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What I (eventually) learned, is not to get married to an idea. The beauty is, these dudes and ladies have been doing exactly this for years. And years. Bring it in if that's exactly what you want, but see what your tattooer of choice comes up with. That's half the fun!

When I was your age we had to walk a mile in the snow, barefoot, to get tattooed. With a rusty set of needles. Then again, a backpiece was only $5.00.

I guess it could be worse. It could be PeeWee Herman 82 times. I wonder if there is a restraining order on this guy though.

I just found this movie on Youtube on Russian prison life and tattoos, pretty interesting if you dont mind reading subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JDJdaMs-Y

Just discovered Dan Higgs has a blog. Has anyone seen this? Is it new? Love looking at his art. Dan Higgs Blog

To me, unless you are from Japan, and a member of a Japanese "business" family, the Japanese suit is out of place. The more you learn about the culture and the history of Japanese tattooing, the "mystery " and fantasy of the work dissolves. What's left is a very rigid culture that is out of synch with western ways. The work is no doubt beautiful when done properly. But think of this, those suits are earned within their culture. When Americans, and other westerners coop the style, the core intent of the suit in Japanese culture, has been stripped away, and we are left with surface decoration mostly derived from Chinese art and literature. I like it when westerners add their own flavor. If a westerner is making what they consider traditional Japanese work, they are posing. Even if some of your relatives lived in Japan generations ago. You are living in Japan making tattoos in that system, or, you are offering imitation Japanese traditional work. With that in Mind, there are some awesome, inspiring tattoos made by Traditional Japanese artists. And on occasion, I do some poser Japanese work myself. As a westerner, the idea of middle age men having "masters" just does not work for me. The Japanese philosopher, DT Suzuki said something to the effect..... If you want to understand Japan, you must start with India. On that note see you in a couple of weeks, time for another digital cleanse.

Freddy Corbin dropped some absolutely amazing roses in. Boom The only big spots left on my front/torso are both ribs, a little bit under the belly button, and fill. Stoked!

here's the newest addition by our own Lizzie: all one 4 hour session. i have two that were also just done by El Brad Mariachi too while he was in town, but i'm horribly bad with remembering to photograph tattoos.

4 sessions so far, 1 more to go.