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Skin Deep 208
  • Tattoos & Tentacles
    Sometimes, the best ideas come out of nowhere, but as we shall see, that doesn’t necessarily mean those ideas will come together very fast...
  • The Hierphant - Diego Brandi
    Rome: the world capital of Catholicism where mysticism doesn’t hang around the neck of believers, Diego Brandi carves it into his customers’ skin. A product of the new generation of Italian tattoo artists, Brandi likes to give birth to strange...
  • Enchanted Waters: Marija Ripley - The Sailor's Grave
    In 2008 Marija Ripley opened up The Sailor’s Grave in Copenhagen with her husband, Judd Ripley. In 2011 they moved to a new location and now she has a hard time imagining a workplace without him…
  • Reader Profile: Helena Linder
    Helena Linder. You may recognise her as being one of the lovely faces of Glorious Nightmare. Alternatively, you might know her as one of your Thursday evening buddies at dog-training club. If you’re really close, you might even know her better as...
  • One Man Army - Guil Zekri
    At the age of 18, Israeli-born Guil Zekri, left high school like every other kid of that age usually does. But then he did something very few 18-year-olds around the world do, he joined the army. Guil served as a Marine Paramedic in the Israeli Army...
  • Friendly Fire - Jesse Smith interviews Tanane Whitfield
    We thought this might be an interesting chain of events – getting Jesse Smith to sit down with friend and protégé, Tanane Whitfield, and put the thumbscrews on him about his work, his art, and a few other things as well. In all its scatterbrained...
  • Celebrity Skin: Master Chef USA's Graham Elliot
    He’s the youngest four-star chef in America. The owner of the first bistronomic restaurant in Chicago, which just so happens to be Michelin starred. He’s a judge on reality TV show, MasterChef, and the culinary ambassador of Lollapalooza. We can...
  • Adventures in the Screen Trade - Tattoos in the Movies
    Continuing the series we began last issue with Paperback Writers, this issue we’re taking a look at how tattoo has been brought on board by the screen medium to enhance its heroes and villains – not always with desirable consequences…
  • Once Were Warriors - New Zealand Roadtrip Part 2
    Our final stop of the trip is Auckland which is exciting me for a few reasons, firstly I am working the convention here, secondly I am having a machine hand-built by the awesome Marv Lerning, and lastly, I will be working at Two Hands Tattoo with...
  • Berlin Tattoo Convention 2011
    Berlin, the city of street art. Wandering through this open-air gallery is inspirational and exciting. It’s a capital city, but doesn’t feel like one – people here take the time to smell the roses, a completely different vibe to London’s familiar...
  • An Eye Is Upon You - 208: A Matter of Perspective
    Paula has taken some time off this issue – which leaves me to fill in the blanks. Back to normal next issue, but in the meantime…
  • Punk's Not Dead
    No, no, no – not that sort of punk. Punk of the steam variety – and the second I saw these, I  knew there would be an instant fanbase – if not for the actual concepts, then for miles and miles of inkspiration…
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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 when she was only 13 years old.
  • 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...
  • Hell on Wheels - Roller Girls
    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 photo shoot we knocked up...
  • 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 when someone like Matthew J....
  • 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 interest in tattooing was to push...
  • 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 the hoary old cliché ‘of...
  • 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 they certainly captured the...
  • 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 centuries old. Inevitably, somewhere...
  • 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 because the man does nothing...
  • 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.
  • 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 into our pages.
  • An Eye Is Upon You - 207: New Beginnings
    Whenever I’m asked which of my tattoos is my favourite, I always say, “the newest one”; and it’s true, whichever is the most recent feels the shiniest. I think my attitude is a healthy one, the opposite of nostalgia.
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Skin Deep 206
  • The Illustrating Man - Mark Poole at Hoodoo Inc
    Mark Poole is a quiet and unassuming tattoo artist who works out of his studio, HooDoo Inc. in Stoke-on-Trent. He is also a regular on the convention circuit and one of those artists who prefers working his ass off, than standing up and shouting...
  • Luminous Beings Are We... - Josh Bodwell
    Poor Josh Bodwell looks bleary eyed. All around him day two of Tattoo Jam is getting cranked up, but his body is still somewhere back in the US. No, we’re not getting all metaphysical – he’s been travelling for 24 hours and his body clock is all...
  • An Eye Is Upon You - 206: Children of the Revolution
    Late one summer, as I dashed to my local shopping precinct to purchase some seemingly necessary item, I noticed a young girl in a sleeveless summer dress, not unlike my own. Her little arms were tanned brown, farmer style, and dotted all over with...
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock #13 - Craigy Lee: The Final Chapter
    All good things must come to an end. So it is with heavy heart, that Craigy-Lee must say goodbye to the other side of the world and begin the long trek home.
  • Quick-Fire Questions: Megatrond
    During an attempt to sell his drawings Trond Kjørkleiv was instead offered a job as a tattooist. A year and a half later, just after having completed his first tattoo, he became known as MegaTrond and was put in charge for the Leading Light studio...
  • The Dark Side of the Moon - Paul Booth & H.R.Giger
    Some things come under the banner of ‘total no-brainer’. Paul Booth and Hans Giger together at Giger’s very own museum in the Swiss Alps? We were at the airport before they had even completed the press statement…
  • Celebrity Skin: My Ruin
    My Ruin has seen it all… and a lot of it in 2010. Over the span of a single year, the Los Angeles-based duo went from sailing the high seas to treading dark, murky waters, trapped in an unforeseen label dispute, only to emerge with a vengeance,...
  • Books of Magic - Edition Reuss Publishing
    Much as there are cars and then there are Cars, movies and Movies – you get my drift - so there are art books and there are Art Books. For want of a better phrase, Edition Reuss don’t fuck about when it comes to publishing.
  • Tattoo Art Fest 2011 - Paris
    The ‘Seine’, the ‘Louvre’, the ‘Eiffel Tower’, the ‘Arc de Triomphe’ and the ‘Moulin Rouge’… known all over the world for its monuments and its artistic and cultural life, Paris’ attractions draw in about 30 million visitors every year…
  • Smallman Sydrome - 206
    I met one of my heroes recently, the wrestler Mick Foley. I’ve been planning on getting a tribute to him tattooed upon myself for quite some time (regular readers of this here column will be aware of this) and meeting him only underlined it further...
  • Reader Profile: Laura Kuy
    Laura Kuy is a tattoo collector who, like her star sign, is wrapped in duality. Starting life in heavy metal bands and running around the streets of New York, Laura now owns and runs a very busy, successful flower shop in London; Laura Kuy Flowers....
  • San Francisco - Desolation Angels
    Veterinary clinics, hospitals, schools, residential buildings, restaurants, shops and galleries. In the culturally abundant city of San Francisco, street art is everywhere – art influenced by the city’s tattoo artists and their open-minded clients,...
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