I got a few great questions from Katie:

1) Tom Yak's colors are fantastic, why are you sticking with black & white? I know you have a specific simple reason so hey, I bet I know the answer so you don't even need to answer that one.

First, I do not have any white ink in my tattoos. All of my tattoos are in plain black ink, no gray scale whatsoever. I think most people are inclined to say 'black and white' because of a subconscious association with black and white photography.

It's also more economical. A tattoo made up of multiple colors will obviously cost more money. In terms of quality- as time goes by, tattoos will obviously degrade and fade. The fear of colors fading and bleeding into each other was something that always on my mind. Black, on the other hand, I have found will either stay black or fade into a degree of grey- which I feel gives a heavily tattooed body a degree of uniformity. Tattoos that I got 5 years ago look just as good on me as tattoos I got 5 months ago.

I can't see the appeal for myself to get tattoos with color. I already have a difficult time balancing the artwork on my body and I have to deal with the aesthetic design, the weight of black, and location. I don't think I would be able to deal with balancing the aesthetics of color in addition to that.

Also creativity, I find that people will rarely take a stance on what they initially want. My stance from the beginning is and will be that I will only get black ink, as well as have one artist.

I've always felt that my tattoos should always have some sort of WOW factor. I realize that only working with black ink is limiting since there are about a millions colors of the palette that are usable. However, I still feel that the possibilities are endless and yet to be explored with just using black on my body.

2) We miss the personal tattoo stories you used to post, now it's always pictures of this and that, which I enjoy, but really, my favorite part were the short posts about different tattoos on different people and what they meant. So bring that back, I know you have it in you.

If you aren't aware the initial intent of this whole 'thing' was a school project. My goal was to make an amazing project (which I did) and get an A (which I did) and impress my professor (which I did). The idea was to meet people- talk about their work- so on, immediately after the semester ended I started working for Truth during Warped Tour. Warped Tour was sooo incredibly easy to talk to people because everyone is friendly and everyone is tattooed from the neck down. Off of Warped Tour, it started to go more random because that is the sort of place I am right now in my life. It's also really, really cold in NYC right now- most people look like Eskimos- all bundled up so that makes it a bit harder to approach people. For you though- I promise I will try harder.