Jun 15, 2026 · 1 hr 44 min · 10 segments
Send us Fan Mail The hosts interview Ses about how tattooing was harder to enter in the early ’90s without the internet, leading him to start…
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And, you know, he completed like, well, like I said, he, that guy was like drawing like all day and night pretty much when he wasn't tattooing.
So the amount of flash and sheets and prints and posters and The amount of shit that his body of work is probably unmatched by one artist to compete with him.
I've never seen anyone else have that much of a body of work.
I remember going to conventions and when Boog was there, dude, he would have a corner and he would fill up.
It's kind of gnarly dude.
And even when he opened his shop, you know, when he was down in Deep Ellum, the whole shop was completely engulfed in only his flash, which back in the days, you know, like early, early days, like way before me and Boog, That was what artists did.
It was all your shit at the shop.
And all your flash artwork was up and people would come in and pick it and you would tattoo it.
you know, little by little it started changing and you started collecting from other artists and trading, trading sets of flash, sheets of flash, whatever the case may be.
And then you started having like different stuff, different styles, you know, cause you might, this might be, you might be that the traditional flash guy and, But you don't do traditional, but you want to have some.
So you'd be like, fuck it.
I'll trade you some, my set for some of yours.
And you know, you start having a little bit, you know, different flavor of a little bit of everything.
Do you think that the flash at a shop was a heavy part of that shop's identity? Definitely.
Well, any shop, it would be their identity.
Period.
It's one of the core things of tattooing was flash.
Like they couldn't be tattooing without tattoo flash.
For sure.
Like when I was maybe, I'm going to say maybe like six years into tattooing, I was working at a street shop, you know, and there was a ton of flash.
And I was working at Big Joe's and they, The whole thing was we're going to paint the shop a different color.
And, you know, he completed like, well, like I said, he, that guy was like drawing like all day and night pretty much when he wasn't tattooing.
So the amount of flash and sheets and prints and posters and The amount of shit that his body of work is probably unmatched by one artist to compete with him.
I've never seen anyone else have that much of a body of work.
I remember going to conventions and when Boog was there, dude, he would have a corner and he would fill up.
It's kind of gnarly dude.
And even when he opened his shop, you know, when he was down in Deep Ellum, the whole shop was completely engulfed in only his flash, which back in the days, you know, like early, early days, like way before me and Boog, That was what artists did.
It was all your shit at the shop.
And all your flash artwork was up and people would come in and pick it and you would tattoo it.
you know, little by little it started changing and you started collecting from other artists and trading, trading sets of flash, sheets of flash, whatever the case may be.
And then you started having like different stuff, different styles, you know, cause you might, this might be, you might be that the traditional flash guy and, But you don't do traditional, but you want to have some.
So you'd be like, fuck it.
I'll trade you some, my set for some of yours.
And you know, you start having a little bit, you know, different flavor of a little bit of everything.
Do you think that the flash at a shop was a heavy part of that shop's identity? Definitely.
Well, any shop, it would be their identity.
Period.
It's one of the core things of tattooing was flash.
Like they couldn't be tattooing without tattoo flash.
For sure.
Like when I was maybe, I'm going to say maybe like six years into tattooing, I was working at a street shop, you know, and there was a ton of flash.
And I was working at Big Joe's and they, The whole thing was we're going to paint the shop a different color.
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