Clothing * Accessories * Equipment * Gear

For those of you who missed this year’s Baltimore Tattoo Arts Festival, don’t feel alone! While you all stayed home in your warm homes this past February we were in the hotel keeping each other company, having snow fights in the blizzard, and conducting business for those close enough to walk over to the Sheraton.

So, mulligan? We look forward to seeing you all rain or shine at Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel September 10th – 12th for the Baltimore Tattoo Arts Convention. For hotel reservations contact (410) 752-1100 and mention the Tattoo Convention for the discounted room rate of $89 a night!

Floors will be open Friday 2 PM – 12 AM, Saturday 12 PM – 12 AM, & Sunday 12 PM – 8 PM. Tickets Prices are
$20 per day or $40 for the weekend and are only available at the door. Have kids? Children under 12 are free!

Entertainment will include The Enigma & Serana Rose, Penguin Boy & Baron, Suspension By CRASH, Olde City Sideshow, Slip & Slide Bowling By Bombshell Brats, Burlesque, Live Music, and awesome Vendors!

We’ll be hitting the highways northbound next Wednesday.   See you there!

And we mean Nobody!

On Friday the Steadfast crew piled into a Tahoe and headed toward Atlanta for Ink & Dagger Tattoo’s 2nd Annual Man Day.  The short 8 hour drive ended with a stop over at Ink & Dagger just to say hi to everyone who came in for the event.  After our little visit we headed over for some good eats at R. Thomas Deluxe Grill.  Who doesn’t love a 24 hour dinner full of healthy and delicious choices?

The next morning was officially Man Day.  Ink & Dagger was open from noon to 4 pm tattooing everyone for $50 -anything on the special Man Day flash sheet.  What was on it you ask?  A few highlights included a weight-lifting mustache, mounted jackalope buck head, Popeye the Sailor Man, Cigar, Pirate, Barber pole & Shears, and our personal favorites: a Steadfast Compass & Infinite Tattoo Machine!

After the tattooing was through, everyone headed over to Twain’s Billiards & Tap for limited edition “Man Day Brew” and hours of entertainment.  We won’t bore you with the dirty little details of the delightful burlesque performances by Blast-Off Burlesque throughout the night or daring doings of Captain Stab-Tuggo or even the amazing prizes won on the Wheel of Destiny!

What else did you miss out on?  Only the Hella-Hot Wing Throwdown, Arm Wrestlin Showdown, Manliest Beard Face off,  Manliest Mustache Death Match, Beer Gut Pageant, Sexiest Back Hair, Handyman Challenge, and the one that made our night: Bobbing for Lobsters.

Needless to say we had a great time and would like to show some love to the Ink & Dagger crew, Myke Chambers, Tyson McAdoo, TattooSnob.com, Two Arms Inc, Mindzai, Rutabaga Salon & Boutique, Prick Magazine, and a very, very special thanks to Infinite Irons for making the stunning – and manly- Man Day Metals!

Where are we headed next?  New York City for Tattoo Society’s 4th Annual Romel Awards at Santos Party House!

Hello everyone!  Long time no talk.  We have been busy setting up our new offices here in Orlando and working on several new designs.   We have Russ Abbott’s Man Day party in Atlanta coming up on August 14th as well.  It’s a great time so come out!  Here is our Pirate Girl design that we did with Jime Litwalk of Hart and Huntington.  The original artwork is bad ass on it’s own but we wanted to fill the shirt out so we added the latitude and longitude lines to pull it off.  The compass isn’t our signature design but we like using variations when we can.  The lat and lon numbers actually

mark locations.  If you figure them out and email us at chris@steadfastbrand.com we will send you out a finders reward.  It’s our version of a treasure hunt.

-Steadfast Brand

Thanks to our friends at Presto Publishing, we have a slew of amazing books available for your library, art, or reference collection!  Here’s some of the titles now available:

“Hanamichi” by Hori Benny
Tattoo Flash. Tattoo Designs. Tattoo ideas. This collection of tattoo flash chronicles the first leg of his journey through a traditional Japanese tattoo apprenticeship. In under 12 months Hori Benny produced over 250 sheets of flash, covering a number of mediums, genres and styles. 9″ x 6″ 102 full color pages Hardcover

“Sketches” by Jeral Tidwell
No one is quite sure what is up with Jeral Tidwell, but his loss of control is your gain in this all new collection of his sketches. See the birth of all the great art that has become Rock Posters, T-Shirts, Book Covers, Skateboards, Tattoos, Video games and just about anything you can think of. 8.5” x 6” 120 pages Hardcover

“Creature Critter Circus” by Jime Litwalk Sketckbook 2
Jime Litwalk’s Sketchbook 2 Creature Critter Circus, this is the second in a new series of sketchbooks from tattoo artist Jime Litwalk.  Hardcover 88 pages, 8″ x 6″

“What’s Not Ta Like” by Joe Capobianco
The Capo Girl is known and worn throughout the world, this new book features a bevy of beauties showing off their assets on everything from paper to skateboards to skin. 12” x 8” 214 pages Hardcover

This is our latest design by Jime Litwalk for Steadfast Brand

"Roller Girl" is printed on an American Apparel Racerback Tank Top

Here is a look at our Roller Girl shirt done with tattoo artist Jime Litwalk!  This shirt is going up today for pre-sale and will be ready for shipment on July 6th so get yours now!  We laid this one out during a visit to Ybor city a few months ago and we are really happy with the way it came out.  We considered the summer  heat so it will be printed on an American Apparel racerback tank top.

This is just a bit of what we are doing with our “Concept to Creation” or “C2C” series that we are working on with our artists.  We felt like showing the art as it lays out during the creative process of trial and error was something that our customers would really appreciate.  There is so much that goes into the design before it makes it to the site or store and we just want to share that with you guys!

Just click the pictures to get back to the store and see (or buy) the finished product!

Original artwork for the Roller Girl design by Jime Litwalk for Steadfast Brand

Come out to the show and check out the newest gear and get some work done!  Looking forward to seeing everyone there.  The 14th Annual event will be this week June 4-6 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 6345 Powers Ferry Road.

The Atlanta Tattoo Arts Festival is honored to feature a select group of world-class artists showcasing a variety of styles and techniques.  Many of the artists will travel great distances to bring their unique art to the Atlanta community.

The festival offers live tattooing, contests with many different categories, seminars for tattoo artists, cool vendors with a variety of different treasures and new this year, a bikini contest by the pool!  When the tattooing is finished each day, the after party is across the street at Mardi Gras.  So come get a room and party with us all weekend!

Hours of Operation

Friday 3:00pm-12:00am
Saturday 12:00pm-12:00am
Sunday 12:00pm-7:00pm

For more information please visit www.atlantatattooartsfestival.com

If you haven’t checked out our guys and their records lately head over to the Paragon MMA site and see what’s going on.

Remington and the guys are always working hard so show your love and watch them do what they do best!  WIN!

http://www.paragonmma.com/mainweb/fighters/

Our re-designed Owl Tee done by Tattoo artist Gunnar is now released in Journey’s nationwide!  Here is the link to get in online at Journey’s.  The purple version is exclusively found at Journey’s and the gray version can be found at the Steadfast Brand website.  Please take a sec and let both us and Journey’s know what you think.  Thanks for all the love!!

http://www.journeys.com/product.aspx?id=162433&g=girls&p=app&c=872&m=SM

This is one of our favorite shows of the year so come out and say hello!  Mention this blog for a discount.  Check out the site and come get some new ink!

http://www.villainarts.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=91

We are off to Tampa to watch our fighter Bruce Connors tonight!