Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos

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I would recommend this book to any Ed Hardy fan.It really does tell his story well.ExcellentInterestingGreat

brillent

I live in the sticks where a lot of BAD tattooing happens, even in this day and age when many people have the "internet" and can surf all kinds of webzones to see examples of great tattoos. I picked this book up out of desperation for a connection to tattooing even though the way most of us look at Ed Hardy is through the tainted lens of the wieners who developed his brand and sold it to bigger wieners. My tattoo guy has a back piece by Ed Hardy so I knew the guy had some chops and it was really great to read his story. I think there is like one chapter devoted to his rise to fame via Christian Audiger but other than that, it is a real blast from the past and a treat to read.

I'm a fanatic on the history of the tattoo business--I already have a sizable library of every book available. I also own almost all of Hardy's own Hardy Marks publications, so please forgive my positive predjudice... this book ties together all the stories I"ve read about Zeke Owen, Doc Webb, Cliff Raven, Hong Kong Tom Yeomans, Phil Sparrow, Sailor Jerry, Oguri, Jack Rudy, Good Time Charlie Cartwright, and other giants of the tattoo business who, along with Hardy at the center of it all, brought Tattooing into the modern age----from grind "em out street shops to the hyper fine art tattooing being done today. Hardy went through it all, and more than any other single artist, made it all happen. Great read, lots of great stories. A few years back, kids were coming into my shop wearing all this Von Dutch gear, and they had no idea who he was...Likewise with all the Ed Hardy stuff---I wind up explaining, with great exasperation, that the guy is a helluva more than a bleepin" T shirt! They all oughtta read this book!!