My Family, My Wonderfull Wife Gillian, My baby Girl Ryleigh, Working with my son Jason, Art, Tattoo Machines, Camping, Hiking, and a little Golf Now And Then!
Music
Always! to many to list! Clasic Rock, Alternative, Industral, Some Punk, Heavy Metal.
Movies
The Secret, What the bleep do we know?, 300, Platoon, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Up in Smoke, Badlands, Dogma, Dusk Till Dawn, Zeitgeist the Movie, Woodstock, The Doors, The list could go on forever...
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Television
The weather chanel, History Chanel, Discovery Chanel and Nogin for my Rye Rye!
Books
Anything Instructional! How to's are Awsome! Most anything Tattoo related.
Heroes
Benjamin Franklin (for inventing Electricity).
Thomas Edison(for inventing the electric engraver).
Samuel O'Reilly(for turning it into the Tattoo Machine).
Allen Falkner (for his work with Body suspensions).
And Dr. Timothy Leary (for Expanding our Minds).
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Tattoos By Jimmy
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I Began Tattooing as A self taught artist In the Late 70’s became proficient at it, and decided I might like to do this for a living,
So, After working on people for a number of years, I took an apprenticeship from Steven (Tiny) Carney @ Shanghai Lil's tattoo, MO, whom apprenticed under Burt Grim him self,
(No, unfortunately, I never got a chance to meet Burt before he died) I Also Apprenticed under Debbie Gerard as a body piercer.
Sense then iv worked for and/or managed many tattoo shops such as; Captains cabin, FL, my good friend Shona Furlough @ Adventurous Art Tattoo, FL,
Mike Piperato @ Images in Ink, NJ, Ernie Caraffa @ Tattoo City, NJ. Pit @ Blood Sweat and Ink, NJ. George Moralas @ First Class Tattoo, NJ.
Opened My own Shop in 2000 Electric Blue Tattoo And Body Piercing, Bel-Alton, MD.
Sold the shop in November 06, and went to work for Studio One-Eleven Tattoo Company on Hilton Head Island, SC. Un-Named Person @ Five Points Custom Tattoo, Columbia, SC. And Un-Named Person again @ Five Aces Custom Tattoo, Sumter SC. Un-Named Person again @ Five Aces Custom Piercing Sumter SC. Jeff Bowen @ Ink Spot Tattoo, Sumter SC. And now once again working with my Buddy Shona @ Adventurous Art Tattoo & Body Piercing; 3526 Ashville Hwy, Pisgah Forest, North Carolina!(828)884-2500
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Im currently South Carolina State Certified In CPR, First Aid, Infection Control & Blood Borne Pathogens for Body Piercing and Tattooing.
..............What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been!..........
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Im Just a hard working Tattoo Artist/Body Piercer with about 26 years experience Tattooing, and 18 years Piercing.
I do it all, from fine line to bold, black and gray to full color blending, portraits to kanji, you pick it, ill stick it! Im fast, freindly, SOBER and SAFE!!!
My DISLIKES; Posser tattooers that rip off the public by presenting themselves as an Artist! "5Branders" Oh,........ and of corse PIERCING GUNS!!!
jimmy!!!!! i cannot wait till i get my money straight again cause i have found my lower back piecce and i want you to do it. so as soon as i get the money and everything together i am going to make a tip down to see you and gill and the lil one! and i am hoping that by that time tim will have the exact picture of his dads tattoo for you to recreate for him! cause you are the only one that he trust to do his tattoo!