There is a TON of pictures out there, and hopefully people follow through and send them so I can make a HUGE picture post. Until then, here's some pictures of Joanna, Nova, and I with some Gods Girls.
GUUH, it was so amazing.
Thursday we were on the road, car packed, Mick from Eighteen Visions driving, Joanna in the front, and Nova and I in the back of her escaladeee! Baller!
The convention itself was a BLAST. I made so so so so so many friends it's incredible. I met so many people and was on stimulus overload, it felt like my head was spinning!
Seriously, I think Nova and I were MADE for conventions. And we totally bring it out in each other, because like me, Nova is down for ANYTHING. I love this girl and she is my wifey.
We were running around, passing out stickers like a mother fucker, and just making people laugh and feel good. We mingled with fans, passerbyes, and other vendors. If people didn't say yes to wearing a sticker, I offered to apply the sticker personally with my mouth ;).
One good thing about this convention was that everyone and their mom smoked. I made so many friends that came by often to smoke me out... I barely smoked half of my stash and that is always a good thing to the seasoned pot smoker.
I got to know the guys from Vintage and Baba and the gang are really fucking cool. Especially the old mother fuckers that work there, they are so funny.
Saturday I got tattooed for fucking free! by Brandon Collins of Nightmare Studios in Reno, Nevada. A HUGE piece that is probably my favorite. It's a book (because I LOVE LOVE LOVE books) with a really cool traditional wing coming off of it and a rose and these cool thorn vines. I love books so much that in 7th grade, I won an award for reading the most books (25) out of anyone that year, among them were Moby Dick and Siddhartha and some other cool books.
Anyway, back to Brandon because he is awesome. He is a really, really good artist. Like amazing. His work his really good. So good, I think I only want him to tattoo me from now on. Like he could finish my arms and it would look exactly like dream theives and he uses bright and amazing colors.
Jen Minor was also there, wife of DJ Minor, and let me tell you.... if you are looking to get tattooed by a girl, you MUST get tattooed by Jen. She's fucking hot, has amazing tattoos, and is one of the best girl tattoo artists I've ever seen. And she's fucking hilarious, and has the happiest, cutest daughter EVER.
Check them both out. Their work is sick... Brandon: www.myspace.com/tattoosbybrandonc and Jen: www.myspace.com/canvasjunkie.
I also won second in the Fake Orgasm contest. A guy won 1st, but not because he was better (I think, or maybe I'm just bitter because they had a plaque for first and not for second), but the crowd supported the guy because it's clever and funny. Oh well, I did pretty good.
At the end of the night, with my arm all bloodied and wrapped, Nova and I stripped down to our panties on the stage. It was pretty hot, and I even made some dollar bills. After we were done and got off the stage, people SWARMED us to take pictures.
There were even creepy buttholes who tried to latch onto my nipples with their mouths, but not even I could blame them ;) haha.
It was such a good day. The whole day I felt like I was smiling or laughing. And I really feel like us Burning Angel girls enhance people's experience.... over and over people were telling me that we made the event for them.
I ran into an old artist I worked with at Frontline Tattoo in San Diego. He had moved to Seattle some years ago. It was really good to see him, catch up on old drama, and re-hash old memories from the first tattoo shop I ever worked at.
I really love being apart of the tattooed community. Especially conventions! And the dynamic is really interesting. They seem to put all the different races with each other, like all the cholo mexican guys are in one corner, white people in another, and I had seen some guys nervous at the thought, thinking that fights were going to break out, but no one fights. At least none of the vendors do, usually just the patrons.
There is a real sense of comradery. It makes me miss working in a tattoo shop.
I would love to start a blog. Joanna was telling me that my pictures and videos are great, and that I'm pretty and everything, but what I really have is an amazing personality. That sounds arrogant to say of myself, but she did say this to me, haha. And if I could get to know people over the internet, or learn how to successfully portray myself in words and pictures, then I would be able to be much more involved in my work.
Not only that, but I have a lot of crazy fucking stories that I want to tell.
Oh and one more thing! Joanna has instilled in me a love for martinis. But I can only have them really classy with grey goose vodka and extra extra dirty!!!
Anyway, I love Burning Angel so so so much. The girls are amazing, and I have had so many awesome experiences because of Burning Angel. Can't wait for LA Erotica!!!!!!
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