Dogtown Ink
Amerikan Traditionalist
Kevin Hinton
Occupations: Tattoo Artist & Owner, Old Glory Tattoo, Venice, CA
Preoccupations: American Traditional tattoos and Iron Man triathlons
C’s FOR CYBELE WITH HER GOREY TATTOO
VENICE, CA — A tattoo of two children hitting each other over the head with croquet mallets graces Cybele O’Brien’s left shoulder. It’s an illustration by that master of morbid, Edward Gorey, from his book The Epiplectic Bicycle.
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PAN & INK
STEVE CHRISTENSEN
Home: Venice, CA
For cash: Mac Whisperer.
For life: Surfer, Spiritualist, Dirt Bike Rider.
Steve Christensen — whose tattoo “sleeve” features a horned-and-hooved Pan, Japanese wood-block style waves and five-petaled cherry blossoms — is into some serious esoterica.
“I’m a medium,” Christensen says, “A channel.”
We talk over beers at Venice’s venerable Hinano Cafe.
Twenty years ago, in channeling practice-sessions, [...]