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4th year Anniversary Shop Party!! Featuring: Jefferson County Green Band, The Speeding Trees, Anternicy, and Ritual Fixx! This is a FREE show! _______________ Halloween Costume Party and Art Show OcToBeR 31st, 2007! Pure Imagination Halloween Masquerade and Gallery Night! Presenting the show "Worlds Collide" featuring work by: "Kandyman" Joe Ware Bridget Turnmire Jared Carkhuff Kirk Czyzewicz Also showing collected works from: Dan Henk, Elvis Crocker, Lil' Chris, Tony Ciavarro, and more! Costume contest with Tattoo and Piercing giveaways for: Best of evening. Most humorous. Best Couple. Most Creative. Scariest. Worst Costume.
Light refreshments provided. Early or mid November: Kandyman Joe will be tattooing in the St. Louis area for one weekend only. Dates TBA _______________ Saturday June 30th is the Pure Imagination 3-year anniversary blowout and re-opening party! Four live bands starting at 9pm! Now accepting submissions for art displays in the new expanded gallery space! Anternicy, Guardogs and Sentinels, Speeding Trees, and The Treats. 18 and up. C-ya there! _______________ Pure Imagination Tattoos 2.0 - After a month of back breaking work, we're near completion on Pure Imagination Tattoos 2.0. Its bigger and better than before! We are totally out of the old spot, and we're looking at being up and running on Monday the 4th. We'll have a ribbon cutting and Grand re-opening later in the month, TBA. Four bands have already confirmed they want to play at the re-opening/studio anniversary party. Stop by 104 North Main, Mount Pleasant, IA. 319-385-3977 (phones will be operational Monday the 4th)! _______________ More info about the Dallas Show... the show dates have been cut back beyond our control. So, we will be tattooing on Saturday 21st ONLY, at the show. I'm working on arranging guest spots for that Sunday and Monday in Dallas or Austin. As of June 1st, Pure Imagination will be relocating to a 4500 sq. foot studio in town. Plans are for an HUGE tattoo studio and art gallery space. The new studio is just one block north, the old Brazleton building, at 100 N. Main, Mount Pleasant IA. Our phone number will remain the same. _______________ Kandyman Joe will be in TX from September 12-16, 2006. He will be tattooing friends, family, and prior clients at Desireable Images in Fort Worth. Special thanks to an old friend - owner/artist Manny Hernandez. Work will be scheduled by appointment only, so book time soon! Contact Joe by phone: 319-385-3977 or email: kandymanjoe@yahoo.com _______________ Aug 21st-30th, Elvis, a long-time friend and mentor of Kandyman Joe, is arriving for a guest appearance at Pure Imagination Tattoos. This is a limited appearance on his North American Tour! Book your time early for some NYC inspired tattooing! for more info about Elvis and his work, visit: elvisontour.blogspot.com _______________ Pics are up from our 2 year anniversary party! Check out the studio page to see the fun! Keep your eyes out for Anternicy, this band kicks ass! Video clips are up on page 8 and page 46 of the "studio" section. Also we've posted our TV ad from as seen on KYOU TV in the first studio page! _______________ Well, I'm back home from a wonderful visit to the east coast! The crew at Off the Map is great. Check out their fun "tiki themed" studio if you're out that way. So, I hit the ground inspired and running. We will be catching up on drawings currently on the waiting list. If you have left a deposit, please bare with the crew as we work through the stack. Thank you for your patience and patronage! _______________ Kandymanjoe.com
is now up and running! _______________ Tattoo magazine, May 2006 issue: New pic of Kandyman Joe working on Kat's full back piece in Dallas. He can be seen next to our gracious booth host, the one and only James Kern! _______________ Pure Imagination listed and reviewed on the About.com ezine! Read more below: "From Karen Hudson, Your Guide to Tattoos / Body Piercings... Tattoos by Kandyman Joe. Every now and then I get tattoo submissions from a tattoo artist so talented that they deserve an entire page all to themselves. Kandyman Joe is one such artist. Joe can be found at Pure Imagination Tattoos in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he works with an equally talented crew." _______________ Joe's Mini portfolio accepted and posted on BMEzine.com! _______________ |
