17th Tattoo Expo 2012 in Coral Springs, FL

Coral Springs, FL (Aug 213, 2012) I have been covering and attending this event pretty much from it's inception and had thought I had seen every thing, but more about that later. Once again this year the The 17th-annual South Florida Tattoo Expo was held at the Marriott Hotel, Golf Club & Convention Center at Heron Bay in Coral Springs. It is not only a great venue for this event, but the staff continues to treat the CycleShotz staff as a #1 media imaging company, letting us store our equipment in one of their offices. MANY THANKS to them and Matt from the WOG MC for getting this done for us. Their main hall was packed in comfortably with many tattoo artists and quite a few other vendors. There was also an adjacent hall for the overflow which kept quite busy throughout the weekend.

The entertainment was varied again this year with non-stop bands who all donated their time, as all the proceeds from this event goes to the Joe Dimaggio Childrens Hospital.
The crew from the TV series 'Gator Boys' were present, complete with a couple of alligators. Their area really had a lot of traffic throughout the event, with everyone wanting their photos taken with the stars.

During the evening hours on Friday night, Morgan LaRue and The Shimmy Shake Review performed on the main stage inside the hotel lobby and directly after that, The Skin Mechanics put on an awesome Suspension show on the outside stage by the pool. This year the weather sort of cooperated for most of the weekend.
Saturday brought the judging of the many tattoo categories, more great music, another Burlesque review by Morgan and the ladies, another suspension show by both The Skin Mechanics and the Nassau Chainsaw, who performed their awesome audio and visual show, followed by a Fetish Show. Yep, all that in one day. You really have to attend all 3 days to really appreciatel this Tattoo Expo.
Sunday brought the annual car show sponsored by the Cruisers of South Florida, and the final judging of the Tattoo Contest.
Oh, back to my first thought....there was an anal tattoo performed. So, let me see, I'm sitting at home and the thought crosses my mind, hey, it's a good day to go to the Tattoo Expo and get my A-hole tattooed, sheesh. Yep, it really happened but I was lucky enougth to NOT witness it in person!!
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