Some EST. In the Skin - Jay Langer

Artist Jay Langer just sent us these great looking shots of some work he's been doing using our new Established pigments. The proof is in the skin, this work looks great. Jay can be found at the Ink Factory Tattoo in WI.

Quick and Painless

This fall our friends from the Hope Gallery along with the Baroness, To Die For and Pulse International put on a really cool event entitled "Quick and Painful". They had flash designed for the event from a slew of amazing contemporary artists and designers including, Alex Pardee, Amanda Visell, Brandt Peters, Camilla D’Errico, David Horvath, Devilrobots, Frank Kozik, Greg “Craola” Simkins, Huck Gee, Joe Ledbetter, Junko Mizuno, Kathie Olivas, Pete Fowler, Ron English, Sam Flores, Shawn “Shawnimals” Smith, TADO, Tara McPherson, and Tokidoki co-founder and Creative Director Simone Legno.They then hosted the show in Los Angeles, Chicago, New Haven, and Miami. At each stop along the way the gallery packed in a ton of talented tattoo artists, including, Dan Smith, Jennifer Trok, Heath Rave, Sean Adams, Patrick Cornolo, Jime Litwalk, Tim Harris, Phil Young, Julio Rodriguez, Scott White, Christian Perez, Eric Merrill, and Joe Capobianco. These artists did tattoos from the flash on a first come first serve basis at just $40 each!
Every venue was a sell out with lines around the block to get these collector tattoos. The limited edition flash sets from the shows are still available through the Hope Gallery.We were happy to be a sponsor of such cool events with such creative people. Sometimes it's good for the soul to sponsor events like this. Thanks to everyone who came out and to the other sponsors for making this event happen.

Quick and Painful from The Beast Brothers on Vimeo.

Gunnar Visits Pulse...

Gunnar came by to see us, and for those of you who haven't heard, he's all about spreading a new positive message with hopes of being part of the solution. He's got the right idea and it was a refreshing change to talk to someone who genuinely would like see some positive changes in our industry, and is starting with himself to help make them. Thanks for the breath of fresh air Gunnar!

While he was here...He spent some quality time with Brett and picked up some of our all new Established inks.

He even found some time to finish Katie's leg. That's a beauty!

Check out Gunnar and his new campaign for positivity...
On Twitter
On the TAM Blog
And on his website

Jime Litwalk Strikes Again

Our good friend Jime Litwalk was just in town for the Paradise Tattoo Gathering (coverage coming soon) and he hung out with us here at Pulse for a couple days. Our own Katie got herself all kind of tattooed up by Jime. The piece was based on Tim Burton Poem called "Voodoo Girl", and I think they cooked up a great interpretation.

"Her skin is white cloth,

and she's all sewn apart

and she has many colored pins

sticking out of her heart.
She has many different zombies

who are deeply in her trance.

She even has a zombie

who was originally from France.

But she knows she has a curse on her,

a curse she cannot win.

For if someone gets

too close to her,
the pins stick farther in."