Roc Morin

Roc Morin

  • Breast Cancer Survivors Find the Michelangelo of Nipple Tattoos

    For all of medicine’s advances, the best option for areola reconstruction after surgery is tattooing. And in the field of cosmetic tattooing, Vinnie Myers’ trompe-l’oeil “areola portraits,” as he calls them, are widely regarded as the best that money...

  • Nate Hill and Death Bear Revisited

    “Treat that box of fish guts like a lady,” Nate Hill warned the festive crowd. The way he towered over everyone had me checking for a box under his feet. There wasn’t any. He’s just that tall. The 36-year-old NYC-based artist wore his trademark milkman...

  • Development’s Debris: China’s Secret Battlefields

    China’s cities are strewn with hidden rubble fields, vast apocalyptic landscapes that terminate abruptly at the thresholds of bustling neighborhoods. The skeletons of houses show what once existed there. Onlookers say it resembles the aftermath of a...

  • In Pursuit of the Four-Month-Long Orgasm: Getting Off with OneTaste Orgasmic Meditation

    I am surrounded by 50 strangers—half of them females naked from the waist down, legs butterflied open. I glance back at the face of the woman I’m intertwined with. Her eyes are closed. We just met. I think her name is Amy. I hear a voice above me...

  • Meet Carl Tanner: Bounty Hunter, Trucker, Operatic Tenor

    He packed a sawed-off shotgun back in his bounty hunting days and carried it right out in front so everyone could see. Under his black leather jacket was a 9mm Beretta, and on his ankle a .25, just in case. “I was in my late 20s,” Carl Tanner began. He...

  • The Frenzied Conspiracy Theories of Jeff Boss

    Jeff was wallpapering Times Square with big photocopied broadsides when I first met him. He was clutching one that read: “JEFF BOSS WITNESSED THE NSA ARRANGE 911.” He saw me watching him. “Do you work for the NSA?” he asked.

  • Me and My North Korean Minder, Ms. Song

    “Gunfire and the sounds of revolutionary struggle were his lullaby,” proclaimed the beautiful Ms. Song (not her real name). She was one of the official monitors assigned to accompany me throughout my stay in North Korea. The government selects only the...