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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER
@christophermhefner.bsky.social
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Hello! Find me at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY, today and tomorrow! Walk on in, call to schedule or drop me an email at CMHTATTOOER at gmail to set something up. Let’s show em what you’re about.
A tattoo on a forearm of an anthropomorphized light bulb lady
June 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Healed Hocus Pocus book out in the wild! Thanks so much Kaitlyn!
I’ve got the day open today at Top Rank in Kingston, come through for your next talismanic microtrauma.
A pair of legs wearing black leather boots with a tattoo of the magic book from the fil Hocus Pocus, sitting in the sand. Close up of a healed black and grey tattoo of the magic book from the film Hocus Pocus on a leg.
June 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Heads will be heads. Catch me at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY today from 1-5 and we’ll show em what you’re about. My design, your design or your favorite childhood nightmare fuel, we do it all.
#blackandgreytattoo #scarystoriestotellinthedark #nytattoo
Tattoo on a forearm of a Stephen Gammel illustration from Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark, seen with tattoo flash on the wall behind.
June 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Spotted in the wild. I’m back from tour/ignoring social media so come get tattooed to cheer me up.
#blackandgreytattoo #johnwillie #charlesguyette #fetishheels #nytattoo #chicagotattoo
A person’s legs wearing cowboy boots, one of which is pulled down to show a tattoo on their ankle of a black leather high heeled boot based on a photo from Bizarre Magazine
May 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Another member of the dreaded Burning Cinderblock Gang successfully recruited. Come on through Top Rank Tattoo today from 12-8 for your new insignia and finally get some fucking respect around here already.
71 Albany Ave.
Kingston NY
845.481.5147
An inside wrist and forearm with a tattoo of a cinderblock on fire
May 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Had the honor of giving this one to Michael yesterday. Tibetan text, from material to immaterial. Stoked to be back at Top Rank Tattoo today after a week away. Come through for your new tat today from 1-5 and I’ll tell you where I went.
A black and grey tattoo on a person’s chest of a block of Tibetan text dissolving into smoke.
May 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Would love to tattoo this one. The larger the better, but at least 6” high. Perfect for a bicep, thigh or wherever you’ve got a nice big gap. 350-650 depending on size and placement. Drop me a line at [email protected] if she’s for you!
Charcoa drawing tattoo flash of a mostly faceless person with a 1930s style up do and two eyes on one side of their face smoking a cigarette and wearing a tie
May 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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ATTN: NY PEOPLE
May Day Mayday protests are everywhere, during the day and after work alike. Get out and show em.
A list of May Day 2025 protests in New York State
May 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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One of my favorite small panel paintings from the previous Chicago exhibition. This and a handful of others from that show are still available, as it turns out. Would love to re-home them, as I’m holed-up in the studio this month being my own exploited & unpaid intern working for exposure.
A small painting on panel of a dead fly on the cover of an open match book, in front of a white wall, held by a hand in front of a wall
May 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I’ve got almost no photos of the things I’m working on for my show, but here is an admittedly shoddy one! What do I want you to know?
- I’m having a good time making them.
- These are the largest paintings I’ve made.
- I hope you’ll see them in person.
- Fuck fascism.
That’s all for now! 🙋🏻‍♀️🖤
A 42” x 36” painting of a person standing on a checkered floor in front of a curtain wearing heels holding a piece of fabric in front of their torso. Their head and shoulders seem to be missing but cast a shadow.
May 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Been ignoring my phone while traveling this past week, but now I’m back. Only 1 1/2 months to finish up a new series of LARGE paintings to be shown at the fabulous Lula Cafe in Chicago. Excited for hardcore studio time and taking breaks to tattoo YOU. Here’s a barf bag drawing, meantime.
A graphite drawing made on a plane of a crashed car on a vomit bag, which reads WASTE in large blue letters which bisect the image of the car.
April 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Several hundred in Albany NY despite the event having been cancelled by the original organizers!
