Kustom Thrills Tattoo

The mainstream art community rarely looks at tattoos, but those days are changing I feel. Some excellent artists exist that use skin as their primary canvas. Tattooists range from the exclusive artist type to the person who simply puts flash, or pre-drawn images, on a person. Kustom Thrills caters more toward the people looking for a design that is unique and totally personal. I heard over and over from each tattooist, that they love the way owner, Chris Saint Clark, runs Kustom Thrills because it encourages creativity from the second you walk through the doors. It even has a space dedicated as a gallery for more traditional art.

Almost every inch of the place is covered in pop culture and counter culture pieces, and they have a pinball machine to play if you finish looking at what they have displayed. It brought me back a little, to when I was in the Nashville punk scene in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, so I thought some old school rockabilly punk would set the tone for the video, thus the Cramps.

Even if you don’t desire a tattoo, Kustom Thrills has clothing and does body piercing and I am sure much of the art is for sale. Visit them in East Nashville at 1000 Main Street. It seems a ton of people in town already have, for I now ask everyone with a tattoo where they got them… Many have at least one from Kustom Thrills and many of those have their next visit planned. You can also visit them on line at: http://www.kustomthrills.com .


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