![]() ![]() They had a couple of locations I worked in one then got the opportunity to work in the one that Bryant was in. I had been working for about 5 or 6 years when I got a spot at Deano Cook’s Psycho Tattoo. I worked at another studio in Tempe, Arizona, at a place called Club Tattoo. working a couple of summers there and coming home in between. Yes, I guested in N.J in Wildwood, on the Boardwalk on 24th St. I apprenticed there for around 8 months until I got an offer to do a guest spot in New Jersey. Is an apprenticeship is the best way to learn the business?Ībsolutely! Apprenticeships are important it’s not just learning how to tattoo that is important, it’s learning to respect tattooing! Anyway, I stayed there for about six months and then moved to a place called “Stylin’ Tattoos”. I started tattooing in September “94 in Phoenix Arizona, I had been getting tattooed at another shop but they wouldn’t apprentice me unless I paid them like $10,000, but I lucked out – a tattooist I knew needed a place to stay so I helped him out and got a foot in the door… I think I got a tattoo per week for about 3 months, till he said he wouldn’t work on me for free anymore! Well, me not knowing what I was in for said ‘Hell yeah!’ There was no turning back from that point on it was 2 days before my 20th birthday. He was apprenticing and needed ‘guinea pigs’. I was first inspired to tattoo when a friend offered me a tattoo. Skin Deep caught up with them to hear how ATG came about… ![]() ![]() Welcome to Against The Grain Tattoo… Opened in 2002 by Wes Diffie and Lisa Murphy, Against The Grain also has a third artist in Bryant Mickler. On the corner of Eau Gallie Boulevard and Cypress Avenue sits a little old wooden building, with a front porch. In 1969 the cities of Eau Gallie and Melbourne voted to merge, forming modern day Melbourne. Probably the first thing that comes to mind is Australia, but there is a city on East Florida’s Space Coast that bears the same name. ![]()
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