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Like Tats?

Jesse Neese · August 6, 2026
Like Tats?

A highlight reel of recent work from Jesse Neese.

Featuring @jesseneese.

In this reel

I don’t tend to show off tattoos until they are finished, but some of them take a long time to get there…so here’s a peek at some of the big projects in progress. Mostly all healed as we were getting set up for another session on them. #workinprogresswednesday #tattoos #customtattoo #nuclearinkomaha #sneakpeek
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Here’s a timelapse video of a full 4hr single session surrealism tattoo. We started from a photo of a film noir detective we both liked, then let it get organically weird from there. My client signed a waiver stating that he understood that neither of us knew what the finished outcome would be. He picked out several options like #running #dripping #adapting #evolving #dissolving #shifting #transforming There’s actually a lot more of the original photo in there than I thought I’d use, but the blinds and lighting were super cool already. The finished healed tattoo is shown at the end of the video. Is he a zombie? Android? Is his hat its own scene? Is this a hard boiled detective from an upcoming Last of Us set in the 20’s? Is there a bird somewhere in there? #surrealism #surrealismtattoo #freehand #blackandgreytattoo #noir #filmnoir #weird #tattoo #nuclearink #omaha #nebraska #nuclearinkcustomtattoo #innovativetattoo @truetubes

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From the studio
Originally published by Jesse Neese.