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Hunter Spanks
Eating Wind and Shitting Flames
By DJ Rose
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In the pursuit to turn aqueous minerals into gold, many forgo the larger quest. An inward journey forsaken by most and treasured by even fewer. The hermetical pursuit of transformation by reduction. Tempering by humility and polishing by reflection. It is in the spirit of the creative drive in us all that I present to you this tale of one man in pursuit of himself.Please accept these alchemical fruits, this allegorical offering, a tale of transmutation. The past, present and future tale of one man in the process of becoming....
Hunter: So, it's going?
DJ: Yeah, it's going. I just want to test real quick, playback.
(INAUDIBLE CROSSTALK)
Let's start at a lot of people's introduction to you was probably the 365 project. That's probably how most people started hearing about you.
Yeah, for sure.
But a lot of people that know about you because of that almost consider you like this over night success, like all of a sudden. 'Cause almost outta nowhere, because of new media like MySpace and things like that people started seeing more and more of your paintings. Hunter Spanks is...Who's this guy? He’s everywhere. His tattoos are everywhere and this and that. Explain your overnight success and how long it took to become an overnight success. Overnight success?
Um, overnight success has, I guess roughly at this point, taken about 20 years. The first machines I ever picked up were...I think I was 15. Like over the summer that I was 15, so a few months before I turned 16.
Why did you get tattoo machines?
Um, because I was washing dishes and I didn't want to wash dishes all my life.
How were you exposed to tattooing?
I got exposed to tattoo magazines and saw really good stuff and saw really bad stuff, just like today, and thought that it was like, "Wow. I think I could wrap my head around that."
How did you get a tattoo machine?
Uh, we went to the Huck Spaulding catalog and ordered some Supreme machines, ordered a liner and a shader.
So those were your first ones?
Yeah, I still have my first liner. You still have it? Yeah. I still have it. I want to get someone to rebuild it. Or maybe tinker around myself and rebuild it but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I don’t think it would even run. I look at the set-up and I think, "I actually ran this thing at one point in time like that?" And when we first got 'em, we couldn't afford a power supply so we ran it off the car battery, so like no control over speed or anything like that—just wide open.
Do you have any pictures, old pictures from that?
No, no.
Bummer.
Yeah, we didn't document enough stuff. Still to this day...
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