Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins the legendary tattoo artist died 39 years ago on Tuesday. To celebrate “Sailor Jerry” day Three Kings Tattoo in Brooklyn gave out free Sailor Jerry anchor tattoos for six straight hours starting at 10pm. Over 200 people were on the list and a HUGE line formed in the pouring rain outside the shop when it opened.  Luckily once you got your name on the list you could head over to Matchless across the street for free Sailor Jerry Rum and some absurd karaoke.

Speaking of karaoke, one of the highlights of the night was when Oliver Peck of “Ink Master” fame did “You Might Think” by the Cars. Another highlight was getting Alex from Three Kings to tattoo a Sailor Jerry badger on me when he got bored of doing anchors. He put it right between the Sailor Jerry bunny Oliver did on me at SXSW and the Aloha Monkey Betty Rose did on me.  I have a pretty nice Sailor Jerry zoo going on down on my party leg…

It was a fun event and a ton of people got tattooed. You should probably look at the pictures.

Click here to see all my shots from the Sailor Jerry Day anchor tattoo giveaway at Three Kings Tattoos.

On Thursday night Tattoo Culture in Williamsburg held an art opening called Ladies Ladies that features the art work of all female tattoo artists. I looked at the list of artists and realized three of my tattoo artists were in the show. Tattoo Culture is a short walk from my house so I had to stop by. Tattooing is an industry dominated by men but due to some strange coincidences I have been tattooed by five women and although I have been tattooed by more men the women make the bulk of the art on my body.

Katie Davis and Betty Rose, both in the show, tattooed everything on my left arm and my other artist  Minka Sicklinger gave me one of my favorite tattoos ever and is going to be tattooing my entire chest soon. Katie lives in Richmond, VA so she wasn’t at the show but Betty and Minka were and it was awesome to see them as always.

The show was really good and it’s still up at Tattoo Culture if you want to check it out but there will be less badass tattooed babes hanging out since you missed the opening. You should probably go anyway and then just look at my photos for the badass babes.

Click here to see all the pictures from the Ladies Ladies tattoo art show at Tattoo Culture.

Way too long ago my tattoo artist Betty Rose through a party for her eight year anniversary at working at Red Rocket Tattoo. I had just received my new camera in the mail and she has a bunch of cute tattooed babe friends so I met them down at the jazz club Fat Cats for jazz and ping pong. After that we all headed over to B Side for my friend Shain’s going away party and fooseball. At the end of the night I ended up in a bathroom to take photos of two girls making out topless just like old times. A few days later Betty Rose hooked me up with some cheap tattoos which are not quite finished yet but will be soon. Good times.

Click here for the reasonably NSFW photos from Betty Rose’s anniversary party and Fat Shain’s going away party.

Sailor Jerry upped the ante on giving away free tattoos at South By Southwest this year. Not only did they have Oliver Peck doing free tattoos for bands and VIPs but they also had my homie Terry Brown tattooing at the Great Wave Tattoo shop with one of the locals Ben Sibert doing Sailor Jerry flash on anyone who could get an appointment. They did a ton of tattoos working pretty much all day for three straight tattoos.  I even got Terry to touch up a tattoo he did on me way back at Voodoo Fest.

Aside from tattoos it was just a fun place to hang out. They were selling Sailor Jerry swag as well and I managed to make it out of Austin with a new belt buckle and the documentary about Sailor Jerry (the person, not the rum). Also when Oliver got booked up I brought Sara Jean from Bleached over to get tattooed by Terry. Bleached is pretty much my favorite new band right now and Sara had a bunch of Sailor Jerry flash already so I knew we had to get her hooked up.

Anyway, I am just getting back into the swing of living a normal life again so I gotta go respond to 40 emails that I didn’t have time to get to when I was in LA & Austin. I will catch you guys soon with the rest of my SXSW stuff and probably a naked girl or two… See you Monday.

Click here to see all the photos from the Sailor Jerry SXSW pop up tattoo shop at Great Wave Tattoo.

As I write this I am currently on a flight from LA to NYC on my way home from shooting the Musink tattoo convention and music festival in Orange County, CA. I was out there working for Sailor Jerry and having some fun along the way.  Sailor Jerry once again set up a trailer to tattoo bands, promote the brand and host some serious games of corn hole. Dan Smith was doing the tattoos all weekend and tattooed bands like New Found Glory, Bayside, Paramore, Against Me and a bunch of others.

