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About Me

Welcome to Needled.com—site of the very finest tattoo art and video on the planet. Come on in and take a look…we bet you won’t stop at just one. Tattoo is not a fad. It’s not a fashion. It’s a passion. It’s an art. It’s a lifestyle. Needled understands tattoo because we live it. We know that body art aficionados cannot be put into neat boxes: they are lawyers with tattooed bodysuits under Armani suits, tech gurus with backpieces, and soccer moms with sleeves. They are tattoo virgins considering a first piece, collectors working on their twentieth, and those just visiting for the sheer fascination of it all.

Drill down into Needled’s exceptional library of original video covering the world’s most amazing artists, shops, and shows. Check out our gallery of fine art tattoos. Peruse the artist and shop pages packed with contact information and profiles. Explore the histories that detail the roots of virtually every tattoo genre. We have it all covered, and then some, including personal adornment by the best tattoo artists in the world.

Also, be sure to check out our infamous Needled blog, written daily from her Belgian outpost by our very own tattooed muse, Marisa DiMattia. With an edgy look at the fine art and culture of the world of tattoos, she covers artist profiles, event listings, convention news, tattoo’s impact on society, and more.

Needled. High brow for the underground. Tattoo couture.

My Interests

Tattoo culture, tattoo art, tattoo shops, everything tattoo.

I'd like to meet:

Paul Booth, Spider Webb, Leo Zulueta,Lyle Tuttle, Tom Renshaw, Deano Cook,Don Ed Hardy, Keone Nunes, Roger Ingerton,Horiyoshi III, Horitaka and more...Learn about me at TheTattooMasters.com

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My Blog

Grimes Vans Syndicate Line

Prolific tattoo & graffiti artist, painter, writer and now sneaker designer Grime of Skull & Sword in SF has collaborated with Vans Syndicate 2007 on his own Spring 08 pack, which includes two pairs o...
Posted by Needled.com on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:53:00 PST

The $2 Trillion Dollar Tattoo

After reading this Op-Ed in the morning, I found this tattoo particularly fitting.Read More
Posted by Needled.com on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:48:00 PST

HyperCoSMic Painting Jam

In sharp contrast to the bizarro tattoo news earlier, it's my pleasure to post this fabulous YouTube video of the live painting performance in LA featuring Guy Atchison, forefather of the biomech orga...
Posted by Needled.com on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:46:00 PST

Bizarro Tattoo News

If I'm late posting Needled today it's because I'm trying to get my head around two celeb news items that I'm sure were published just to mess with me: Read More...
Posted by Needled.com on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:05:00 PST

Tattoo News Review

The tattoo news was as retroactive as blanket immunity for Big Brother-complicit telecoms whereby 7-month-old news was rehashed as hot headlines in the Eyeball Tattoo Saga. Read More...
Posted by Needled.com on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:20:00 PST

Laser Removal Video

Last month, I head over to the (in)famous Dr. Dave Ores, or just Dr. Dave as everyone knows him on the Lower East Side of NY, to remove a small tattoo on my hip that I got when I passed the Bar exam -...
Posted by Needled.com on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:31:00 PST

Lovewright Co. Tees

When I'm not playing lawyer in conservative suits and constipated facial expressions, I'm smiling widely in jeans and a tee -- and I'm particularly particular about the latter. For arty t-shirts, I li...
Posted by Needled.com on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:07:00 PST

Sailor Jerry Documentary

Today's moving imagery of tattoo life encompasses LA rockers, Brooklyn hipsters, and those who seek their 15 minutes of fame by honoring their dead animals in the flesh on reality TV. As an afront to ...
Posted by Needled.com on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:24:00 PST

BME Artist Interviews

Shannon Larratt has been posting some interesting tattoo artist interviews including hand-work tattooist Boff Konkerz and one of my color realism faves, DJ Minor -- Q&As that highlight the artists' ch...
Posted by Needled.com on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:19:00 PST

Guest Blog: Musink Fest Review

I would classify Musink as a music festival with tattooing. There was a notable presence of voyeurs including the non-tattooed and perhaps those who just wanted to look cool -- all not really there fo...
Posted by Needled.com on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:36:00 PST