$2.50 Approx. 4.25"x5.5"

JUSTIN "SCRAPPERS" MORRISON - PORTLAND, OR
"Tree Hugger"

how did you hear about gocco?
From two friendly critters who live in a sky cabin, we call them APAK.

what do you like about gocco versus other mediums you work in?
It’s clean and easy.

do you have any gocco tips/tricks?
Buy a used one! Reusing stuff will help the revolution.

what does love mean to you?
Love is what keeps the mice inside the walls. Love is a home. Love keeps you warm when you are sleeping outside. Love is forgiving and understanding loggers. Love is planting trees in the rain. Love is waiting for you at your local thrift shop. Love goes to jail in the name of free speech. Love is baking cookies. Love is decorating the cold emotionless urban sprawl with reminders to stay personal (street art). Love makes eye contact with you on the street and says “morn’in”. Love tries only to keep people alive, it tells them they are important and have good ideas. Love is older than we can imagine, we should listen to love.

what contemporary artists are you inspired by?
Bwana Spoons doesn’t let anything get in the way of a good idea. APAK knows how to work together nicely and make a thing worth it’s weight in gold. Eddie Martinez keeps it honest and pure. J. Otto floats my boat. The Reverend Benny Bob is raw and wild. Martin Ontiveros subversively sneaks and exposes gritty cultural identity issues into his super-fancy flawless artwork. The Canadian Marc Bell has done more to liberate art than any of us. The Superstars inspire me to keep art on the sidewalks and in the hands of non-gallery folks. I like totem polar art. Mostly though I like found art that little kids made with crayons, that’s the most cutting edge stuff I’ve ever seen, pure expression without any over-thinking.

tell the audience what movie, book, album, website, tv show, and magazine you love that most people haven't seen/read/heard?
I love all of Bwana’s zines/printed gifts to the world, like Soft Smooth Brain and Pencil Fight. The Cousteau Society films are funnier than the Life Aquatic. Bands like: Lullaby for the Working Class, Coco Rosie, Thanksgiving, the Watery Graves of Portland, Mt. Eerie, Kickball, Aaron Kyle, the Unicorns, the Tindersticks, and the Oxes all inspire me to make art. Buzz Martin is pretty cool too. He’s an old time logger who sings country music, the records are hard to find but worth the hunt.

favorite place in your town?
I like the Willamette River. It flows right through town. My wife Amy and I have canoed from Eugene to Downtown Portland on that lazy river. My total favorite place is the Bins. Folks can find anything there and pay for it by the pound. Everything I want floats in those bins, even love.

favorite place in the world?
The woods. The darker the better. Any woods in the world. Where the woods meet the ocean is pretty wonder-full too. The collision is fascinating.

any advice you can pass onto aspiring artists/designers?
Make stuff that honors the good life. Spend big money to support good ideas; electric cars, solar powered composting toilets, local organic stuff etc... Let people know that sustainability is worth the effort, economically, socially, environmentally, and even politically materials in what ever you make/consume. When you reuse you stop the natural resource exploitation, and older beat-up things just look cooler. Don’t just make the same characters over and over again like you're selling a product to teenagers in the mall. Make everything you do extremely personal. Remind at least one person a day that they are nice. Only smile during times that you can not control yourself. Be sincere, be honest, be sensitive, be generous, and stay interested.