Flash Your Tattoo

Jess Yen is an award winning artist on both the international and national level.  He is well known for his realistic portraits and elaborate and intricate body suits.  He is equally famous for his black and grey as much as he is for his color work.  He is recognized as a master of New School Oriental art style.  Jess was raised in Taiwan but is currently living in the U.S. He’s been tattooing for over 16 years and is currently so in demand that he is booking 2 years in advance.    (continue reading…)

The Marines are looking for a few good men – minus the tattoos.  Not only has this military branch laid out strict guidelines for interested future marines and soldiers currently serving, they also feel their guidelines will help with any future career plans a marine might pursue once he’s out of the marines. Their view is excessive tattoos detract from the professional appearance that people expect of a Marine.  Although the Marines have had a fairly strict policy in place, Sgt. Maj. Carlton W. Kent stated that they realized more guidance was necessary to clear up questions about the existing policy. Sounds a bit bureaucratic. (continue reading…)

I really wrote about an icon in the tattoo industry, Shanghi Kate, also known as the grandmother of tattoos.  She is a talented and respected tattoo sixty six year old artist that recently had a bad fall resulting in a shattered leg.  She has been tattooing since 1971 and has tattooed celebrities such as Howard Stern, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Jackdaw, David LaChapelle, Casey Affleck, during her career.  I just wanted to bring some attention to the fund raiser started to help Kate pay her crazy expensive health bills.  (continue reading…)

Tattoos are truly becoming accepted in all walks of society.  My hubby and I are chilling, watching the Vancouver Olympic women’s bobsled competition.  The announcers like to fill you in on cute and interesting personal stories about whoever is competing at the time.   Canadian bobsled driver, Kaillie Humphries,  was only twelve years old when she posed a challenge to her family.  If she ever made it on an Olympic team, her family had to get matching tattoos.   Even at that young age Kaillie was jonesing for some skin art.  (continue reading…)

Don’t you hate it when someone is not only lucky to have one talent but these lucky ones have 2 or more talents that the rest of us regular folk drool and envy over. Chris Garcia is one of those people. Not only has the man proven himself as a talented tattoo artist, his original career was spent working on the space program for NASA. His life began in the Philippines were his pursuit of an apprenticeship ended in failure – but as fate would have it – his family eventually landed in Virginia. Chris’s tattooing career began in earnest. You can see from these two examples of his work, that Chris has a knack for realism and portrait work – probably the most difficult of styles. The ironic and sad thing is Garcia has a heart condition that prevents him from being tattooed. (continue reading…)

Have you ever heard of the opinion that people should not be allowed to have children unless they were prequalified?  Pass some type of “common sense” test that could determine if you have the brain capacity to care for another human life without fucking it up.  Now we can expand on that to testing the friends of the potential parent.  A twenty year old Louisville man by the name of Lee M. Derrick decided it was a great idea to place a tattoo on the rear end of a poor one year old kid that was visiting his home. Authorities have charged Derrick with a felony child endangering charge which means he is facing up to five years in the big house.  I can almost guarantee he won’t get jail time but maybe this will illustrate to other morons out there that tattooing a toddler is not the best idea. (continue reading…)