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Part of Rebellion # 1 Flying Förtress Part # 1 Flying of Rebellion Part of Rebellion Series # 1 Flying Förtress by C100 Flying Förtress: Munich based artist Flying Fortress borrows his catchy name from the heavily armed World War II bomber planes that fascinated him ever since putting together model aircraft as a child. Today he assembles his signa- ture cartoon characters as well as ads and logos for big business. His background as a graffiti artist allows him to fulfill corporate demands while never giving up his own artistic independence. by C100 by The Author: Teddy Troopers are Flying Fortress’ most famous creation. Not finished! Christian Hundertmark aka C100 ,graphic They have invaded cities around the world, attracting attention designer and graffiti artist himself, is the editor of best- not only by their sheer abundance but mainly by their friendly selling global street art guides „The Art of Rebellion, yet ambiguous looks. Being featured on stickers, walls, canvas, Vol. 1 and 2“. This book on Flying Förtress is a natural t-shirts and vinyl figures, the Teddy Troopers have become a spin-off, shifting the focus on individual artists that brand of their own that easily fulfill their creator’s mission: have had a special impact and deserve more space for make people think and smile! expression. ZqZ`v@ 7qWn@MtMWtWEooMZoM@ 03 Hello Troops – sticker design – 2003 12 Part of Rebellion Series #1 Flying Förtress 13 26 Part of Rebellion Series #1 Flying Förtress 27 Previous page 14 top: RESS – Fribourg/CH – 2007 15 bottom: RESS – Basel/CH – 2008 16 top: RESS – Saint Brieuc/FR – 2007 17 bottom: RESS – NewYork/US – 2007 18 Hands At Work – Barcelona/ES – 2004 19 Lonesome Trooper – Hamburg/DE – 2008 28 Part of Rebellion Series #1 Flying Förtress 29 20 Aufkleber Über Alles – sticker designs feat. Cpt.Rouget / Dave The Chimp / Stefan Marx 30 Part of Rebellion Series #1 Flying Förtress 31 01 Graphic illustraton for a clothing brand, Client: Fenchurch, 2007 02 RoofTop Graffiti, Spraycan & latex paint Melbourne (Australia), 2007 34 Part of Rebellion Series #1 Flying24 Hessenmob Förtress Booth – with Dave The Chimp – ISPO fair Munich/DE – 2004 35 39 RESS The Band Prototype – vinyl toys – 2004 46 Part of Rebellion Series #1 Flying Förtress 47 58 Part of Rebellion Series #1 Flying54 Kleine Förtress Werkschau – exhibition @ OLYMPIA store ¬– Stuttgart/DE – 2004 59 67 Tattoo Bears – with Dave The Chimp – acrylic on canvas – 2004 68 Broken Decks – acrylic on wood – 2006 70 PartPart of of Rebellion Rebellion Series Series #1 #1 Flying Förtress 71 Interview Your History - When did you first get in contact with Graf- You travel a lot. Do you think this also affects the way you fiends at Hessenmob, i just think: what a bunch of undignified fiti/Streetart? Please tell us a bit your first steps? work? monkeys we had been. Oh man! Around 1988 my father took me to a big flea market at an old Sure it does. Running through life in general is like putting goods What are your future plans? warehouse area. The halls there had been painted all over, as into your shopping cart while going through the shelves in a su- Keep on taking any chance to get me to more countries all over it was the biggest Hall Of Fame at that time. Local heroes like permarket. Back home you only have those ingredients for coo- the world where i haven’t been yet and where i get another nice Loomit, Won, Cemnoz and Neon made the first and biggest king your cake that you had picked up before. So as an artist you stamp in my passport. impression on me as a growing teenager. I couldn’t s should keep your eyes open all the time. Daily walk through your Do you see yourself more as an illustrator or an artist or asking my father to take photos of each and every one of the quarter is only one side. To see different cultures while traveling both? How do you think this change from being a bit of both graffiti. At home I started to draw my first sketches just by co- gives you even more new views on those lifestyles but also on affect your daily life? pying the letters from the photos and setting it in some new your own. All this creates a new matrix for your work. Right now i can’t make my living by just working as an artist combinations. I think that’s everybody’s first steps on the road. Is there any artwork you did which has a very special me- selling my very own stuff. I try to increase it and work as less One day I went back to the halls with my very first bag of cans aning to you? as possible as an Illustrator for commission jobs. I got more and dropped my first piece. Loomit stopped by and asked me if I think it is still the whole Teddy Troops project. The main aspect and more stressed out to see how your work got modified whi- he could see my sketchbook. When he looked at my drawings is to force myself to hang on a theme longer than it is just fun. le agencies and clients adding their ideas and changes to it. that were bitten obviously from his work I wanted to drop dead It is very easy to draw anything minor like the everyday’s new Sometimes it is easier to handle this instead of getting my own immediately. But he took it easy and just gave me a positive funny looking creature. It is about to keep on working on an idea artwork judged by the hardest critic of all on planet: myself. So feedback on my first efforts to step into graffiti. Then he wanted that maybe first feels like you are limiting yourself into narrow i still enjoy working as a freelance illustrator from time to time to ride my skateboard – but because of wearing cowboy boots boarders. But by pushing it further and further you develop your- because it doesn’t challenge myself as hard as my artwork does he slammed badly the next second. Oops! self in a different way because you face your inner laziness. In- and it brings good money, too. I think i could be better in each of How do you usually start working on an artwork? stead of turning your interest into another artwork when getting them if i stopped doing the other one. But i just like both (Rock I open the book „Art Of Rebellion“ and start copying. bored of the theme you have to will learn to break your very own and Roll, haha). Did you ever get into trouble as an artist working on the boarders and be consequent. At the end your work will become Have you ever thought about stopping all this and find a streets? stronger and get a visible depth. „proper“ job? So far I always had good luck. I keep my fingers crossed. Only in Dave the Chimp and you started the Visual Rock Stars No. This is all in me and it is screaming inside every single se- Paris I had been caught twice by the police for pasting up po- band. Please tell us a bit about it? cond to make me go on doing it. But maybe my parents thought sters but the officers were too lazy or just couldn’t speak English Quiet soon after i met Dave The Chimp first we founded the Vi- about it when i had been broke again? so they chased me away. Also I had some problems with my first sual Rock Stars after he came up with this name idea. First we Tell us a bit about the collaborations you already did with KISS tribute stickers by remixing their classic logo. Germany is had a show in Barcelona together with almost all our artwork other artists? the only country in the world where the band has a modified containing the theme of Rock’n Roll characters. When we had There have been a lot of different collaborations with other ar- logo not using the two S letters in the old rune style because this this bigger exhibition in London at D*Face’s Outside Institute tists so far. Beside the continual Visual Rock Stars projects with symbol is banned since the end of WWII. A lawyer had to prove Gallery we wanted to do something special there for our friends Dave The Chimp i have been on tour with my friends The Lon- to the state security that this is art and at the end they didn’t and fans. So instead of having an opening night and then our don Police from Amsterdam and Pez from Barcelona. We went bring up a charge against me. work hung in a room for four weeks we decided to work in the together on the K-Spray tour in 2007 and travelled all over Asia, Is there an overall message in your works, especially in gallery like a studio opened to the public. People could pass by Australia and New Zealand. In 2008 we continued to do shows the Teddy Troops? the gallery and see us work and set up our huge stage design in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Hamburg and New York. And for sure The essential message is still the classic graffiti idea: scream out with massive speaker boxes and backdrop piece for our upco- there are all the Teddy Troops vinyl toy releases featuring some your name and let the people know you walk planet earth.