Survived the Quake NYC 2011!

So yeah, As you all know we had a small earth quake on Tuesday Aug 23rd, Things got a little shaky, but over all i think it was rather small and no significant damage was reported. Obviously this didn't stop a bunch of retards from running in to the streets, delaying traffic and waving there arms in the air like a wacky inflatable arm flailing tube man! After standing around and staring at each others genitals for several hours most people went home for the day. After realizing what the majority of our citizens where up too Joe had a great idea! He sat down and sketched up a tattoo of New York State with "Survived the Quake" lettering. He posted it up on facebook as a Gag, and priced it at $30. A few minutes later our friend and loyal customer John was down. He came in and got it inked on his waist. Holy shit we thought, someone actually had the balls to get this done! Joe posted it on facebook, and next thing we know its on tons of blogs and all over the web. The following morning Joe gets a call from The Daily News! They interviewed him and John and took pictures. Now its in today's paper! Daily News Page 14! "Tat's All he Wrote..." You can check out the article or the links we posted on facebook. Good Times! Thank you for supporting our shop, and a special thanks to John for coming thru.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/new-york-city-earthquake-_n_936809.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_tats_all_he_wrote_about_miniquake_ink_artist_finds_at_least_1_taker.html

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/at_least_one_ma.php

http://ny.racked.com/archives/2011/08/25/brooklyns_citizen_ink_studios_doing_survived_the_quake_tattoos.php

http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/wpix-man-gets-i-survived-quake-tattoo,0,7446323.story

1 Year Anniversary!

So we havent posted much on here, our apologies. Been busy! Lets sum it up: Baltimore tattoo convention in April. It was our 1st as a shop and it was awesome, met some great artists from Pittsburgh Mike and Mark. We just got back from the tattoo convention in Erie PA. We again were lucky enough to have a really cool shop next to our booth, Bitter Hearts Tattoo from Ohio! Really miss these friends which we've made along our adventures, but theres no place like home, NYC!!!!!

Now, down to the nitty gritty. IT IS OUR 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! To commemorate this joyous occasion we are doing the same deal we did when we 1st opened our doors. July 1st - 3rd we are doing 50% off Tattoos & Piercings! We are not taking appointments but we are opening a little earlier than usual at 12PM. Its going to be first come first serve for walk-ins. Hope to see everyone there!

promotions again.....

OKay we drew up a bunch of design that we want to do, so the deal is this, all of them are a hundred bucks ($100.00) we do them once and the stencil gets tossed, secondly if you have an idea we will do it but it will only be in the style that we want to do it in (japanese or neo-traditional) no tribals rosaries or any generic tattoo ideas. Sorry not that kind of promotion, if you do not like the sketch, it will not be getting done, if the tattoo is small we do it for less cash. send me an email if you are intarested. thanks guys.

Something to keep you going.....

So between doing everything for the convention and then on top of that dealing with customers who seem to be coming in a lot lately, (awesome) we also deal with our personal lives, and now since our personal lives are intertwined with our work lives it is hard to make sense of what is really going on. But here are some new tattoos by Joe, thanks for all the support guys.

Flash Sheet for Vday

This is some of our flash for V Day, come check the rest out here at Citizen Ink, we've got some awesome deals going on!

V-Day!!!!!

Okay, so the day is almost upon us, that is if you care. We will be doing promotions for Valentines Day, the flash will be uploaded this week.... so stick around, and promo prices will be revealed the same day.

Inking G-Life for Life!

Today Joe tattooed a reggaeton artist named G-life. Super cool dude from the neighborhood, and you know how much we love supporting local artists and local anything really. But this guy's talent really stood out to us. So check him out, and support him, or die......

G-Life El Emperador

www.facebook.com/glife.music

www.youtube.com/glife4k

www.myspace.com/glifeelemperador

glifeelemperador@gmail.com