“Jeremy actually chastised me for taking photos where you could see the projector. I think he wants you guys to think we’re more talented than we actually are. Not me. I’m fine with being mediocre.”

- Sieben and other artists all wall drawing.

“-This is Travis finishing up the wall piece. See that double headed bird above him with the banner that says “Not 23 Years Old?” There’s a funny story about that. I mentioned this briefly before, but while we were in town we did a talk for the Dallas Society of Visual Communications. Each of us had to speak for about 20 minutes about our personal work and how it ties in with our commercial work. I haven’t spoken in front of a crowd since I was in High School and I was really really nervous about the whole thing. So I made a bunch of notes so that I wouldn’t get up to the podium and completely forget who I was and what I do. And so the first thing I say when I get up there is, “Hello, my name is Michael Sieben. I’m 23 years old and I live in Austin, Texas…” and Travis totally yells at me from his seat, “You’re not 23!” and I hadn’t even realized that I had said that I was 23. Because I’m not. I’m 32. And I guess I was just so nervous that I looked at my notes and totally got dyslexic for a second. Anyway, it was probably the most embarrassing way imaginable to start off my talk. I hate Travis.”

Extract from Michael Sieben’s guest blog about a show called ‘Low Tech High Life’ on the infamously fabulous Fecal Face blog. Everything about Fecal Face is good, the collaborations, the collective excitment, the range of work. However I would like to point out that really I’m just in love with Michael Sieben.

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