Get Digital DVD from Mike DeVries

Get Digital is the new 2 Dvd set of photoshop instruction from tattoo artists Mike DeVries and Jamie Parker. I just finished watching them and as someone who uses photoshop on the regular, I can say they do a great job of focusing on the things they use on a daily basis in the tattoo shop. They gloss over the tools they don't use very often and delve deep into the tools they do use. See how they create one of a kind reference from photos and artwork. The quality is top notch and it is targeted right at the tattoo artist, from touching up your tattoo photos to making a great looking business card.

I even learned a few things I didn't know. I had no idea you could increase and decrease your brush size with the parenthesis keys, I always just right clicked. Well worth the time and money, get to the learning GET DIGITAL DVD SET AVAILABLE NOW $50.

Gunnar Does Katie

Uhh, wait I'm not sure that title is accurate. I mean he was in town recently and Katie from Pulse got herself tattooed. Yes-Gunnar did Katie's new tattoo, a wondrous thing constructed of all things Craola. Good clean fun, no hanky panky. I think.

Transmission: adrian lee

Our friend adrian lee dropped this transmission in our mailbox the other day and wanted to make sure the message reached the people. He and his band of guerilla artists are deep into a new book project. As they traverse the globe they will keep posting from the front, and we will keep you informed. It seems art is the new weapon.

BLOODWORK: BROOKLYN from Analog Tattooers on Vimeo.

A Novel Idea? New Dave Fox Art Book

We have the brand new book from tattoo artist Dave Fox in stock here at Pulse. Dave has packed over 10 years worth of paintings into this super colorful book. It is a 9"x 12" Hardcover deluxe edition that we are stocking, featuring 240 pages of paintings. It also features 6 fold out poster style set-ups. If you know Dave, you know the subject matter runs the gambit, from asian myths to cartoon killers to deconstructed flowers. This book has really great energy and a truly unique perspective. Ready to go, $40. a piece -A Novel Idea? The art of Dave Fox.

The "Build Your Own" Fall Session

Our Fall "Build Your Own" seminar was a huge success. We wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who attended and hope they enjoyed it as much as we did.
The best thing about a session like this, is it allows you to pick up other ideas from people who build machines every day. It also forces to you to examine your process as you guide someone through their developing process. It feels good to pay it forward. It's also nice to watch SOBA scold people when they have bad intel.
We would also like to thank SOBA for coming out and bringing his big bag of knowledge. At almost every turn he had a great trick for building or something very thought provoking. A pleasure to say the least.
To everyone who attended, thanks for coming out and to Jessica and Katie for the maple bacon cupcakes, well you know. We are in the early stages of a possible Spring "Build Your Own" session and a Fall SOBA machine building seminar at this years Paradise Tattoo Gathering.

New Year, New Books

Happy New Year, we just got two new titles in at Pulse. The first is from tattoo artist Nick Baxter entitled "Sharp Focus Realism In Oil" and a new collection of skull work "Cranial Visions".
Nick's new book is an in depth look into the step by step process of how Nick constructs his amazing art. It also delves into both his philosophy and basic art principals as well as containing Nicks art cover to cover. There are some great lessons and advice here that anyone can slip into the old noggin. Get your learn on. Hard cover $60. Click to order from Pulse.
Also new is "Cranial Visions" from the mind of Mike Devries and the people at Memento publishing. This all new collection of work focuses on the skull in all it's shapes and forms. Two hundred and fifty eight artists are featured over the books 240 pages showing their goods in the form of 800 pieces of art all focused on the skull. Tattoo work, paintings, drawings, digital art, photography, and sculpture are all featured. It is a very inspiring book and worth the investment. Available now $69.99 from Pulse -Click Here

New Flash Set -Hunter Spanks & Jay Langer Set 2

It has been a real quiet year with flash. There have been so many great books and sketchbooks that I feel people have been really focused on getting books into the library. But right in time for the holiday season two powerhouse artists bring the heat with an all new collab set.

Hunter Spanks & Jay Langer get together for an encore to their first best selling flash set with 10 all color, all new, all tattooable sheets.
Both of these artist have such a stranglehold on what makes a great tattoo, solid line-work, bright colors, & nice clean designs. Your walls and flash books will thank you for adding this new set. Remember how much fun it can be tattooing a great flash design. Available Now @ Pulse $100.

Pulse, now more sociable.

