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Pete's Earl Noble, and Fort Lauderdale's Vatican Tattoos' Marisa LaRen and Tyler Nolan, who is a friend and apprentice of Blinston's. Though that might be a sweet sentiment to share, Blinston's mettle will surely be tested in competition with a Florida-heavy showing of talent that includes Dave Clarke of Fort Walton's Sacre-X-Pression, St. 'The name was conceived while sitting around one day with all eight artists before we ever opened,' Blinston explains, 'and we wanted the name to reflect a spirit that we all work together as a team, a co-op per se, a real sense of togetherness as an artistic studio that believes in the tattoo and piercing industry and remains friends in and out of the studio.' (There's another, Big Brain 2, in Pompano Beach.) Since 2005, Blinston has called South Florida home, and his No Hard Feelings Tattoo Gallery has been an inking staple in Coral Springs since 2007, when he opened it with Ted Mendoza and Gabe Tucker. The Nebraska native then returned to his hometown of Omaha, where he opened the first Big Brain shop with fellow Marine friend Smitty. I'm a self-taught artist.' His skills were sought-after by his fellow soldiers even when he returned stateside, and his first commissions were for custom designs his friends wanted tattooed.Дeciding to pursue tattooing as a career, Blinston got a job at Bad Dog Tattoos in Orlando after his discharge and apprenticed under master artist Mike Carrico to hone his skills. So we ordered it, and I started tattooing in the barracks. Then, he says, 'My Marine friends convinced me that getting a mail-order tattoo kit was a great idea. There, he whiled away his downtime by drawing portraits of his colleagues to send home to their families as Christmas presents. This show is real and gets tough, and what happens to the artists under stress, food and sleep deprivation, and social interaction causes real responses of hurt, anger, sadness, and even a fight-or-flight emotion to come out.'Д«linston has 18 years of experience as a tattooist, but he got his start while deployed in 1994 with the Marine Corps on assignment with a special-operations unit in Bosnia. There have been a dozen different kinds of TV shows for tattooing some are reality, some are game-show competitions.

'It is as mainstream as motorcycles and burger joints. 'Tattooing has become a huge part of our culture this century,' Blinston says.

The show brought out the toughness he showed as a Marine. The popular show pools from an ever-growing pond of tattoo artists and pits them in competitions that test their skills as artists in general and as inkers in the varied genres of the tattoo world.

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Ink Master, a competition series now in its sixth incarnation, is judged by local tattoo celebrity Chris NГєГ±ez, world-renowned tattooist Oliver Peck, and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro. I left Florida for New York in February with one goal: win the $100,000, be the next 'Ink Master,' and give it everything I have, at any cost, and with 100 percent effort.' Audra said if I was going to leave for months, leave my three children, new home, business, and many community volunteer positions, my only goal should be to do my best and win. He was pumped to win the contest from the moment he was cast: 'When I sat down with my beautiful girlfriend, Audra, right after I received the call, the 'green light' to do the show, we talked about my goals. The artist and owner of Coral Springs' No Hard Feelings Tattoo Gallery is one of the contestants on Ink Master, a show airing on Spike TV. In other words, he's perfect for reality TV. Chris Blinston, a former Marine, has the impressive physical presence of a Rottweiler and the subtlety of an atomic bomb.

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