who the first black tattoo artist is, they don’t
know anything. They
don’t know who the
first five black tattoo
artists were, they just
want to tattoo. I think
the lack of knowledge
about the history keeps
them behind too.
Have you thought
about doing other
films and/or documentaries?
That wasn’t even our
first film. A lot of people consider that our
first film. We have like
three or four filmmakers in our camp. So we have other films under our belt, we just released
them independently. We make more money putting it out on our own. A lot of
people get caught up and ask us how come we didn’t put it on Netflix. The
same money Netflix would have offered us is the same money we made
the first week on our own. And we still own the rights to it. We can market
it and drop it again anytime we want to. We just released the Dripping Star
website (www.drippingstartv.com). You get unlimited access to the raw stuff,
not any of the stuff we put on YouTube. You can see all the footage because
everybody wanted a sequel but they hadn’t even seen all the footage we
had. So what we’re doing is releasing the raw uncut interviews of every artist that’s in the film. The interviews are like an hour to two hours long each.
Each interview is almost the same length as the film. We think we’re going
to release Twig Sparks’ interview this week (currently posted on drippingstartv.com). You can see it in its entirety; you can see his whole entire interview from beginning to end. From me going to his house, his personal art
collection…everything. It’s all there and it’s raw. You’ll see Zulu’s interview.
It’s just raw and uncut so people get to see the pureness of each artist. The
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