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...Having Bliss become a queen of the Austin roller derby circuit certainly wasn't on Brooke's agenda either. But while mother and daughters are enjoying a girls' outing to a clothing/head shop in Austin - "pretty vases!" Brooke says approvingly to a case full of bongs - a trio of tattoo-ed and pierced women roll in on skates, mugging maniacally as they pass out flyers for the next weekend's derby. Most teenage girls would have taken refuge from these R. Crumb-style creatures behind the Doc Martens display but not Bliss. She is enraptured. (See the top 10 female...
...write that the flash art on the walls of your shop demonstrates four very distinct generations. At the Sea Tramp, we have a lot of art drawn in very different eras, like Bert Grimm's stuff. Some of it is 50, 60 years old. The tattoo artists of his era - and this is not a very popular opinion - they couldn't draw very well. The lettering is very crude, the designs are flat, one-dimensional, not very original, very cartoony and extremely primitive. Then you move up to the tattoo artists that began...
...note that only two other professions brush up against drugs as often as tattoo artists - the police and the lost-and-found guys at the airport. Why is that? People always assume that because you're a tattoo artist that you do drugs. There's still a lot of that countercultural stigma associated with the whole field. People just kind of assume you're going to be a dirtbag because of your job, but in tattooing that's just not true anymore. There are tattoo artists out there that have never even drank a single beer in their life...
...have a favorite story you like to tell when someone asks you about your job? I guess it depends entirely on what mood I'm in. A lot of people ask me, "What is your main regret?" I have to say that every tattoo artist will have the same answer to this question, and it's that eventually, one day, everything you made will be gone. There will be a time when my life's work will vanish from this world. And that's the real, only downside to tattooing - that it's on people, and people just...
...Erdenebileg is the elder statesman of Mongolia's neo-Nazis, Shari Mungun-Erdene, the 23-year-old leader of the roughly 200-strong Mongolian National Union (MNU), is the new kid on the block and sports a swastika tattoo on his chest. The MNU takes vigilante action against law-breaking outsiders, Mungun-Erdene says, mainly Chinese. When I ask what kind of action, he replies, "Whatever it takes so that they don't live here." At other times, though, he comes across as an overzealous adolescent. He opens his laptop to show photos of his neo-Nazi buddies. But beside...