Here at Pulse we've finally decided to be more social and network! Please check us out Facebook and Twitter. And don't worry Blogger fans, we'll maintain our presence here too.
Like us on Facebook and please tell all your "friends"! PULSE FACEBOOK
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Pulse Ten Year Special SIX

For our Sixth special we hooked up with our good friend SOBA to build a wonderful combo machine. The finished product is pretty kick-ass.
We sent 25 Fairfield frames to SOBA who created a hand rubbed finish with a special secret sauce of a patina. SOBA then set about creating Pulse Gear coil wraps that have become one of his amazing custom signatures. They are actual copper and all hand made over hand wound SOBA copper coils.
The Fairfield is our top shelf brass machine that runs as smooth as butter, and the machine run was split with half liners / half shaders. It also feature our new p-nut vise that works like a charm.
The hardware was all custom made as well as the lasered and numbered A-bars and Soba signed each machine. Alex from Pulse took extra time with each machine tuning it to run to perfection. The machine run is limited to only 25 pieces of which SOBA took one and we took one to add to the trophy case, so only 23 will hit the streets.
We packed the whole shooting match up in this custom milk crate with a laser project tag and a signed "record" of the whole project. We want to say thank you to SOBA for taking the time out of his busy schedule to do something special for us. We don't get nearly enough opportunities here at Pulse to create custom projects and one offs. We are very proud of our machines and equipment and this 10 year anniversary is something special. We also wanted to make sure the price was special...$350.00. We only turn 10 once!!

New Fall Items at Pulse

We just loaded up the website with some really cool new products. "Drawn From the Well" deluxe sketchbook from artist Greg Simkins, Aaron Bells sketchbook, Knock Out Lettering guide, Tattoo Bible vol 1 & 2, 2 new flash sets from Mason Williams, Tattoo Artist Magazine #20, 5 new monster prints from Robert Tyrrell Sr. and we still have a few limited edition sticker kits. So stop by and take a look, it's all good.

See the new Fall Pulse products here

Pulse / SOBA Workshop SOLD OUT

Our "Build Your Own" workshop is sold out, we only had 14 slots and they have all been filled. We had no idea that it would sell out so quickly and apologize to those who were not able to get in. We have however started a list for the next workshop that we may hold in Spring of 2011. Thanks to everyone who signed up so quickly we are looking forward to you coming out and promise to make it a great time. See you in October!

Build Your Own Workshop 2

We had so much fun at last years "Build Your Own" workshop that was held at the Paradise tattoo show that we decided to offer it again October 16th, 2010. This year we will be holding it at the Pulse homebase here in Connecticut and SOBA will be flying in for the workshop. We will be covering a wide range of machine topics over the course of the day.
The hours will run from 10am to 5pm and we plan to cover a lot of ground. The biggest part of day will be building machines and you can choose from any of our Pulse Machines or any the Workhorse Irons SOBA machines. We will take you step by step through our process when we build and let you in on all the things we think about at each stage of the build. This will be followed by a tuning session so you can get your machines to run where you would like them to.
There will also be a great session where SOBA and Brett from Pulse will go through many other machine designs and point out there strengths and weaknesses and explain how they were made and how the material and geometry effect each machine. They will have tons of example to run and examine.
Also for the first time ever we will be offering a facility tour of Pulse with demos of coil winding, soldering and prototyping. The whole Pulse family will be there to host these demos and mini seminars. Co-founder Tim Brewer will be in the house along with master builder Alex Benoit and super solderer Joe Sherry. All sessions will have question and answer forums.
Along with all the info we are going to stuff into your head we will be revealing a special anniversary edition Pulse machine collaboration with SOBA that very day. We are also going to pack up a fantastic bag full of goodies for you to take home with your new machines. Also lunch is on us and we will have complimentary beverages through out the day.
Along with all the grizzy men talking about tattoo machines, we will sweeten the day with appearances from Katie and Jessica to tell funny stories about crazy customers and maybe bring some of their soon to be famous chocolate bacon cupcakes.

We will have very limited seating for this event so please call to reserve your spot. The whole day + machine is going to be $400. and we are taking reservations now. Call us at Pulse 888.824.5529 reservations require a 25% deposit. We can't wait to see you October 16th, 2010- this is going to be a major amount of fun.

Pulse Ten Year Special FIVE

For our Anniversary special #5 we are putting our entire library of tattoo magazines on sale for 1/2 off the cover price. As the weather changes it's time to stock up on some reading material for the slow days at the studio. Get inspired, get informed and get it at half the price.

Stop in soon to check out our special #6. Our great friend and machine builder extraordinaire SOBA has build 25 Pulse machines just for our Anniversary. They are amazing.