Tattoo needles arenât loud, but the sound of 100 buzzing at once actually drowned out Green Dayâs âBasket Caseâ playing over emo-styled speakers in Vancouver, Wash. last weekend.
Tatted teens, parents pushing strollers and a bearded man in a top hat who answers to the name âInk Pimpâ took over Vancouverâs Clark County Event Center for a âBody Art Expoâ featuring the band Paranapuss and a hot ass contest. The scent of hot dogs and bison jerky wafted majestically through the air as the Ink Pimp emceed a âbest backâ tattoo contest featuring one otherwise clean-cut middle-aged man with a massive underwater landscape covering half his body.
As attendees flipped through look books and shared sympathetic looks with fellow human canvases, we took photos.
WWeek 2015