welcome to the 2nd annual rites of passage tattoo convention & arts festival 2012
a three day arts, tattoo and music festival with a focus on tattoo history & culture held at the royal exhibition building carlton gardens melbourne. This will be your chance to see or be tattooed by some of the worlds respected, renowned and up-and-coming tattooists who will be show casing their artwork on living canvas.
gomeniko seminar
January 16, 2012
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the gypsy gentleman
January 15, 2012
Marcus Kuhn is a world renowned tattooer and painter who has been tattooing for twenty two years. He has worked in Japan with the best tattooers in Osaka and Yokohama, tattooed in Argentina and Australia, and lived and worked in Paris and London for years.
He lives in Maine and spends half of the year traveling and tattooing all around the world. Marcus was one of the original NYC tattooers in the early eighties. He worked at the original Fun City on the lower east side when it was the only street tattoo shop in NYC.
He is currently splitting his time between NYC and Maine, tattooing and creating The Gypsy Gentleman.
The Gypsy Gentleman is a series of short films chronicling the travels of the Gypsy Gentleman. A travel documentary profiling the world’s greatest tattooers and the world’s most fascinating places. Each episode will present the city that it was shot in. They will go to the streets and give you the city as it feels to them.
Marcus will be profiling one cool spot per city, a record store that sells coffee and antiques, or an Italian shoe maker in Buenos Aires that has been there for a 100 years, or a sumi shop in Kyoto that has been there 500 years.
Each episode will conclude with a feast involving all the great people who have come together for that city’s filming. The message being- human interaction is the most important point; it is that moment together that is most important. Too often we miss the real highlights of being here.
Marcus and crew are gearing up to head over for the 2012 Rites of Passage Festival and to take in the delights of Melbourne, the creative capital of Australia. oh yeah
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happy new year
January 6, 2012
… FROM THE TEAM AT RITES OF PASSAGE
It is a pleasure to announce that the tickets are now on sale and this year, they are much, much cheaper!
In fact we have an amazing limited early bird special until the end of January 2012. Tickets are available through Greentix click ‘here’ to purchase tickets for 2012
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we’re painting the town rites of passage!
January 5, 2012
Keep an eye out for the first run of ROP posters for 2012 with the masterful hanya mask by Jeff Gogue.
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