82: Alexis Hepburn (Tattoo Artist): I Brought My Folio With Me Everywhere
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews tattoo artist Alexis Hepburn
On this episode Alexis and Jeremy talk living in Australia through the pandemic, growing up with artistic parents, discovering new mediums, the connection between hardcore and tattooing, finding inspiration through blogs, designing band merch, working on the fly, the first tattoo she ever got, how she got started, the first tattoo she gave, working at different shops, practicing on friends, when non-hardcore people found her work, tattooing in Nepal, the difficulties of tattooing internationally, painting, music as an influence, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Discovered magazine. Discovered is an international print |
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| 0:34.2 | Music won't regret it. Podcasts First ever |
| 0:55.4 | The first ever podcast. |
| 0:58.3 | Welcome to the first ever podcast. I am your host, Jeremy Bollm. If this is your first time here, |
| 1:16.2 | this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form |
| 1:20.7 | that led them to where they are today. This is episode 82, and my guest this week is tattoo artist Alexis Hepburn. |
| 1:30.0 | She is out of Australia and easily one of my top three favorite tattoo artists. |
| 1:35.7 | I met her through Turnstile years ago, and this conversation is absolutely awesome. |
| 1:40.9 | If you enjoy it and you want to hear a bonus episode, head on over to patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon. She answered questions that were submitted by subscribers and it's a good one. |
| 1:52.4 | Also, you might be saying to yourself, damn, Jeremy sounds extra rough. It's because I'm on tour. I'm in Philadelphia right now recording this this in a production office in a union transfer. |
| 2:03.2 | This is coming to you on a Wednesday. So tonight we're going to be in Boston at the Paradise Rock Club. |
| 2:09.0 | We're on tour with Vane, military gun, and scowl. Check the dates over at touche amore.com |
| 2:15.1 | slash tour. We're likely coming to your town if we haven't been |
| 2:18.4 | there already. This is one of my favorite tours of all time. Can't recommend it enough. Come |
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