Jimbo phillips bio
Jimbo phillips bio
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Artist Jimbo Phillips, 43, keeps a jar of hot peppers outside of his studio on Santa Cruz's east side. It's the price of admission: anyone who wants to enter has to eat a pepper first.
"They're in the juice, you know, so you gotta like, reach in," Phillips said, laughing as he remembers a tradition that dates back to his youth.
Mandatory hot pepper consumption (wax peppers, usually; hotter than your average pepperoncini) isn't the only thing Jimbo's father, and the father of surreal skateboard art, Jim Phillips, passed down to his son.
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