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Dream Tattoo Shops

Just for the fuck of it, lets do all our dream tattoo shops. 6 guys tops in the shop. You can try to be versatile or just fuck it and stick to one style. Who cares. If you came up with a name you get extra gayness points. What it looks like, good, even gayer.

Ok. My dream shop would be called

Chuck Norrises Deadly Roundhouse Kick Tattoo Parlour

Line up

Theo Jak (www.infamousstudio.com)

The man is like a a punk rock superreligion hero. Enigmatic but stable. Hired freek. Good man in other words.

Theo Mindell (www.spidermurphystattoo.com)

Lady's would love his long haired ass. And hes the future of tattooing.

JK5 aka Joseph Ari Aloi (www.jk5nyc.com)

People want shit written in their bodies. Might as well make them look cool...

Kore Flatmo (www.plurabella.com)

Japanese or portraits. Egg, fish, cow.

Eli Quinters (www.tattoosfortheunloved.com)

I do believe that man is the beelzeboobs.

Grime (www.grimemonster.com)

Just bumped into this guy. Looks ok. Ill give him a change.

I think it would be a good solid shop. Couple of youngers guys in there so they can be the future big names and then there is big names. But not really any "rock stars". I just feel they would work well together.

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Permalink Reply by Valley of Bones on July 22, 2008 at 6:58pm: This is incredibly difficult, but here goes.

I would, of course, have to have the first three artists be ones I want to get my first tattoos from:

Russ Abbott to take care of the illustrative and traditional Americana.
Sean Herman to do whatever one would call his style :-).
Tim Orth to do all of his realistic pinup wonders.

As for others:
For Japanese style, I'd go for Shige at yellow blaze.
For more feminine work (and a lot more than that), I'd bring in Miss Nico.
To educate the masses about how amazing tribal and blackwork can look, Daniel DiMattia.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marisa_DiMattia on July 23, 2008 at 1:45am: aw shucks. thanks for adding dan to that!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Valley of Bones on July 28, 2008 at 11:15pm: Well, I was going for a well-rounded crew and love his style and intricate designs. Plus, it would be great to have internet tattoo blogger extraordinaire hanging around for legal advice :-). Always an added bonus.

SInce it is my dream, Michelle and I would hang out to answer phones and watch all the art go down.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris aka Creepinbean on July 22, 2008 at 11:06pm: Well for me im all about the japanese style so i would go with of course the Master himself horiyoshi III. Another dream shop would be state of grace Horitaka and Horitomo are 2 very talented artist. And for color i would go to Troy Lane who works in AAA Tattoo.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marisa_DiMattia on July 23, 2008 at 1:49am: My dream shop would be one where I didnt have to upload photos and update the website, write emails for Francophones that involved complicated English, could be left alone for over a month so we could travel around Asia, and where young girls stopped flirting with the artists to scam cheaper tattoos. ;); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pyrrhus Darwin Castello on July 23, 2008 at 4:51am: I know that I would also have picked the likes of Horiyoshi III, but I just think that they work best alone :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Father of Roses on July 24, 2008 at 12:38am: I don't know what I'd call it, but I'd have this japanese guy named Genko? working there. That dude is bad, bad, bad assed....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Erin on July 26, 2008 at 11:18pm: I know a guy who is getting his chest and stomach tattooed by Genko.
He is an amazing artist!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pyrrhus Darwin Castello on August 1, 2008 at 1:19pm: Hmmmm. Quest artists. (im drunk and no I don't go out). I think I would like to keep it relatively close to the theme of the shop, so I will look for artists that are close to that style/s but still little something something. I will only pick 6 quests.

Rudy Fritsch (www.originalclassictattoo.com)

Gentleman turns all tattooers in to Gideons. Fritsch tattoo in every portfolio! Praise on the.

Electrick Pick (www.electricpick.com)

The penguin laughed in a distance below me.

I felt the steely numbing crip of that metal beast holding me. Slowly it took my pants off. It started to suck it. I bit the allways erect nipple and my teeth crackeld like kellogs rice krispies in the hand on a infant. A strong infant.

It put me down and I saw that penguin again. I hit it. Hard! Harder than I should have. But it had to pay.

And the steely sun rises again...

Scott Sylvia (www.blackhearttattoosf.com)

This IS a tattoo shop afterall.

Dave Fox (www.evilballs.com)

We could listen to Borknagar and salute the olden gods!! None better. HAIL!!

Cory Kruger (www.krugertattoos.com)

Im blind!

Wido de Marval (www.widodemarval.com)

Have you seen that Uzushio in that mans belly with the kois??! It's like, maaan you did a cool Uzushio! Traditional and what not.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pyrrhus Darwin Castello on August 1, 2008 at 1:40pm: Why dont tattoo shops get some midgets? They could bless people for 10$

Well, my shop has a midget :D

Then my place would have all the old school guys up on the walls. Cap Coleman. Joe Lieber, Paul Rogers etc. Then underneath the picture some history info and shit. I wouldnt mind having them done as paintings, like Krooked and Timmy Tats are doing! Would RULE.

(By Timmy)

Then it would be big enough place to host events. Like tattoo history panels, maybe flash painting ins and outs done by the masters who are still around. They could teach all the young artists (and why not old) who want to learn more.

So kinda mix between Theo Jack's Infamous

Electric Tattoo in NJ

& Skull & Sword; ▶ Reply to This