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This article was written by Jonathan Shaw for Art Alternatives Magazine.
read moreSaturday December 28th 2002 Lost In Fun City A Poem to pass the time in Hell… Ambling aching waiting endless Pac Man circles, gorilla sounds of mechanized tedium echoing behind tin ears, speakers of nothing in hollow tapp tapp against a back drop of long gone glowing night. Waiting in patience of solitary godhead and […]
read moreThis article on the visionary painter Robert Williams from Outlaw Biker Tattoo Revue was written by Jonathan Shaw. To see more archives, including the first several issues of International Tattoo Art Magazine, you can visit the “Articles” page or click here. I am constantly working to give Jonathan’s readers a more user-friendly experience, so any […]
read moreLanguage. Words. As I wandered the crowded little streets around the old mercado, observing those strange indigenous people and feeling their wonderful magical spiritual aura, I realized that was the most unpleasant thing of all about where I came from; the fact that words and the intellect had somehow totally replaced the simple essential things […]
read moreToday’s featured archive is Jonathan’s 1973 cover article “Weird Tales” from the Los Angeles Free Press offshoot, The Staff.
read moreSurreal nostalgic strains of calliope music weave a faded tapestry of images in the aging tattoo man’s mind as he reads… An old amusement park… Tattooed bikers, sailors and drifters loiter on the boardwalk in front of a dingy tattoo parlor smoking cigarettes, drinking beer from cans… A kid peers into the tattoo shop window… […]
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read moreAs seen in Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist … I have found a perfect way to get away with antisocial behavior and yet maintain a good image. All I have to do after committing an atrocity is to say it was a practical joke. Everyone loves a practical joke. If I get caught […]
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