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bio* click here to read more of this interview with Jon Clue.
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Let's start with a work history ... what did you do before tattooing ... how did you actually get into tattooing ... did you apprentice ... with who ... what shop ... and how long you were there?
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Work history eh ... ? Lets see, before I started tattooing I was living in Brooklyn, NY. Just chillin', basically...you know, painting graf, making that dollar out on the block. I was really into the acid house scene in Manhattan when I was like 16 to right when I started tattooing when I was 19. I was always into the visuals I would get while listening to the music; I was always intrigued by the images that were rolling behind my closed eyelids.
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When I was 19 I rolled into a tattoo shop in Selden Long Island, NY, called Tattoo Lou's Artistic Tattoo of Selden. I brought them a variety of sketches and pen and ink drawings and they hired me right away. I stayed at Lou's for a bit over a year. When I left there, I went to Lotus Tattoo in Sayville, New York, also on Long Island. At Lotus I had the opportunity to grow with Joe Capobianco, who was turning out some of the nicest work anyone had ever seen out on 'the island.' I definitely had a blast working with Joe! What an awesome person, aside from being an amazing artist... click here for more...
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