Tattoo Talk #35—Tattoo Shop Slashes Competition!
READ IT AND WEEP I received this announcement in the morning’s mail: XXXX TATTOO SHOP OFFERS A TWO-HOUR-FORTY FIVE-MINUTE TATTOO SESSION FOR $99 XXXXX tattoo [...]
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Tattoo TalkTattoo Talk #34—The Very Very First Tattoo
IN THE BEGINNING… At the dawn of history, a lone tribesman accidentally poked his skin with a sharp stick from his fire. The next [...]
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Tattoo Talk #33—Who Doesn’t Love Ed Hardy?
A LIFE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT In a past edition of my Daily Blog, I ran a poll, along with excerpts from a Boston Globe story [...]
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101 Tattoo Artists Who Think They’re Rock Stars
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER As you all know, elsewhere on this website is my “101 Most Influential People in the World of Tattoo” [...]
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Tattoo Travel Horror Stories
LIFE ON THE ROAD Tattoo artists travel a lot. Some, like Bob Tyrrell or Larry Brogan are, seemingly, off to some convention or celebrity [...]
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What Do Your Tattoos Mean?
BODY ART 4-1-1 Some tattoos mean specific things, others do not. A heart, for example, conveys love. Cobwebs on the elbow do not mean that you [...]
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Tattoo Talk—John F. Kennedy and the Sword Swallower
One of the most visible and famous of the tattoo industry legends was not, primarily, a tattoo artist at all. He was, instead, a [...]
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Would You Do a Tattoo Reality Show?
That’s a good question. Hey, think about it. All you have to do is live your life in the usual manner, eat Cheerios for [...]
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Tattoo Talk—Taking a Ride
Tattoo people like to travel. Artists, especially, realize, the moment they land on foreign soil, that tattooed folks are friendly, helpful and extremely accommodating. [...]
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The Best of Friends
Bob Baxter’s Tattoo Talk #26 The Tattoo Family is, I suppose, like any other family; some are like Ozzie and Harriet and David and [...]
