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I tried my best... this picture doesn't do it much justice though (Meyer piece on the right if anyone's wondering)

Man so this is is more a story about a story, but a few years ago I worked with my buddy Dave, who has been in the game FOREVER. Anyway LST's own Pat (gougetheeyes) and I were at the shop having a conversation along the lines of this thread, laughing about people passing out/shitting themselves etc. when from the back of the shop where Dave was drawing I hear him chime in; "had somebody die once" uh... EXCUSE ME!? "Yeah a girl, she died." He's shuffled over and started in like it was a cross between a campfire ghost story and the monologue from Jaws. "It was back in the 90's, Hawaii, 94 maybe? Anyway, crazy production shop sailors would come in, you'd work 12-15 hour shifts, go upstairs, sleep a few hours come back down, do it again. Make all your money for the next 6 months in 3 weeks. Anyways, it was one of those stretches I'd been going for hours, next tattoo was a girl, wanted a flower. She went into the bathroom, came out, and as she was walking to my chair she hit the floor. Dropped fucking dead. Paramedics came but she was blue, shot up in the bathroom before the tattoo, killed her. Fucked me up for a good bit. Good thing she didn't make it into my chair before she died, I probably woulda quit tattooing." Pat and I were in awe, and just like that Dave went back to his drawing. I don't think anyone said another word for about an hour.

i had an older black couple come in wanting to get tattooed a few months ago that was quite memorable. the husband was a mute so his wife did all the talking and she informed me that he needed to get seven names on his forearm. not particularly caring to ask why so many names i went about preparing the design and attempting to communicate with him to find out exactly what he wanted, but basically the wife told him what he was getting and i started tattooing. as im on name number two i ask the lady, "are these the names of your children?" to which she replied, "no, they're all the names of my different personalities. i have multiple personalities." struggling not to bust out laughing i asked, "really? that's so interesting! when we're you diagnosed?" she said she had never been to a doctor or therapist but she just knew. the old man just sat there grinning and making weird noises as he was a mute. she stated that if he loved her he had to love all of her personalities, even the bad ones. "you don't want to meet mary lou!" was one of the more interesting things she said about her inner conflict of persons. before she left she said they would be back again because they couldn't afford to get all of them that day.

Does it still count as a unicorn if the horn is coming out of his eye socket?

I fumbled about for the right term for these but thanks to my man Hogg i've now got it ,Capt Coleman dragons .Anyway this "did me up like a kipper " as the say over here .Hope this is cool to post...great new stuff from Valerie Vargas .

I love fishing. I started off fly fishing and I still love it, but after some douche broke into my truck and stole all my flies...I have trouble getting into it... So I did bass fishing for a few years and totally DUG IT! Colorado doesnt have the biggest bass, but its really fun to catch them. Then a good friend of mine convinced me to try ice fishing a few years ago. I am totally addicted to it. I love catching big trout through the ice now.

Mike Wilson is very talented but you don't have to travel that far to get a good tattoo.Federico does excellent work,but your going to pay a lot more getting tattooed at love & hate.My friend was down in Miami a few years ago,and wen't into love & hate inquiring about getting a christ head,and they gave him a price that was real high.He ended up going to south beach tattoo,and getting it from Federico for less than half the price he was told at Love & Hate.I believe the next year,he moved to love & hate.Like Dave Porter said there's plenty of shops in South Florida with some capable tattooers. Vince@ Colorfast Studios Expert Tattoo and Body Piercing - Home Page also is real good tattooer. Lea@ A Stroke Of Genius Tattoos And if you wan't it in a realistic style,check out Big Brain 2 Presents No Hard Feelings Chris & Pepper do nice b & g work.

As some of you know I visited San Francisco recently to get tattooed by Scott Sylvia, Tim Lehi and Grime. If you haven't seen it already you can check out my travelblog here: http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/blogs/iwar/232-oslo-san-francisco-travel-blog.html My Scott Sylvia piece is as good as healed now, so I thought I'd start by sharing that one. The rest will be posted here as soon as they are healed and I get decent pictures. All I have to take photos with is my iPhone, so please excuse the mediocre quality.

Sometimes I really can't tell the difference anymore. Tattooing is SO over saturated that it feels like i work at hot topic most of the times. I mean when everybody has a fucking tattoo what's the difference anyway? I've seen tons of kids with tough traditional tattoos wearing hipster v necks and thick rimmed glasses. But what about tattooers? Dickies and flannel? I mean fuck! It's all been done and over done. None of us are original, we might have got there sooner but does it matter anymore? How about we all dress like it's the 30's? Oh wait that's done... How about ties and button downs... Fuck another cliche. Today tattooing not just about the tattoo it's about the total image of the client wearing it... And I think that's bullshit. When "alternative" is the mainstream, what's alternative? I don't have a clue... Side note: some of the above tattoos are really stupid!!!

took my son (6yrs) and daughter (8yrs) fishing on a pond this weekend at my in laws. they both caught sunnies using an old school bobber and live worms. it fucking ruled. my daughter even learned to cast completely on her own and was getting it out about 30 feet. what a good time. fishing is my yoga.

