NEWS

While in San Diego for a friends bachelor party last weekend, I decided it was  a good idea to go sky diving over Tijuana, Mexico!? Yup.  So Amazing. This was an incredible experience put together at the last minute with some long time friends over a couple Bloody Marys at breakfast. If you haven’t tried this, I HIGHLY recommend it. The Guys at Pacific Coast Skydiving in San Diego were so great! They handled it just like I needed..a couple jokes but were incredibly professional and didn’t push it or make fun of how insanely nervous and uncomfortable I was. The whole experience was humbling and really really cool. While going through this, I couldn’t help but think of how great it is to work with someone so calming and confident while experiencing something so new, potentially dangerous, and unknown. On a daily basis someone in our Tattoo Studio is being walked  through a  “first time”  tattoo experience with one of our artists. This is a BIG deal. I remember my first tattoo and was thankfully put through a great experience with that too. After all, It led  me to learning how to tattoo and eventually opening Studio 21 Tattoo. This makes me happy and LOVE the fact that we get to do this for our clients. I can’t help but feel like our crew is just as good and takes as much pride in doing this  as Pacific Coast Skydiving. It means a lot to us. My Skydiving instructor probably won’t remember me, but I will certainly remember him. He ruled. He was kind and fun and informative. I hope that every experience with my clients and all the other amazing artists we have, have offered this to Studio 21 Tattoo Gallery clients. It really can make or break an experience and hinder the clients interest in a potential new hobby or even lifestyle. I certainly am not apposed to sky diving again, I’ve done it, it was fucking incredible but I myself don’t think I’ll go out of my way to do it again. I can check it off my bucket list. I can see how that experience could get addicting just like my clients become so obsessed with getting more tattoos after their first one. Damn. My stomach still feels that crazy feeling it did when I dropped out. Do it. Don’t hesitate on getting your first tattoo, skydiving, or anything else you want to do. It will all work out.

Thanks Jason Taylor for making the call and booking the Jump. Thanks to all the clients who let us walk them through their first tattoo and Thanks to the guys at Pacific Coast Skydiving, I wont’ forget it.

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We love tacos,You love tacos…so we’re gettin’ down on our first ever “Taco Tuesday” on June 21st from 6-9 pm at Studio 21 Tattoo Gallery ( 6020 W. Flamingo 89103 ) . Get a jump on it and take a peek at all the great summertime taco party illustrations to choose from. Pick your taco design from either flash sheet, maybe even get two designs. $50 each (no color, one size fits all ). Studio 21 Tattoo Taco flash is  created by our tattoo artists and only available right here at Studio 21 Tattoo Gallery on THIS date. Get a taco tattoo, get some street tacos, it’s that simple. Let’s PARTY!!

It’s been a handful of years since I’ve know David of Civillian clothing. He’s come a long way and worked his ass off to create an impressive movement in local Las Vegas streetwear/hip hop culture. David’s newest venture, teaming up with a super rad event “Secret Walls” has us all sorts of stoked! If you haven’t heard about this fuckin’ event…lemme drop some knowledge on ya. “Secret Walls” is a super simple event based on a group of six artists givin’ only BLACK paint and each a large white canvas. During a 90 minute stretch each artist is giving this allotted amount of time to paint ANYTHING they want on their blank canvas. After the hour and a half is up, the crowd will be given a chance to voice their opinion on the favorite hand painted canvas one artist at a time…by YELLING THIER BRAINS OUT for their favorite artist! This is a pretty damn stressful time, during the 90 minutes up on a stage painting…Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that the artists are also up on a stage in front of a TON of people pressured by the crowd to come up with somethin’ worth yelling about! “Don’t fuck up”, “Make it cool”,  “Don’t fall off the stage” , “Don’t take another shot”, “Beer me” all  going through my head as I’m pounding beers and taking shots handed up from crowd members..all while painting a giant picture in a super short amount of time. It might seem like 90 minutes isn’t much time to paint a giant canvas from start to finish, because it ISN”T. It goes quick, and is quite the challenge. So the real exciting part about this whole story is that as we sit today here at Studio 21 Tattoo..we’ve takin’ home the first place title ALL THREE EVENTS. No biggie. We’re pretty excited about this! Not only are we enjoying participating and havin’ a great time supporting the event..we’re actually winning too! The goal is to get all three of our guys to the final round so we have all Studio 21 artists battling it out! I honestly think it would be pretty fun battling my buddies and even losing to a couple of the most talented artists i know. Mike Biggs, Tyson and I are super stoked to be a part of this event and can’t thank David and Secret Walls Las Vegas enough. We need you guys to show up and YELL for us at all the upcoming battles, so keep posted and we’ll let you know about the future events and would love to see ya come out and support! Be sure to check out Tysonand Mikes work!

Thanks Guys!

Austin Spencer

Owner/Artist

Instead of complaining that Las Vegas doesn’t have anything going on..or no CULTURE…Blah Blah Blah….do yourself a favor, get out and check out what this crazy city and the little hole in the wall small business have to offer. Stop by Studio 21 Tattoo Gallery on May 21st 2016 from 6-9pm to help raise money for a great cause! Studio 21 Tattoo is crazy enough to have ART, BEER, DONUTS, HOT DOGS, and ROBOTS all in one place at the SAME time. Team 987, a local High School Robotics program is in need of some funds to help get some of their super talented passionate Robot builders to China to compete in another WORLD Championship event…NO BIGGIE. Studio 21 is gonna help bring some of our coolest friends together and throw a kick ass party to help make some SH*T HAPPEN for these guys! We’ll have a Live Robot Demo from the Cimmarron Memorial High School kids at Team 987 themselves. Joseph James Brewery will be out to serve up a tasting of they’re ever so impressive selection of locally brewed beers. Buldogis Gourmet Hot Dogs will be on site with the best Hot Dogs…EVER, including VEGAN options. Studio 21 also put together an impressive line up of the most talented artists who are going to hand paint Donut shaped canvases to be displayed and auctioned off via a silent auction at the show! Collectively donating all sorts of goodies, gift certificates, merchandise, art and prizes our friends and clients will be putting together some impressive gift baskets for the raffle we’re having too! So Get the kids, your ol’ lady, handsome husband, your lover/partner and your neighbor, or your tender date together and come by to check out a fun culturally stimulating little event that’s helping do something BIG for some really rad Las Vegas kids. We really hope to see you there!

Austin Spencer

Owner/ Artist

Studio 21 Tattoo Gallery

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Here’s a quick video recap of the event and how it all worked  out! Please check it out!!