l’ve been tattooing going on 8 years now. But out in San Francisco you see all these people that are outwardly bizarre, and just being there was kind of the next step for me. When l moved to San Francisco it was a real different scene l found I was tattooing more people that were trying to align themselves with different subcultures whereas in Baltimore I just tattooed regular folks… a lot of strippers, construction workers the people who you think typically get tattooed. He got me going and gave me a real deep respect for what l was doing. I know a lot of people scrub a lot of toilets and and wait for bits of tattoo knowledge to dribble out of the tattooer’s mouth… but at Tux’s, first he just made me hang around and sit right behind him while he tattooed, all the time And we talked a lot not necessarily about tattooing but about art in general any number of different things, then he just let me go tattoo some friends and he gave me advice… it was a real interesting experience and looking back I cherish it, learning that way. I don’t know what other people’s apprenticeships are like. The neighborhood was kind of sketchy… The first thing that hit me about the shop was the green soap smell, I didn’t know what it was but that smell was really intoxicating to me and I still love walking into a shop and We would actually get bus riders coming to get tattooed who were on a layover and they would need a tattooĭone in a half an hour so they could get back on the bus. I thought every tattoo shop was a very individualized thing, with your art on the walls… he kept the placed locked up all the time, even during business hours, we were right next to the Greyhound station and there was a lot of weird activity going on in there all the time. The shop was covered with that kind of stuff… that was the first tattoo shop I’d ever been in, so I wasn’t aware that there was a more standardized version of a tattoo shop. all kinds of stuff put together, that are really beautiful. For awhile l was immersed in that whole esthetic, whatever it is, which is hard to put your finger on.it was fortunate for me, Tux does a lot of assemblage with found object. Right, he has his own inimitable look…he had spent a lot of time with Thom deVita when he was learning to tattoo so I was indirectly influenced by deVita through Tux, deVita was almost present all the time with the way Tux’s shop looked, and so forth. Tux has a pretty distinctive style thats apart from the mainstream, right? Were you doing other kinds of art before that? I started getting tattooed right after I got out of high school… I got one and just kept going back to get more and more, so I was in the shop all the time time, at Tattoos Tux’s place in Baltimore… and after doing that for a few years I landed an apprenticeship with him to work there for a couple of years, learning the rudiments of it, and eventually wound up out in San Francisco doing some tattooing and it just kind of fell together. Strangely enough, I had forgotten about them, so it was a welcome email.ĭaniel Higgs being interviewed by Don Ed Hardy, Tattoo Revue #25: Last night, someone submitted my scanned pages to Occult Vibrations for inclusion. I scanned the entire interview last year and put it in my flickr page.
While Tattoo Time #5 featured some of Daniel’s work, this was a rare sitdown interview that puts you where his head was at the time. Issue #25 had a multipage interview with Daniel Higgs conducted by Ed Hardy.
(which ran under the banner of Outlaw Biker’s Tattoo Revue) As the editor, she really turned things around, wooing top artists to provide content. Each passing issue would have less and less quality work, but you’d pick them up, just in case.įor my money, the best of the bunch was Michelle Delio’s run on Tattoo Revue. Content was king when you had a family of magazines to put out every month you’d pretty much feature anything and everything you’d photograph at a convention. On one hand they connected you to a global tattoo community on the other they were usually put out as part of a Biker magazine family and didn’t always reflect the cultural standards of something like Hardy’s TATTOO TIME.Īs tattoo culture evolved, more and more magazines popped up. Tattoo magazines were usually a mixed blessing, back in the pre-internet Dark Ages.
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