Our Genius Bar. #findyourway #252eglintoneast #relocatingyongestudio
We'll be relocating our Yonge studio to 252 Eglinton East, Toronto. It's located at Mount Pleasant and Eglinton. Our grand opening day is Feb. 8th, 2016. #findyourway #relocatingyongestudio #252eglintoneast
'There are employers out there who won’t hire you because you have tattoos, but they are becoming few and far between. In a few years, those world views will be the minority,' says Fung. You can read the full article here: http://www.excal.on.ca/an-injection-of-ink-into-the-workforce #ouropiniononly #beyourself #chronicink
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We'll be relocating our Yonge studio to 252 Eglinton East, Toronto. It's located at Mount Pleasant and Eglinton. Our grand opening day is Feb. 8th, 2016. And here's our contractor doing contracting stuff. #findyourway #relocatingyongestudio #252eglintoneast
We've taken a look at how many reposts ppl are doing for our #252eglintoneast repost contest, and since we don't want to be the cause of your friends to start unfollowing you, we're going to ask that you only repost it once. Thanks to all the people who reposted for us multiple times (for that we are forever grateful), but we realize we must be a more socially responsible studio and we apologize if we caused your followers/friends to be annoyed. (We'll be looking into ways to thank the ppl who reposted for us multiple times, stay tuned.) So, ONLY one post will count per account on IG and FB. Thank you very much and we look forward to seeing you all on opening day. We will now change the caption on our previous two posts to reflect this change. #252eglintoneast #relocatingyongestudio #findyourway
Feb. 8th, 2016. #relocatingyongestudio #250eglintoneast Shouts to @a.perion
11 winners!!! 1 winner will win a free day of tattooing with their favourite artist @chronicink. 10 winners will receive limited gold Chronic Ink hats, to be revealed later. To enter, simply re-post with this hashtag: #250eglintioneast (limited to one repost per day) Winners will be chosen randomly from the hashtags on Feb. 8th, 2016 from FB and IG. We're moving our Yonge St. studio to 250 Eglinton East, second floor. (Mount Pleasant & Eglinton) It's roughly a 5 minute walk from the Eglinton subway station. See you all on opening day!!!
'Good is the enemy of great.' - Jim Collins. We have no intention of settling.
Last week one of our friends visited the construction site for the new studio. She started asking us how old the building was and which direction the front door was facing. We had no idea she was a Fungshui master and that's not why we invited her. For those who don't know what Fungshui is, Webster defines it as 'a Chinese system for positioning a building and the objects within a building in a way that is thought to agree with spiritual forces and to bring health and happiness.' So, she started to do some unsolicited calculations on the place. Fungshui has come a long way because she literally busted out an app to do this. The next day we got a call from her and she says, "You made a good choice. This place is great, it's got the right elements, your front desk is located in the right spot and it should be good for business." I wanted to tell her, "You know a dance studio just went out of business here right?" I wonder what those people thought about the Fungshui. And, that's definitely the sad part about taking over a vacant. You know someone had their heartbroken here. We found forms for their dance classes, they even left behind some mats and old CDs. It was almost like they didn't want to bring it with them to wherever they were going. But, on the other hand, the good part about this is that it tells you nothing is guaranteed, which means we have the opportunity to do great things. We were growing so fast at Yonge we weren't ready for everything. Hopefully, we've learned from our mistakes. So, if by right elements she meant an open layout, high ceilings, and great big windows to bring in natural light for tattooing, then we're in agreement. And the front desk wasn't located there because it aligned with the stars, we worked night and day with #AnacletoDesigns to make sure the space will make our tattoos better. Everything from the consultation area, to a brand new piercing room, and a clubhouse to bring our tattoo family closer together has been carefully thought out. We hope you guys will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed preparing it for you. #findyourway #relocatingyongestudio
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(Continue from previous post) This David sounds like someone you know. He sounds like your sister who doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life, or your friend’s father who’s tried every job possible. He sounds like YOU, the past, present, and hopefully future version. This is when you realize the story of David is about hope and perseverance. The last 4 years before David became a tattoo artist - at his peak, he was a successful restaurateur with 5 booths inside the CNE and a profitable food truck. But, happiness isn’t defined by how many restaurants you own, or how many burgers you sell, and not by how much money you make. The truly blessed and perceptive ones understand it’s more than that. At the end of the day, he wasn’t happy because he wasn’t fulfilling his passion, which is to create art. That's when he walked away from everything he’d helped to create in the food industry, to start in the tattoo world where he would once again be at the bottom. So if you talk to David, don’t just ask him where he’s going. Make sure you talk to him about where he’s been, and then look at his sketches; in fact, take a look at his sketches now, everything will make more sense. #findyourway (at Chronic Ink Tattoo Shop Toronto)
How many of us wake up breathless? How many of us feel like we are 20 going on 40? How many of us feel like we should have done more by now? But could we give up everything for the chance to change? This is the story of David. David is a tattoo artist at Chronic Ink. He makes it look easy, he has life figured out. If you ask David who he is, he would say, “I’m a tattoo artist”. And, just in the way he says it you feel he’s good at what he does because he’s so serious, and he says it in a way that you know he doesn’t take who he is lightly, that he’s not here to just be ordinary. If you ask him what’s next, he would say “I’m not satisfied with my craft. Before I just wanted to be a tattoo artist. Now that I am one, I want to perfect my craft”. Again, the way he says it you don’t doubt him. You wonder if he knows something you don’t, like he has his entire life mapped out; like a subway map, and he clearly knows where he is, and where his next stop should be. When you meet David, you can’t help but think he is different than the rest of us. Like this guy was born knowing who he wanted to be. You scoff at how sure he is of himself, as if life was that easy. But, if you ask David why he is so sure, he will tell you, “I’m 30 years old. This is my last stop. I have to see how far I can take this.” Then, you start to see the glimpses of a man who’s tried many things, whose life doesn’t resemble a straight line map, but more like a scavenger hunt that’s led to many surprises and heartaches. The further you dig, you realize that his first job at 17 years old was facepainting for kids at Wonderland. Then he worked retail (like so many of us do) for 4 years selling denim at Over the Rainbow. Follow that up with another 2 years as a teller at TD bank, a painting studio for a half year, a hair salon for 3 years, and then finally a restaurateur for four years before coming full circle from his facepainting days to tattooing at the ripe age of 29, you start to wonder if the breathless one should be him. (Continue on next post) (at Chronic Ink Tattoo Shop Toronto)
Thinking of using this image for the back counter for the new studio. It will be set against black frames/mouldings and white ceiling. What do you think? Too busy? Too much contrast? Or, just perfect? #wearproud #workproud #relocatingyongestudio
#comingsoon #blessed (at Toronto, Ontario)