Tattoo Age

New Era Caps got together with Vice Magazine to bring you a behind the scenes look at the art and the lives of the best tattoo artists across the country. Stay tuned for the series premiere July 13

Next in the Tattoo Age line up is Grime. Known for his ability to put his own stamp on every tattoo he makes, Grime might be the hardest working man in the business.

Troy Denning is a tattoo artist who is not afraid to speak his mind. Luckily for us, what he has to say is either hilarious or insightful.

Mike Rubendall is one of the most highly regarded tattooers today. In this teaser we hear from Frank Romano, Mike's tattoo mentor, about how Mike has achieved his success.

The subject of the Tattoo Age season finale is none other than Freddy Corbin. Freddy has been tattooing for over 27 years and was at the vanguard of modern tattooing. He's known throughout the tattoo world as a spiritual person, and his spirituality is sometimes reflected in the black and grey religious-inspired tattoos he's known for. In this little snippet, Freddy takes us to an impromptu Chinese-style tea ceremony to meet one of his good friends.

Bonus footage from the Freddy Corbin series.

Tattoo Age is back. In Season Two we'll be featuring three vastly different artists from all ends of the tattoo spectrum, and the world, for that matter. First up, on September 12, we have Valerie Vargas, who lives and works in London and is widely know for doing the most beautiful "lady head" tattoos around. Then on October 10 we have Mutsuo, a tattooer from Osaka, Japan, who learned from the great American artists who traveled to the shop where he worked in the early 00s. Mutsuo is known for his ability to flawlessly tattoo in just about any style. The season finale, on November 10, will feature Thom deVita, who started tattooing in New York City in the 60s, when tattooing was illegal in all five boroughs. Thom synthesized his environment into his tattoos and created quite possibly the most uniques style of all time.

Mutsuo tattoos at Three Tides in Osaka, Japan. In this episode, we hear from Chris Garver, Masa Sakamoto, Hiroshi Hirokawa and Nami about how Mutsuo learned to tattoo in pretty much every style.

The next series from Tattoo Age is about Thom deVita. Thom is an artist on many levels, and tattooing was just one of the ways he expressed himself. Thom began tattooing in the late 60's, and worked in New York City, where the practice was illegal at the time. In this episode we will here from Don Ed Hardy, Nick Bubash, Scott Harrison, John Wyatt, Angelo Scotto, Bubba Reeves, and Robert Ryan as we try to tell the epic story of Thom deVita, the artist.

When we filmed the Valerie Vargas Tattoo Age series, she took us to meet the legendary English tattooer, Lal Hardy. Lal has been tattooing since 1975, is generally considered to be one of the people that elevated tattooing in the UK in the 1980's. Lal is also an amazing story teller, and entertained us with stories for quite some time while we were at his shop, New Wave Tattoo Studio. We were so enamored with Lal's stories, that we kinda got off track, and we talked more about English tattoo history, than Ms. Vargas. What you have here is just a mere snippet of our conversation with Lal.