Advice for Beginning Tattooers, by Jason Lambert
Above tattoo is by Jason Lambert… duh. Today this has been doing the rounds on my Facebook news feed. A lot of the time, people post up boring crap on Facebook that I think is lame, but this time it’s something cool, so I’d be stupid not to encourage it. Jason Lambert’s blog is pretty … Read more
Untrue Shit I hear about Tattooing.
We’re at a time now, where everyone with access to Google is an expert, and everyone who can (or a lot of the time can’t) string a sentence together can make a lot of money from pretty much anything. This is no different around tattooing, and I see a lot of people who don’t really … Read more
Check out Beyond the Ink!
Over the week I received a lovely message from Mark Newman (whose work you should see!) about a fairly new project called Beyond the Ink. I’d seen this around before, though I didn’t really know enough about it before to really comment, so it’s a good thing Mark pointed it out to me again! … Read more
Stop letting crap Conventions Rip you off.
Header picture is from the Brighton Tattoo Convention, which is definitely not shit, haha. You know what? I’m irritated today. What’s new, right? Haha, really though: yesterday I saw yet another shite ‘tattoo convention’ run by a couple of thick arseholes who don’t have a clue what a tattoo convention is. I’m pretty annoyed. Up … Read more
Tattoos at Work: Some Hopefully Helpful Tips!
I was walking home from work today, wondering what I wanted to write about for you all, and I thought to myself, “hey, let’s talk about work!”. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with facts about empathy and calming angry people down, I want to talk to you about your tattoos instead. I … Read more
No, Tattoos Don’t Give you Cancer.
I think this may be more of a rant than a post. Ah, the Daily Mail. I loathe you. And I loathe that people see crap you’ve written and worry about it, even though that’s basically the point in mainstream ‘journalism’. If you haven’t already seen this, there’s a new article from the Daily Mail … Read more
Phil Kyle: “Destroy the Circus”.
Today, I was going to talk about the new Grime episode of Tattoo Age that came out, but everyone keeps sending me this link today so I’ll talk about Grime tomorrow for you all. On one of my favourite blogs, the Tattoo Artist Magazine blog, Phil Kyle pretty much let rip today. Not in a … Read more
Iguana Fingers.
Sorry everyone, I am very busy today and therefore can’t update the blog properly. I’ll be back tomorrow, promise. Instead, here are Shawn Porter’s fingers, haha. Shawn has a great tattoo blog called Occult Vibrations that you need to check out. Shawn was tattooed on his palms by Thomas Hooper recently, and the tattoo is … Read more
Dues Paid.
After everything that’s happened in the last month or so with TLC’s stupid show about “tattoo schools”, I’m really happy to be able to tell you all some good did actually come out of the whole thing. Personally, I’d have preferred the show to have never come out at all, and was just as outraged … Read more
Careers and The Tattooed: My Hard work put to some Use.
I’ve been playing with Issuu.com again. This year, I put my mountains of tattoo books through some rigorous abuse, and used them to write my university dissertation for Advice, Guidance and Counselling. For the research, I focused in on careers counselling and those with tattoos. Now I’m done with university, and I have my degree, … Read more
Why it’s Important to keep your Appointment.
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot from my friends in studios about how their customers haven’t been showing up for appointments. I don’t know why it’s been happening so much over the past couple of weeks, maybe there’s something in the water. Anyway, why not use our last post of the week to remind you … Read more
So, You Watched Tattoo School….
Last night (or perhaps tonight, according to where you are? Time zones are confusing sometimes), TLC went ahead with their terrible show, Tattoo School. I’m assuming many a wannabe tattooer who’s watched it will be looking up Tattoo Schools online, so hopefully some of them will find this website, and learn a little about why … Read more
Guest Spots: Where to Find ‘em, How to Book ‘em.
Tattooers’ guest spots are awesome. For tattoo artists, it gives them a chance to go around the world, see the sights, and learn about tattooing in another country. For the rest of us, it means having a chance to be tattooed by someone you may not usually have the chance to visit, and get … Read more
Learn How To Draw.
Today I found an email from Guy Aitchison’s newsletter, from Tattoo Education. The email is for Chris Lowe’s new DVD- I’ll tell you all about that in a second, but first something caught my eye in this email. There are so many “rock star tattooers” out there who don’t realise that they need to … Read more
Food For Thought.
I found something while perusing TattooSnob.com today from David Bruehl which I think you’ll all find pretty interesting! In his recent blog post, David has been considering nutrition, and how it can have an effect on not only how well you can sit for a tattoo, but how it may heal afterwards. He’s basically … Read more
