It’s that time again!
Time for my favorite tattoo competition shows of all time… The glory
that is known as Ink Master. This is the
only show about tattoos, hosted by someone who clearly is not an expert in the
industry at all. Sorry Dave, but even strutting
out your industry leading judges does not make you an expert. However I do have a lot of respect for Chris
and Oliver so going into season four I’m willing to overlook it.
After introducing America’s pick, Kyle! Yes I voted for him. Dave explains that Kyle is exempt from the
first elimination challenge and has a secured spot till next week. Now Kyle made it pretty far in the last
season so it is fair to say that he has already earned his spot on the show
right? Well being told what the first
challenge was, a lot of the contestants did not think so. I don’t know about you but to get to the
final four, and tattooing live on stage, I think you can say he did his first
round already. The pettiness comes from
the fact that there are 17 total tattooist and only 16 available shops, so the
contestants sans Kyle must compete for the remaining 15 spots. The competition: Tattooing convention
style. Literally hundreds of people
pouring into the studio to be tattooed immediately, there are no comforts, loud
noises and tons of distractions. Still
there are artists that bank their career’s on being able to tattoo in a
convention setting.
The convention starts and it seems like everyone has a
new strategy. Some people are staying
small and going for quantity and others are just putting out two to three solid
pieces. I’d go for the latter just
because, if you are going to tattoo someone you tattoo them not rush through
them.
The thing that annoys me about these shows is that there
are so many contestants to really go in-depth on any one. Basically you judge them two different ways,
you either just look at the art and not care about the person, or you get
smacked in the feels by interviews.
Example? Let’s take the two biggest
ones, Halo and Gentle Jay. Halo is a
cancer survivor, he decided to forgo chemo therapy in order to keep tattooing,
see you just get your feels kicked in the nuts right? Like really dude?! You want some happy for this guy. Then there is Gentle Jay who we shall now and
forever more refer to as mountain douche.
Seriously, this grizzly Adams look alike is killing me. Throughout the whole episode he is arrogant
and basically acting like he is god’s gift to tattooing. I’m going to put it out there, what I’ve seen
so far, you wouldn’t be allowed to touch me with a needle. Somehow I don’t think he’d care anyway.
Anyway, since there are so many artists I think I’m just
going to have to give you a link at the bottom and you can look into it when
you get a chance, because let’s face it, I don’t feel like writing 16 mini
bios. That being said, lets fast forward
to the judging of the convention style tattoos… I’d say 80 percent of the room
gets full on kicked in the nuts. These
tats are rough, and that’s being kind.
Out of 15 contestants, remember Kyle already had a shop, only 5 are guaranteed
a shop. The rest must tattoo again this
time, a tattoo they feel encompasses who they are as an artist.
The major stand outs in the shops, in my opinion, were
again Halo who completely redeemed himself with a beautiful and whimsical faire
and Damon who wants to do a day of the dead girl, but his lack of experience
seems to squash his 4 years of art school.
I would have totally rocked that faire back piece by the way! I have to say that the other eight tattoos
really didn’t excite me at all. Most
were kind of a yawn and defiantly showed me what the middle is going to be
comprised of.
After a heated discussion, not by the judges, but the
contestants, the real disgusting personalities seem to unmask themselves to
display a bunch of arrogant and self-serving grossness. Ewwww.
At this point, sadly, you almost don’t want to look at these boring
tattoos. Lord help the judges this
season. Still someone has to go home
and, for his lack of experience and fundamentals Damon is selected to go
home. Still think that Kyle hadn’t
earned his shop Damon? Let’s hope for
some awesome new work next week.
As promised here's the link... Go kyle!
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