Ed Hardy is the pioneer of modern day tattooing, training under Norman 'Sailor Jerry' Collins and later under the japanese master Horihide. In this way he learnt the two biggest forms of tattooing and brought them together to create a new modern day tattooing technique. He also went on to bring this to the tattoo community, publish the magazine Tattoo Time, popularize tattooing and help make it a more respected art form. In this movie I had a more in depth idea of why tattoo evolved into what it is, how tattooists worked and what attracted them to certain designs.
Norman 'Sailor Jerry' Collins, or also know as his japanese tattoo master name Hori Smoku (a pun on the way the japanese accent would pronounce Holy Smoke), was a huge influence on tattoo culture. Pushing the boundaries of what could be done with different techniques and opening the door to other big name artists Sailor Jerry is a revered and respected artist. After WWll, Collins opened a shop in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he tattooed sailors constantly. He visited japan and learnt the classic techniques there to bring back and fuse them with american traditional to create the tattoo we know today.
Tattoo Nation tells the story of the Southern California tattoo scene, focusing mainly on the latin american style. Describing how black and grey religious, portrait and gang tattoos came from prisons into the tattoo culture and on into the mainstream. This film wasn't really very relevant to the style of tattooing I am looking at, but it does give another perspective of tattoo. I did see similarities between tattoo cultures and how they began though which was helpful.
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