My Tattoo Inc - December 2022

TRISTAN GET TO KNOW

Welcome toMyTattooInc

Number 17 is a reality, and we are proud to present you a magazine with 8 more pages than our last issue. 78 pages packed with nice and FREE content directly to you. This one has a Danish front cover, Tristan who beside modelling is working as a tattoo artist. Inside the mag we have a variety of Danish artists and studio ́s mixed with conventions stuff from Paris and Turon in Poland. Finally we have the first Woba model competition named “Most appreciated Woba model”. You can follow them, like, comment and share them and make sure your favourite will be the winner of the award and be our next front cover in the February issue Woba is shorted from World of Body Art.

I hope you will enjoy this issue and your most welcome to Spread the work / spread the ink.

My Tattoo Inc has partnered up with Viva foundation helping children in need in different parts of the World. We hope you will share and maybe give a small contribution to this honourable cause we do.

Yours sincerely Carsten Augustenborg Editor in chief

The next issue will be ready for you all in February!

The online magazine will always be a free magazine. Enjoy!

Carsten Augustenborg Founder - My.Tattoo.Inc

GET TO KNOW @TRISTAN_weigelt

@germanotitoldini

how we became - my tattoo inc

During the summer of 2019 our online magazine was created in heart and mind. Developed and shaped after many years of work, experiencing and living the tattoo environment. Strategies for the future was put to paper – an awesome tattoo magazine was born. The content of the magazine has since been in place, again developing from every new publishing. Performed by our dedicated collaboration partners, by the hands of travelling artists, our staff and our extensive network. Friends, some of them has been with us for three decades, make us 100% capable of supplying you with an online magazine of high quality with unique stories from the world of tattoo art.

In future issues we will present Tattoo Convention coverage with professional photos, loads of the finest artists and ink features from around the world. We will also aim to show our readers some of the fantastic tattoo models who has dedicated their life and bodies to the world of Body Art. Last, but not the least we want to highlight talented artists from around the world, of course mixed with world class names. From the past to the future, we bring you everywhere.

A Free Version

It was at an early stage that I decided to make the magazine completely free of charge, and the only way this could be a business was with advertising and partnerships. Through the decades I have experienced many great printed magazines, especially in the world of Body Art selling less and less and finally shutting down. Actually, I thought it was a waste of money for the advertisers, so i wanted to make a magazine where we can track the readers numbers and give the advertisers a fair chance to be seen.

Today

My partners and I see a huge potential in this, the world´s first free online tattoo magazine. We are working, we are growing and we have found the right platform to all artists and you readers. One million have read our mag and numbers don’t lie!

We will publish four quarterly editions + two special and extended editions every year. I wish you all a good read and look into the world of My Tattoo Inc. Enjoy!

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adxion interview

YOUR ARTIST NAME IS AD_XION WHY IS THAT? -ADI: (THAT’S MY FIRST NAME) INK: (FOR TATTOOED IN ENGLISH) XION: (FOR BINDING) THE WORD GAME FOR ADDICTION!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE STYLE OF TATTOOING? MY FAVORITE TATTOO STYLE IS GEOMETRIC TATTOOS. THEY ARE SO SOFT AND SO BEAUTIFUL THAT MY BODY IS COVERED IN THEM.

WHAT KIND OF PHOTO SHOOTS DO YOU LIKE THE MOST TO MAKE OR BE A PART OF?

I WOULD LIKE TO DO OR PARTICIPATE IN ARTISTIC NUDE PHOTO SHOOTS. THEY ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TO REPRESENT MY ART AND THE LIVING WORK OF ART THAT I HAVE BECOME.

HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN MODELLING AND HOW DID YOU ACTUALLY START?

