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Tattoo Machine Tattoo Machine (2009)

by Jeff Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

038553065X (ISBN13: 9780385530651)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Spiegel & Grau

review 1: Jeff writes like someone who's read (and loved) a lot of science fiction over the years. That is not to say his descriptions, which swerve towards excessive at points, lack wit or come without some wonderfully constructed payoff. It's quite the opposite. The book could have used another round of edits, but is no less impressive having gone without. Rarely is a tattooer so willing, interested, and compositionally capable of chronicling both the beauty and the bullshit on both sides of those damn half-walls.
review 2: On a visit to Portland, Oregon, my daughter handed me this book within a pile of other books. Since her copy was more or less autographed by the wife of one of the real life people in the book, I read it first. And, what fun it is! A trippy trip ... morethrough the nightlife of the SEA TRAMP, the Portland shop where Jeff Johnson works and co-owned for a time with partner, Donald Deaton. Colorful descriptions of the folks who get tattoos and what "the life" is like is a huge success, but having had dinner with Donald, twice no less, I feel compelled to explain that tattoo artists are literate and engaging. Probably not for everyone, but a great view of a fascinating subculture. less

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