Kevin Campbell

Oh and as far as thinking anybody is a moron for using the term "industry" when referring to tattooing, that is far from the case. I guess when I hear it referred to as the "industry", it just reminds me of all the people making money off of tattooing that aren't tattooers. So if I did any damage to actual tattooers, then I apologize. All the industry men can go suck a fuck.

I think the next time, I just wont let somebody with 6000 followers on instagram take a picture of it. Stupid fucking internet.

Or what about Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon? Geez. I don't see him up in front of a firing squad.

I'm pretty pumped to finish this thing.

The greatest thing is, she just came back today to ask about finishing it. She was totally stoked on it, and was wondering about me doing some tip shading and bolding up the lines. She was so pumped on it, and wasn't sure if she should add more because she liked it so much how it was. I just told her that if we fancy it up a bit, she'll be even more stoked. I love making people happy, what an added bonus to an already awesome job I have!

I'm cool with you expressing your opinion, but when it comes to implying that I am a dick, I don't feel like your opinion deserves an intelligent and insightful response at that point. It just puts me in a sour mood, and I no longer feel like I owe anybody an explanation if sideways personal attacks are going to get in the middle of it. I would have loved to have given you an insightful response, but I'm over it. Good luck to you as well.

The whole "straight drug dealer attitude" you speak of is pretty much how we were taught working at a street shop in the middle of a brutal assed gang neighborhood, where ghetto birds and gunshots were the norm on most weekends. I'm sure some of the rest of the guys who I worked with back in the day at Big Daddy's have some shitkicker tales that would come off sounding way gnarlier than this story. Sadly, they are involved in this forum, so I can't really tell their stories here, but look, bro. If someone comes in and wants "fuck the cops" tattooed on their forehead, back then we would turn them away. And since we were the only shop in the area, they would be back the next day, cash in hand. And they sure as fuck got their "fuck the cops" tattoo right smack dab across their noggin. If I turn somebody away now, there's a shop on every fucking corner a la starbucks, and they'll probably do the same quality of work for the same fucking price. Rent isn't cheap around here, and if a shop isn't making money, they wont exist. My job is to make money, and if you want to call it a drug dealer mentality, then so be it. As far as "sensationalizing the craft"??? Where the fuck have you been for the past 5 years? Have you turned on your fucking tv set? Fucking Animal Planet has a fucking tattoo show, for fucks sake. That's fucking laughable, saying that this shit "sensationalizes the craft". The craft has done been sensationalized, bro.

Cool. Sorry to hurt "the industry".

And calling me a total dick when you don't even know me is pretty lame, btw. I don't know who you have problems with at the shop or why, but I don't know you. You don't know me. Name calling on the Internet is chickenshit. In case you haven't noticed, vice magazine has a really good way with making people sound like assholes. The stuff I said was back and forth between myself and the writer through emails, without me knowing that it would be later be used in an interview. She contacted me to see of she could get in touch with the lady I tattooed, and ended up putting all my responses in interview form, which I suppose I should have read over prior to giving her permission to use it. But in the end, I'm not apologizing for doing my fucking job. And as far as "making everybody look bad"? To who? Explain who I made look bad here, other than myself.

Or is this a question of whether or not this is good publicity for tattooing in general? Because as far as that goes, well...I'm not even going to touch that one.

Nope, not regretting doing it. My job is to tattoo people. End of story.

Yeah, I explained to her that she won't be able to get a job, I told her that her forehead was a terrible idea, I suggested she get it on her arm, she said she didn't have any room. Cool, so I guess I should have turned her away so the shop next door could do it, and then you guys would have another asshole to be pissed at. When she comes back in a week to finish it, after that, I'm done tattooing peoples faces. Let all the other shops in the neighborhood get all the business. What do you mean by "purposefully fucking somebody up"? It was her purpose, not mine. I didn't track her down, tell her "yo, get Drake tattooed on your face". It's my job to give people the tattoos that they want. That's my job.

Yep. I'm on this forum. No, it's probably not all that good of publicity, and it wasn't meant to be a publicity stunt. I just do the tattoos people want, man.

I just finished watching it, and I totally noticed the same thing...I thought it might just be a facial twitch or something.

Peter Shackman is now officially my favorite dude on the entire planet for this.

I bought some in hollywood that shit's the business!

Strategy and lucky letters... My vocabulary is akin to that of an 8 year old. You'll have your time in the sun, don't worry.