247 Ink Magazine (December/January) 2016 Issue#12 | Page 238

that truck, you’re getting kicked out. and making businesses. And he saw that I was doing art and he said that my job was getting in the way of my career. So he was the one who talked me into quitting and doing film and art. So I get what you’re saying about that. Same thing, you got to take that leap. You’re still in contact with him. Right? I’m building a mini truck. And inside I’m going to have freestyle music only. If you play any other music in He is in Orlando Florida now. He still does his business stuff and everything. When I told him I quit my job he told me, you really quit your job. I said yeah, he said you’re really in shit now. Lol He had to say that crap huh. He told me don’t worry about it. you’re going to do fine. Do you do a lot of conventions? I did at first with the other shop that I was with but I saw that tattooing was getting overshadowed by stuff that had nothing to do with it like MMA, porn, punk rock and stuff which is fine, but it takes away from that tattooing. Like here, you have it every now and then, but it’s still tattoo related. There’s a bikini show a tattoo show, freak show. But when you have something outside of the industry, it becomes a mess. So that tattoo shows that I was doing in the west coast was body art expo. So that’s what their marketing 236