There are worse ways to spend a weekend than helping out friends at a tattoo convention – that is what I learned this weekend. I helped my friends from Modern Body Art while they furiously inked away for hours on end and I generally got to ogle the half-dressed congregation of this happy event.
I also had the pleasure of meeting several top tattooists and checking out what they were up to. Many of them let me take some video footage which is now mostly up on my Youtube page for your viewing pleasure. This includes a collaborative piece being done by Jo Harrison and Jason Butcher at the same time, work from Nick Horn, Aaron Hewitt, Jeff Ortega and several others too. If you know your artists you’ll probably be heading over to check out the footage…. just hang on a mo’, I’m not quite done.
I also decided to get tattooed again (oooh big surprise) but there wasn’t time so I had to contain the urge until I got back to Birmingham and the lovely Dawnii did a wonderful job putting my Grandmothers’ name on the back of my neck. It’s a wee bit sore right now but well worth the effort. I’ll get a picture of it up on my Myspace pics soon.
Other highlights for me were seeing a wonderful Polynesian artist at work with the whacking bamboo stick method of tattooing and this tattoo below which gave me the biggest smile of the weekend!
Use the force inklings… only seems right when Anakin did start off on Tatooine, eh?
I think I might have just had an Ubergeek moment :0)
