Milan and Venice were awesome!

the convention was completely packed with tattoo-hungry people from all over the world and amazing artists. The language barier took a while to get used to but for the most part, everything ran smoothly. Milan was beautiful but Venice was defnintely the icing on the cake. While riding in the boat taxi to the airport back home I couldnt stop thinking about how lucky we all were to be in such a surreal and incredible place (thanks michelle!). heres a few photos from the convention and venice :

Thanks to Google Alerts for this little interview with Big Steve on 24KMilkcrate.com Steve talks about his illustrious start at Fun City Tattoo and what inspires him to be a tattoo artist.

How did you get your start in the ink business?

Well I was working here (Fun City Tattoos)  the owner Johnathan Shaw came in one day and basically fired everybody and told me to sink or swim. And I only did 5 tattoos at that point. So I went from doing 5 tattoos to doing tattoos 7 days a week.

Before that what got you into tattooing?

I used to draw all over myself. But really I didn’t want to go to school. I didn’t want to deal with bullshit. Tattooing seemed like the only job I can be a degenerate at and still make money....

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Daredevil and Fun City have counted many vegan tattoo artist as part of our ranks and love to see a shout out from such a cool lady in support of furry and feathered friends.