Tattoo legend Freddy Negrete talks with Rick Thorne about the black-and-gray style that grew out of California prisons, working as a tattoo technical adviser on around 30 films like Con Air and Blood In Blood Out, and how flash and the internet changed the trade. He tells how he gave himself a stick-and-poke tattoo with his sister's mascara at 12, then got good at tattooing in the California Youth Authority's Tamarack lockup program, and talks about his mentor Ed Hardy.
CHAPTERS
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:25 Meet Freddy Negrete
0:08:29 Tattooing for the movies
0:11:27 Who owns a tattoo design?
0:17:10 Flash, shops & the internet
0:22:10 Clients & quality work
0:27:38 Black & gray from the prisons
0:36:22 First tattoo with mascara at 12
0:38:16 The Tamarack lockup program
0:45:24 Single-needle realism
0:49:47 Color tattoos & Ed Hardy
0:54:27 Realism & references
0:59:36 The Negrete name & Vatican
1:06:34 Outro & credits
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