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This lovely rose and cut throat razor by Mario Desa, in the ditch of my arm. And these little buggers on my thumbs by Stefano C. And a waffle with a scoop each of banana and pistachio ice cream at Amorino before.

this might be my first post, been lurking for a bit. my first tattoo was a few years ago. my lady paid for it for my birthday. hurt pretty good, still didn't get the whole tattoo thing after getting this one, i got one more because of some coaxing from my brother...after that one...i'm pretty addicted to the whole experience. i think i've been lucky to get work done from guys who are nice dudes, personable and make the whole experience really unique.

It went unnoticed because there's so much on this forum to keep one busy for days, but I wanted to give a shout out to LST for their one year anniversary last month. Thank you for a great forum and a great distraction from work. Here's to many more years of Last Sparrow Tattoo!!! :)

yall are goofy.I will apologize first.sorry, this is bullshit.yall are glorifing bul$HIT. I dont care. tattoos to me me have a tradition.why you think this is cool i cant figure.I come from a lineage. this took great effort,yrs of effort.this sort of glorificasion of scrachers.will get no one anywhere.wake up.so now were all so fuc4in cool we imitate prisoners. what the hell.yall ever done time? this is not funny. not even cool. maybe NY cool . quit hangin with the "riche" children. this in my world is wrong. shoot dope ,film it , and make it into a cool doc.yall need to realize what bullshit is. I saw nothing redeming in this crap.sorry.

got my palm done today by Andrew Conner...wow that was something else but so totally worth it 'scuse the swelling it set in pretty fast

I was lucky enough to score a last minute cancellation with Valerie Vargas at Frith Street Tattoo on Monday. The design is a 1920s flapper girl that Valerie drew up on the spot for me. Valerie is a genius! I am so unbelievably thrilled with how it came out. Looking a bit gross at the moment, will post another pic once healed.

I think I can make it to this one! I'll keep you posted, but it would great to see familiar faces and meet a few new ones.

Angry birds Rio is hella hard. 60% of the stress in my life is angry birds.

I only use my smart phone for angry birds and scrabble. Being productive on it is a waste of time.

Ill go where ever. I just want good times which will be had. I'm assured of this.

Chow sounds like a good place...

Whatever. It's New York, dude, Tompkins Square no less. Those old ladies probably walked past two dead junkies and a homeless dude shitting in the street before they saw Scott. A tattoo is the least sketchy thing you're going to see go down in that park.

Iwo Jima Eddies stomach is the shit

If I tattooed Courtney Love I would go and get a tetanus shot as soon as I finished.

Fancy LST dress up party????

they should've gone directly across the street to Richard Stell and Matthew wojciechowski. I started tattooing in the early/mid 90's in Houston I spent some time in Dragon mikes shop and remeber it well but i cannot remember anything about dragon mike the man. I actually worked with Tiger John for a little while at Texas Tattoo Emporium which is the building next door to the building that dragon mikes was in. to get back on topic of the thread, prisoners don't have the luxury of stencils either. also i suspect they planted that VCR in the trash.

Ok I hate all of you!!!! My wife and I have now watched the first 7 episodes and we got fucking hooked. Thanks! Now I have to veg on the couch and watch the rest of season 1 then seasons 2 and 3. I now have no life.

Thanks everyone for being a part of this with us! I wasn't going to announce the one year til it was one year 'live' which is right around the corner.....it's a trip to think back to how this thing started as a thought and talks then in just one year here we are.......

He's not a prison tattooer. The person getting the tattoo is not a con. Prison tattooers do not have the luxury of wandering around shops or finding disgarded VCRs, when gathering parts to build their machines. It's tattooed in a park. I assume Scott Cambell is not using prison type pigment. It dosn't look like a prison tattoo. But it does look like a load of pretentious tosh. Watching a tattooing sequence from the "The Mark of Cain" is far more interesting.

Its not finished yet, so no pics for you. Come back in two weeks.

