Victor Farinelli: ‘Ink Master’ Prologue
By Victor Farinelli On Tuesday October 9th, Ink Masters Season 2 begins. I am not here to say anything pro or con about this show or shows about tattooing in general. I am just a sucker for “reality”...
View ArticleTattoo Artist Magazine: The Ink Master Interview
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/47560414 w=590&h=420] The Inkmaster Interview – Tattoo Artist Magazine from Richard Kennedy on Vimeo. Related TAM Blog Articles: Oliver Peck: “Haters Gonna Hate”...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episodes 1 & 2)
By Victor Farinelli Let the madness begin! The second season of Ink Masters is upon us. Spike TV aired two episodes this last week for our viewing pleasure. Episode One: Tattooing the Dead Let’s start...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 3)
By Victor Farinelli This week’s episode is titled “80-Year-Old Virgin” or “I Have No Respect for Traditional Tattoos.” You don’t have to be part of the skinhead retirement program to have respect for...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 4)
By Victor Farinelli “Tattoo Her What?!” or “I am a Tattoo Artist That Leads a Sheltered Life.” So the big hub-bub about this episode is that a gal wanted to get a phoenix coming out of her tunnel of...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 5)
By Victor Farinelli Before I get started on the recap, I want to rattle some cages. There is some gab on the inter-webs about the contestants on Ink Master “stealing” tattoos from other artists. Don’t...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 6)
By Victor Farinelli Let’s celebrate the land of the free, home of the brave with GUNS! Sorta like banjos, only different. Episode VI was “all about attention to detail,” Dave Navarro emphasized. For...
View ArticleDave Waugh: Vintage Tattoo Flyers
By Dave Waugh Wow. I went digging through a box of old papers and drawings and found something long forgotten… Back in the olden days, before the interweb and whatnot, some of the best forms of...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 7)
By Victor Farinelli A long time ago in, in a galaxy far, far away… a girl needed lithium. Sarah Miller needs some serious medication. One minute, she is bouncing off the walls she is so excited, the...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 8)
By Victor Farinelli Ink Master is a train wreck and Sarah Miller is the engineer. As I said in my last post, she needs serious mood stabilizing medication. She is a shitstorm of manic depression. This...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 9)
By Victor Farinelli This week’s episode opens with Sarah bitching about the judges not giving her a good honest critic. I call bullshit. The judges have actually done a pretty good job of telling this...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 10)
By Victor Farinelli Just when I start to think that some of these cats are humble and are willing to learn, then they go say some arrogant stupid shit. The show starts off with Jesse fucking saying,...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Episode 11)
By Victor Farinelli It is getting down to the wire. Just a few more episodes to go until one of the contestants gets a $100,000 paycheck they have to pay taxes on and a feature in Inked Magazine....
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Ink Master Review (Finale)
By Victor Farinelli Well, the end is finally here. In the two-episode finale of this season of Ink Master, I have been left wondering the meaning of life. Well no, not really, but it has a good ring...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II Prologue
By Victor Farinelli So… I was sitting with remote control in hand, watching reruns of Cops, surfing the Internet, and thinking about how depressed I have been ever since Ink Master Season 2 ended....
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 1)
By Victor Farinelli Hello friends and neighbors! It’s me again, here to give you the scoop on this shitstorm called Best Ink. First off, during the show, these little pop-up windows come up giving...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 2)
By Victor Farinelli Hello, my name is Victor, and I am an asshole (Hi,Victor). I am officially in asshole relapse mode. I don’t know what has come over me. Everytime I try not to be an asshole, the...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 3)
By Victor Farinelli Hello Folks. This is your resident dickhead back again to bring you a recap of this week’s episode from one of the most asinine shows on TV. Week three of Best Ink is pretty much...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 4)
By Victor Farinelli My fellow cynic “johndotcom” asked me the other day if this show is painful to watch. Yes it is. It makes me wish for the zombie apocalypse. I think it has to do with the real...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 5)
By Victor Farinelli Howdy folks. It’s me again here to bring you yet another exciting and death-defying episode of Best Ink Season II. This episode demonstrates to me that I am absolutely no judge of...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 6)
By Victor Farinelli Let me start by reminding y’all that the views expressed in these here ramblings are my own and do not represent the views of TAM. With that out of the way, I wanted to touch on...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 7)
By Victor Farinelli This is not gonna be a long post because, frankly, this show is just becoming sad… Just sad. I thought this show would give me some great ammunition to vent the fury in my head....
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 8)
By Victor Farinelli This week’s show was humdrum and tiresome. It is a chore to watch this poorly produced, sadly directed piece of shit. I could edit better in iMovie than these cats can with their...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 9)
By Victor Farinelli It is down to the wire, folks. Four contestants are left in the game show of extreme skill and ability to see who is going to be named Best Ink. They must pay income tax on...
View ArticleVictor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II Season Finale (Episode 10)
By Victor Farinelli In the words of the dead, drug addled rock star Jim Morrison, “This is the end, beautiful friend, the end.” Yes folks, this pop-culture game show dubbed “Best Ink Season II” has...
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