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.

For the second weekend in a row I found myself at a music festival in an airstream trailer watching bands get Sailor Jerry tattoos. At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans we tattooed members of Fishbone, Major Lazer, Peelander Z, TV on the Radio and Boots Electric. This time at Fun Fun Fun in Austin we tattooed Big Freedia, Spank Rock, Johnny Nelson, members of Passion Pit, G-Side, Paint It Black and nearly everyone in EYEHATEGOD.

Big Freedia was a highlight, not only because she got a hilarious tattoo but because later when she was talking to Ryan Gosling she showed him it and I got a picture and it blew up all over the internet and made my client very happy and ultimately that will lead to me going on more adventures like these. My homie Johnny Nelson is on the road with Spank Rock and he got a shark right near his Driven By Boredom tattoo and Piink from Major Lazer who got inked last week came back and got a tattoo this weekend that actually says Sailor Jerry on it. It was pretty amazing.

All the tattoos were once again done by Terry Brown at Uptown in New Orleans. Next time down there you should get him to tattoo you… just don’t get him started on his love for Public Enemy or he might never stop tattooing you.

Anyway, I got a busy day today and my band has a show tonight so I am going to get out of here, but check back in a little bit because I have one more post for you and it’s a good one….

Click here to see the Sailor Jerry tattoos from the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Texas.

One of the cooler branding promotions that exists on Earth is Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum giving out free tattoos. Not little fake temporary tattoos with their logo on them, but actual real life tattoos given by a bearded man in a small air stream trailer. If you are not away Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins was a bad ass motherfucker who pretty much revolutionized tattooing. He was tattooing sailors in Hawaii for something like 40 years and designed thousands of flash tattoos that have been compiled into three tattoo flash books that pretty much every tattoo shop in the world owns.  Sailor Jerry died in 1973 but his legacy lives on and hundreds of people still get his work tattooed on them every week. At special music events around the country Sailor Jerry rum sets up a make shift tattoo shop in their air stream trailer and give out Sailor Jerry tattoos to any of the musicians who want one.

During Voodoo Music Experience New Orleans tattoo artist Terry Brown set up shop in the air stream for three days and did close to twenty tattoos on bands, crew members and me. He tattooed Diplo and Piink from Major Lazer, two of the members of Fishbone, Peelander Green, Jesse Hughes and Tuesday Cross from Boots Electric, my homies Star Eyes from Trouble & Bass and Roofeeo from TV on The Radio and a bunch of other people who I lost track of. Sorry.

Terry Brown is a great tattoo artist who specializes in this traditional tattoo style pioneered by Sailor Jerry. If you are in New Orleans you can set up an appointment with him at his shop Uptown. But if you happen to be a musician at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin this weekend he will be doing them there for free. I’ll be there so get at me and I can make sure you get hooked up.

Now check out all the shots of musicians getting Sailor Jerry tattoos at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans.

As you may noticed the people paying for my adventures of late have been Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum. They hired me to shoot CMJ, Voodoo Music Experience and Fun Fun Fun in Austin next weekend. I feel like they are a perfect brand for me to represent as they do rad shit for bands, throw awesome parties and are entrenched in the tattoo culture that I love to document.

At the Voodoo fest in New Orleans they had a photo boot set up and provided the rum for the festival but they also had one of their air stream trailers parked in the aritst only area and were serving up rum drinks to all the bands back stage. We had a bunch of cool bands hanging out all weekend and I got to document that stuff while they still let me check out all the bands I wanted to see. It was a pretty ideal situation.

We had Major Lazer stop by one night for tattoos and Fishbone stop by for a random 80′s dance party in the trailer. Peelander Z were there all day Friday and members of Fitz and the Tantrums and Civil Twilight spent a lot of time hanging out. Jesse Hughes from Boots Electric (and Eagles of Death Metal) stopped by and filmed a segment for Fuse and he and his girlfriend (and Boots Electric bassist) Tuesday Cross got Sailor Jerry tattoos. You might recognize Tuesday from somewhere…

Anyway this gallery is a bunch of shots of bands and other people hanging out at the air stream. Tomorrow I’ll get up all the pictures of people getting tattooed including Diplo, two members of Fishbone, Roofeeo from TV On The Radio and Peelander Green. Get excited.

But for now, click here to see the shots of the party that was the Sailor Jerry Air Stream trailer at the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience.

I am sorry I haven’t updated in a minute. I have so much fucking content to get up but I am in New Orleans at the “Voodoo Music Experience” shooting photos for Sailor Jerry. I’ll have so many photos from it up next week but I had to get something up today.

Part of Sailor Jerry’s promotional stuff here is giving the musicians at the fest free Sailor Jerry Tattoos. In the last two days they have given them to a bunch of musicians including Diplo, the green guy from Peelander Z and the lead singer of Fucking Bullshit.  Oh wait, that’s me.

Instead of going to see Blink 182 tonight Terry Brown tattooed a Sailor Jerry pirate head holding a knife on the back of my right arm. It is not my first Sailor Jerry tattoo, I have this sweet Monkey too. The pirate head is pretty fucking awesome and Terry rules. If you are ever in New Orleans or playing a huge music festival sponsored by Sailor Jerry you should get a tattoo by him. He works at Uptown in NOLA if you in the city and in need of ink.

This is my arm. I’ll be back soon!

I cannot remember the last time I went to a birthday party at a bowling alley. I am sure it was in middle school or something. But my tattoo artist Betty Rose is kinda hilarious like that and she told me if I came out and took photos she would trade me for a tattoo. As a man who loves to barter this seemed like a wonderful idea despite my hatred of bowling.  Plus Betty rolls with a lot of hot tattooed chicks and her last birthday was fucking wild.

This year things did not get quite as crazy but it was still a lot of fun. Everyone got insanely drunk and I figured someone was going to get murdered with a bowling ball but no one did so I have to say the party was a great success in that regard. By the time we all left the place was littered with Sweedish fish and spilled booze. It was clearly a party.

As an aside you may recognize Betty from my mini documentary which was viewed 30,000 times yesterday. We are going viral motherfucker.

Anyway, you can click right here to see all the pictures from Betty Rose’s birthday party at Bowlmor Lanes. And then go get tattooed by Betty and wish her a belated happy Sweet 16.

So last year I took so many photos of Insane Clown Posse and Psychopathic Records related tattoos. This year I didn’t really get into documenting that part of the Gathering of the Juggalos. That being said, I did shoot more than 3000 photos so a few of them had to be of tattoos.  So yeah, guess what? You get a juggalo tattoo gallery and there is some pretty wild stuff here. Also I put up a photo of Morgan Lander of Kittie with a Kittie tattoo because I find it kinda hilarious.

That being said if you really want an in depth look at juggalo tattoos, check this post from 2010.

Now, this will probably be my last post until Monday. My grandmother’s funeral is on Sunday in Lancaster, PA. I am heading down there tomorrow to meet up with my family. Not sure when I am getting back but hopefully I can get you the rest of my juggalo stuff early next week.

In the meanwhile, click here to see all the tattoos I photographed at The Gathering of the Juggalos.

For more Gathering Of The Juggalos coverage please check out the Driven By Boredom GOTJ archives.