That has to be fake.. I mean if there's people that stupid making babies I have no hope for the future

Troy lane is in Miami, so is Ken Cameron, colorfast is a good shop in lauderdale, altered state in lake worth, aces high and my shop Hellcat tattoo in west palm. Endless summer in cocoa bch, cast iron in Orlando, against the grain in Melbourne, inksmith, livewire, black hive in jax. There are a ton of good tattooers in Florida, but many, many more bad.

What ever happened to getting tattoos for yourself and not so every person on the street freaks out. Being different is one thing, purposely doing all this shit to offend people? Waste of time. I always thought being punk rock was about being yourself, and not letting others put you down for that. I didn't know that it's now all about being a huge douche bag who's life revolves around offending everyone you can.

Always tigers, roses, fudo myoo, Raijin & Fujin, japanese dragons, pre-1980s japanese bodysuits, daggers, skulls, pretty girls, well-drawn lettering, good black & grey portraits etc. But right now its old Japanese bodysuits with no animals or birds, just peonies, blossom or chrysanthemums and a large deity backpiece. - Blows my fucking mind.

wow iwar, you must not have a bad tattoo on you, these are killer. hope you had a great time!

I like how this story end with going to Denny's. That is a happy ending.

Dominic Vasquez -Flying Panther Tattoo

"Becoming a hipster is kind of like joining a street gang, except there is no risk of violence and you have to pretend you have read 'Infinite Jest'". Fook. "Infinite Jest" is pretty much my favorite book. *blush*

I want a hook up. Mike Patton would look great 10X bigger.

Found this in our mailbox a month or two ago. Been meaning to post it up here for the lols Enjoy my internet "nabors"

Adam Sage is the man.

I assume he put 100% because there wasn't enough room for STUPID. If there is one more annoying thing than a stupid cunt. Its a stupid old cunt.

@Iwar Xam at The Family Business, London tattooed the leopards head. He does some fantastic work. Xam — The Family Business Tattoo Shop

@Duffa Oh alright then. It's based on a Brooklyn Joe Lieber design. This is just the outline. Two more sessions to go before it's completed. Heres a slightly closer photo.

Mr. Pink hates this thread right now.

first one, from about four years ago. always took my dad's forearm tattoo to heart in school, and because skulls are rad... done by Dennis McPhail of Artist at Large in Wichita, KS.

So a few months ago I started noticing this weird hipster trend of posting photos of oneself with a nosebleed. It was all over the social networking sites. Just random bleeding hipsters. I thought it might be a cocaine reference, but it turned out that hipsters are just fucking stupid.

I posted this in another section but I just got this last night, done by Ron Wells at Three Kings Tattoo in NY.

by Alix Ge https://www.facebook.com/alixgp

absolutely love Cris Cleen's lady heads. a few from his blog: just beautiful

Here is a collab painting between the lovely Lina Stigsson and the equally lovely Stooks (manly lovely of course :rolleyes: )

Lina Stigsson from Admiraal Tattoo Amsterdam does gorgeous work

Could we see the reaper rooster combo please Julio ? Something about that makes me hungry .One thing i can never get my fill of is Chad K's Eagles ,especially his latest heavily shaded efforts -

Mr. Make my Nipples Bigger rules.

Great traditional tattoo and immediately i think - Valerie Vargas .She can bust out some of the best even on the tricky spots ,so many great ones from this lass it's hard to choose what pics to post .

here's Josh's back piece by Bob Roberts. fucking killer tattoo. for those who are interested click here for part 1 of Cody Miller interviewing Josh Arment and click here for part 2.

Here's some more I really like by Marija Ripley, Denmark.

I just joined this site, I love lady heads and after browsing the member pictures I'd like to add Stefan Johnson's name to this conversation. I really love his style of girls and not even sure how it would be categorized (help?). I plan on getting a gypsy head in the near future but I prefer the more neo-trad, softer designs like this rather than the pure traditional styles which most artists seem to do. Here's a few examples of Stefan's style which I like and if anyone can suggest a traveling artist or one in the northeastern US who does similar work I'd greatly appreciate it. If I was closer to Stefan's shop in CA I'd be booking an appt. tomorrow. Thanks.

Here is a "Conn Girl" that was posted on the Blackheart blog. His work is hard to find online, so thanks to those guys for posting it. There is also one of his pin-up girls on their blog.