We Got Your Back – On Camera – Customers Watch Tattoo Artist Ink Hard to See Places

Client : Wooster Street Social Club
Location : New York, NY
Description : Gas pump: 3ft. dia. X 5ft. cylinder; stool approx. 2.5ft. dia. X 3.5ft. high
Materials : 1907 industrial gas pump, HD camera, monitor, and electronics
Timeline : 6 months

Challenge: How to create a unique experience for customers getting back tattoos at a popular SoHo studio.

Solution: Fuse history with modern day technology to angle a camera so artwork can be viewed in real time while ink is being applied.

This retro tattoo viewing device and display mechanism is reinvented and repurposed out of a 1907 industrial gas pump for Wooster Street Social Club, a popular tattoo shop in SOHO, NY and the tattoo studio of TLC’s ‘NY Ink’. It appeared in ‘Steampunk Party’ episode in 2012.