May 10, 2012

Signatures of the Soul

If you haven’t gotten to see the documentary “Signatures of the Soul”, you are missing out. Peter Fonda host this documentary that goes from Paulo Suluape to Bob Roberts and Leo Zulueta to Ed Hardy. It’s a great piece of modern tattoo history. Thank you to New Zealand On Screen for putting this up.
It’s separated into 4 clips

CAUTION, there are a few clips in this first one that could be offensive, if you are the type to get offended, or if kids are watching it. So if your kids watch this, and you don’t want them to see nudity, you might not want to watch it in front of them.

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April 23, 2012

My Interview with Krooked Ken for TAM blog, part 3

Here’s a small exert from the final part of my interview with Krooked Ken for TAM blog,

“SH- That’s hilarious. That’s tattooing, it’s awesome, like anytime you get bummed you can go back to what fundamentally matters. That’s all that matters. It’s not about doing 2020 amazing tattooing. Cutting edge changes, that’s good, it’s wonderful to do good tattoos, but don’t forget the other shit it’s about. It’s about talking and stories, carnies.

KK- Yeah that’s the other thing, I see so many tattooers, you know you’re at a booth next to somebody at a convention, and the people will look at their portfolio and you’ll over hear them say, “This guys really good” and I’ll look over waiting for the guy to be like, “Hey, how are you?” And the guy just looks up smiles and puts his head back down. I have the experience of working with people who couldn’t sell water to someone who is on fire. That’s the whole carnie aspect. “Come on in!”

I remember Eddie one time just a few years ago, I stopped in his shop. Eddie was there and this couple came in, they didn’t want to get tattooed it was the novelty, “Wouldn’t it be fun if we went in there” and Eddie was like, “We’ll put a beautiful tattoo on you, you’re already a beautiful women, probably the most beautiful woman that’s ever been in this shop, but this really would top it off.” So she got tattooed. Nobody does that anymore.”

You can read more here, at TAM blog

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