Hell City will be twice in 2009 & 2010!!



That's right!! Hell City will "set your soul on fire" twice next year, as well as twice in 2010!

As seen on the History Channel and TLC, Hell City returns by popular demand! Killumbus is the home town of the festivities and will once again ignite the good times in May and then it's off to Phoenix, AZ at the amazing Biltmore Resort & Spa on Labor Day weekend in 2009. Don't miss all of the official SG trophy girls at Hell City, they will be lighting the stage on fire the entire festival!

Here are the dates for upcoming Hell City Fests, mark your calendars and don't miss one of America's favorite tattoo gatherings!

HELL CITY 2009 -
* Hell City 7 -"Let it Bleed" / May 29-31, 2009 (Killumbus, Ohio)
* Hell City 8 -"Tattoo Vacation" / September 4-6, 2009 (Phoenix, Arizona)

HELL CITY 2010 -
* Hell City 9 / May 21-23, 2010 (Killumbus, Ohio)
* Hell City 10 / August 27-29, 2010 (Phoenix, Arizona)

Don't miss your chance to be a part of tattoo history! For the latest Hell City events, info, merch and pre-sale tickets, visit the official Hell City website @ HELLCITY.COM!

I will be raffling off a free custom tattoo to an official Suicide Girl at the upcoming SG Party here in Killumbus at Havana August 28th!! I will be donating tons of Hell City Gear for giveaways as well! I am super excited to see how many of you lovely ladies will be dropping your names into the raffle box to get a free tattoo!! I will be spending Friday after the SG Party to consult and draw up the design for the winner, doing the tattoo on Saturday. Tons of girls and members will be attending this party, it will be the biggest SG Havana Party to date, having tons of girls and staff attending from all over the world, it's going to an amazing time!! Don't miss it, see ya there!!!



Here are the rules:

-Only Suicide Girls may enter the raffle
-Girls must be present at the Havana party to enter and win
-$500 max tattoo time
-Girl must be planning on staying to get the tattoo on Saturday
-Blind Raffle will be drawn by me personally at the Havana party
-No tribal, Celtic or anything dumb! That means Taz's, dolphins, etc.
-Please bring reference art or have a good idea of what you want in case you're the winner!

HELL CITY IS COMING!

This year is the largest Hell City Tattoo Fest ever!! This years Hell City Tattoo Fest will be a remarkable event. Hell City has become one of the best American conventions in recent years, and features not only a world-class roster of artistic talent but a complete music, cinema and performance experience. In addition, this year Hyperspace Studios will be hosting an opening reception in the Hell City Special Events Room featuring the Scratch Art collection. This is a remarkable collection of diverse art from hundreds of tattooing's foremost talents, and is not to be missed. This exhibition marks the release of the long-awaited Scratch Art book, a gorgeous 272 page hardcover volume showcasing the collection. The opening reception will be Saturday the 17th from 6:00-10:00 P.M., but for the entire weekend, along with live painting performances and other surprises. If you're planning on being at Hell City, be sure to drop by the Special Events Room!

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http://www.hellcity.com/
http://www.hellcitygear.com/



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Check out the schedule of events to see all That will be igniting this year!! Stay tuned for tons of HC08 updates!

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SEE YOU ALL AT FUTURE HELL CITY FESTS!!

*HELL CITY 7*
"LET IT BLEED"



MAY 29th - 31st, 2009
HYATT REGENCY
KILLUMBUS, OH
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HELL CITY TATTOO FESTIVAL 08
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HELLCITY.COM
Experience The World of Tattooing Beyond The Gates!
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*SCHEDULED EVENTS HC08*
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*Friday, May 16th, 2008*

12 pm - HELL CITY TATTOO FESTIVAL OPENS IT'S GATES!
12 pm - 4 pm - Tattoo Competition Registration - HC Main Stage
12 pm - Hyperspace Special Event / Art Gallery opens ! - HC Special Event Room
12 pm - 2pm - Ron "Big Daddy" Meyers "B&G Portraits" Seminar - HC Seminar Room
12 pm - 1 pm - "American Carny" Video - HC Sinema
2 pm - 5 pm- Health Educator's "Anatomy of a wound" Seminar - HC Seminar Room
2 pm - 4 pm - The Art Fusion Experiment - HC Stage 2
1 pm - 5 pm - "Tattoo Wars" *all episodes* - HC Sinema
3 pm- 4 pm - DEVILCAKE performing live! - HC Main Stage
4 pm - 6 pm - Tattoo Competitions - HC Main Stage