-I HAVE BEEN A MODEL AND TATTOO MODEL FOR 2 YEARS. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED TATTOOS AND IT WAS AFTER A TRAGIC EVENT, WHICH HAPPENED 4 YEARS AGO, THAT I DECIDED TO COVER MY ENTIRE BODY. AND CHANCE DOING THINGS WELL... I MET THIS ARTIST WHO MADE THIS MAGNIFICENT FULL-BODY. HE WAS ABLE TO MEET MY EXPECTATIONS, TAKE THE TIME AND ABOVE ALL UNDERSTAND MY DESIRES AND MY THOUGHTS. WITH ALL CONFIDENCE, I PUT MY BODY IN HIS HANDS TO ERASE MY PAST WOUNDS. TODAY I AM PROUD TO HAVE BECOME A LIVING WORK OF ART. WHERE MY BODY IS IN TUNE WITH MY MIND.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ATTENDING AN INTERNATIONAL TATTOO EVENT? -NO, I HAVE NOT YET PARTICIPATED IN AN INTERNATIONAL TATTOO EVENT. NOT YET, BUT IT’S IN MY PLANS.

PARIS 2022

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PLANETARIUM

People often ask me how I got into drawing, and I truly just never stopped drawing as a kid. I have drawings and paintings from the year I was able to hold a pen till now. I was quite a pensive kid, creativity has since I can remember been the only space where I’m able to release that tension and ground my self. I stumbled upon old school tattoos one day when i was around 11 and i found myself completely engrossed and went to tell my mom and best friend how I wanted to be come a tattoo artist. But due to the emotions processed through my early artworks, it start ed with being a very private hobby for me, which also led to me being insecure about my art and own skills.

Surprisingly i found i was quite good at biolo gy and chemistry and I ended up studying an engineers degree in technical Biochemistry at DTU. Needless to say my heart was longing for something with greater importance and meaning, something I wanted to dedicate I life to. I found my way into Miks Tattoo in 2019, 20 years old and more than ready for my next chapter. I instantly felt a deep con nection with the space, craft and the people surrounding it, since then the shop has felt more like a home than any other place I’ve ever been. I went to specialize within the field of fine line tattooing with my own edgy style. I’ve since went a little back to a more bolder line, focusing on the weigh in combining the two with a abstract or trippy touch. When I tattoo I pretty much disappear into a space where everything vanishes. A space I think I’ll be addicted to for the rest of my life.

Caroline Salinas is an illustrative and ornamental blackwork tattooer. She started tattooing in 2013 when she was 18, and has always strived to perfect her linework and precision, which is key to all her work. She started going to an evening art school once a week, from the age of 6 till 15, and then took one year of art in high school. Directly after graduating she started her apprenticeship in Miks Tattoo and has been there ever since. Besides her interest in art she has always loved

nature and especially botany, which she uses as inspiration for most of her tattoo designs.

Caroline lives with her boyfriend and their two small boys in a house on the countryside with a big garden, a dog and her chickens. At home she can recharge surrounded by nature, and be full of inspiration for the next tattoo!

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He loves working with open minded people who likes to let the way of art, do it’s think. As a child Danni really wanted to be a psychologist, but all that reading was to must, then he started drawing.

When all his books were full of drawings, he thought maybe a career in art was the way. He tried so hard to follow his dream to become a tattooer and almost gave up. When a handsome guy called Ruben reached out to him in 2015 and said see you on Monday in Miks Tattoo.

Danni Street Is a Tattooer from the heart of Denmark Copenhagen

Danni Street specializes in

tattoos All with his own style/design from the theme you get him.

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Portrait Photo / lassevestergaard / Instagram : lassvest

I was the go-to-girl for decorating my classmates school book bindings which I spent all the other remaining school hours on executing. Nothing else mattered. My interest in tattoing spiked i ‘95 when I bought my first tatto magazine.

From then on I daydreamed turning 18 in 2002 getting my apprenticeship start ed and poking my first person. Which by the way was me. Overall I love contrasts in a piece and my favorite styles to do are geometrics, organic, abstracts and pets all which have minimalism in common. Most importantly my lines stay clean!

