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What's in: Skin Deep 207

Shock to the System - Osa Wahn at Shockin' City Tattoo & Piercing Studio, Vienna

Osa Wahn considers herself an artist, not a tattooist. Owing her life’s calling to her father, Osa started tattooing at the age of 12, and she won her first award at Shockin’ City Tattoo convention the following year...
Paperback Writers - History 101

There’s a curious snowball effect happening with the coverage of tattoos and tattooing in the wider media at the moment. Several articles have appeared in recent months examining various aspects of tattooing, all using...
Florence & the Machine - Florence Tattoo Convention 2011

The past was in focus as the forth Florence Tattoo Convention got underway inside an old fortress in a city oozing with history. Skin stitching and hand tapping might have been the lesser used techniques on display, but...
A Spy in the House of Love - Amsterdam Tattoo Museum

The Amsterdam Tattoo Museum is surely the greatest shrine to the culture of tattooing there could ever be. Walk with us through the labyrinth...
No Regrets Tattoo Studio

If you were hanging out at Bristol University around 2006, you might have crossed paths with two likely lads, Alex Brown and Ben Lakin. At the time, Alex and Ben were studying economics and marketing, but a mutual...
Dixie Highway - Matthew J. Hockaday at Dixie Tattoo Company

With the barrage of tattoo artists and shops popping up on what seems like every other street corner, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to discover tattooers with a few surprises still hidden up their sleeves. So...
Hell on Wheels - Roller Goals

With Tattoo Freeze right upon us, we’re looking forward to some more carnage from the Roller Derby we host each year. To help us all look forward to girls getting rough with each other, we proudly present a fantastic...
Once Were Warriors - New Zealand Roadtrip Part 1

When most people think about tattooing in the Southern Hemisphere Australia is often over-looked by the small island of New Zealand. Tattooing is not just a job here, it has strong cultural significance that is...
The Book Surgeon - Brian Dettmer

We know for a fact that pretty much all of our readers appreciate great art when they see it – and while this has got nothing whatsoever to do with tattoo (so far as we know) – its very subject matter elevates itself...
Kevin Marr - Godspeed Tattoo, San Mateo California

You ever look at an old cathedral and at first, you are just awed by the sheer size of it, but when you look closer, you see the fine detailing etched in there? Looking at Kevin Marr’s work, you get the same feeling...
Oly Anger - Montreal

Oly Anger has very quickly made a name for himself as one of Canada’s go-to guys for stunning black and grey work. After reading this, you won’t be in any doubt as to why that is.
Smallman Sydrome - 207

By the time you read this column, 2012 will be firmly underway and I will definitely have some more ridiculous ink.