Interviews

From near toddler-hood, Ryan Peganos has been one of history’s most well-versed Punisher fans. Not convinced? Well, bloody believe it. A lot has changed with social networks popping in on our World Wide Web’s cyber-door. From Twitter to LinkedIn to the major motion picture worthy Facebook, the list goes on and on. Ryan has been keen to this recent internet phenomenon and has been able to create a super human presence online. Not

Phil Moy–fanboy, musician, and one of NYC’s hottest photographers–has just come off quite the busy 2010, complete with a self-published book and photo exhibition, Buckets Off , as well as a handful of group showings: Sexual Healing, En Garde for Charity, Visions of the Empire, to name a few. What’s most surprising is how he conciliates that with his in-between day-job working in the commercial photography industry Luckily for us, Mr. Moy was able to take time out of his

Mike Giant is to body art what Kurt Vonnegut is to counter-cultural literature: an American icon who plays by his own rules. Over the years Giant has inked every surface imaginable; from back alley walls to exclusive track bikes, sunglasses to skin and everything in between. His black line style, along with his reputation on the street, is instantly recognized yet he remains humble and connected to his roots. For Mike Giant, life is filled with simple

My first encounter with Marisa Kakoulas was when she interviewed me for Salon . She was pursuing a writing career, adding journalist to her legal resume, and called herself my “docupest.” Since then she has made yet another transformation, from lawyer and writer to tattoo aficionado and, combining all three vocations, runs the weblog NeedlesandSins.com . In between her transcontinental travels attending tattoo conventions and promoting her latest publishing accomplishment – the weighty three-book tattoo

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have certainly heard of Paul Booth’s Last Rite’s Tattoo Theater , which has a reputation for housing some of the world’s top tier tattoo artists . Stefano Alcantara is a prime example of one of their premier artists, best known for his amazing photo realism. He has the unparalleled ability to utilize intense shading and vivid colors to make his tattoos look like actual three dimensional photographs on the skin. A true artist, with a