Greenpoint Tattoo 10 Years

This week everyone from the shop went upstate to stay in a house for a couple nights and celebrate the shops 10 year anniversary. We stayed in a 10 bedroom victorian house with a wrap around porch and pretty much just hung out together, got buzzed and relaxed. We see each other a lot but it’s rare to have the chance to take a trip all together. Late one night through a haze a different substances Elijah, Jason, and I were talking about old times at the shop and Jason was saying how working at Greenpoint was his dream before he moved to new york. I was remembering that it was my dream too, I had gone to Greenpoint to get tattooed maybe 8 or 9 years ago and I thought it was the illest place I had ever been. I thought it would be my goal to someday get to guest there at least. A couple years later I came to town to surprise my friend Wan while he was guesting at GP and thats when I met Jason. We went to dinner together with Wan that night, Wan wanted to get Korean so we went to Dokebi. He said he was going to pay and ordered a ton of food, but basically after he ordered he smoked weed out front and got way too high. Me and Jason ended up having to put him in a cab and split the bill, but after that we were friends. Jason asked me to come back and guest if I wanted so it’s pretty much because of him that I ended up ever working at the shop. After I guested once I started coming back all the time, I felt like everyone treated me like family and got along super well. I also think Reardon maybe liked me because I was from Massachusetts like him, but I can’t say for sure. In the 6-7 years I’ve been around I’ve worked with and met so many people from all over the world at the shop. I’ve gotten to grow as a tattooer and have the space to grow and pursue other things. I feel super lucky to be part of the crew that works at GP, for real, its a special place. If you’ve been through, you know what I’m talking about, and if not, you should come through. Happy 10 Year John and Greenpoint Tattoo Co., heres to the next 10

I abonded my phone for the duration of the trip but regret not getting a group photo or something. So, the best I can do is the following iphone dump of photos I got everyone else to send me