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Brett Kimmins, Correspondent Published 7:01 a.m. ET March 22, 2017 | Updated 3:56 p.m. ET March 22, 2017
Great tattoos accept abundant stories, and this boom may accept the greatest one of all. The architecture is simple ('AHHH' in apparent handwriting), but the beheading was during a skydive, absolutely a added acute best than a boom parlor.
Brody Longo, buyer of Slingin' Ink, a Point Pleasant Bank based business, which provides a ample ambit of boom designs, tattoos Michael Giannone of Bank at his business in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ Wednesday March 8, 2017. (Photo: Tanya Breen)Buy Photo
POINT PLEASANT BEACH - In the summer of 1993, Brody Longo got a boom of a affiliated angle on his leg, and as the aperture of Slingin' Ink Boom shut abaft him, he knew he had done the appropriate thing.
“I bethink walking out the door,” said Longo, who was 18 at the time. “I got tattooed and as anon as I pushed the aperture accessible and absolved out of the boom place, I had a activity appear over me that I could appear aback and do it again. It was aloof a baby boom that I had done to my leg and from there, the berry was planted, so to speak.”
That berry would eventually abound to demography over that actual shop, Slingin' Ink Tattoo, on Arnold Avenue in Point Pleasant Beach.
Tattoos accept gone boilerplate today, but aback Longo started, anatomy art was absolutely beneath trendy.
“My accompany were about two or three years earlier than me and they were accepting their own tattoos done from an associate out of his own house,” said Longo. “It absolutely did not accept the ablaze that it does now and, in fact, tattooing at that time had a actual abrogating stigma absorbed to it. It aloof began as one of those things that was not depicted in a acceptable light, but it would anon accessible up and get into the accustomed accessible as the years progressed.”
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At the time he got that boom from Slingin' Ink, Longo had been alive at odd jobs, including painting houses and buildings.
Longo lived about the block from Slingin' Ink and concluded up affair his approaching wife, Colleen Broderick, who had additionally gotten tattoos there. She set up a affair amid Longo and the shop's owner, James Heaney, in September 1993. Heaney and Longo fabricated a deal: Longo would acrylic the central of the shop’s walls, and in barter Heaney would accord Longo addition tattoo.
The accord formed out. Longo and Heaney hit it off and Longo became a approved at the shop, advancing in and accepting tattooed added and more.
Joining the shop
Later, aback Heaney absent one of his boom artists, he contacted Longo, told him his asperity and offered him a job to assignment as a boom artist. Longo happily accustomed and went on to apprentice the craft.
“I had a little bit of antecedent cartoon acquaintance above-mentioned to acquirements how to tattoo,” said Longo. “Once I started alive with this boilerplate and acquirements the designs, it absolutely aloof channeled my adeptness and gave me direction. If I didn’t alpha tattooing, I would not be cartoon appropriate now and art would be out of my life.”
After a year of tattooing at Slingin' Ink, Longo was accomplishing so able-bodied that he was offered the adventitious to buy the boutique in 1995, which he appropriately accepted. Heaney had bigger things in mind, so he gave Longo the keys to the commonwealth and Longo has been active the boutique anytime since.
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Brody Longo, buyer of Slingin' Ink, a Point Pleasant Bank based business, which provides a ample ambit of boom designs, tattoos Michael Giannone of Bank at his business in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ Wednesday March 8, 2017. (Photo: Tanya Breen)
Different world
During Longo’s aboriginal canicule in the business, he got a lot of his account from magazines and from activity to boom conventions.
“When I was advancing up after the internet and aloof application the designs on the wall, it was a altered world. I did not accept the advertence advantage of the buzz or the web,” said Longo. “I absolutely had to assignment adamantine and the alone affair I had to body my acquaintance was magazines and a aggregate anthology of my admired designs.”
“Many of my account came from that that aforementioned being that I admired and that absolutely aggressive me," Longo said. "You absolutely had to put your time in and it wasn’t like now, breadth aggregate is sped up with the internet. It took me a acceptable 10 years to get breadth I am today, compared to now, aback it would booty the boilerplate being about three years.”
Currently, abounding bodies are accepting architecture account for their tattoos from the website Pinterest.
“Pinterest in one of the better boom sites about appropriate now,” said Longo. “Basically, bodies can go assimilate the armpit and browse their admired boom design, breadth they are all aggregate and categorized. For example, if addition wants a 'dream catcher' tattoo, they can acquisition pictures of those tattoos acquaint by accidental bodies in the site. It basically a amusing media armpit for tattoos.”
The boutique is abutting to the beach, so artlessly abounding of the best accepted tattoos for Slingin' Ink focus on fishing and surfing.
“It comes appealing accustomed for bodies who alive about this area,” said Longo. “We do a lot of nautical, water-themed tattoos and bodies approach appealing heavily toward that style.”
Longo hopes to abide to do what he is currently accomplishing for as continued as he possibly can.
“No amount what, I would consistently appear aback to this because it’s what keeps me ashore and it comes from the inside,” said Longo. “I can consistently about-face the assignment allotment off and do what I do.”
Brody Longo, buyer of Slingin' Ink, a Point Pleasant Bank based business, which provides a ample ambit of boom designs, poses central his business in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ Wednesday March 8, 2017. (Photo: Tanya Breen)
SLINGIN' INK TATTOO
Location: 616 Arnold Ave., Point Pleasant Beach
Phone: 732-295-2582
Website: www.sligininktattoo.com
Hours: 1 to 9 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays; 1 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 1 to 7 p.m. Sundays.
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