Would you like to do a new 3D rendition of your work? Any sculpture?

No, no… no! I mean, the Nosferatu was the Kiss of Death, (interesting choice of words). That was it. I’m not Kaws. I’m not somebody that wants to manufacture toys. Like, it was totally cool in the beginning. The first toy was kind of interesting but then I don’t know… We sort of started eating that whole thing… I don’t know, I don’t want to do that. What I’d like to do is a sculpture, you know what I mean? I don’t want to do a toy, I want to do like a fucking big sculpture. So the idea of creating an image in third dimension, yeah! But not a commercial project, you know. An art piece at that point.

One of your dream collaboration was working with Apple, Sony, or BMW. Will that happen some day?

Sony… Take Sony away! Off my list. I’m very angry with Sony! Apple is like hmmm… I mean I’ve said these things because I’ve invested so much money in the products, you know what I mean? At that point, I don’t want free shits, I’m not looking for anything free, I’m already giving you guys like crazy money! You owe me a small project! Give me a project! Sony, no, goodbye, over. Apple, like yeah, whatever. And BMW, yeah man, what the fuck? What are you waiting for?

Can you tell us a bit about your future projects for the months to come?

I kind of mentioned the Sweden event, it’s my next immediate thing. We’re working on a book right now, but not a Futura book. A book about all those baseball games that I went to. Last year and this year, I went on a crazy mission and I just finished like, last week! But I’ve been to every stadium so now I have like an arcade of work, a lot of stuff. I’ve been organizing the book, I’m working on the book right now. Hopefully next summer, I’ll get it together. I’m designing it and Timothy will do the layout for me. I’m going to do this book as Lenny McGuire, using my real name and not Futura because what I will hopefully do is find an audience for that content, not for me. I mean, once it’s out there, everyone will find out, but it won’t be Futura on the book anyway. So that’s exciting because it’s a kind of project outside of my world and I’m very passionate about that, I love baseball clubs. It’s almost like, even though I did this trip in the last 15 months, the whole idea of that is a lifelong dream, since I was a child, the idea that you could do that, you know. And not only did I do it but I got so many, so it’s even more crazy for me. Now that I’m seeing the entire collection, I’m like “Man, I did it!” I’m very proud of that. It was a big project. And if anybody likes baseball… then BOOM, you know, it’s perfect! So I’m going to try to use Nike to help me also to do the bridge to make it more baseball. I want to find a way to present my book to them. But I’m figuring right now: do I want to do this myself? My own distribution? We will work out the idea. That’s something I’m interested about. I’m making The Tour next year if possible. You know, Lance is coming back, he’s got a new team: RadioShack, a huge American team. No more Astana. Contador went with Garmin! Contador went with the enemy! So Contador is really like gnarrr… So this should be fun you know and hopefully, perhaps, I will get a visit with Mr Parker! (Glltn: “Helicopter rides?”)… Maybe! I’m not sure, maybe!

How long are you staying in Paris and what do you plan to do here ?

Well the only thing I really want to do, tomorrow morning, I’m going to Notre Dame, just because I want the Gargoyle photo, I need that shot. That’s like an early call. There are some like touristic things, there’s a few shops I want, the Eiffel Tower at night, I’m going to have to go tomorrow at night, you know, the hourly craziness, I need that. You know, I’m a tourist, really, I’m doing touristic things.

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Thanks to Patrick Lerouge for his kindness and his precious help.
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