*Best traditional
*Best new school
*Best Asian tattoo
*Best Sleeve
*Worst tattoo


5 pm - 9 pm - John Montgomery Seminar *FREE!* - HC Seminar Room
5 pm - 7 pm - "Modify; The Movie" - HC Sinema
5 pm - 7 pm - The Art Fusion Experiment - HC Stage 2
7 pm - 9 pm - Paul Booth's "Art Fusion Experiment" Video - HC Sinema
7 pm - 8 - Brian Hoeflich & The All-Nighters - HC Main Stage
9 pm - 10 pm - Tattoo Of The Day Contest - HC Main Stage
9 pm - 11 pm - Mike Devries - "Advanced Color Realism"Seminar-HC Seminar Room
9 pm - 11 pm - "FEARnet Exclusive Movie" - HC Sinema
10 pm - Tattoo Awards Given by Suicide Girls! - HC Main Stage
11 pm - Hell City Hellions rest their souls….

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*Saturday, May 17th, 2008*

12 pm - HELL CITY TATTOO FESTIVAL RE-OPENS IT'S GATES!
12 pm - Hyperspace Special Event / Art Gallery opens ! - HC Special Event Room
12 pm - 3 pm - Joe Capobianco "Dirty Little Secrets" Seminar - HC Seminar Room
12 pm - 3 pm - Tattoo Competition Registration - HC Main Stage
12 pm - 1 pm - "American Carny" Video - HC Sinema
1 pm - 3 pm - The Art Fusion Experiment - HC Main Stage
3 pm - 4pm - Guy Aitchisons "Artist Story" *FREE* Presentation - HC Seminar Room
3 pm - 6 pm - Tattoo Competitions - HC Main Stage

*Best Small color
*Best Large color
*Best Biomechanical / Organic / Special Effects
*Best Backpiece
*Most Unusual


1 pm - 5 pm - "Tattoo Wars" *all episodes* - HC Sinema
4 pm - 5 pm - Carson Hill * FREE* Seminar - HC Seminar Room
5 pm - 7 pm - "Modify; The Movie" - HC Sinema
5 pm - 8 pm - Lyle Tuttle "Fine Tuning Your Machines" Seminar - HC Seminar Room
6 pm - 10 pm - Hyperspace "Scratchboard Project" Opening Reception
& book signing! Open to the public, don't miss this! - HC Special Events Room
7 pm - 9 pm - The Art Fusion Experiment - HC Stage 2
7 pm - 9 pm - Paul Booth's "Art Fusion Experiment" Video - HC Sinema

8 pm - 9 pm - GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS -
"WORLD'S MOST FLEXIBLE MAN"
* RUBBERBOY * CONTORTING LIVE w/ special guest
*TORTURE KING* formerly of Jim Rose Circus Sideshow! - HC Main Stage

8 pm - 11 pm - Lyle Tuttle "Building Your Tattoo Machines" Seminar - HC Seminar Room
9 pm - 10 pm - Tattoo Of The Day Contest - HC Main Stage
9 pm - 11 pm - FEARnet Exclusive Movie - HC Sinema
10 pm - Tattoo Awards Given by Suicide Girls! - HC Main Stage
11 pm - Hell City Hellions rest their souls….

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*Sunday, May 18th, 2008*

12 pm - HELL CITY TATTOO FESTIVAL RE-OPENS IT'S GATES!
12 pm - Hyperspace Special Event / Art Gallery opens ! - HC Special Event Room
12 pm - 3 pm - Tattoo Competition Registration - HC Main Stage
12 pm - 2 pm - "Modify; The Movie" - HC Sinema
1 pm - 4 pm - Nick Baxter "Fundamentals of Oil Painting" - HC Seminar Room
2 pm - 4 pm - The Art Fusion Experiment - HC Stage 2
2 pm - 3pm - THE GOODTIME ENGINEERS performing live! - HC Main Stage
2 pm - 6 pm -"Tattoo Wars" *all episodes* - HC Sinema
3 pm - 6 pm - Tattoo Competitions - HC Main Stage

*Best small black & grey - (includes tribal)
*Best large black & grey - (includes tribal)
*Best portrait - (color or b&g)
*Best overall female
*Best overall male
*Best flash sheet
*Best Booth
*Best in show

5 pm - 6 pm - Steve Haworth "Successful Surface To Surface Piercings" - HC Seminar Room
5 pm - 7 pm - The Art Fusion Experiment - HC Stage 2
6 pm - 7 pm - Tattoo Of The Day Contest - HC Main Stage
6 pm - 8 pm - Paul Booth's "Art Fusion Experiment" Video - HC Sinema
6 pm - 7 pm - Steve Haworth "Genital Bead Placement" - HC Seminar Room
7 pm - 8 pm - Steve Haworth "Successful Laser Brandings" - HC Seminar Room
7 pm - Tattoo Awards Given by Suicide Girls - HC Main Stage
8 pm - HELL CITY TATTOO FEST IS EXORCISED FOR 2008!
9 pm - VIP AFTER PARTY @ NEWPORT MUSIC HALL!

Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust...Hell City '08 is Exorcised!

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Experience The World of Tattooing Beyond The Gates!
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SEE YOU ALL AT FUTURE HELL CITY FESTS!!

*HELL CITY 7*
"LET IT BLEED"

MAY 29th - 31st, 2009
HYATT REGENCY
KILLUMBUS, OH

Be sure to check out the Hell City YouTube Channel now!! We have uploaded a lot of new funny videos as well as HC08 Videos, hope you enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/DurbMorrison

*Click below to see what the Hell went down this year!!

Hell City 07 PICS!!



*An incredibly big thanks goes out to alissabrunelli of PidgeonPose.com for the amazing coverage of this years mayhem in Arizona! The photos of this year's festival were taken by alissabrunelli of PidgeonPose.com. alissabrunelli is also the Midwest staff photographer for Suicide Girls, check her out @

http://suicidegirls.com/members/AlissaBrunelli/
http://www.pidgeonpose.com/
http://www.myspace.com/alissabrunelli
http://www.inkednation.com/r/r.cfm?t=9&DisplayUser_ID=11495

I JUST WENT SKYDIVING THE OTHER DAY, CHECK THE VIDEO OUT!!

http://www.lifepursuitvideo.net/asppublic/Video44645.aspx?VID=4452&VF=RichMorrison_092207-1711.flv

A Huge thanks to all the artists, vendors, attendees, minions, hellions and devils alike!! Thank you, thank you, thank you from the depths of our blackened hearts! Hell City 2007 was a huge success, and most of it is because of you! Many are saying it's the best convention they have ever been to, that means a hell of a lot!



Thanks to Joe Capobianco for the amazing artwork he provided to us for the shirts, trophies and ads!



Thanks to all the artists and vendors who came and tattooed and displayed their work, a lot of amazing artwork was produced, and you continue to inspire us all!

Thanks to all the artists that gave educational seminars this year, your teachings make the art form expand!

Thanks to Dolph and TLC for allowing Hell City to be a part of "Tattoo Wars" history, airing on TLC this Oct 25th!

Thanks to Guy Aitchison and Aaron Cain for weathering the storm of people and showing up to do amazing tattoos for the cameras and crowds for "Tattoo Wars" airing on TLC this Oct 25th!

Thanks to Paul Booth and everyone who participated in the Art Fusion Experiment, the pieces that came out this year are incredibly sick!

Thanks to the bands, you all rocked Hell City!

Thanks to Cutthroat Freakshow, Steven Strange and Steve Haworth for wowing the crowds and taking it to a new level of entertainment!

Thanks to the Suicide Girls for being the Hottest Trophy Girls around, you set the stage on fire once again!!



Thanks to Alissa Brunelli of PidgeonPose.com for photographing the event in its entirety. She will have all of the pics from this years festivities on the Hell City website real soon, so keep an eye out!!

Thanks to the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa for giving us the opportunity to hold such an amazing event at their incredible resort!

Thanks again to everyone who came and helped make Hell City 2007 the best festival ever!

We are sure there are more we are forgetting, so our apologies to anyone we forgot in advance! We look forward to seeing everyone at Hell City 6 "The Respawn" right here in Killumbus, Ohio, May 16th-18th at the Hyatt Regency downtown! We are working even harder to make each fest better than the last so you all have one hell of a good time!!

Well, I woke up today to see that my newest interview has gone live on SG, I am super excited!! Let me start by saying "Thanks" to the communities of SG and Inked Nation, two awesome sites!! Next I'd like to thank JaeMan of Inked Nation, who took the time to do the interview and also for making a site dedicated to tattoo artists and collectors.



Working on Filming TLC's newest reality tattoo show "TATTOO WARS" with Guy Aitchison and Aaron Cain. Be sure to keep an eye out on TLC to ctach this amazing episode!!

The interview couldn't have come a better time. We just wrapped up the Hell City Tattoo Fest in Phoenix, AZ and I am already working my ass off to make the next Hell City Fest in Ohio the best one ever! You should start seeing alot of articles from this past year soon in tons of magazines and online as well. AlissaBrunelli should have all the pics from HC07 up soon, be sure to stay tuned to the Hell City Website.





