drives slowly and no one honks. I just wish the horn on my truck worked. Then I could wake all these a holes up and we could “get it on”!
> (A freelance artist for Bent Image Labs and Laika, what are some memorable moments?)

At Bent, I got to do some design for a company called Tetra Pak. They make containers and packaging. They liked the characters that I designed and the C.G. crew built them and then they were animated and weaved into the “actual” sets that the art dept. built. The sets were awesome, the lighting was crazy good, the C.G. was rendered perfectly and the animation was cute as hell. It was a big project that I got to see come together with a huge crew and it came out great. But the best part was finally watching the commercial…it was all in German. Sehr gut.

I only just started at LAIKA and it has been great. All nice people. Some people I know from BENT all ready. It is just pretty cool to go to work at either place and be surrounded by the smartest and some of the funniest people I have ever met. Totally creative people.

> (What do you love about life?)

I love when it is warm enough to sleep with the windows open, I love the people in my life that tolerate me, and I love when my cat Larry sleeps on my chest.> (Can you tell us about any upcoming shows or events?)

I have a show at the Good gallery in May 2012 (4325 N. Mississippi St.) I am also in a group show at the Grass Hut downtown this April 2012. It opens 1st Thursday and it is curated by Tripper III. Oh yeah also the Buckman School art sale 12th & 13th of April 2012.