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Tattoos by Steve Laino

I am here for Friends

About Me

I've been tattooing for just over 12 years and piercing for about 8. I don't like to pierce, but I will if someone wants one. I feel I'm always in learning mode because with the way this industry is jumping off, there's volumes being stacked on shelves I haven't even gotten to yet. The day I feel I know everything I need to know about tattooing is the day I put down my machines and get the fuck out of the business.

My Interests

Ummm, let's see. Tattooing, painting, playing guitar in bored times, being with my wife and kids, spending the occasional gathering with my family, watching my Boxers box, watching my cats act stupid (ongoing entertainment)and making the occasional trip to Dayton to hang out with my one true friend, Darnell Wilson.

I'd like to meet:

I've met Lyle Tuttle and Kat Von D (who these days leaves me quite unimpressed), but I've found it's the smaller names (Corey Cudney from Buffalo and Paolo from AZ) no one really notices that seem to have the most to show, so I'd like to meet more of them.

Music:

No new country!!! No techno!!! Other than that, I'm pretty much an open book. For real variety, I suggest you check out WYSO. If there's a PERFECT station, this one's it.

Movies:

No overly girly shit!!! No Nazi-fuck Arnold!!! No Ben Affleck!!! (He was only good in Dogma and that's because the rest of the cast, aside from Matt Damon, carried his lame ass, and Salma Hayek's EXTREME sexiness kept you distracted every now and then). Pretty well open to anything else that's well acted, directed and scripted.

Television:

Limited appeal. Inked? Miami Ink? L.A. Ink? Anything to learn? No? Then why watch 'em?

Books:

Histories, biographies, autobiographies, mysteries, etc. No love stories. That shit bores the fuck out of me.

Heroes:

My parents, my wife and my kids. Brandon Bond for being the dog lover that he is.