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Hardy was born on January 5, 1945, in Des Moines, Iowa.[1] He grew up in Corona del Mar, in Newport Beach, California.[2] As a preteen a young Ed Hardy was interested in tattoos: one of his friends' fathers had Army tattoos, and it intrigued him so much that he took pens and colored pencils to draw on other neighborhood kids.[3] Hardy also credits his mother, who supported his work and encouraged him to follow his passions.[4]


Hardy had his first art exhibit at the Laguna Beach Art Festival after graduating from high school.[4] He attended the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking.[5] While there, Hardy learned drawing from Joan Brown, etching from Gordon Cook, and sculpting from Manuel Neri.[3] He was later offered a full scholarship and graduate position for a Master of Fine Arts program at Yale.[4][6] He declined and instead pursued his interest in tattoos.[4]


In 1982, Hardy and his wife Francesca Passalacqua formed Hardy Marks Publications.[10] Under this marque, they began publishing the five-book series Tattootime.[5] Hardy Marks has published more than 25 books about alternative art,[10] including catalogs of Hardy's work and that of Sailor Jerry Collins. EEE Productions (Ed Hardy, Ed Nolte, and Ernie Carafa) put together an influential tattoo convention on the Queen Mary in 1982,[11] as well as organizing many other tattoo conventions and expos.


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When Hardy returned a year later, he opened Realistic Tattoo in San Francisco, the first appointment-only shop devoted to custom designs. Realistic is the reason tattoo shops today are more like art studios, galleries, or hair salons; the reason name tattooists have waiting lists stretching sometimes years into the future; the reason more people plan out their tattoo collections and research the best artist for a particular job; the reason so many art school graduates are pushing ink; and the reason that despite the ocean of bad skin art sloshing around the globe, the best work is increasingly excellent. Do an online search, for instance, of Duke Riley (Brooklyn), Roxx TwoSpirit (San Francisco), Colin Dale (Copenhagen), Saira Hunjan (London), or Yann Black (Montreal), then sit back and allow your brain to quake.


Until recently, that was a failed mission. The establishment art world has shown little interest in tattoo as design, fine art, street art, or fashion, for reasons involving money, class bias, and the difficulty of exhibiting human bodies. But the first stirrings of change are evident: last year, the Honolulu Museum of Art mounted a show of ten contemporary Hawaiian tattooists. The Milwaukee Art Museum just opened an exhibit of the work of Amund Dietzel, a legendary Old School Milwaukee tattooist. And this year, museums in Germany (The Museum Villa Rot) and Switzerland (the Gewerbemuseum) have organized tattoo exhibitions.


This attention to placement and body-wide composition is a defining characteristic of the current tattoo renaissance. (Yesterday I walked to the bank in my small Hudson River town, and passed a young woman wearing a half sleeve tattoo with lovely Hokusai-like waves splashing down her upper arm. Hello, Ed Hardy!)


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After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute with plans for a career in the fine arts, Hardy veered off course into the seamy world of drunken sailors and fallen women to pursue his childhood obsession: tattooing.


At the age of 10, he knew the magic of art and art on living canvasses was not only magical, but mystical and powerful. For the next twenty years, he immersed himself in the world of tattoos. With his fine art training and drawing on his vast knowledge of art history, the art and cultures of Asia, Polynesia and Mexico, he refined and reinvigorated tattoo imagery.


Tattooing came to Europe and North America fairly recently, with sailors learning the craft abroad and becoming tattooists themselves. As time went on, advancements in technology, changes in pigments and improvements in sanitation brought tattoos into the mainstream. Now social media and research and development are poised to disrupt this artform again. Go beyond the body art on this episode of Trailblazers.


Evidence of tattooing can be found all over the world in the remains of many early indigenous cultures, but until somewhat recently tattooing was an unknown practice through most of Europe. That started to change in the 18th century, when sailors, fascinated by the body art they encountered on their voyages, brought tattoos home with them on their bodies.


Well, Amund Dietzel was Danish. He was a merchant seaman and was shipwrecked in Canada. He tattooed a little bit in Canada. He had those skills with him from aboard ship. He was a classic tattooing sailor.


Dietzel made his way south through Eastern Canada, eventually landing in the US. Here his fully tattooed body earned him a job as the tattooed man in circus side shows. After his act, he would set up a small table and, for a fee, tattoo curios audience members.


Those designs and those imagery that was popular in Europe just kind of transferred right over to America. I mean, a lot of those designs, all they really needed to do was change the flag on the ship designs, and the anchor designs, and the eagle designs. They had European flags. They just put an American flag and the design just crossed right over and worked perfect in an American shop. It is ironic that after the natives had tattooed in North America for centuries that it was European immigrants that brought professional tattooing to the states.


His tattoos were taking kind of the traditional idea, but giving them just a little twist, just a little tweak that made them kind of unique. I mean, you see Sailor Jerry tattooing and you kind of begin to recognize it. It was very bold, very graphic, very colorful. Strong, is how I think I would describe it best.


Born Norman Keith Collins, Sailor Jerry settled in Hawaii in 1930 to set up a tattoo shop after a stint in the Navy. A little over a decade later, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Suddenly, the US was at war and thousands of soldiers were on shore leave in Honolulu. The youth, bravado and fear of death that Sailor Jerry saw in these American servicemen became a deep thread in his art. His colorful images of pinup girls, dice and dollars signs, juxtaposed with hearts, anchors, and odes to mothers, remain iconic to this day. Ironically, Jerry also became influenced by the culture of the country that bombed Pearl Harbor, Japan. Sailor Jerry studied the Japanese tattoo masters, becoming the first westerner to fuse American and Asian artistic sensibilities. Through this merger, he created his own art form, beautiful and wildly stylized images that have influenced generations of tattoo artists that came after him.


He was an old salt. He had been everywhere. He knew everything, and he defined tattooing from the ground up. I looked to him as a father more than anything, and a great teacher, and I cherish every moment that I ever spent with him.


Sailor Jerry was building his legacy well before he met Kate. In 1961, in reaction to a hepatitis outbreak that prompted New York City to ban tattooing, he became a vocal advocate for enhanced sterilization.


It was a quest that Sailor Jerry and Shanghai Kate tackled together. Pretending to be sign painters, they were able to get pigment samples from companies that wanted nothing to do with the underground art of tattooing.


Fernandez Rivas and his team have created a needle free injection tool they call the bubble gun. This device uses a laser to heat liquids until bubbles start to form. Then the expanding bubbles push the liquid through a very small channel at speeds fast enough to penetrate the skin. Research into the bubble gun began in hopes of modernizing medical injections, but Fernandez Rivas soon realized there was another industry that might be interested in needle free injections.


When we started doing this sort of exploratory research to find out who else has been trying to inject small volumes superficially into the skin, and we came to the conclusion that sounded very similar to tattooing. We first went out to the streets and started talking to tattoo artists, people who have got tattoos themselves. They show me all the different tools they were using, the type of needles, their procedures, and then I start learning the art and the craftsmanship that this entails.


The interstitial fluids are these fluids that are fascinating, that are already going around our dermis. It already carry a lot of information from ourselves, so then as we were introduced to biosensors, and we were also understanding more how the skin works and how the interstitial fluids work, we put these things together and, wow, it will actually make tattoos that are not static in color, and they could react with these fluids that we have inside of our skin. 2ff7e9595c


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