When City of Ink cofounders Miya Bailey and Tuki Carter moved their tattoo shop Prophet Art from Asheville, NC, to Atlanta in 2000, they wanted a new start, both for the shop and their art. According to Bailey, the plan was "to break that boundary of what black people and Hispanic people should be getting as tattoos and reflect more of the lifestyle of the people we were doing." The simple rule: no more "gangster-type stuff." They christened the new shop City of Ink and designed the interior to feel more like an art gallery than a tattoo parlor. "You won't walk into City of Ink and think it's a tattoo shop," explains Bailey. "The layout is an art gallery, and it's built like a loft, so the tattoo studios are ...
Most artists are inspired by art they love, but it was a particularly bad backyard show by a Los Angeles punk group that spurred singer Liza Graves to form a band. "I went home and started my own band because I was so disappointed," Graves remembers. She teamed with her sister, guitarist Suzi Homewrecker, bassist Jacqui Valentine, and drummer Danni Harrowyn, and the new foursome started the snarling punk outfit Civet. "I think there's a stereotype that if you are a girl, you have to be girly. We're not afraid to say we've got balls but we're going to dress nice because that's how we are in regular life." Inspired ...
The urge to see the world has been the fire in the belly of countless folk. The means of transportation may vary, but the destination—anywhere but here—remains the same. Some buy a one-way train ticket while others pack the car and drive until they can’t drive anymore. Claire Lutz didn’t want to leave in such a mundane manner. She decided to leave town on a kite.
Under constant police threat with no access to autoclaves, needles, ink, or gloves, tattoo artist and skateboarder Che thrives in Cuba.
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme pulls up a chair next to True Tattoo’s outspoken artisan Clay Decker.
Attention, TV producers: meet Cleo Wattenström, a tattoo artist and model from Stockholm.
When Cummings was 15, he was getting himself into trouble—so his dad bought him a tattoo machine, thinking it would give him an outlet for his restlessness. It did. He’s not in this competition to make friends; he is focusing on his art and is in it to win it.
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