"Shit, where am I?" furniture designer Ted Nemeth mumbles into the phone before asking to reschedule our interview, blaming his confusion on a booze-fueled night out. Apparently, a pre-noon phone interview on a Saturday is a ridiculous request for this Brooklyn-based designer. You see, Ted Nemeth Designs is no Ethan Allen. Both make ottomans and end tables, but only one creates a wild line of "hot rod-slash-chopper style," as Nemeth explains it. His career in leather tooling began three and a half years ago when Nemeth couldn't find one of his favorite bags. "I made a replacement by cutting up an old piece of leather and bolting it together into ...
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 ...
The explosion of tattooed, pierced, and otherwise modified models can be traced back to one Portland, Oregon, woman who was fed up with "siliconeenhanced Barbie dolls." Using her prior experience on the Web and the camera skills she learned in art school, Selena Moody (now known as Missy Suicide) snapped photos of her friends in pinup-style poses and worked with her friend and former boyfriend Sean Suhl to set up Suicidegirls.com as a place to post these sexy photo sets. "I'd always loved the knowing glances that Bettie page gave," Suicide recalls. "there's something empowering and beautiful about the pinup photos of the '50s that I thought was missing in ...
Two years had passed since Brandan Schieppati got his last tattoo-a silhouette on his side of Rocky Balboa—and Bleeding through's acerbic singer didn't have any immediate plans to get more ink. then, in early June, a phone call with his manager about the band's upcoming European tour left him rankled. At the time, Bleeding through was having trouble scraping together enough money for the plane tickets. Schieppati claims their label, Trustkill records, hadn't paid them in ages, and the release of their fourth album, Declaration, was in limbo since the company lacked funds and hadn't even paid the band's producer. Schieppati had dealt with similar frustration in the past by ...
Born in the spit and blood of the mixed-marital-arts world, Tapout clothing is the uniform for guys who are (or at least want to look) tough. The MMA world was still in its relative infancy in the United States when Tapout was launched in 1997 as the brainchild of Charles Lewis Jr., better known as Mask for his trademark face paint. "We were pushing a lot of small shows at the beginning," Punk Ass (real name Dan Caldwell) explains. "It was basically illegal in California. Even the UFC was still really small at the time. We were there in the beginning." Their persistence has paid off. The Tapout empire now ...
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 ...
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 ...
When music wonder twins Nina Sky took over dance floors with their 2004 hit, "Move Ya Body," even they weren't sure what they were doing. "Our first album was written about things we hadn't yet experienced in our lives," says Nicole Albino, one half of the duo. "We were 18, straight out of high school." After an exhaustive 2004 tour, Albino and her identical twin, Natalie, holed up in the studio to write a follow-up album that was more mature and filled with experiences that the duo had, well, actually experienced. Four years later, The Musical is finished and ready for release this fall. The album mixes Nina Sky's love ...
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