Horitaka's State of Grace puts on a great Bay Area Tattoo Convention!

[amoxill]

Hey Dari,

Sorry I was slightly distracted and did not formally introduce myself yesterday. Yeah your hubby really lit my ass up! I'm incredibly pleased with the outcome, of course. If you're around tomorrow, I'd love to see what Jondix started on your arm.

[dari]

Scott has talked me into bringing the kids down tomorrow, claiming that he won't be working, so I'll be there shortly after 11, would love to officially meet you.

[dari]

This just in-

Nick Collela's wife wrecked Scott Sylvia's car, pass it on.

[Julio Avila]

What?!?!?!

[dari]

What?!?!?!

Just starting a rumour.

[Nick Colella]

Dari is hurtful

[Lochlan]

Let's hear the stories plus pictures and tattoo pictures as some of us couldn't make it for various reason's......

I did manage to see/meet Nick Colella some days before when Scott was tattooing me and it was a pleasure.

Bring it on..........

[dari]

Can we talk about the blackout? Was anyone on here affected?

[mario desa]

the convention and my 5 days in sf were awesome! could have been a bit busier, but still had a great time. it was very nice to meet you dari, and everyone else i met.

luckily i was in between tattoos when the power went out, but it caused me to miss out on three more tattoos!

[Lochlan]

Just found this site while trying to google pictures from the convention, The Chicago Tattooing Company have a picture plus more.

Soul Signature Tattoo

[Mr. Frog]

I have an unfinished Danny Reed tattoo because of the blackout.

[Bryan Burk]

out of 3 tattoos I was able to nail down that weekend, I missed 2 because of the blackout. I didn't hear of anything being done for people who paid to get in, but I hope something was done.

[The Hyena]

The hotel comped me the last night from the blackout, and it was awesome meeting everyone. I had a great time even though i spent all Saturday nursing the worst migraine I have ever had in my life.

[MsRad]

I have an unfinished Danny Reed tattoo because of the blackout.

I wondered if this was going to happen to anyone.

Sorry, dude. Was the outline at least finished?

[dari]

I could have misheard, but I heard that one of Scott's customer's was in the middle of a tattoo from a guy who was headed back to Japan and wasn't going to be able to finish it this time around. And I know that Robert Atkinson was about to get the very first dot of his Jondix tattoo when the lights went out.

[dari]

Bryan, who did you miss out on getting tattoed by?

[Mr. Frog]

Yeah It's 75% finished

[Jennifer Stell]

We had to cancel 2 appt's... no biggie.

[Bryan Burk]

I was going to tattoo 2 more people Dari, a tattooer named Teddy Safarian and a customer of mine from LA, I gave her $20 back for paying to get in a 2nd day

[hogg]

I just found a video of Richard Stell tattooing during the blackout. I heard that Clay Decker helped him hook up his machine to the USB port on his wife's MacBook:

[hogg]

And now I see that his wife posted two spots above me. Hi, Jennifer!

[henry rodriguez]

i missed out on getting tattooed by chad koeplinger. all i got was a bald calf...luckily i was 1 minute from having anything done

[Jake]

I just found a video of Richard Stell tattooing during the blackout. I heard that Clay Decker helped him hook up his machine to the USB port on his wife's MacBook:

mad respect for that. that's going above and beyond what I would expect from an artist

[Jennifer Stell]

Decker spliced the clipcord, Bill S. had the rotaries, we ran Clay's PC battery dead, then mine.... We got the job done.

Wassup Hogg... Yeah. There were lots of people around us.... I had no idea there were so many people around taking video, kinda crazy.

[Lochlan]

In case anyone missed this, here's Jennifer Stell's Blog on the occurrence.