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THE INTERVIEW
 

CelebFakirs.com: How did you find out celebrity faking existed?
Proto: Somthing started seeming fishy about some of the images turning up on celeb sites i visited.

CelebFakirs.com: What was the first fake you ever saw and who faked it?
Proto: I had made fakes before i'd got internet access but after that probably a gillian anderson that i remember at least, it was quite a well known fake at the time i think but i don't know who made it, it was a small co of her first FHM shoot. But it was nice to know i wasn't the only person wanting to see more celeb skin.

CelebFakirs.com: What made you get into faking?
Proto: love celebs, love tits, love image manipulation, what else would i have got into?

CelebFakirs.com: Who was the lucky celeb who was first faked by yourself?
Proto: digitaly it was Martine Mccutcheon, i don't have that one anymore sadly.
I don't have any of my earliest fakes because they wern't anything like how i fake now, the earliest were on a mac and saved to floppys i lost. this one is about as early as i can find and it still somtimes pops up on celeb boards.

CelebFakirs.com: When did you do you're first fake?
Proto: hmmm i would guess about 2001 properly. Before that, it was faking Jim, but not as we know it.

CelebFakirs.com: Who has been the biggest influence in you're faking career to date?
Proto: Drheinz mostly. If i can expand, people like Mrowl75, vincent, doc fakenhouser, Sank, and more recently TFP probably have had the most creative influence on me over time. Other guys like Fredd, Kilo and some of the newer guys like TC3 and a few others have sparked a good reaction in me. I'd also mention Fubar, although he's not really influenced my work directly, he pushed me to participate on fake boards and without that moment i wouldn't be here now, wouldn't have done anything after that moment probably. also a long long time ago a guy named mistermacs who got me to publish my "fakes" on his yahoo group for the first time with confidence. But like i said, Drheinz has had the biggest influence on my faking through the most enjoyable last few years as he's been the guy thats helped me most to acheive what i have, kept it intresting, honest and been a general Professor Charles Xavier for me.

CelebFakirs.com: Who would you consider to be the best fakir around at the moment?
Proto: Hypo probably has the biggest "cor blimey guvnor!" effect on me

CelebFakirs.com: Who would you consider to be the best fakir of all time?
Proto: thats hard to pin on one person because all the greats do it differently. i suppose if you try and mix longevity and talent i'd say fredd, like IMO he might not be the very best active fakir and he might not be the best old timer but if you average it out, hes always been banging them out at the top standard of any given time as far as i've been aware.

CelebFakirs.com: And for the future, do you see any fresh faces that you think will go on to be the best one day?
Proto: theres a couple fresh faces i would say are amoungst the best already. but if they stopped tommorrow then they wouldn't lol, so i don't wanna specify, but its a good time for your fakir alias to start with T or H

CelebFakirs.com: What do you consider to be you're best fake to date?
Proto: damn thats hard to say on any given day my answer would change. 3 recent ones i really liked....

CelebFakirs.com: What has been the highlight of you're career so far?
Proto: The founding New Fake City.

CelebFakirs.com: Why the alter-ego choice?
Proto: Kind of an accident, i made a sig with a lego man riding a buggy over a naked woman landscape, people seemed to connect to the lego thing and i ran with it. now i'm stuck with it, but i also somtimes flirt with using christopher walken and thats just because he's the greatest.

CelebFakirs.com: If you could marry any celeb who would it be?
Proto: ignoring RL for a moment, i think it'd be winona ryder, alba or jolie are maybe better looking but vacant and scary respectivly (from what we see).

CelebFakirs.com: And who would be you're bit on the side?
Proto: oh right, a jess alba/angelina jolie sandwich then

CelebFakirs.com: Where do you see yourself in 5, 10 years time?
Proto: pretty much as i am fakin wise, still helping others, still enjoying my work and still enjoying the people.

CelebFakirs.com: where do you see the faking world being in 5, 10 years time?
Proto: Pretty much the same actually, i don't see any major shake up happening. i don't think the medium will change much either images will still be the most direct form of faking. The average standard of faking will continue to rise. when the quality of video available online improves maybe more vid faking. oh and maybe someone will start making proper flash fake games (D@tch makes nice flash, but they're not that gamey) or somthing.

CelebFakirs.com: Is there anything that you would like to add?
Proto: hmmm i'd like to say somthing deep or important sounding.... errr ok how about...
Enjoy the process more than the result and the result will get more enjoyable. yeah that sucks good enough

CelebFakirs.com: Finally.... Celebrity fakes, art or porn?
Proto: LOL that old chestnut. Art for me personaly, but for anyone its a craft at the very least, sure the principle is to make somthing erotic or hot with materials which are, more often than not, porn. But porn is porn, celeb fakes are somthing else and as art can be so many things , its more art than porn. IMO anyway