Sean: What piercers do you look up to, and
why?
Julian: There are a lot of piercers I admire and
look up to, too many to name, but I’ll name a
few. Of course, if we start at the beginning, all
respects are due to the pioneers who helped
to create this industry, like Jim Ward and Fakir
Musafar. When I was starting out, my piercer
heroes were guys like Kristian White and Blake
Perlingieri from the original Nomad in San
Francisco. Those guys were like piercing Gods
to me and I still have loads of respect
for them today.
My greatest and longest mainstay of piercing
respect of all time has to go to my brother, Dana
Dinius. He has been there since the beginning
of my career and has been a true friend and
source of inspiration for me. His work, employment record, and contributions of service to the
APP speak for itself, but more than that, it is
the warm and wise content of his character that
make him my number one. He is the one guy
whose counsel I seek first. Dana has always
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