CONTENTS - July 2004
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Everybody's got an opinion.
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Auction art amid the ashes, a taste of
Peru, turning tattoos into glass, the last tattoos of the St. Lawrence Island Eskimos, an auction to pay for Nathan's phoenix-like emergence from the flames, Heitkotter does our first product review, Tennessee Dave remembers
bikers and claw hammers, Leo Zulueta answers the Big 10 and Teresa Green tells us about bats and kanji.
HIPSHOTS
Ronan Spelman freezes time at the second Pomona Tattoo Expo.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
Join Bobby Pitre, riding around bayou country with the windows rolled down.
READERS' GALLERY
The world's finest tattoo artists keep on sending photos, and we keep on framing our favorites.
FEATURES
THE LAST OF THE TATTOOED BEDOUINS by Tim Coleman
An intensely moving report on the demise of a time-honored tradition
in the harshness of the Sinai desert.
CRAZY TIME IN MADTOWN by Bob Baxter
Three-days of surprises and Midwestern hospitality at Dan Collin's first annual event in Madison,
Wisconsin.
RETURN TO THE TEXAS TATTOO ROUNDUP by Bob Baxter
A memory-filled excursion to Tramp and Everett's fifth annual tattoo fete in Dallas.
MANHATTAN'S FAMOUS BAKATY BOYS by Maury Englander
A long-overdue homage to the tattoo king and prince of Second Avenue, New York's
father and son team par excellence, Mike and Mahai Bakaty.
COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
The part tattoos played in the emergence and early history of lighter than air craft.
TRAVELIN' MICK
A rare look at the vanishing tribal tattoos of the Chin people in Southeast Asia.
SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
This time it's Phoenix, Arizona's Harley Goodson on center stage..
Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Matty talks about getting hand-poked in the traditional Japanese style.