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You may have missed the first three Quick and Painful dates, but you can stil make the last one (assuming you live near Miami, Florida.) The event takes at Art Basel on December 3rd.

In case you forgot, let me tell you a little bit about this unique exhibit:

Quick & Painful is a traveling exhibition produced by Hope Gallery, one of the most prestigious tattoo art galleries, that features the work of more than 15 important artists and designers with backgrounds in fine art, graffiti, and illustration in a unique exhibition for one night only. During the exhibition fans are able to pick their favorite designs right off the wall and get them tattooed right on the spot for only $40 by World renowned tattoo artists like Joe Capobianco, Eric Merrill, Julio Rodriguez, Jime Litwalk, Dan Smith, Jesse Smith, and more.

Quick & Painful features today’s most elite low brow artists doing original Tattoo Flash. Among the artists and designers that will be presenting Flash Prints for the exhibition are Alex Pardee, Amanda Visell, Brandt Peters, Camilla D’Errico, David Horvath, Devilrobots, Frank Kozik, Greg “Craola” Simkins, Huck Gee, Joe Ledbetter, Junko Mizuno, Kathie Olivas, Pete Fowler, Ron English, Sam Flores, Shawnimals, TADO, Tara McPherson, and Tokidoki co-founder and Creative Director Simone Legno.

This Saturday, Dan Smith will be at Sacred Gallery signing (and selling!) copies of his new book, With The Light Of Truth. There’s also an event on the West Coast next month, so there’s no need for any of the Angelinos to feel left out.

If you’re interested in seeing more of the book, click here. For those interested in picking up a copy, click here.

While I’m not straight egde, I’m very excited to get my hands on a copy of With the Light of Truth. For those of you who are unsure what exactly this book is, here’s the description from the website:

A collection of Straight Edge related tattoos and art and profiles of some of the best tattoo artists in the world.

The book is now available for $50, while I know that’s a lot money – you can clearly see it’s done right. If you need more convincing, check out this list of artists involved in the book:

DJ ROSE, GREZ, ADRIAN MONAHAN, SHANE B, MATT BAGWELL, DEAN PARKIN, CHAD SONER, DAN SMITH, RANDY HALL, SIMON ERL, STEVE BYRNE, KEVIN BYERS, CHRIS STUART, MANEKO, RON FOX, DAVE QUIGGLE, FRANK CARTER, TERRY JACKS, MARK JACKSON, SOAP, MIKE TOMMYROT, PHILLIP SZLOSEK, MITCH LOVE, STEVIE EDGE, ERICH FOSTER, BEAU BRADY, JASON FRANK, JIM SYLVIA, JAVIER RODRIGUEZ, PATRICK HANEY, ERIC MICHAEL SCHAUFFELE, NICO ACOSTA, AXEL RIO, IAN WHITE, JESSE GABRIEL, JASON ANTHONY, PAUL NYCZ, JUSTIN JARRELL, MATT KERLEY, JOHN RAFTERY, SANTU ALTAMIRANO, JOHN DEWEESE, NATE CLICK, DUSTY NEAL, OLLIE, LARS LUNDQUIST, KC LANGE, MARINA INOUE, RODRIGO BOTERO, BRAD STEVENS, ALEX FRANKLIN, ANNIE WALKER, ADAM SAGE, GASTON FUNES, NICK LUIT, MIKE LUSSIER, CHAZ OTTO

Three of the four Quick and Painful exhibits might have come and gone, but the exhibit is still being talked about. Pictures from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Haven are starting to appear online. Additionally, the show in Miami takes place in the beginning of December. Lastly, all of the flash sets created for for the show is currently available online at The Hope Shop.

To learn more about the Quick and Painful exhibit, check out our original post back in August.

On Monday Dan Smith randomly answered five ten questions on his Twitter account.

I really enjoyed reading these, and I think you will too. I actually enjoyed them so much that I took the liberty to screen capture them in case you missed them. If you’re not following Dan on Twitter, click here and fix that.

Tattoo by Dan Smith at High Voltage Tattoo in Los Angeles, CA

Julene and I have been talking about have a SXE Day, but we haven’t had a ton of submissions. Maybe this will get the ball rolling?

As always, you can submit your tattoos to TattooSnob@gmail.com. Don’t forget to include the artist, shop name, and location!

Tattoo by Dan Smith at High Voltage Tattoo in Los Angeles, CA

“We are 138″ is the newest art show being presented by Hope Gallery Tattoo. As the name implies, the show pays tribute to The Misfits and will be opening this Friday, June 4th at 7pm.

Hope Gallery Tattoo has been posting mini interviews with a number of the artists that have submitted pieces. As of right now, you can read interviews from Dan Smith, John Dunbar, Joe Capobianco, Phat Joe, Steve Whittenberger, and David Carbonell. All of these interviews are available on the Hope Gallery Tattoo’s Facebook page.

Let’s start our day with a non-offensive 2:48 video from Dan Smith. While those deeply entrenched in the worlds of graffiti and tattooing may already be familiar with Con Safos–I wasn’t.

From Wikipedia:

con safos: a Chicano term meaning “with safety,” used to mark graffiti. If such a piece was marked with “con safos,” it was off limits, a sort of trademark, and a way of indicating that a graffito was complete and unarguable.

Pictured: Norm from Will Rise Tattoo in Los Angeles, CA tattooing Mike Shea

I don’t want to say there’s been a resurgence in the popularity of the fashion icon that was Coco Chanel… but there’s certainly been an increased interest in both her and her work in the last few years by people who, be it by birth or luck of the draw, are not living at the price point that the modern Chanel brand caters to.

As far as Chanel tattoos go, I think this one really stands apart from the crowd. After they released of a series of temporary tattoos last spring I wasn’t sure if I’d ever stop seeing them as ‘real’ work… this strikes me as a nice in-between.

Tattoo by Dan Smith at High Voltage Tattoo in Los Angeles, CA

To Die For Clothing announced a collaboration shirt with Dan Smith earlier today. The shirt is already for sale on their online store, and comes in the three colors below.

Dan Smith is one of the many tattoo artists in the To Die For Family. I’m sure we’ll see more collaboration shirts in the future involving other tattoo artists.