Michael Da Bear - Tattooist

Michael owns the tattoo shop that Tomaz (my first commission) works in. He does totally incredible lifelike portraits as well as pretty much any other type of tattoo you can imagine. I really enjoyed doing Tomaz's video so when Michael asked me to do one I was very excited. If anything I just love tattoos so getting to watch one being done from start to finish is really interesting to me. 

one of the tattoos featured in the video

I think this video was when I started really putting effort into making the video fit PERFECTLY in time with the music, which now I is a strong part of my style. Michael wanted to use Prodigy for the sound track, you can never go wrong with a bit of Prodigy. I think my favorite part of this video is the intro where the tattoo machine is being put together. Tomaz had asked me to do something with fast cuts for this part of his video, which I tried, but didn't have the experience (or possibly the correct soundtrack) to make it work properly at the time. I think I did a pretty good job here though. 

When I showed the video to Michael we had a bit of a disagreement when it came to this quick cutting editing style though. He thought that it didn't give you enough time to see the tattoos, which I can understand but to me, analyzing tattoos can be done on the pictures on his website, the video is to draw people in to investigate further. Regardless, the customer is always right! And I made a version for him with slower cuts and I kept my original version to use at my own discretion.

Michaels version of the video

 

MY VERSION OF THE VIDEO