isolated elements swimming in the same direction for the purpose of understanding an interview with Damien Hirst When Damien Hirst was signing copies of Beautiful, galactic, exploding screenprint, we put a video camera in front of him and got him talking about art, fame, and the new spin print. Download the three clips below to enjoy some Hirst-style insight. The video clips are available in Windows Media format and RealMedia format. Download and play the video clips by clicking on the format appropriate to you. If you don't have the RealPlayer installed on your computer, you can download it here for free. Damien Hirst on art '...I always think, if you make something like this [motioning towards Beautiful, galactic, exploding screenprint] and you throw it into the skip or leave it in the street, and if it is still there in the morning then it is shit - if people walk past. If you put it out somewhere where people walk past and it is still there, it is crap. It's a great way of looking at it...' RealPlayer format (767kb) Windows Media Format (789kb) Damien Hirst on fame '...I think a desire to be famous and a desire to make art both boil down to a desire to live forever, which is what art is all about anyway. We're taught it from a very early age, and it's very hard to escape it. But there are a lot of miserable famous people around - so it's nothing in and of itself. No matter how big your yacht is, someone is going to park next to you with a one-inch bigger one, and you're going to be miserable if that's all you're going for. The hardest thing is knowing what you want...' RealPlayer format (739kb) Windows Media Format (771kb) Damien Hirst on the spin paintings '...It is like those little kid's toys - you just spin it and you throw paint on it ... and you end up with this really exciting, happy, brightly-colored thing at the end of it. I thought "Fucking brilliant!" But then, I wasn't a kid anymore, so I thought "Right, when you were a kid they were that big [motions "small" with hands], and now I am this big, I've got to make a machine that big to do it" [motions "large" with hands]. It's how big it needs to be to enable you to feel like a child when you've grown up...' RealPlayer format (769kb) Windows Media Format (816kb)