First off when we were so effectively conned by Mike, the website stated the school was in Austin, Texas and still did a few months ago when I last checked. Not a single change had been made since my son and our family was ripped off by the so called "apprenticeship program" back in 04-05.
I wish I had the information in this website before signing on with a check for $10,500 smack a roos! Just the love and blindness of a mom wanting to help her very talented son achieve his dreams.
Most of the negative reports I have read so far ring true. But the most unfortunate aspect of this whole scam is that Notorious Ed is truly a magnificantly talented man. Not only in tattoo art, an accomplished musician with an God given gift to appreciate all that is beautiful. I was blessed to meet Ed and experience his intelligence, his quiet demeanor and eagerness to teach those who want to learn.in comes Mike.
I have been in the shop when Mike cussed Ed out like a dog in front of everyone for no apparent reason. Either you bow down to Mike, become enslaved to him or you soon are kicked out of the program.
My son has a deep sense of what is right and wrong, morally, emotionally and spiritually. He never understood why Ed tolerated the constant abuse and battery at the hands of Mike.
Mike has done this so long he believes his own lies. An angry man who cannot appreciate the fact that Ed is his livelihood and without Ed, Mike would be nothing. A sad, sick, parasitic relationship. Don't enter this zone. Everyone loses.
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