For BMX vert rider Jamie Bestwick, an eight-time X Games gold medalist, ink runs in the family. The 39-year-old says after seeing tattoos on older members of his family, he always thought images came out better on skin than on canvas...
Q & A with Jason Mewes Silent Bob's better half talks Kevin Smith, comic books, tattoos, and kicking his drug habit. Actor Jason Mewes is standing in the living room of his Los Angeles home, taking off his shirt. Positioned in front of his laptop's webcam, he shows off the "15 or 16" tattoos he's acquired during his 34 tumultuous years. He lifts his shirt and motions first to an elaborate tribal design on his shoulder. "I got this one in Santa Cruz … and this one in Des Moines," Mewes says. "This one's from when I was 20, and I got this one in Utah after playing a prisoner ...
Pro skateboarder Jereme Rogers can reel off a list of broken bones including numerous fingers, his left foot (twice), his right foot, his hand (several times), and a cut that nearly severed the tendon in his hand. “If it would have cut the tendon all the way in half it would have wound up into my wrist,” he remembers. “They would’ve had to go back in and stretch it back out.” But one injury holds the title for the most painful: a testicle-racking drop onto a handrail. “I jumped off and fell on my balls with all my body weight,” Rogers explains. “I didn’t pee blood, but it was beyond ...
He may have his hands full being a father, starting up his own business, and breaking most of his bones, but Etnies’ moto-rider Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg will still find time to kick up dust.
Jessie Lee Denning sits down with Heidi to talk about tattoo artists helping one of their own.
Long before he worked with everyone from Mötley Crüe to Marilyn Manson and designed skate decks and high-end toys, graphic designer Jim Koch (pronounced cook) worked with his hands in another way—as a lumberjack. "I was buckin' and haulin' logs and I said, Fuck that! I want to draw," he remembers of his teen logging years. Koch traded in his ax for a sketchpad and pencil and began doodling cartoon figures of clowns. He became obsessed with them after watching Red Skelton, a clown who became famous in the '40s for dressing like a hobo, and he later tattooed three vintage clowns on his biceps and forearm. Koch also names ...
Joseph Ari Aloi has been known in the tattooing world for 14 years as JK5, although few stop to ask what's behind the initials, instead focusing on his trippy custom work that rocks the collars, hands, and bellies of Williamsburg, Brooklyn— home to Saved Tattoo, where he's been tattooing for the past two years. When an artist marries Sanskrit with East L.A. Cholo letter forms so organically, it may seem kind of inane to ask what the "5" stands for. But "geeked-out name language," as he calls it, embodies the life and work of the 38-year-old artist. He says, "In my own artistic identity, I choose acronyms or words that ...
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