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Hell(o) music fans. Today I would like to introduce a cou ple of heavy hitting bands straight outta Canada. The first one is Archspire, an extreme technical death met al band formed in 2007 (as Defenstrated, changing their name to Archspire n 2009). They released their fist album, All Shall Align, in 2011, which, after a line-up change due to illness of the original bassist, was followed by the release of their second album, Lucid Col lection, in 2014.

The line-up changed again after the release of Lucid Collection – and again a new bassist was draft ed in. The band’s third album, Relentless mutation from 2017 was nominated for the metal/ hard music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards. In 2021 the band released their fourth album, Bleed the future. I would wholeheartedly recommend watching a vid eo they released for the single Drone Corpse Aviator. Mind blowing!

Archspire

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Members / Oli Peters – vocals / Tobi Morelli –guitar (7 and 8-string) / Smith

Archspire

Another interesting fact about the Archspire – their music was used in 2019 by a couple of pro grammers to teach a neural net work they’ve created to produce a never-ending stream of technical death metal. Well, give Archspire a listen and you won’t be surprised by this – I suspect these guys are some sort of robots themselves.

What can you say about Archspire – the very first thing that comes to mind is – FAST! Boy, oh boy, are they fast. With their drummer using a gravity blast technique, the speed he achieves on the snare drum is unbelievable. Have you ever heard a sewing machine working? Yeah, it’s like that…but fast er.

The extreme technical death metal sums up the band’s style very well. It is both extreme death metal and extremely technical. Changes of tempos, weird time signatures – it’s all in there. With heavy guitar sound ripping through your ear canals, you are suddenly treated to a solo from a progressive metal playbook, with face melting bass line thudding throughout. And all that spiced with a growl from the bowels of the 9th circle of hell. So, if you are into all of the above, served on a plate of blast beats, I think Archpire is definitely a band you should check out.

Mike Mikhell

/ Dean Lamb – guitar (8 string) Smith – bass / Spencer Prewett – drums

Another Canadian outfit which I think is worth getting to know.

Threat Signal has been on the metal scene for almost 20 years now. Formed in 2003 in Ham ilton, Ontario the band quickly gained accolade of the metal community. They have been signed up to Nuclear Blast and in 2006 they have released their first album, Under Reprisal. Soon after they started touring with the likes of Soilwork and Mnemic and their debut album won Canadian Recording of the Year award. The band released their second album, Vigilance in 2009. The period be tween the first and second albums was full of turmoil - with members joining and leaving the band. By the time the album was released Jon Howard, Threat Signal’s lead singer, was the only original band member left.

Two years later, in 2011 selftiled album was born, and the reviewers were singing their praises for Threat Signal. The band went on tour across USA and Canada to promote the album (they’ve toured with Children of Bodom, among others).

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Jon Howard – vocals / Travis Oswin Wong – rhythm guitar /Ryan

Signal

Fans had to wait 6 years for the next album, and in 2017 their fourth effort, Disconnect, was released. In those 6 years the band toured extensively and… changed their line-up… extensively.

So, what can you expect from Jon Howard and co.? I would put them on a shelf labelled melodic death metal. Some call them melodic metalcore, but I just don’t see that. Especially that they’d been around way before this metalcore thing became a thing. The band mixes complex ity of death and thrash metal, but with some groove metal riffs added for a good measure. So, what you receive is some fast death metal flowing seamlessly into pump ing groove and changing again into something more melodic and mellow. All that is accompanied by growling and screaming vocals, until… Jon starts to sing his melodic parts. And believe you me, the guy can sing. If you have a spare minute, go to YouTube and watch him cover Linkin’ Park’s Crawling. If Linkin’ Park ever wanted to find a new singer, they should look behind their Northern border. All in all Threat Signal should appeal to all metalheads who like to mix their brutal with their mellow.

Mike Mikhell

Travis Montgomery – lead guitar /Ryan Miller – bass / Joey Muha – drums

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