I personally had a lot more fun than I expected. I am not a huge pop punk fan and was not exactly excited to see bands like Yellowcard bastardize the punk rock I hold so dear to my heart, but across the board the bands were a lot better live than I expected. Even Yellowcard put on a pretty damn good show. New Found Glory and Alkaline Trio really proved why they were the headliners of the two days of the festival I attended putting on some pretty fantastic shows. I don’t think I am gonna go home and buy their records but I was glad I got to see them do their thing.

I didn’t spend a lot of time inside the tattoo convention part of the festival as I had to stick around the Sailor Jerry airstream for the most part, but I did get to make a few rounds and saw some amazing work done.  My favorite had to be a Steve Jobs leg tattoo that I think won one of the tattoo contests. There were also an unreasonable amount of hot girls at the tattoo convention so that was a reason to venture inside to the air conditioned part of Musink.

One last thing I should mention about this festival is that Hayley Williams and Taylor York from Paramore showed up to watch Hayley’s boyfriend from New Found Glory play. I shot a couple of pictures of them and then Taylor came back and got a Sailor Jerry tattoo from Dan on Sunday.  I posted a few of those pictures on my Tumblr and it was as if the internet exploded. Evidently there are like 2000 Twitter accounts dedicated to Paramore. It is sort of insane.  So if you came here from one of these Paramore Tumblrs (Hayley herself posted one of my pics on her Tumblr) looking for more pictures you are in luck. There are a couple more pics of Hayley and a bunch more of Taylor getting tattooed.

Anyway, I am gonna get back to flying in this airplane now. I will see you guys on the ground.

Click here to see the HUGE gallery from the 5th annual Musink tattoo and music festival in Orange County, CA.

Last weekend I had to go to DC to borrow my parents car so I could move some shit and on my way back to NYC I stopped in Philly for a couple days and took some photos. Last year’s convention was completely fucking insane and I had an amazing time. This year was pretty fun but not out of control like last year. It moved locations and for some reason they didn’t want Bombshell Brats doing fun things like getting naked and bowling themselves down a slip and slide.

There were some good performances though.  Rigor Mortis Review burelesque was back and my friend Scarlett Storm did a Beetlejuice number and there was an Ultimate Warrior number and a Clockwork Orange thing (that may actually been part of another burlesque thing but I cannot keep things like this straight). Whatever the case there were half naked girls on stage doing weird things.  There was also some sideshow performances as well. I was psyched to finally see the Enigma in person because he was on my favorite X-Files episode ever. He performs as Show Devils with a girl named Serana Rose who I talked to a lot and is rad as hell. Actually they were both pretty great humans and their show was on point.

My favorite performance though was that of my homegirl Miss Crash who once again put on one of the better suspension performances I have seen. She brings out a series of hot half naked girls doing insane suspensions like resurrections and one knee suspensions and horribly painful things like that and then she comes out, does a strip tease, stabs her self with a bunch of skewers and then flings herself about like a mad woman. It’s all pretty awesome unless you are horrified by people hanging from flesh hooks in which case you should probably avoid this gallery.

Anyway, the actual normal tattoo convention stuff is pretty minimal because I was too tired to do actual work and shooting performances is easy. But there is some good stuff in here and some NSFW stuff which I know you love.  So yeah…

Click here to see all the wild photos from the 2012 Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

If you recall from two posts ago I was in Aspen for the Winter X Games last weekend working for Sailor Jerry. The main promotion that Sailor Jerry did at the X Games was to set up “Hold Fast” a pop up tattoo shop at the Sky Hotel.  They had tattoo artists Terry Brown from New Orleans and Preston Chambers from Denver working all day for four days giving out free Sailor Jerry tattoos.

The man behind the name Sailor Jerry was Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins who revolutionized tattooing and designed thousands of what are now classic tattoo designs. Anyone who wanted one of them could come by the shop and set up an appointment and get tattooed by one of these amazing tattoo artists.

