Rules are mean't to be broken. That being the number 1 rule of only one tattooer on the pod. BROKEN! Reasons why you'll hear soon! A blessing in disguise, a true artist and pioneer of how someone who was born to tattoo! Meet Sasha Shabasov! Make sure to have your notes app or a pen & paper ready for great knowledge and gems being dropped.
First experiences with art as a child / teen (4:10) Growing up with immigrant parents / being first generation and if your parents supported you being artistic (6:20) Going to Highschool in LA proper, seeing tattoo shops / people with tattoos- first impressions of tattoos (8:30) First tattoo, talk about that experience (10:00) Taking the leap into the tattoo industry / finding an apprenticeship (13:50) How to get an apprenticeship, how you made it happen (14:40) Support or lack of from parents in learning how to tattoo (20:10) Let’s talk about your apprenticeship dos and don’ts (21:00) Tattooing, finding your style and growing as an artist (27:30) Working with men at the daggers vs with the girlies at Petunia twins (30:10) What it’s like working with tattooers that are influencers / working exclusively with women (34:30) Advice for women looking to apprentice / that are early in their careers (36:30) Let briefly talk about your heritage, the ongoing war and how that effects you artistically (40:40) What’s currently inspiring Sasha, and where things like Barbie / being a woman fit into that (45:20) Being in a healthy marriage as a tattooer, how important support from your partner is (47:20) How to better understand and respect our friends that are immigrants/ first generation, different customs, language barriers etc (48:40) Let’s talk about delicious food, favorites new experiences, shop lunch and how we bonded over it (50:15) Plans for the future, in tattooing and artistically (55:10) Mystery question!!!!!! (58:20)
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