Trip to San Fran

[el twe]

I just wanted to get a little traditional piece, something that looks 'vintage'...

Kinda wanted something representing California, but I can't think of anything.

Get a California grizzly!

[cltattooing]

Alright, well if you have a car you should definitely visit Spider Murphy's. Also, will you be here the same days as the Bay Area Convention of the Arts?

[Kahlan]

No I won't. :(

We are visiting mid October (11-15), something like that.

Yea that's definitely one of the shops on my list. Idle Hand is another I would love to get tattooed by.

You guys are so lucky to have such a variety of amazing artists.

[cltattooing]

We are truly spoiled. Haha

[spookysproul]

Everyone, please correct me if you feel differently or have alternatives. For the short duration I lived there I felt any shop mentioned in SF is accessible. The city is pretty much 7 miles x 7 miles. I pretty much walked the span once or twice running errands. But if you're more sane, cabbing or bussing it anywhere is easy. State of Grace in SJ, is about an hour drive from SF. Typically I've driven but I guess you could take the train down too. Temple in Oakland should be an easy and quick BART trip over I believe. Spider Murphy's in San Raphael too should also be accessible but via ferry then bus I think. I'm not sure how long that takes though.

Hope this helps a wee bit.

Temple is about a 45 second walk eastward from the 19th Street BART station in downtown Oakland, and you can take a bus that goes along Van Ness in SF that will drop you off roughly 5 or 6 blocks from Spider Murphy's.

Incidentally, Diamond Club is on the aforementioned Van Ness and you will absolutely get quality work there. Blackheart is roughly four blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station in SF and everything else is easily accessible by almost any MUNI line.

I miss the City, sometimes. :(

[Lionel Cosgrove]

seth wood will be starting at temple (oakland) beginning of october...his work is pretty badass and worth considering along with all the other artists named in this thread (many of whom i've been fortunate enough to get tattooed by!). my friends are still jealous i managed to get a couple pieces from chris conn before he disappeared, then reappeared with a $300/hour-three hour minimum rate down in LA...

[Cork]

Also, you should know that people from San Francisco love it when you call the city San Fran. It's probably the most affectionate name for the city that you can use, and they love to hear San Fran.

San Fran.....

@hogg

[cltattooing]

and if you call it "Frisco," we'll punch you in the dick.

[hogg]

and if you call it "Frisco," we'll punch you in the dick.

I like Frisco! Much better than ol' @Cork-y with his San Fran.

Frisco makes me think of outsiders, bikers, outlaws, gangsters, PIRATES. Plus, it's in tons of rap songs I love. So yeah. FRISCO. Even if I usually just say SF myself.

[cltattooing]

I'll let you get away with that because pirates...

[Pleadco]

and if you call it "Frisco," we'll punch you in the dick.

/hands athletic junk-armor to @hogg.

Here dude, you might need this. I hear that she's been trained by Jean Claude.

(shout out to @Delicious for the jcvd reference. It's been a while)

[el twe]

and if you call it "Frisco," we'll punch you in the dick.

[cltattooing]

hahaha!!!

[hogg]

From Farewell to Frisco, say hello to San Fran - SFGate

Herb Caen, who wrote the book on San Francisco - several of them, in fact - put it this way in 1953: "Don't call it Frisco. It's SAN Francisco, because it was named after St. Francis of Assisi. And because 'Frisco' is a nickname that reminds the city uncomfortably of its early, brawling, boisterous days and the cribs and sailors who were shanghaied and because 'Frisco' shows disrespect for a city that is now big and proper and respectable, and because only tourists call it 'Frisco' anyway and you don't want to be taken for a tourist, do you?" But Caen himself recanted several times, most notably in 1993: "Adolescence is believing that 'Frisco' is a racy nickname for a city; senility is automatically saying 'don't call it Frisco,' maturity is figuring it doesn't matter all that much..."

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Also, the only people I've heard say "Frisco" are natives. In my experience, only tourists call it "San Fran."

[Graeme]

I don't understand how being proper and respectable is anything to aspire to.

[hogg]

I don't understand how being proper and respectable is anything to aspire to.

Precisely!

[CultExciter]

Oh, Frisco, I've heard of those...

[exume]

I probably wouldn't call it Frisco since that's the real live, non shortened name of the town I live in

[a1steaks]

Frisco is what the bikers call it.

[cltattooing]

I was born and raised out here, and all that it comes down to is the fact that the sound of the word Frisco offends my ears.

[CABS]

The City, SF, San Francisco. That's it!

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I just wanted to get a little traditional piece, something that looks 'vintage'.

When you say vintage, I immediately think of Paul Dobleman, Stu Cripwell, Theo Mindell at Spider Murphy's. Heath Preheim at Temple would be your guy too. Juan Puente at Blackheart can do anything and everything. Jason Phillips at FTW in Oakland, too. Shit, too many options! This is why I don't really want to travel for a tattoo anymore (with the exceptions of Regino, Santoro, Boltz, etc.)

Kinda wanted something representing California, but I can't think of anything.

Jason McAfee at Temple kills it with the California tattoos. I would like to get one myself from him.

[David Flores]

If I ever go back I would go to Diamond Club or get tattooed by Kahill Rintye at Tattoo City. TIm Lehi and Rassier would be cool too.

[CABS]

If I ever go back I would go to Diamond Club or get tattooed by Kahill Rintye at Tattoo City. TIm Lehi and Rassier would be cool too.

Rassier is definitely at the top of my hit list. Good call on that.

[Kahlan]

So looks like I can actually catch the Portland Tattoo Expo. We're driving to SF, so we're going to stay in Portland overnight.

Is it worth checking out? If I make that pit stop we'll arrive in SF at like midnight. So I'm a little torn. :)

I wish life decisions were always this fun.

[beez]

@Kahlan if you haven't been to PDX before, it will be a fun stop!

Just looking at the list of artists I can see some familiar names from Seattle - folks from Apocalypse Tattoo, Artful Dodger, Steph from Madame Lazonga's and Aaron Bell from Slave to the Needle. Also the folks from AWR in pdx will be showing - i recently saw a Jason Kundell backpiece in progress, looks pretty rad! (being based in Seattle, it's just what my eyes were drawn to!)