Nice... Looks good dude. It was 31 degrees today in Kyoto, but not as humid as it was when we arrived... Still way too hot for this irishman.

Holy shit. And I even have a fucking t-shirt. Congrats to Scott, Loch, Dari, Steve, Tammy and all the others that made it happen. LST is the new addiction.. love it or hate it. Nice job guys.

I wasn't going to post these until it was completed, but I thought "fuck it, why not" and now you guys can see how the cover up progresses :cool: These are the best photos I could get after the first day in Kyoto (6hrs) I still have to get photos of the second day, which completed all the background on the upper arm. Everything is now nearly healed so I'll get some new ones soonish. Apologies for the dodgy photography but I'm pretty sure I was still vibrating haha

Just writing this from the ryokan Im staying in while in Japan. A bit of a movable feast of tattooing-related holiday stuff over the past week.... Also laying the ground for some work next year. My girlfriend has been accepted by Shige as a client and will start her backpiece next year - amazing stuff, and I was slightly star-struck when Shige walked in the door of Yellow Blaze for her appointment. As she is planning a return visit to begin around this time next year, and because I know the dates we will be back over the next while (roughly), Im planning my own work around that. I am going to try and work in a few small pieces while when we are over next, and to that end I called into Harizanmai Tattoo in Kyoto today and spoke briefly with Gakkin about a piece next year. Also took in Horyioshi III museum in Yokohama and met his son and successor smoking nonchalantly at reception. Awesome trip so far!

First tattoo was "RISE ABOVE" on my ankles. It was done by a Sureño who worked in the Applebee's kitchen while I was a host. Its obviously a Black Flag tattoo. I was also wearing a Black Flag shirt. I was 17 and stupid. Oh, it was in his studio apartment and he smoked the biggest fucking joint I have ever seen outside of the Pantera Videos before he started as well. I mean, if you are going to get a Black Flag tattoo... thats how it should be done.

I really like Eckel's work. He's located at Conspiracy Inc. in Copenhagen http://eckeltattoo.blogspot.com/

Got my first tattoo earlier this afternoon. Awkward spot to take a photo so it looks crooked Done by Stevie Edge in Bondi

Wellllll. Since you said to be honest I will. Like the other I agree it looks stupid to have hand tattoos and not have the rest of your arms and actually the rest of your body done. It makes me wonder why you chose to get your hand tattooed before doing the rest. As far as the actual tattoo, it's by far not the worst I've seen. It's not something I would ever get and I wouldn't go to the artists. The reason is not the quality of the actual tattooing, it's the drawing. I'm not into new school or whatever people would call that style. Just isn't my thing. Having said all that, if you like the drawing then there's no problem at all as it's your tattoo. If I was you I'd wait until I you have a lot more tattoos on your arm and then see how you feel about it. I have a couple tattoos that are actually really fucking awful, like I mean horrible. It used to bother me soooo much, I wouldn't wear short sleeves because I was so embarrassed by them. Then I started getting good tattoos and lots of them and now the bad ones aren't so embarrassing. It all just kind of blends in. A good friend of mine who is also a great tattooer once told me that he likes it when someone has a couple bad ones in there with the good ones because it shows that you love tattoos and wanted them before you knew about 'cool rockstar hipster shit' like a lot of the kids today who are just getting tattooed because it's the cool trendy thing to do.

I don't eat in that category of restaurant. This is is more me.

These just make me feel sad for these people, that the other forms of self-mutilation just weren't enough for them. To me, they're not tattoos, just billboards for self loathing, fear, and desperation.

My wife's name is Felicia, and there's a flower called felicia, so I've got a few incorporated into a piece on my leg: I also have tons of roses, peonies and cherry blossoms, but I still want some nice Filip Leu-style mums.

Judging solely from your internet actions I highly doubt that comment would be the deciding factor in your heaven vs. hell score card... Just saying haha

its because she makes the joey tribiani (from Friends) face....you know how he would say when he needed to make a serious face when he was acting he would act like he smelled something bad...tara always has the "who-just-farted" face.