tattoo tux

[OutOfIdeas]

That flyer is so awesome!

[Bunny Switchblade]

Or he was time traveling.

Most likely the best answer....LOL

I am loving it having the old Baltimore area code too! :)

***Edit ---- And thank you for sharing that here!

[gougetheeyes]

I am loving it having the old Baltimore area code too! :)

MD represent! New favorite thread.

[Bunny Switchblade]

I really don't post up online too much of the things I have.....but I thought I would share this with everyone since it really is pretty cool!

Tux and Dennis did have some business with each other......not 100% sure what happened but that is another story...LOL

Since there seems to be a Maryland tattoo history undertone to this thread I will share my door......

[irezumi]

I really don't post up online too much of the things I have.

Me neither but not everything needs to be a secret that only I have in a box that nobody else will ever be able to appreciate. I don't give out ALL the gold though hah.

[Bunny Switchblade]

Me neither but not everything needs to be a secret that only I have in a box that nobody else will ever be able to appreciate. I don't give out ALL the gold though hah.

The door is a bit hard to hide.....LOL

[Cork]

@Bunny Switchblade @irezumi

Being that I travel to Read Street every 3rd Monday or so, I'd love to meet you guys. Irezumi, I'd be very interested to know when/where you'll be guest spotting. Might not be able to finagle a tattoo, but I'd enjoy shaking your hand. Bunny, I know you've said it before, but where do you work? My next appointment with Dana is May 13th at 5. Is your shop close to Read Street? I could take a side trip and stop by and introduce myself. And yes Dana is working the convention, he said he was fully booked up except for 1 slot as of Monday.

I am no where near as deep in the world as you guys are, so I can hardly appreciate what's going down here. I don't mean to derail the thread.

[gougetheeyes]

since there seems to be a maryland tattoo history undertone to this thread i will share my door......

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Bunny Switchblade]

@Bunny Switchblade @irezumi

Being that I travel to Read Street every 3rd Monday or so, I'd love to meet you guys. Irezumi, I'd be very interested to know when/where you'll be guest spotting. Might not be able to finagle a tattoo, but I'd enjoy shaking your hand. Bunny, I know you've said it before, but where do you work? My next appointment with Dana is May 13th at 5. Is your shop close to Read Street? I could take a side trip and stop by and introduce myself. And yes Dana is working the convention, he said he was fully booked up except for 1 slot as of Monday.

I am no where near as deep in the world as you guys are, so I can hardly appreciate what's going down here. I don't mean to derail the thread.

I work at Gemini Tattoo in Odenton, MD (right across from Ft Meade Army base) but I am still in the apprentice stage! I am there a few evenings a week and all day on Saturday!

My mentor wanted me to keep my daytime job in DC....so I essentially work two full time jobs between my daytime job and the tattoo shop plus the "homework" and the painting and drawing I need to have done each week! I've had this crazy schedule for 17 months no....LOL

It's very possible that my Hubby and I could hop the subway one Monday when you are being tattooed and make the short walk over to Read Street!

How long are your sessions usually with Dana?

[el twe]

Super cool thread, thanks for sharing everyone!

[Cork]

Oh boy, that's not near Read Street at all. The sessions are normally 4 hours.

[Bunny Switchblade]

Oh boy, that's not near Read Street at all. The sessions are normally 4 hours.

I'll try to come down that Monday in May!

I wouldn;t be down at least until 7....so a 4 hour session gives us plenty of time to make it down!

[Cork]

Very cool. I'll send a you a PM closer to the date to remind you. Fair warning now though, I'm just a plain old nerd who just so happens to like tattoos. Though if you know Dana, I'm sure he'll be happy to see you, so the trip won't be a total loss for you, haha.

[Bunny Switchblade]

For @irezumi.......

[irezumi]

@bunny wow that's a gem, thanks for posting those machines

[Bunny Switchblade]

@bunny wow that's a gem, thanks for posting those machines

No problem at all @irezumi!

Message me an address....I am putting together a small package to send you way in the next week or two! :)

[CultExciter]

Is anyone interested in the lineage and family tree of tattooers as much as I am? Maybe I think about it because I like seeing the connection to myself. The person who is teaching me was taught by someone else, and that in turn bonds us on some metaphysical level. I think it could yield some fascinating discussion.

[irezumi]

Is anyone interested in the lineage and family tree of tattooers as much as I am? Maybe I think about it because I like seeing the connection to myself. The person who is teaching me was taught by someone else, and that in turn bonds us on some metaphysical level. I think it could yield some fascinating discussion.

Yes, I co-sign 100%. This same line of thinking and appreciation of tat family lineage is how I got meet Thom, Higgs and Bubash, and was lucky enough to get tattoos from Thom and Dan. I'm hoping to get the time & money to get something from Nick as well this year.

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Not precisely 'lineage' but more like crew/family pictures from a 20 year old magazine. Close enough to be post-worthy. I'm sure some of you have seen it but I'm fairly positive plenty of you haven't.

Horiwaka family, no names were listed or mentioned.

TC picture and GTC pictures are definitely my favorites, especially with Harrison throwing what looks like mystical esoteric gang signs.

Kind of wandering off from the thread title so here's this, from a different 20 year old mag.. I posted it somewhere else a few months ago, so if you've seen it already then yeah whatever.

Ed, Nick, Thom & Tux

[Bunny Switchblade]

Another one I should have gotten to tattoo me at Read Street......Harrison!

I think Scott tattooed a Walrus impaled by an umbrella one night I was there....lmao!

[CultExciter]

Speaking of Reed Street. Man, that shop.

I like thinking about Brian Bruno, who was from Gloucester, but he worked with Jerry Riegger (who worked with Doc King), and then of course Reed Street, Tattoo City, and Absolute.

@irezumi The pic of Charlie, et al, so amazing.

[Bunny Switchblade]

I don't think people realize the quality of tattoo artists that exist in just the Baltimore metro area alone! People like Eric Gregory.....Matt Rinks......Brady Duncan......Hunter Spanks....Dana Helmuth....Tom Beasley.....and the list goes on! I always tell people looking for great tattoos that they could stay within a 60 mile radius of Baltimore and get some of the best quality tattoos around!

A lot of these guys aren't worried about being famous.....they just love to tattoo and care about doing great work!

And the same goes for a lot of cities like Philly and Richmond as well as many others!

I don't think people around here realize how blessed they really are to have some of these guys close by!

[CultExciter]

I'm quite partial to Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, and the tattooers that work there.

[gougetheeyes]

@irezumi those are so good! A big regret is throwing out heaps of old tattoo magazines I'd bought up when I was like 16-18.. And totally looks like Rudy's doing some kind of hermetic something-or-other haahaa

[irezumi]

@irezumi those are so good! A big regret is throwing out heaps of old tattoo magazines I'd bought up when I was like 16-18.. And totally looks like Rudy's doing some kind of hermetic something-or-other haahaa

I'm a magazine hoarder. I have kept practically every interesting mag ever since I was 14. The amount and weight of books is absurd. Even after donating boxes and boxes of books to the public library I still fill over 2 huge bookcases.

My friends hate helping me move.

[CultExciter]

I don't think people realize the quality of tattoo artists that exist in just the Baltimore metro area alone!

Not to mention Frederick. Jeez.