The Thousand Yard Stare

In another, “back before Internet times” kind of deal, in my White Zombie fandom (mid-90’s maybe? I did see their show in Houston Dec 2, 1993), I found an issue of International Tattoo Art Magazine that did a feature on White Zombie.

*ITA is still seriously a great tattoo mag.*

This was actually one of two really good spreads on their ink that I found – and I must say, that influenced me fairly early as to the coolness of half/quarter sleeves. (This is well before everyone was doing it.)

This magazine actually gave me a lot to talk about with tattoo artists since I was able to name drop Guy Aitchison when I talked about artists I liked. Coop, Dave Waugh, and The Pizz were others – although my current tattoo was based off a Vince Ray piece.  I did meet a girl who had some biomechanical work done by Guy, and the trash/lowbrow direction Guy was in when he did the White Zombie crew obviously had gone in a different direction by the time I was hard driving ready for tattoos – or cool ones anyway. I think by that time I’d already had my first two (flash) pieces. As well, when L.A. Ink premiered, I was like, “Aitchison, where have I heard that name?”. Hannah Aitchison is obviously Guy’s sister. I really love Hannah’s work these days.

Finally got around to scanning it – anyway, on with the ink…

This article must have been taken mid-drummer replacement. Ivan De Prume is pictured on main page, then Phil Buerstatte is in the article. Although I guess, really, if it’s a question of content, they all had tattoos.

Obviously, Rob Zombie.

More Rob Zombie (obviously)

Phil Buerstatte…..and the beginning of Guy’s bio-mechanical leanings?

Lastly, but not leastly, axe-master J. Yuenger<