As part of the Prius Plug-in Hybrid Signature Series, Toyota interviews the designer Joshua Davis about his process and the work he’s doing for Toyota.

Bizarre Beyond Belief caught up with the French graffiti artist Gomer to do an interview. In the interview Gomer talks about his first time doing graffiti and shares stories of various things he’s experienced while out painting over the years. Read the full interview here.

There is no denying it; the retail music business has been in a serious decline. Big retail chains such as SAM THE RECORD MAN and CD Plus have been closing up shops all of the country and in similar fashion, many independently-owned record stores are closing their doors, as well. What’s causing all this? The popular business notion is that downloadable music -by way of the internet- has taken money from the stores leaving them with no choice but to close their doors. In other words, we can’t compete with the internet so let’s just quit without putting up a fight.

Enter Ian Fraser, the owner and operator of OBSOLETE RECORDS, who rather than following the so-called “popular notion” is going against the grain and providing his loyal and still growing customer base with the hard-to-find; sought-after physical records which the other stores aren’t carrying.

I sat down with Ian to talk about the current retail business, downloading music vs. owning physical recordings debate, his personal playlist, and more. Hard work isn’t a new concept and although he’s not a fan of Curtis Jackson’s music, Ian does embody the hustler’s ambition: be your own boss, provide people with great music, and get paid while doing it.

Read the full interview here.

Zeitgeist Magazine recently released an interview they did with the artist Shok-1. In the interview Shok-1 describes his inspiration to start doing graffiti and what inspires him to keep doing for all these years. Read the full interview here.

Ink Stories is an interesting new series of tattoo documentary videos focusing on the perspective of the apprentice. The first episode of the series interviews Daniel Ronson, an apprentice at Jayne Doe studio in London.

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We recently caught up with the Calgary-based graffiti writer Tower to do an interview. In the interview he talks about how he started doing graffiti and shares some stories of things he’s experienced while out painting. Tower also shares the story behind the engagement freight train he painted for his fiance. Read the full interview here.

Here’s a video interview The Hundreds put together with the Los Angeles graffiti writer Revok. In the interview Revok talks about his career being a graffiti writer and shares his thoughts about the police.

Here’s a video interview with the artist Chor Boogie while he was attending the Art Basel event in Miami.

Bizarre Beyond Belief caught up with the Toronto-based graffiti artist Ekwal to do an interview. In the interview Ekwal talks about his first time painting and shares interesting stories of experiences he’s had while out painting. Read the full interview here.

This upcoming weekend the artists Rime and KC Ortiz present a dual show entitled “SKETCHY M%#HERFUCKERS” that focuses on the loose nature of art with the use of pens, pencils and markers on paper. In this video the graffiti artist Rime talks about his work for the upcoming show.

The “SKETCHY M%#HERFUCKERS” exhibit opens May 5, 2012 and runs through May 19, 2012 at Known Gallery in Los Angeles.