I was watching the 2012 Hell City promo earlier when I heard Durb Morrison say next year is the ten year anniversary. Wow, where has the time gone?
If you’ve never been to a Hell City before, you really need to go. Talk to any tattoo artist and regular tattoo convention attendee, and they’ll all say the Hell City shows are really one of the best shows of the year.
It’s hard not to know who Durb Morrison is. Between his tattooing, running Hell City, True Tubes, Pint Sized Paintings and all of the other side projects he has going on – you’ve seen his name somewhere. But what do any of actually know about him?
We recently sat down and talked to Durb about his time in the tattoo industry, opening his first tattoo shop with $500, and creating the Hell City Tattoo Festival.
Last weekend, Off the Map Tattoo featured the final show of the Pint Sized Paintings. For those unable to make it, Durb Morrison made a short video of his travels, the setup, and the event.
If you’re not familiar with the Pint Sized Paintings, click here to learn about his miniature project.
Everyone’s stepping up to be involved with helping raise money to sent to Japan. FK Irons and Eikon Device along with Nick Baxter and Durb Morrison are hosting a charity auction–via eBay, of course.
Kevin and I aren’t tattooers, but we’ve heard good things about FK Irons from people that are. Plus, 100% of the proceeds toward assisting Japan. Sounds pretty fucking win-win to me. Go head and bid on items from FK Irons, Eikon, True Tubes, Nick Baxter and more!
Durb Morrison posted this picture on his Facebook yesterday. According to the post, the app will be free and should be available in March for the iPhone and iPad.
Last year during the Detroit Motor City Expo, Durb walked around and handed out the canvases for the original Pint Sized Paintings book. It’s only fitting that all of the paintings will be on display this year.
If you’re not familiar with the Pint Sized Paintings, check out our interview with Durb about the project.
Hell City is wishing everyone Happy Hellidays! Click here to see the full animation.
After Hell City was all wrapped up, Durb Morrison took an extended road trip down to Texas. During a brief stop in Austin, Durb spent some time getting tattooed by Nick Baxter. Durb joins a long list of tattoo artists who are sporting tattoo work by Nick.
As of right now, these are the only pictures I’m finding online. I can’t wait to see what the finished picture looks like.
Hell City Phoenix is less than thirty days away–I don’t know about you, but I desperately need a vacation.
I’ll be there representing Tattoo Snob (Julene’s missing out, pansy), and loafing around by the pool. No contests planned this time around – but we’re open to suggestions if you guys have any.
I almost forgot how much fun I had in Columbus, but Alissa Brunelli did a great job reminding me by uploading all of her pictures from the event.
Hell City released their new iPhone app, Tattoo IQ, yesterday on iTunes. While we’re not going to give away answers to any of the questions, we’re proud to say that we achieved the ‘Tattoo Guru’ status on the first second try.
