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VINCENT_

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THE INTERVIEW
 

CelebFakirs.com: Why the Faking Alias?
Vincent: Affectionately named after Vincent Van Gogh, why? I don't know, I can respect the man, he lived a life of excess.


CelebFakirs.com: How did you find out celebrity faking existed?
Vincent: Umm...I was searching for blueberry muffin recipes on the internet like I always do when I am on the internet and I stumbled upon nude celebrity fakes! Shocking! I don't know...how do you think I found out about it?


CelebFakirs.com: What was the first fake you ever saw and who faked it?
Vincent: I think probably the first fakes I ever saw were of Christina Applegate, at least that is what I remember. They used to be all over the place. The first fakir names I can recall ever seeing were probably that of Fredd38 and maybe Yovo.


CelebFakirs.com: What made you get into faking?
Vincent: It was a good way to learn a tool I needed to learn as an artist (photoshop), and what better way to learn something potentially difficult and frustrating with the aid of beautiful women and nudity.


CelebFakirs.com: Who was the lucky celeb who was first faked by yourself?
Vincent: Hmm, I think the first fake I ever did was of Denise Richards. If you want a copy you'll have to go to Scottss to get it because I no longer have it. Maybe somebody else has it and is holding it as some sort of weird blackmail material to point out how bad I was when I first started out. I think if anyone would have it it would be Fubar, he is strange that way.


CelebFakirs.com: When did you do you're first fake?
Vincent: I believe it was the month of May in 2001.


CelebFakirs.com: Who has been the biggest influence in you're faking career to date?
Vincent: My mom. But seriously I guess I would have to say the biggest influences have been the following people: Vivi6, Sank, TFP, and Fastu.


CelebFakirs.com: Who would you consider to be the best fakir around at the moment?
Vincent: Hmm, I don't know, I don't really look at the work of the community these days. I guess there are of course some strong active fakirs running around, the usual suspects, but you know faking just never really excited me without bells and whistles, no matter how well done the head paste was. I guess that's one of the major contributing factors to me giving up. Of course I am being presumptuous, perhaps there are some really clever/creative fakes being made at the moment and I've simply missed out due to not checking.


CelebFakirs.com: Who would you consider to be the best fakir of all time?
Vincent: See above for my biggest influences.


CelebFakirs.com: What do you consider to be you're best fake to date?
Vincent: Heh, that's a really hard question, and it also depends on my mood, etc. One thing that I can say that I was probably known for is that I had a foot hold in every aspect of faking. I certainly never limited myself to one style or way of working, so it's really hard to narrow it down to one specific fake. There's no doubt though that I really enjoyed the final few pieces I was doing before permanently hanging up my celeb faking shoes, and at the risk of being obvious, this is not my favorite, but definately one of my favorite fakes:

Shortly after this period of time, I finished one or two more celeb fakes in the same strain and proceeded to move on to pure photomanipulation sans celebrity head paste requirement. I think the non celeb fakes in this vein were much better, but since this is a fakir interview, they are kind of irrelevant I suppose..

CelebFakirs.com: What has been the highlight of you're career so far?
Vincent: Probably managing to quit. But while I was faking, building the strip with Doc Fakenhouser and helping to reinvent the community was a pretty big highlight. Learning and fine tunning my craft as well as expanding my knowledge and skills with Photoshop is also a big plus. Making a lot of good friends/peers/chat buddies along the way, and subsequently watching many of them move on, dwindle away and slowly dicipate. Also seeing a lot of the young fakirs that I was lending a helping hand to flourish into some of the top current fakirs, and trying (early on when I was active and interested) being one of the single biggests aids to everyone and anyone who wanted help. Those were good times for me. I also enjoyed all the attention, both positive and negative. It always gave me a chuckle to go over to other fake boards and see some random person I don't even know slandering or making fun of me. It's neat to have notoriety within a community, in a sense, that is a big part of the addiction.

CelebFakirs.com: Why the alter-ego choice?
Vincent: I chose Kirk Douglas since he played Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life.

CelebFakirs.com: If you could marry any celeb who would it be?
Vincent: Tom Cruise, I've always wanted to give birth in complete silence.

CelebFakirs.com: And who would be you're bit on the side?
Vincent: The Dawson from Dawson's Creek, because that would probably make Tom jealous due to his history with Katie Holmes, and then he would send Xeenu down to collect intergalactic back taxes from the Dawson and then put him in a volcano.

CelebFakirs.com: Do you have funny stories to tell us?
Vincent: Oh I could tell you stories...I've probably involved either directly or indirectly in some of the biggest dramas in the faking community in the past 4 or 5 years...but to dredge them up now and in an interview just seems...wrong.

CelebFakirs.com: Where do you see yourself in 5, 10 years time?
Vincent: Probably no where. I came to a realization about celebrity faking. Fakes unfortunately have a pretty harsh shelf life since celebrities tend to flash the pan on many an occasion. Eventually I'll be just one more forgotten fakir in the sea of internet fakirs. I stopped faking last year, and I'm pretty much already a forgotten fakir. That's the sad thing about it, you can make an incredibly beautiful fake; a gorgeous image, but after a week if you haven't made another fake, it's forgotten, and you become irrelevant. There's nothing wrong with that, I just realized that that wasn't for me. I was more interested in investing a heap of time into an image instead of pumping out loads of mediocrity every week. But faking is more of a fast food mentality, and that's why faking is porn, not art. With art, you take the time to take in and experience one image, with porn, you get as much as possible, jerking off on one image to the next. That's exactly what faking is. That's why I moved on to work that didn't involve celebrities, that way the work isn't chained to popular culture context that I have little to no interest in perpetuating. So in 2 years, I will be totally forgotten except by maybe a few old stragglers, and withing 5 years, I will have never existed. That is the tragic fate of fakirs. Don't get me wrong, it was great fun while it lasted, but I knew it was time to move along and I think I made that choice at the ideal time. I still keep in touch with the community, but that is as far as my involvement ventures.

CelebFakirs.com: Where do you see the faking world being in 5, 10 years time?
Vincent: In 5 years, probably people cutting and pasting celebrity heads to nude bodies with software that is overkill for what they are using it for. In 10 years...see above.

CelebFakirs.com: Is there anything that you would like to add?
Vincent: Nothing that I can think of.

CelebFakirs.com: Finally.... Celebrity fakes, art or porn?
Vincent: prOn. Although if anyone ever made people in the fake community question whether or not faking could be art, I'll just say that I was always used as the oposition's example for debate.