Laura Satana was born badass. Growing up in the Paris suburbs (think projects, not picket fences) the 31-year-old picked up her first tattoo machine at 15. The setup, a homemade scratcher piece, was a gift from gypsies she often watched tattoo her young friends, sometimes using Satana's own drawings. With machine in hand, the teenage tattooist opened up shop in her parents' bedroom doing what she calls "prison-style tattoos." Her first tattoo: three dots on her own hand, the cholo markings of Mi Vida Loca. "This rules my whole life," she says. "If your life is crazy, you deserve this tattoo." Today, the teen from the projects is an internationally ...
"I don't like to do nice, clean tattoos or realistic stuff. A tattoo should look like a tattoo," says Lea Vendetta, the Paris-born 37-year-old tattoo artist whose journey has taken her from the City of Lights to Key West, FL . Vendetta started in tattooing in 1989, when, at the age of 18, she got her first ink—a Celtic piece that she has since had lasered off. In 1992, while in the South of France, she was introduced to Dave "Bastard" Archer by a mutual friend and tattoo artist. She married the native Floridian three years later and moved with him to West Palm Beach. "I was drawing and painting ...
Lights is a multi-tattooed, sci-fi loving 22-year-old who also happens to be pop music's latest rising star. Her ridiculously...
We're all starting to do the right thing by dumping gas-chugging SUV s, but is it for all the wrong reasons? Sure, making the switch helps the environment, but these days, driving an overpowered little monster is as fashionable as it is noble. And to make sure we never forsake them again, carmakers are serving up a lineup of mighty little growlers. They've stiffened the chassis, tuned the suspension, and turbofied the little four-cylinder scamps so they're doing the quarter-mile like a supercar and we're feeling every dimple in the pavement. Here's a look at some of today's big-performing little brutes and why they're so hot.
Nothing makes a strange town feel more like home than a great bar. It gives you a sense of the city, a feel for the locals, and—perhaps, most importantly—it can supply a nice buzz. The problem in many cases is picking the right spot. So many cities are overrun with mainstream, cookie-cutter places that it can be tough to find a watering hole with real character. Luckily, you have us. Inked has cut through the clutter to present you with some of the best places in America to have a drink.
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