A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Things to come..

I mentioned last week that I was working on a video interview series. We’ve filmed 6 video interviews so far and those are sitting on the video editing box as we speak. This is a quick snapshot that I took from my camera on my laptop. Our first interview is with Trevor McStay. He flew all the way from Australia to tattoo me and get interviewed. We then followed him up to the San Jose Tattoo Convention where we were lucky enough to get to do interviews with Bugs, Henning Jørgensen, Mike Rubendall, Jeff Croci and other amazing tattooers. I look forward to posting these video interviews and if you’ve got other amazing artists you’d like to see interviewed, please post their names in the comments section.

Quick Photo

Comments

28 responses to “Things to come..”

  1. calvin&hobbes Avatar
    calvin&hobbes

    how about shige or horiyoshi III?

  2. The Dude Avatar
    The Dude

    Tim Biedron
    Jason Vaughn
    Thomas Hooper
    David Allen
    Katie Sellergren
    Tim Hendricks

    And post a pic of this new tattoo Trevor gave ya!

  3. werwolf Avatar
    werwolf

    claus fuhrmann and siri.

  4. soeppel Avatar
    soeppel

    jesse smith

  5. fort Lauderdale Tattoo Shop Avatar

    This is some amazing work and technique I really enjoyed the posting please keep up the good work

  6. Ikon Avatar

    +1 Jesse Smith

  7. jake Avatar
    jake

    i just like to see pics of the attractive lady above.

  8. doitagain Avatar

    Trevor took my skin virginity. Top bloke.

  9. Seraphynae Avatar
    Seraphynae

    I would love to see an interview with Paco Dietz from Graven Image 🙂

  10. Rowan Avatar
    Rowan

    Colin Dale
    Laura Satana
    Saira Hunjan
    Jill Bonny (Horiyuki)

  11. abri Avatar
    abri

    jesse smith!!!

  12. Cunningham Avatar
    Cunningham

    Jesse Smith

  13. John Avatar
    John

    Jeff Gogue
    Derek Noble

  14. xwinterhalox Avatar

    -Jeff Ensminger and Nick Baxter – Austin TX (They’re pretty good friends and both live in Austin, so you could probably do both at once)
    -Nate Beavers – Houston TX
    -Sarah Peacock – Wilmington NC
    -Craig Driscoll – San Diego CA (He was on IAM under the name fivetwo, not sure if he still is)
    -Mike Devrise

  15. arcadetoken Avatar

    Marc from swastika freakshop!

  16. jonny Avatar
    jonny

    thomas hooper

  17. Kendra Avatar
    Kendra

    San Jose? I thought BME was run out of Canada. When did you guys become local?

  18. Craig Avatar
    Craig

    mike devrise
    nick baxter
    guy atchison
    denis prevost
    jesse smith

  19. larry Avatar
    larry

    emilio gonzalez out of mithos in venezuela

  20. Guilt of Eve Avatar

    Juan Salgado (Underskin Tattoo Corp., Puerto Rico), Zsolt Sarkozi (Dark Art, Hungary) Erik Diaz (Asylum Studios, NYC) to list just a few!

  21. KURENAI Avatar
    KURENAI

    It be nice if Mehdi Le Mair (Bunker Tattoo) would finally be put in the spotlight. There aren’t many artist that make such amazing japanese tattoo art, and a lot of well known (and here mentioned) artist look up to this guy.

    Also; Thomas Kynst.

  22. Misslane13 Avatar
    Misslane13

    Juan Salgado. Underskin tattoo, Puerto Rico!

  23. Gappy Avatar
    Gappy

    i got myself a sleeve by trevor.. a true professional!

  24. skindeeplove Avatar

    http://www.rinto.nl from holland
    steve byrne
    scott sylvia

  25. P.moz Avatar
    P.moz

    Marc @ Swastika freakshop!

    Chai @ Calm bodymod!

    When can we expect to watch the interviews?? *can’t wait*

  26. nubg33k Avatar
    nubg33k

    you are gorgeous.

  27. alicegory Avatar
    alicegory

    Marc from SF!

    and there is a great local artist named Carrie Davini from Evermore Gallery!

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