http://www.mecho.com.au/lifestyle/creative-interior-spaces/digital-graffiti-at-2010-vancouver-winter-olympics-village/

Love the real thing but this is cool too! What do you reckon?

To be honest I think nostalgia will probably play a huge part in curbing digital’s takeover of the arts in a similar way that amateur photographers are reacting against the clean and predictable nature of digital photography and hunting down old cameras and using film again. Look at how popular lomos have gotten, and people are sad about the death of polaroid.

Digital is a shortcut, and if artists rely more and more on shortcuts rather than understanding the traditional paths to create resolved images then it’ll show through their work. I know I’ve been guilty of that on numerous occasions and have tried to keep some balance.

How do you think we can make sure traditional media always stay relevant and don’t get trodden over by digital replacements?

I’m also doing my own shirts but I’m going to play around with the fabric a bit – I want to make shirts that look like they’re remnants from the 80s so they need to be real faded and worn out.

Craziest projects – I think I consistently go kinda nuts every time I have to make work for a solo show. I remember once a gallery let me know I had a show there a month before the show opened, so I had a month to make all these screenprints for it and I it was during summer too so the heat made all the screenprinting and rushing around pretty intense.

Everything was going wrong with the Yours The Demon show this year as well, I had to get a studio, and then my computer totally died, and the files were making my rental computer crash etc. Crazy times.

The characters and their locations are made up as I go, the only consistent backdrop for them is a harbour-side city called Knuckle Bay – a city I made once in Sim City that totally failed due its bad public transport system, and inefficient power plants.

As for your second ridiculous question, I don’t know where to begin. Bring Pirates of Coney Island next time!

Deadlines can be pretty crazy. When I’m not working to deadlines I feel like I’m wasting my life, and when I have deadlines I feel like doing a True Blood marathon instead or going to the beach. In the end though commercial jobs and deadlines have pushed me in directions I doubt I would have ever gone on my own. I think it has to do with the fear of client expectations, the money, and trying to push my work with every job. I’ve been lucky enough to work with some amazing art directors who collaborate with me and push the boundaries of my work.

I have the worst working routine, when I was doing the Demon show I was waking up midday, having a three hour breakfast, and then staying at the studio just drawing from 3pm till 5am every day for a month straight – I worked through Christmas and New Years Day – I can’t have fun if I still had work lingering.

I’ve recently had to start using a studio because it got to the point of when I stayed home I would be too tempted to do Project Runway marathons or 30 Rock marathons all the time.

When it comes to what art school to choose it really depends on what you want to do, the Sydney art schools all have their different strengths and weaknesses they are almost caricatures – give me an email at jirat.patradoon[at]gmail.com to discuss more.