FLASHBACK: The first year of City of Ink

I just wanted to share this video with the people "our first year of COI"...before it was a movement it was just a tattoo shop & art gallery trying to teach the masses about quality tattooing and the difference between a professional TRAINED tattoo artists, and a scratcher....the hip-hop & rap community and NBA are known are having poor quality body art...and for the record, most of the tattoos seen in this video were NOT done by us....I guess when they were filming this tattoo they wanted to only use "GHETTO" tattoos..lol but I'm thankful cheddar DVD picked us to do this video clip on...enjoy

City of Ink @ The Pool....

Today we all hooked up and met over Sophie's crib and jumped in the pool...Tone and Rasheeda were on the grills...it was a relaxing and it was good to be around COI outside of work...I hope yall enjoy!

My Dragon Backpiece.....no stencils

My 4th session with Gilbert from Delaware...thanks bruh...can't wait to finished it...I'm putting the coi fish and dradonflies in color...keep the rest in black & grey...

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PART ONE....


PART TWO....

From Mitchell St. to Walker St....Prophet Art to City of Ink

Do yall remember this???

Drew's Music Sleeve

My homeboy, Drew dropped by City of Ink yesterday for another session on his music sleeve. This brother always give me creative freedom so of course he is one of my favorite clients. Plus he is laidback and sit well for a long period of time. Alot of dudes tap out over 4 to 6 hour sessions, but he is a true soldier. Thanks bruh for letting me do my thing. The next session is on the house!

New Tattoos!

I have updated all the photo folders....new tattoos...alot of new tattoos....!!!



























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Tattooing in MIAMI.....Jan 9th-11th

January, 9th-11th, 2009
Miami Tattoo Expo
Miami Beach Convention Center
Hotel: Days Inn South Beach

I will be tattooing in Miami again...it's been a long time so it's time for my return.

The PRICES will all depend on Hotel cost, plane tickets, rental car, my booth cost for the Miami Tattoo Expo, and our tour manager.

If you would like to get tattooed by me in MIAMI please contact our road manager at www.myspace.com/cityofinkbooking

Please send him this following info:

NAME:

AGE:

EMAIL:

PHONE:

CITY:

TATTOO IDEA:

TATTOO SPENDING BUDGET:

THE DATE YOU WANT YOUR TATTOO:

www.myspace.com/cityofinkbooking
404-525-4465
1pm-10pm

PS.....I will not be able to tattoo everyone so I'm bring Sophie & Melvin with me (see their work on my TOP friends list)

ATL Tattoo Show on PBA 30

Goodtimes....The first year of City of Ink

I just wanted to share the first year of City of Ink. We hustled hard, touring in different cities to raised the money to remodel an OLD building we found in Castleberry Hill (downtown ATL). It was alot of work....but those months of building COI were priceless...Thank you, Joe, Samba, Prophet Family, the COI Staff, ATL, DC, Baltimore, Philly, Asheville, Brooklyn NY, and all the cities in between that have supported me and this movement I'm apart of.





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