Skin Ink Magazine Summer 2021

We love showcasing tattoo artists that push the envelope with artistic styles askew from what we're accustomed. The Summer 2021 Edition of Skin & Ink Magazine is a prime example of just how many new, inspiring, and innovative features and artists we can cram in between our covers! Daria Pirojenko brings her vibrant graphic design and pop culture portrait mashups to S&I. We had the honor of visiting Allen Williams, the legendary artist behind many of the extraordinary characters in Guillermo del Toro's movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy. We sat down to chat about the many perspectives of sacred geometry with Dillon Forte. Jake Karamol discusses how he became a Tik Tok Superstar. Dan Henk interviews more tattoo icons than you can count on your fingers and toes about the tools they prefer to create their masterpieces. We interviewed the queen of tattooing, 40+ year tattoo veteran, Kari Barba. Our Music&Ink editors sat down with The Lonely Ones and Jack Russell's Great White to chat about their tattoos. Plus, we packed in a shit ton of artist spotlights to satisfy your burning desire for new art! Check out Brando Chiesa, Amayra, Franky Lazano, Posco Losco, Tommy Lee, Isnard Barbosa, Caleb Stephens, Manh Huynh, and Natsi in this issue!

The beautiful and talented Cali Sefora graces the cover and showcases her delicate blackwork inside the pages of this issue. Our featured artists are Salem, Massachusetts natives and Black Veil Tattoo’s eerie Murray Twins! Don’t worry, we packed in the tattoo spotlights too! Francesco Bianco, Alexy Deschamps, Teodor Milev, Nacho Frias, Oksana Lukianenko, Andrea Frencken, Luis Valesquez, and Ryan Ousley! Music & Ink sat down for an exclusive interview with KK’s Priest, formerly of Judas Priest for a Q&A with guitarist KK and frontman Ripper Owens. Our Studio Spotlight is Jake Swift’s Cocoa Village Tattoo. Rob Smead of Electrum once again brings his industry-specific business knowledge to our pages. And last but not least, you absolutely don’t want to miss out on our fine art features in this edition, Dave Correia, and Mark Oliver! Skin & Ink Magazine Summer Edition 2022

Brandon Bond gives us his epic coup de grace as he wraps up his three part series on collabs with a hail mary of the world’s best tattooers! Dan Henk sits down with texture master Robby Latos! Nikki Simpson, Poch, Arlo, Yomico, Dom Brown, ATA Ink, Pablo Frias, Tony Justice, Andy Darkh, Josh Herman, Chris Showstoppr and so much more packed into this edition of S&I Magazine!

Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty. Such considerations lead her to questions about intimacy, queerness, home, memory, love, and other aspects of human existence. Throughout, beauty is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care of lovers, of patients, of art and literature and the various non-human worlds that surround us. Eloquent and meditative in its approach, beauty, here, beyond base expectations of frivolity and superficiality, is conceived of as a thing to recover. Where Things Touch is an exploration of an essential human pleasure, a necessary freedom by which to challenge what we know of ourselves and the world we inhabit.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is the most important book ever written about time management.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts? Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Those who have been blessed enough to spend time among the St. Lawrence River's Thousand Islands know its breathtaking beauty and will forever speak of their adventure. You'll read about a family's weekend water skiing, swimming, boating, and best of all, being at peace. These colorful illustrations and playful words will allow you to relive old memories and be inspired to create new ones.

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.