How do you hope the audience will feel after viewing your documentary? The cover of "Narcisa", novel by Jonathan Shaw #JonathanShaw #ScabVendor #Narcisa Also, since I started talking about it, our crew comes from all corners of the world, from the USA to Latin America and Europe, and my post-production is filled with incredible female editors, storyboard artists, animation producers, and more. This then 62 year-old tough-love man took me serious as a person and as an artist and respected my position as a filmmaker ever since we started this journey together and continues to support and highlight all my endeavors, even when they’re not related to our project. So yes, Jonathan is extremely helpful in making the documentary, but of course, as you possibly know from many other old tattoo artists, he can be very hot headed and hard to deal with, but I try to see it all as “tough love,” especially when he calls me in the middle of the night because he has just watched the latest sizzle reel and wants to thank me and call me a genius, haha! As you mentioned about being a female filmmaker, one thing that I really admire about Jonathan is how he really believed in me since the beginning, when I was only 22 years old and still in college.
Wanderer tattoo archive#
Little did I know that these 5 boxes were only the beginning of a 6 months journey through over 5000 catalogued archive pieces. Jonathan was very serious about what we were doing, and really lived by the sentence “my life is an open book.” At one point, when I told him I wanted to do an archeological dig on his archives, he welcomed me at his home with 5 boxes of archives, which I thought was a lot, inside these boxes there were magazines, newspapers from when his parents divorced, old Fun City flyers, amongst maaaany others. What was it like working with him, hearing his incredible life stories and visiting all of the places he calls home? The story never ends, he’s met Charles Manson before and during the trials, was punched by Bukowski… But most importantly, he is a person who doesn’t like being comfortable, he gave up his comfortable Beverly Hills lifestyle as a teenager to live in cheap apartments in Hollywood, and wanted to be as far away from his parents as possible, eventually choosing Latin America as a home. Moreover, he’s the son of one of the greatest band-leaders of our time, Artie Shaw, and Blue Dahlia’s actress, Doris Dowling. Yes, he is known mostly because of his career as a tattoo artist, especially as Johnny Depp’s tattoo artist, the founder of Fun City Tattoo in New York City, a Manhattan tattoo parlor that was operating before tattooing was even legal in New York, but he also was the managing editor of International Tattoo Art when the magazine was founded. There’s just so many different aspects of it, one of our interviewers says “he’s like an onion, you peel another layer and you’re like ‘Holy shit!’”. Jonathan’s life story belongs in a movie.
Why was Jonathan Shaw's story important to tell? Why is preserving tattooing history important? Spending time with him, traveling with him, and creating a film that encapsulates this hero of tattoo history, she described the impetus behind the project, and what it was like working with Jonathan Shaw. She took some time with us to talk about her new documentary Scab Vender: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw. Thankfully Mariana Thome is up to the challenge. Jonathan Shaw, aka Scab Vendor, is outside the limits of description, and as Jim Jarmusch put it: you need a film to perfectly capture the man behind the deeds. But as much as this seems beyond the work of one man, even this description is sort of reductive.
He's tattooed Johnny Depp, hangs out with Iggy Pop and Kate Moss, he travels the world on the regular, he's written books, was Editor for the magazine International Tattoo Art when it was founded, and is one of the pioneers of New York's tattoo community, establishing Fun City Tattoo in 1976 making it Manhattan's oldest tattoo shop. Who is Scab Vendor? He's many things, including but not limited to: tattooer, writer, traveler, man of the world.
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