Aside from a ton of bar tenders, hotel staff and X Games fans Hold Fast hosted a few notable people who got some SJ ink. A hilarious BMX biker named Mike “Hucker” Clark came by with BMX legend Tim “Fuzzy” Hall and got his first ever tattoo. He had such a good time that he was constantly in the shop hanging out with us. The next day he signed a huge sponsorship deal with Red Bull and seemed to be having the best weekend of his life. I reached out to folks on Twitter and found out that former The Pack member Stunnaman was in town with Trouble Andrew performing a few hotels away. Stunnaman came by and got this sick pharaoh tattoo and then came back a day later with Trevor from Trouble Andrew who got inked as well. I was actually on my way back when they came by again but I got shots of Stunnaman first tattoo. We also had two members of AWOLNATION come by. They were playing a show at the base of the mountain and got matching ship tattoos to commemorate both their travels and their hit song Sail.

The most legendary icon to get tattooed was of course the hero of men that is Igor from Driven By Boredom AKA me. I got my third Sailor Jerry tattoo when I convinced Preston to tattoo a rooster chasing a pig to my leg.  In nautical lore pigs and chickens are the only animals to survive a ship wreck so sailors would tattoo the animals to their feet for good luck. I got mine on my leg instead because drowning at sea is not really one of my top fears at the moment….

Anyway, it was a great time staying in an amazing hotel in Aspen and hanging out with rad people all day. I didn’t get to see any actual X Games but it was fucking cold outside… and besides ESPN was on in the hotel room. I can’t wait till the next Sailor Jerry pop up tattoo shop event I get to shoot in March at SXSW!

Click here to see all the pictures from Hold Fast the Sailor Jerry pop up tattoo shop in Aspen for the Winter X Games.

So the other day I shot two girls (Alesandra & Cailey) and both of them have been in Inked Magazine and both of them were going to the January Inked Magazine release party at some bar called Stash on 14th St. I used to do a lot of work for Inked and then they started having interns shoot their event work for free so as much as I like the people involved with Inked I had sort of been avoiding their events out of some sort of misguided professional respect, but when I heard that my homegirl Kathryn was gonna be going and I realized I could shoot her and Alesandra’s new fake boobs at the same time I decided I was headed to the party.

The party was crazy packed and I sort of kept getting shoved into corners but there were a bunch of hot tattooed babes there and a bunch of Mishka people there so I did work talked to the Mishka kids and got Alesandra and Kathryn naked in the bathroom. It was pretty ideal. The party was fun but there were like 50 photographers there so I got the fuck out and realized it was only like 10:30pm so I went to Warhorse with a friend of mine that I had not seen since the mid ’90s.  It was the worst movie I have seen this decade.

So yeah I am headed to LA tomorrow and this site is probably gonna pretty much just turn into a porn site for a while with a bunch of naked chicks and then I go to Vegas and shoot porn parties and stuff.  So if you come here for the nudity you are in luck, if you come here for hip NYC nightlife you might wanna come back in February cause I am gone for three weeks.  Also I am gonna be doing daily updates on my Tumblr and a lot of stuff on Instagram so you might wanna follow that stuff if you can follow that stuff. I don’t even know how to link to my Instagram but it’s @drivenbyboredom.

Okay, enough of all that. Let’s get to the Inked party pictures. They are NSFW as per my description above.

Click here to see all the pictures from the Inked Magazine January Release Party @ Stash.

A long time ago I took a topless photo of Jessica Love during an amazing game of Truth Or Dare during after hours in the back of a Lower East Side bar. Months and months later as I started putting together an edit of the book I am working on that photo kept popping up and every time someone would see it they would stop and stare at it and wonder if her tattoos were real. It’s not every day you see a girl as beautiful as Jessica with face tattoos and evil hands Janet Jacksoning her boobs. People were pretty much blown away by this photo… unfortunately the photo kinda sucked.

I finally contacted Jessica to ask if we could do a real shoot and she agreed. Unfortunately she was in London for a few months. When she got back I was crazy busy and we didn’t get a chance to shoot until the other day.  We did two mini shoots, the first of which you are about to see.  We shot this one in her kitchen with assistance from her roommate Dylan’s new puppy. What do you get when you mix hot naked girls with crazy tattoos and adorable chihuahua puppies? Internet magic. Enjoy the NSFW wonderment.

Click here to see all the photos of the amazing Jessica Love hanging out naked in her kitchen.