Old Tattoo Documentaries

[ShawnPorter]

Make sure to select the 720p HD version if your monitor supports it- quality is much better. The Hardy snippet with Phil Sparrow is uploading now.

[dari]

Shawn, thank you so much, you are a very generous man.

[ShawnPorter]

[mario desa]

super cool! thanks for sharing! clips from that sparrow/hardy one are used in that hardy documentary that was done recently.

[Iwar]

This is awesome!! Thanks Shawn. Looking forward to more uploads.

[jayessebee]

Thank you sir these are fan-fukkin-tastic clips

Man I really miss the 90s sometimes

[sboyer]

man i am no tattooer but it seemed like ed was working pretty fast on that jap sleeve he was doing.

[Avery Taylor]

Thanks for taking the time to sort out and upload all this stuff. Those videos were a great way to start my morning.

[nico]

like like like

[hogg]

So very stoked. Thanks!

[The Hyena]

So awesome. Thanks!

[ShawnPorter]

Today is Cliff Raven day. Some (edited) footage from 1974 and a documentary called "Tattoo Take Two: A conversation with Cliff Raven"

[nicky papers]

these are really great, thank for putting these up Shawn.

[SkinheadPete]

you should get them transferred to DVD and sell them. I would buy them all!

[ShawnPorter]

They're not mine to charge for, Pete. I'm just glad they're getting seen.

I've had people send me stuff in trade; drawings, books, etc- but I wouldn't feel comfortable making money from them.

Speaking of- Cliff Raven. 1974.

This video features Cliff tattooing in New York & Florida. And generally not wearing pants.

There was no audio originally, so I decided to leave it silent for now. Enjoy-

[Petri Aspvik]

I have always dreamed that someone would do stuff like this. And now that it is happening it feels... normal.

But I love it! HENRY ROLLINS

KILL

[Petri Aspvik]

super cool! thanks for sharing! clips from that sparrow/hardy one are used in that hardy documentary that was done recently.

What documentary?!

[MsRad]

They're not mine to charge for, Pete. I'm just glad they're getting seen.

I've had people send me stuff in trade; drawings, books, etc- but I wouldn't feel comfortable making money from them.

Speaking of- Cliff Raven. 1974.

This video features Cliff tattooing in New York & Florida. And generally not wearing pants.

There was no audio originally, so I decided to leave it silent for now. Enjoy-

love it! thanks Shawn!

[Nick Colella]

everyone talks about how forward thinking Higgs was with tattooing..shit Cliff Raven was so forward thinking he was tattooing with no clothes on..maybe all the youngsters will start doing that now..

[ShawnPorter]

Sometimes it's nice to get tattooed when you're not wearing pants.

The quality on this is TERRIBLE, but.... hell... thats the point of getting this stuff saved.

[Lochlan]

Thank you SO much for taking the time to salvage these and willing to share them here!!!

Do you know why some are embedded and require clicking to YouTube while others you can view on your post?

[ShawnPorter]

cause I keep messing with settings and forgetting to unclick them. I'll eventually unclick it all so they'll be embeddable.

[Lochlan]

Right on, thanks. Just wanted to double check it wasn't on our end as our tech guy did a few changes to try and make it easier to upload/post videos here.

[mario desa]

What documentary?!

there's a documentary called TATTOO THE WORLD on ed hardy. it came out in 2009/2010. it's been shown at some festivals and in LA and SF. it's not on dvd, but i was tipped with a director's copy. it's pretty awesome.

[CaptCanada]

Wow, these are great. I will not talk down upon packrats anymore, now that I know what types of treasure they can collect.