Black and Grey Day at Saved!
If you live anywhere near Saved Tattoo in New York, you’ll know it’s one of the best tattoo shops in the state. It’s packed full of first class tattooers, who really know their shit, such as Thomas Hooper and Stephanie Tamez. Everyone knows, though, that tattooers so good normally have long waiting lists. However, once … Read more
Review: The Woodcut Portraits, by Alex Binnie
The guys over at Kintaro Publishing were very generous and offered to send me Alex Binnie’s new book recently. Naturally, I didn’t have to think about whether to take up their offer. This new book by Alex is a series of woodcut portraits, which are absolutely beautiful and technically brilliant. You may have read about … Read more
Alex Binnie: The Woodcut Portraits
I know we’ve been a bit heavy on books lately, but there are some really cool ones out right now, a lot more than usual. This week we’ve got word of a fantastic book by tattooer Alex Binnie. Alex has been putting together woodcuts for this book, of many tattooers he’s friends with. I think … Read more
Stop Stealing Our Shit.
TattooMule.com needs its ass kicked. Today I found out that the leeches who own this “tattoo resource” (ha!) website have been stealing work from my friends at Inkslingers in Newcastle Upon Tyne, from their blog. The morons didn’t even bother to remove the watermarks. Well, I write that blog, and I make those watermarks, so … 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
The Gypsy Gentleman: Online Now!
I’m well aware that this is the second day in a row I’ve given you all a TV show to watch, but trust me when I say that this is great. Throw your TV set out of the window, you don’t need all that crap The Loser Channel tells you about tattooing- you need … Read more
Cris Cleen at Saved Full Time from September!
I saw this the other day and honestly thought I’d written about it- so, a big thanks to my pal Patrick Sullivan for reminding me about this. His blog rocks too, by the way. Anyway, Cris Cleen will be working full time at Saved Tattoo starting from September. This brings yet another incredible tattoo artist … Read more
Thomas Hooper / Doomrider shirts Available Soon!
Thomas Hooper posted on his blog this week some pictures of the t shirts and hoodies he designed for a band called Doomrider. These are for the band’s Australian tour, taking place this month. Thomas also said in his blog that there will be alternative forms of these shirts on Shirts and Destroy from … Read more
And So It Starts: Thomas Hooper and Chris O’Donnell Collaborative Piece.
Today Thomas Hooper posted a load of pictures onto his blog of a really exciting piece he’s just started with Chris O’Donnell. This is a really huge piece, which seems to go from the top of this guy’s (whose name is Ryan, according to the blog post!) shoulder blades all the way down to … Read more
Buy Stuff.
I hear it’s Black Friday in America again! From what I’ve seen, it seems to be the same as the sales we have on Boxing Day, with added mass hysteria. Shirts and Destroy are in on the Act, so you may want to check out the information on this flyer if you’ve been eyeing up … Read more
New Thomas Hooper Shirts- Coming Soon!
Thomas Hooper has been bloggin’ again. As always, he’s brought some cool news- that he has some brand new t shirts on sale, just in time for Christmas! There have been some delays, so you’ll have to wait to be able to get your hands on these. Thomas reckons on his blog that it should … Read more
Dark Days
Dark Days is the new art show featuring amazing artists such as Daniel Albrigo, Jeremiah Mandel and Thomas Hooper. It looks really awesome, and if you’re nearby, you should go! If you go on the opening day, you may be able to spot Daniel Albrigo himself, too ;) I love the amount of awesome art … Read more
Celestial Swine, by Thomas Hooper
Just a short post today I’m afraid- the good stuff will come tomorrow, I promise! This is the new print by Thomas Hooper, which will be out tomorrow. It’s $60, and I assume will be on sale on his website, right in time for my birthday on Monday ;). This is a really cool print- … Read more
Thomas Hooper iPhone 4 Cases OUT TODAY!
The new iPhone cases by Thomas Hooper have hit the internet today at I Make My Case. The new case is a Tough Case, which keeps your phone safe and provides, in Thomas’ words, “a stronger and higher quality product!”- if Thomas Hooper says so, you know this is the real deal. Choose from a … Read more
Thomas Hooper and the infinite Backpiece
Okay I lied- this isn’t infinite at all, it only took 12 sessions, which is pretty impressive when you look at the detail in this! Thomas Hooper, the artist behind this fantastic piece of work, has been kind to those who follow his blog, and put up pictures from each session so we can see … Read more
