Nov 23

Nov 23 Festival of Dying: Is Your 'Death Literacy' Lacking?

(Abridged version first Published in The Guardian, 23/11/16) I attend the inaugural Sydney Death and Dying Festival to get a taste of what's to come.

Nov 3

Nov 3 Hong Kong Branding: The Past, The Present, The Future

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(Published in INKED issue 42) “That was Ricky’s right above Pinky’s. That’s because Pinky’s had a hepatitis scare and the American navy had banned them from going there, so he just opened upstairs and called it Ricky’s.”

Sep 27

Sep 27 Stick & Poking Aboard Convict Ships

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(VICE online, 27/09/16) Discover a rich history of colonial stick & poke tattoos and wild convict stories with Simon Barnard, author of Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia.

Apr 17

Apr 17 Beware the Thing!

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(INKED magazine, issue 39) On February 26th, I presented an exhibition of tattooed silicone hands and sheets at Melbourne's Neon Parlour.

Dec 27

Dec 27 Persian Ink: The Underground Tattooists of The Islamic Republic of Iran

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(INKED magazine, issue 35) 'Tattooing in the Islamic Republic (dictatorship) of Iran' is the culmination of furtive correspondence with four brave Iranian tattooists who risk imprisonment and torture on a daily basis all for the sake of their art.

Nov 22

Nov 22 (Guest Article) Tattooing Timor - written and researched by the Dili Collective

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(Things & Ink, issue 10) "Tattooing is conducted during the vigil. Beside the body the near family sing the deceased's history in a rhythm made of tears.”

Nov 10

Nov 10 (NSFW) Is that Saline in Your Balls or Are You Just Happy to See Me? *full version

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(Things & Ink, issue 12, abridged on VICE online) What began as an intellectual interest in body modification within the context of BDSM ended with 250mls of saline infused into my scrotum and 500mls infused into my girlfriend's breasts.

Sep 22

Sep 22 Trash Drag Aesthetic

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(Things & Ink, issue 11) "I think it’s a real big kick and liberation once you’ve put on a face and the costume and you go out in public. You become a character, a different person, and so people respond to you differently.”

Jun 17

Jun 17 Anthropomorphic Curiosities

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(Things & Ink, issue 10, republished in INKED magazine, issue 31) "If taxidermy is made into art for art’s sake, there is still the beauty and appreciation of the animal and the art, so it really isn’t for nothing."

Jun 15

Jun 15 Ricky Luder Review

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(Things & Ink, issue 11, republished in INKED magazine, issue 32) A short review of Ricky Luder, a book complied and published by Done With Electricity. The book is an illustrative historical treat!

Mar 1

Mar 1 Flesh Eating Body Modifiers

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(Things & Ink, issue 9. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) ‘I guess I took it a bit lightly and didn’t explain myself, it was just like “RAAAAAHHH; I’m eating my own head!”

Dec 23

Dec 23 The Buddha Tattoo and Other Sacred Images: Sacrilege?

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(Things & Ink blog, 23/12/14. Republished in INKED magazine, issue 30) I talk with the Bangkok based Knowing Buddha Organisation about it's objection to Buddha tattoos.

Dec 15

Dec 15 Tattooing Under Martial Law

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(Things & Ink blog, 14/12/14. Republished in INKED issue 32) ‘Yeah man, vultures on the streets shaking down people for payouts.”

Dec 9

Dec 9 Initiation: An Ancient Ritual in a Modern World—Samoan Tatau.

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(Things & Ink, issue 8. Republished in INKED, issue 27) ‘The first hit, your mind is full of so many thoughts; mostly you’re thinking, “Shit, what have I done; what am I doing; I can’t do this”.

Sep 11

Sep 11 Tattooing in Australian Prisons

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(Things & Ink, issue 7. Republished in INKED, issue 28) “It’s another world in prison, there’s dos and don’ts out here, and then there’s dos and don’ts in there. I used to just go with the flow, and do tattoos.”

Jul 19

Jul 19 Hanging with Badsville: hook, line, and body modifications

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(Things & Ink, issue 6. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) "When you’re getting them pierced, it feels pretty brutal. So you can understand the heightened response your body and mind are having to the pain.”

Jul 8

Jul 8 O-inked: Is Tattooing a Pig Art?

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(Modern Farmer, 01/05/2014. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) "Maybe it was Little Minnesota, the Texas Tattooed Pig, who finally made the most sincere statement of the night when he urinated in his plastic pigsty."

Mar 2

Mar 2 Posthumous Conversations: My Transcendental Experience Taking Ayahuasca with a Shaman

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(The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, 09/09/14) I became synesthetic—inhaling my visions, exhaling what was heard”

Feb 15

Feb 15 Home-made Tattoos: Unregulated, Unprofessional, Unstoppable

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(Things & Ink, issue 3) "I said to them all, ‘look, this isn’t the right ink, I don’t want you all getting infected from it,’ but they were all like UGHRAAAAA, TATTOO US TATTOO US WE DON’T CARE. I had like seven people lined up."

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