12 Apr 2012
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Describing Kevin Forest Macintosh in one word is simply impossible. This intriguing young artist devotes his life to his work–crafting distinctive garments, governing music and constructing an unconventional aesthetic lifestyle unparalleled to his peers. Dreamanares.com catches up with Macintosh, the mind behind the captivating brand Deadly Robot Love.
DMN-What’s up Mr. Macintosh. Let’s get the floozies familiar. Where are you from, your age, and where do you reside now.
Kevin -I was born in hawaii, military shit. Im 20 years old, and I currently live in Atlanta.
-Where did the name Deadly Robot Love come from?
- I was about 15 and wanted to start a blog for my writing and some fashion insight, so that was the name of my blog. Over time I branded the name as myself and whatever craft I pursued. I currently design clothing, so the name of my company is “deadly robot love”. If I start selling tacos in the west end, it’ll be the “deadly robot love taco hut”, like that.
-Interesting philosophy. How many people are associated with Deadly Robot Love?
- The inner workings of “deadly robot love” consist of four people. Myself, Mikey Yesterday, Jamal Morris, and Oliver Swordfish. We all play different roles in the foundation of the brand, but we also all believe everyone who has ever purchased a garment, came to an event, downloaded a song or visited our website is apart of our family. We do this for everyone.
-What do you want to be when you grow up?
- Alive & well. I know your supposed to say some cool job or talk about how successful you want to be in your craft but fuck all that. I live life day to day trying to progress and gaining more knowledge on whatever it is I want to know. If I can continue to do that as an adult then swag me out captain.
-Swag you out. It seems like new brands pop up every day. Especially in a young art growing city like Atlanta. What separates Deadly Robot Love from the rest of “competition” ?
- Its really all about passion. I literally see or hear of new brand in atlanta every single week, and nine out of ten they don’t last. It doesn’t matter about your marketing, your business schemes and projects if you have no reel passion for what you do. What separates us from the rest is that we make clothing that we like, for people who like our clothing. Its a win/win situation, we provide to them and they give us the means to keep providing. We don’t sell out, follow trends, or copy bigger brands to reach our successes. We make our clothes when we want them and how we want them, and our loyal supporters love that, and thats why were still here.
-I’ve seen you dabble in different artistic expressions such as music. Can we expect more experiments?
- Yes actually. I have been working on a few different projects in fields such as traditional art and music lately. The project that we will be providing you with next outside of our normal clothing business is, “bears”. Its an EP by “deadly robot love” member and artist, Oliver Swordfish. We cant say too much about, except that its going to be a wild summer.
-Cool. Speaking of music, How is Robot Music Group going?
- Its quite dead actually from the “deadly robot love” standpoint. We organized RMG as an outlet to provide different types of music to our clientele and fan bases in a certain way, when I saw that it wasn’t being done in the vision that I set forth we moved on completely. The artists involved still work very hard and we support their efforts like crazy, but from here on we normally only work with our own artists or others in special project regions.
-What is your definition of a “Grinder”?
- a really big sandwich from that place down the street from kroger, the one with that has the ham ass chips!
-How do you characterize your style of clothing and design?
- We like to think of our clothing as “progressive early living couture”, and what I mean by that is really derived from the uses of our garments. Our clothes aren’t for fashion shows, or weird thousand note tumblr posts at all, we make quality garments for you to go scoop your side chick in ya know? Its in between basic streetwear and high-end couture pieces. Its for the up and coming singer girl to go meet with def jam for the first time in. Or the kid who sold one of his first paintings to the high museum just for weed money. Something like that “sophisticated ignorance” you guys been up to.
-Did you receive positive feedback from your last line?
- We receive positive feedback from everything we drop, but in this day and age you have to know whats real and whats not. We have a lot, and I mean a lot of people who genuinely like our stuff and then we have those “oh its tight because everyone else said it is” niggas. However we take it all in and use it as fuel, we know we make some really nice stuff so as long as we made at least one new fan with each line, we gravy.
-Any negative feedback?
- Of course man, you cant not get negative feedback when you selling niggas t-shirts with flowers on em! But all jokes aside we do get some negativity as well, and just like the positive, we use it to keep creating and make ourselves better.
-What can we expect from your next line?
-Love.
-What is the essential message you’re trying to deliver in your designs, generally speaking?
-That “love” is still and will always be the strongest force in the world. We want people to know that if you love someone, something, or anything and have true passion and work towards it anything can happen, and I mean ANYTHING. I love what I do, and I give it my all, thats why im here today and im still gone be here tomorrow, because of the love.
-Dope. Where can we buy your clothing?
- deadlyrobotlove.com and go to our online store, or just deadlyrobotlove.bigcartel.com too!
-Artists always have something to say. Any final words?
- “bears”.
