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Ink-n-Iron Fest photo by Nicole Reed

Tattoo events are taking place every thirty seconds throughout the summer, from New Jersey to Taiwan. Here’s our pick list for the next few months to get you planning your own tattoo tour.

June

This weekend, June 11-13th, at the Ink-n-Iron show, custom cars, pin-up girls, Rockabilly bands, and top tattooists converge around and aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. I’ve been following the road trips of artists and vendors on Twitter as they make their way over for the seventh year of this sleep-less event.

A couple of weeks ago, I listed the Masterworks of Body Art exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art in
North San Diego in a must-see events post. James Tran, shop manager and apprentice under Bill Canales of Full Circle Tattoo, was there with Bill and clients of the studio, and sent along photos and a quick review of the show.

Check the photos, including the tattoo above by Rob Benavides of Flying Panther Tattoo, on our Flickr set.

Here’s what James had to say about the exhibit:

For the tattoo artist Scott Campbell, a life of adventure, marked with ink, now includes a gallery show.

See more here: Drawn to a Larger Scale

Don Ed Hardy, the famed tattoo artist, and his backers battle constantly with counterfeiters who create fake Web sites to peddle knock-offs of his gear.

Read more from the original source: Ed Hardy’s Tattoo Art Is Booty for Digital Pirates

A graffiti writer and tattoo artist talks about how he got his start, and his subway-platform encounter with the legendary Iz the Wiz.

Read the original post: Self-Expression in Spray Paint and Ink