Matt Zingler knows a lot about curating a standout festival experience and encouraging the creativity of others. We let him speak for himself:
Inked: People know you for your work as a co-founder of Rolling Loud, but I don’t think our readers know as much about the strong connection you have to the tattoo community, so let’s start there. How did you first get into this world?
Matt Zingler: I got my first tattoo when I was 15. I got it in a garage with one of my friends off of his dad’s Playboy magazine. And it was a barcode. We each drew barcodes on each other because we could only draw straight lines.
How straight were those lines?
It didn’t really look like a barcode [laughs]. What really got me into tattoos is that I just love the look. I thought they represented a rebellious, independent style. Not a lot of people get tattooed at that age, but I had a lot of tattoos before I was 18.
