The problem with scratchers.
I had wanted to be a tattoo artist since I was about 12 years old. Other kids wanted to be fireman or pro wrestlers or Batman, I liked to draw on myself and chewed copious amounts of Bazooka Joe gum...
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Cigar City Convention Next Month
The cigar city tattoo convention is scheduled for Jan. 8th-11th in Tampa Florida. Some attending artists whose work I’m familiar with include Tom Depriest; Tony Olivas; Cool Aid; and the fucking...
View ArticleWhat tattooing’s taught me.
Growing up in the South, I haven’t had what one could call the most tolerant of upbringings. My tattoos had managed to get quite the unsolicited response from some of my older relatives at family...
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On inflation
The economy’s in the shit. Interest rates are as low as they can go and just as soon as OPEC can get their shit together inflation’s gonna hit like gangbusters. As the price of everything from a...
View ArticleTattooer or artist?
Words are a motherfucker, y’know? You ever get a chance to think about the connotation of a word or phrase and it will seriously fuck you up. Hell, George Carlin had a career based on this very thing...
View ArticleCoverups
So you’ve gone and done it. You got your fiance’s name on your wrist to show how much you love him. Only problem is, once you showed him, he told you how much he really despised tattoos and he broke...
View ArticleGood Tattooers
Anyone who’s been paying attention for then last fifteen years or so knows who Paul Booth and Guy Aitchison are. People who follow the industry at all should know names like Filip Leu, Tom Renshaw,...
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