There were alot of SG's that came out to light the stage on fire and hand out the official trophies for the fest, thanks to all the hotties of SG that showed up, you are all a blast!!


Zoetica, Sunshine, LiiLii, Calamity, Pistolita, Luscious, Poppy, Duke and MaryAnn!!


Meow, Pistolita, Sunshine, Duke, Calamity, LiiLii, Poppy, Luscious and Chipper!!

A huge thanks goes out to The Cutthroat Freakhow, Strange Family Circus and Life Suspended for an incredibly mind blowing Mega-Freakshow two nights of the festival. Chipper Suicide really put herself on the line to entertain and awww the Hellions with their "feats of freak"!!


Cutthroat Freakshow!!

Chipper Suicide!!

LiiLii standing on Chipper with world record bed of nails, there's only four nails, ouch!!

Those of you that have never been to Hell City, you'll get your chance once again this May16th-18th, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Killumbus,Ohio. Be sure to check out the Hell City website for further info.



Oh yeh, did I mention that Offical Hell City Clothing will be available online soon as well!? We are currently rounding up heavily tattooed SG's to model this years line, email AlissaBrunelli if you are interested in modeling the newest HC HC Gear, stay tuned to see which ladies will be sportin' the HC Gear on HELLCITYTATTOOFEST.COM!!



Ok, so it's an honor to be featured on SG, it really means alot to me and I appreciate the kind emails and comments. Don't forget to check out my personal website to see my tattooing and other works of art @ DURBSTER.COM

I was born in Newark, Ohio December 28th, 1972 and completed high school in 1991. Surviving a childhood that seemed doomed by circumstances, I saturated myself in art and went on to excel in art classes in high school with dreams of attending art college. At the age of 14 a few of us punk kids decided to bust into mom's ol' sewing kit, get some thread and ink, and tattoo each other. My interest quickly grew for tattoos at that moment. I was then slowly introduced into the world of tattooing and fine art through a family member, and abandoned the college dream and focused intensely on the art of tattooing. I began using professional equipment at the age of 17, which was the beginning of my tattoo career. I was mainly self-educated from the start, having a bunch of crazy punk rock friends that would allow me to tattoo them. I was given the opportunity to work in a professional tattoo studio straight out of high school with Tim Miller in Columbus, Oh. Which is what originally brought me to Columbus. I worked in Columbus for about a year before the studio was sold and I decided to travel the country tattooing with fellow artist Dean Deakyne, and settle down in Palms Springs, eventually moving to Anaheim, then Huntington Beach, California. Having met the infamous Sailor Moses while traveling the country, and working his booth at Sturgis, I was given the invitation to move to Biloxi to learn more from Moses, which is where my tattooing really took off. In 1994 I decided to move back to Columbus near family and friends, and open up my first tattoo studio, Stained Skin, which went on to become a staple in the tattoo industry. In 1999 I began work on my second studio in Newark, Ohio called Second Skin, which has taken Newark by storm and remains a top notch studio today. Stained Skin has had an incredible amount of intensely talented tattoo artists work there over the years, giving me the opportunity to constantly grow and expand, meet new artists, and learn new techniques. I enjoy other mediums of art outside of tattooing including, oil and acrylic painting, wood and metal sculpture, and watercolor. I began receiving dozens of awards for my work and started to get my tattooing published in every major national and international tattoo magazine in 1994 and continue today, having been published in International Tattoo Art, Tattoo Artist Magazine, Skin Art, Tattoo Review, Easyrider Tattoo, Savage Magazine and Skin & Ink just to name a few. I have had artwork published in many books including The Art of Modern Rock, "Rolling Stone's" Tattoo Nation, The Electric Frankenstein poster book, Tattoo by Dale Rio, and I have done the album artwork for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones album "Jackknife to a Swan", as well as designed the clothing for their 2004 warped tour. I have tattooed musicians like Ricky Rockett of Poison, Dicky Barret of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Coby Dick of Papa Roach, Trevor Keith of Face to Face, and numerous others. Having passed the torch of both Stained Skin Studios, I currently work out of my private studio as well as tattooing on the road, and various conventions around the world. Along with tattooing fulltime, I now organize and promote the Hell City Tattoo Festival in Columbus, Ohio, which has grown to become one of the industry's favorite tattoo conventions. When I'm not tattooing or organizing Hell City I find time to paint, skateboard, snowboard, and hang out with family and friends. My website is not just tattooing, it is a total history of my life and my work. Please take your time to enjoy my website, don't forget to find the hidden link, and please DO NOT copy any works for personal replication of any kind. - Durb

DURBSTER.COM / HELLCITYTATTOOFEST.COM