It takes serious chops to duke it out with the country’s best chefs in Iron Chef’s Kitchen Stadium, a challenge Seamus Mullen...
Murphy came to tattooing through his work as an airbrush artist when he was a teenager. While glimpses of his past can been seen in his tattoos, he mainly works in black-and-gray and photorealism—of the latter he describes himself as a “ninja duplicator.”
Sebastien Grainger, one half of the now-defunct Canadian dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979, is many things, but a great parallel parker is not one of them. In fact, the 29-year-old doesn't have a driver's license. "I had a driving lesson this morning at 10 a.m.," Grainger says, laughing, via telephone from Toronto. "I always lived in cities and I never found driving necessary. I still managed to get around. I wasn't interested in cars when I was a teenager. It's preparation for being a father. That's what triggered it. It was like, ‘How am I gonna drive my wife to the hospital when she's pregnant?'" Grainger is getting a ...
It’s possible that the only people who travel more than Phish fans are women’s basketball players. And if you are a 6’1” basketball player like Seimone Augustus, you pray for the legroom of the emergency exit row.
Check the walls of your local music venue and there’s a good chance you’ll find a Set Your Goals sticker plastered somewhere. It’s a visual reminder of how much things have changed since the band joined the Epitaph Records roster. “On our old label, we would get, like, 100 stickers and they would be in black and white,” singer Matt Wilson explains from the back of band’s tour van. “Now Epitaph asks us if we want stickers, and the next day we have 10,000 of them.” The differences go much deeper than stickers, but it’s a good metaphor for the progress this California band has made since their formation in ...
Landing an appointment with famed New York City tattooer Seth Wood is tough. Finding him is the really hard part. Although he works a booked-solid schedule at Daredevil Tattoo and his own home studio, Wood spends more time traveling to conventions and guest spots at shops around the world, such as Invictus Custom Tattooing in Oslo and LTW in Barcelona. The past year alone has taken Wood to London, Milan, Montreal, and Moscow. “I’m winding that down a bit, considering that there was one point that I was on the road for 13 months straight,” Wood explains. “My favorite conventions to work are London and Milan, mostly because they’re organized ...
Seven Wonders: From the once-in-a-lifetime to the taking-your-life-in-your-hands.
Seventh Son might be the best amalgamation of all San Francisco’s tattoo scene has to offer. Co-owned by Jason Kundell (former coowner of Artwork Rebels), Erik Rieth (formerly of Everlasting Tattoo), and Luke Stewart (who was a regular guest artist at Artwork Rebel), the studio may be on the new side, but its artists have certainly been around long enough to garner respect. It shows in their clientele. “We cater more to the serious collector who wants bigger, custom pieces,” says Rieth. Translation? The accumulative hours spent working on a piece means the artists at Seventh Son often end up developing personal relationships with their clients. “For us, clients aren’t just customers,” says Rieth. “Since we see the same person several times, we end up becoming friends. Half the time ...