005: Taki Kitamura

Books Closed: Tattoos and the Internet Collide, Hosted by Andrew Stortz

Andrew Stortz

Comedy Interviews, Tattoos, Careers, Social Media, Comedy, Business, Tattoo, Tattoo Artist Interview, Artist, Tattoo Podcast, Arts, Interview, Visual Arts, Tattooing

5 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Tattoo artist Taki Kitamura (@stateofgracetaki) discusses how he organizes a tattoo convention that features the highest caliber of work, being surrounded by inspiration at State of Grace, and how he looks toward the future of tattooing while still increasingly embracing traditions of the past.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Books Closed.
0:04.1	This episode is sponsored by Lucky Supply and River Valley Printing Co.
0:12.0	Today we are broadcasting to you from San Jose at the State of Grace, and I am joined here by my new friend Taki.
0:20.2	Hello.
0:22.0	Thanks for having me.
0:23.2	Thanks for inviting me here. This is awesome.
0:23.7	I've never been to this shop or this city, ever.
0:28.6	Well, unless you're a Sharks fan or in the tech industry, yeah, like most people go to San
0:32.7	Francisco or Oakland.
0:33.5	So thanks for making the trip down.
0:35.5	And I'm really hoping that I'm not going to be the victim of one of your spoof things.
0:41.0	Or maybe I am.
0:41.9	I don't know.
0:42.3	We'll see.
0:43.1	I actually, I did this whole podcast up until now so I can perfectly orchestrate this spoof on you.
0:48.5	Like, right, right.
0:49.3	Yeah, I feel like I'm on candid camera.
0:50.9	Like they're just like, ha ha ha, we got you, you know.
0:54.2	So. like I'm on candid camera. Like, they're just like, ha ha ha, we got you, you know? So, but yeah.
0:55.0	Wouldn't that be weird if that was true, though?
0:56.8	What would be my motivation?
0:59.2	Dude, but it would just be like, like, you know, like levels of deviousness.
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