The February weekend from the 20th to the 22nd became a real test of endurance for body art enthusiasts in the United States. The body art industry experienced a powerful “double blow”: while southern Atlanta plunged into the dark aesthetics of horror at the Days of the Dead Tattoo Expo, industrial Cleveland hosted the eleventh annual Cleveland Tattoo Arts Convention. These events clearly demonstrated how segmented yet cohesive modern tattoo culture has become, uniting fans of classic old school and lovers of radical horror realism under one roof.