Jay Brown: Coeur d’Alene’s Blue Rose Tattoo – An Interview with Robert McNeill (Part III)

Tattoo Artist Mag

by modeledzero - December 20, 2012

By Jay Brown In Northern Idaho there is the lake town of Coeur d’Alene, actually more of a city than a town. In the sea of tattooing these days, some of the old timers really shine through as great tattooers as well as incredible artists, one of those is Robert

Jay Brown: Coeur d’Alene’s Blue Rose Tattoo – An Interview with Robert McNeill (Part II)

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by modeledzero - December 13, 2012December 13, 2012

Jay Brown: Coeur d’Alene’s Blue Rose Tattoo – An Interview with Robert McNeill (Part I)

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by modeledzero - December 6, 2012December 6, 2012

Jay Brown Provides Inside Look at The Northwest Tattoo Museum

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by modeledzero - November 19, 2012

By Jay Brown The Northwest Tattoo Museum is a project that was started almost two years ago when in a conversation it was suggested that there needs to be a tattoo museum in the Northwestern US. In answer to this call myself (a longtime tattoo artist of 24 years at the

Jay Brown: ‘Coil Guys For Life’ Book Review

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by modeledzero - August 29, 2012

By Jay Brown Coil Guys For Life, Handmade Tattoo Machines and Their Builders, by Dano Collins is a compilation of 34 tattoo machine builders and their stories, or bios if you prefer, their art, their tattooing and of course their tattoo machines. This hardbound book covers a wide array of machine

Jay Brown: Fred Marquand – The Story of an Unknown Northwest Tattooer

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by modeledzero - April 3, 2012

By Jay Brown Fred Marquand is not a name that you first associate with old-school tattooers. Most think of Waters, Zeis, Jensen, Rogers, Wagner, Barber, Moore, Tuttle, Bowery Stan Moscowitz and his brother Walter (their father was a tattooist as well), Crazy Philadelphia Eddie and the like, but the name Marquand

Jay Brown: The Rosini Award and The Ink Travelers Tattoo Convention

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by modeledzero - February 15, 2012February 15, 2012

By Jay Brown Every tattooer says, “I wanna tattoo till the day I die!” But only a few have done it, and only one that I know of has actually tattooed the day he died at a tattoo convention. To honor this man an award was created, and now 10 years

Jay Brown: Mi Vida Loca – The Life & Times of Crazy Philadelphia Eddie Vol. 4 (Pre-Order Available Now)

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by modeledzero - February 8, 2012February 13, 2012

By Jay Brown Well, the story continues and the history jumps off of the pages as Eddie tells of his life and adventures in the tattoo world. This next issue starts off where the last one left off, and I even heard that some of the stories from the earlier books

Jay Brown: 28 Machine Builders Part IV of IV

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by modeledzero - December 29, 2011December 29, 2011

By Jay Brown As a machine builder these are some of the things I look for in a machine. And I am not saying that this is it, the gospel, this is just the way I look at it. So the other day I thought to myself, "Man, this would make

Jay Brown: 28 Machine Builders Part III of IV

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by modeledzero - December 22, 2011December 22, 2011

Jay Brown: 28 Machine Builders Part II of IV

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by modeledzero - December 15, 2011

Jay Brown: 28 Machine Builders Part I of IV

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by modeledzero - December 8, 2011

By Jay Brown The tattoo machine has been around for 135 years now, the first stencil pen by Thomas Edison was used by tattooers. Then in 1891 Samuel O’Reily came up with his version of the tattoo machine and then it has just evolved from there. The odd thing is, the

Jay Brown: 25 Years of Tattoo Business Cards

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by modeledzero - October 19, 2011October 19, 2011

By Jay Brown In tattooing a good business card can be as important as a tattoo machine. Business cards for tattoo artists represent who they are and the work they do. It's a two-by-three inch advertising wonder, as in any professional trade, our business cards can say a lot about the

Jay Brown: The Life and Times of ‘Crazy’ Philadelphia Eddie

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by modeledzero - September 14, 2011September 14, 2011

By Jay Brown Crazy Philadelphia Eddie paved the way for tattooers today and his career spans almost six decades. He tattooed in New York, Hawaii, Chicago and Philadelphia where he spent 40 years tattooing. Eddie has seen the changes from the sponge-and-bucket days to the dawn of the sterilization era and