Protestors on the capital plaza in Albany NY expressing their disgust and outrage at the actions of the trump regime The best sign at the function, reads: THAT HAIR SLICKS BACK REAL NICE
April 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Best sign at the protest.
#sloppysteaks #chickenspaghetti #livesfornewyearseve
Woman with a protest sign at today’s anti trump rally that reads “THAT HAIR SLICKS BACK REAL NICE”.
April 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Where have all the Squeakies gone
Police photo of Squeaky Fromme with a gun strapped to her leg.
April 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Healed and hairy a year (or so?). Always love to do some readymade flash ripped from the bountiful pages of Craphound. Come get yours today at Top Rank in Kingston NY! I’ll be there from 1-5 and my day is wiiiiiiiide open. Let’s go!
#blackandredtattoo #craphound #halloweencat #flashtattoo
A healed tattoo on a thigh of a vintage Halloween cat decoration
April 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Dreaming of the glorious day when someone asks me to tattoo the Glen or Glenda Radiator on them…it could be you, it could be tomorrow.
#tattooflash #wannado #glenorglenda #edwood #pullthestring
A charcoal drawing of a radiator which is mysteriously featured in an inexplicable cut shot in the film “Glen or Glenda?”, directed by Edward D. Wood Jr., which is intended for tattooing on a client whose exquisite taste, smoldering charisma and erudite humor makes them a source of delight and lusty fascination for all that have the good fortune to cross their worldly path.
April 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This month’s installment of my radio show features fields of presence and texture to awaken the sleeping regenerative creature within for a future season of ferocious resistance and the complete eradication of the oppressor in all of its hideous and abhorrent forms.

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The ancient Hindu goddess Kali, ensconced in trophies reaped from the bodies of her victims, dances triumphantly on the corpses of those who would subdue her.
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Midcentury ceramic panther for Gabe! Loved this request, a good challenge and I’m stoked on the result. Plenty of time to tattoo you this week, get at me and we’ll set it up!
#blackandgreytattoo #midcenturyceramic #sickpanther #panthertattoo #chrometattoo
A black and grey tattoo of a high-gloss midcentury modern panther ceramic on the outer shoulder
April 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Cookie Mueller from last autumn for the great @bigbabyidiot.bsky.social
Find me at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY today from 12-8. Today is the day.
#blackandgreytattoo #tattooportrait #cookiemueller #johnwaters #femaletrouble
Black and grey tattoo of Cookie Mueller from the John Waters film Female Trouble, smoking a cigarette wearing a beehive hairdo
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Real question: who’s gonna let me tat the alien mummy
Two angles of a real mummy of an actual alien.
April 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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XL pinned fly for Rick! From my time in Chicago last week. Back at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY TODAY. Time for you, 1-5. I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t come get tattooed.
The outside of a shoulder with a tattoo of a pinned fly on it
April 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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T O N I G H T
Couldn’t be more stoked for this show or more honored to bring along a box of my dork-ass records to share the bill. Hope you got tix, see you in the slo mo pit.
A poster for a show featuring HTRK, Mark Trecka and Nona Invie, featuring DJ Christopher Michael Hefner at Tubby’s bar in Kingston NY
April 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Had a fabulous time continuing this Stephen Gammel Scary Stories sleeve for Carly yesterday. We also started in on another section, to be continued later, but this smokey icon is all finished.
#blackandgreytattoo #stephengammel #scarystories
March 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#evilzone
A good humor ice cream truck next to a park on a sunny day in early spring, a prostrated human body is visible protruding from under its front bumper.
March 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Had the honor of making a counterpart chair with void for my dear friend @julesdebules.bsky.social to keep their other empty chair company. There are empty chairs and then there are antimatter chairs.
#blackandgreytattoo #clubsit #chicagotattoo #oleandertattoo #stippletattoo
A close up of a wrist in front of a brick wall with a tattoo of a chair with a circular black cloud over it. A person in a denim shirt holding their arms in front of them, showing wrists with two tattoos of chairs
March 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM