A behind-the-scenes tour of the fabled tattoo industry on the arm
of a swashbuckling insider and natural-born storyteller.
In the eighteen years he's been a tattoo artist, Jeff Johnson has
worked on everyone from nervous young coeds who turn green at the
sight of his needle (chudders) to cocky would-be artists with fancy
design degrees and weak constitutions (night hogs). As the
proprietor of the legendary Sea Tramp Tattoo Company, he's inked
gangbangers, age-defying moms, and sociopaths; he's defused brawls,
tended delicate egos, learned to spot and avoid bunnies, and made
it his mission to perpetrate ingenious and awful practical jokes on
his fellow Trojans. He's a true swamp panther: He knows all the
tricks of the trade and, more important, he knows how to keep his
legendary shop in Portland, Oregon, from becoming the scene of a
nightly bloodbath.
In Tattoo Machine, Johnson lifts the curtain on an art form that
has undergone rebirth and illuminates a world where art, drama, and
commerce come together in highly entertaining theater. A tattoo
shop is no longer a den of social outcasts and degenerates-it's a
workshop where committed and schooled artists who paint on living
canvases develop close bonds and bitter rivalries, where tattoo
legends and innovators are equally revered, and where the potential
for disaster lurks in every corner.
Discussing everything from his days as an apprentice to some of the
greatest inkers in the trade to the incredibly vivid nightly
spectacular over which he presides, Jeff Johnson has written a
sometimes riotous, sometimes harrowing, and always riveting memoir
about what it means to be on the front lines of a global art
revolution.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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