003: Chris O'Donnell

Books Closed: Tattoos and the Internet Collide, Hosted by Andrew Stortz

Andrew Stortz

Comedy Interviews, Tattoos, Careers, Social Media, Comedy, Business, Tattoo, Tattoo Artist Interview, Artist, Tattoo Podcast, Arts, Interview, Visual Arts, Tattooing

5 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Tattoo artist Chris O'Donnell discusses his first experiences with the internet, his drawing process and what originally attracted him to start tattooing in 1993 as a 17 year old

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Books Closed.
0:04.6	This episode is sponsored by Lucky Supply and River Valley Printing Co.
0:09.7	Thanks for joining us again.
0:11.9	Today we broadcast to you from beautiful New York State, not quite the city, a little bit upstate.
0:19.8	And we are in the studio of today's guest, Chris O'Donnell.
0:25.5	Thanks for joining me today.
0:27.1	Thank you.
0:28.4	You probably have some insight on the topic of social media and the internet
0:32.6	and how that's come into tattooing and shaking things up a bit.
0:36.8	How long have you been tattooing? I started
0:39.9	tattooing in 93. 93. How old were you then? 17. Are you from this area? Where'd you grow up?
0:46.5	I'm from Richmond, Virginia. Oh, okay. I moved to New York in 2000. When you started tattooing,
0:51.0	there was no internet, really. Basically, no one was using it for tattooing.
0:55.6	Right.
0:56.3	Billy Eason, he's the guy that did like the conventions.
0:59.8	He had a website and Paul Booth had a website that was about it.
1:03.5	Did you look at those websites like all the time?
1:06.3	No.
1:07.1	Did you have a computer in 93?
1:09.2	No.
1:10.1	I didn't really have a computer until after I moved to the city after 2000, maybe 2001.
1:15.0	Yeah, what motivated you to get on the train?
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