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Appointment w/ Steve Byrne this Saturday-stoked = D

Moth tattoos are the bee's knees. (Stefano C.) Herb Auerbach: Steve Boltz: Daniel Higgs:

I can't compete with that epic back piece, but here is my chest, completed last night. Dave Fox is the man.

By Dan Santoro (not on me!) Teenage Ghosts | Teenage Ghosts

@Ursula that was always my favorite track by them. i did like the first jazzamatazz album too and keeping with the jazzinessss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sL4CACPQo

Now that it Halloween is upon us, what a great time to share Halloween themed or inspired tattoos. Start it off with this bat boy lives tattoo done last year on Halloween.

Anyone going to their city/towns local Dia De Los Muertos parade/event? For all the Bay Area people here is SF's info which is always fun: San Francisco's Annual Day of the Dead celebration Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Procession starts at 7pm on 22nd & Bryant Streets Altars and gathering is at Garfield Park, 6-11pm, 26th & Harrison Streets Please bring candles in GLASS containers, no votive or open flame candles are allowed at the park. Do you want to make an altar at Garfield Park? Please check in at the Marigold Project information table near the Garfiled Park clubhouse on November 2 and we will find a location for your altar. For those unfamiliar with Day of the Dead here's some info from SF's site Maybe see you there........

At first I thought tattoos had to be about specific meaning and I'm sure it holds true for some, but the more I get into it, I just want good shit done by worthy artists. It gets tiring when someone's like "why do you have a rose on your arm" or "what's that skull and panther mean" When I travel, I kinda see it as a timestamp and taking a little piece of the places I travel with me.

i found this site the other day by accident, cool stuff CoffinQuilts.com - Home of Mary Kenyon's Tattoo quilts! The original Tattoo quilt! oh and dave sparks is from dayton and does some great folk art...i've got a james traficant bed pan that is great . http://sherocksproductions.webs.com/davesparks.htm

Welcome new chick..There's plenty of good realistic tattooers in NYC,but the rate per hour is going to be higher then in Jersey,or Philly.Billi & Lalo do good realistic work@ Sacred Tattoo NYC - Tattoos | Henna | Art Space NYC | Professional, high quality tattoos and henna in NYC I just saw an owl head Lalo did on this tattooer,and it was beautiful. TATTOOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS by NEEDLES | Just another WordPress weblog is versatile tattooer. Ethan@ Rivington Tattoo Studio : Dave@ 8 of Swords Tattoo Studio - Williamsburg, Brooklyn Tribulation Tattoo - Liorcifer, Dan Marshall, Tim Kern Paul Booth's Last Rites Tattoo Theatre In NJ,check out Chris Adamek Dot Com - Tattoos RANDYPRAUSE.COM Biagio's Tattoo Gallery- An art Gallery with Performance Tattoo Matt@ Welcome to most honorable Seppuku Tattoo Ian & Darren@ BILLY MONROE'S SCEAMIN' INK TATTOO STUDIO

(^this piece is bigger, but I can't find a complete shot of it) Items collected & composed by Bobby Puleo Photos by Angela Bootwright

Everyone who loves hip-hop should watch Chappelle's Block Party Documentary....it's amazing.

Not too familiar with what all the correct wording should be, but if the guy is basically no longer an asshole, good for him.

pretty funny....

Ice Cube - Dead Homiez - YouTube Cube from Kill at Will 12 inch Geto Boys - Size Ain't Shit - YouTube " lifting weights will make you bigger but lift me you'll be a dead ass ni%%a "

The thing about this is so many of them are bad tattoos covered up with even bigger bad tattoos. Sadface.

Dave Fox is amazing. He is one of the only artists who makes the so called New-School Japanese actually look refined. Dear I even say mature enough to stand the test of time.

@Ursula - the funniest thing is since yesterday I have pretty much been constantly going "doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo doodle doo do". anytime, anywhere, for no reason in particular. BUT it has encouraged other people to do the same, and at Uni today I had a line of people doo-doo-ing behind me ;) (by line I mean 3 other people but it was still pretty darn funny)

I lived in Georgia in the 80s and got to see a lot of Howard Finster's work. Loved it

Tattoo related -Henry Lewis and Masami Teraoka Masami Teraoka

I bought mine off the newsstand, and much like my videos, I packrat magazines too :D

V and Gravity's Rainbow are for me the best two novels that Pynchon produced. Both took me probably about three or four goes to get through them, but perseverence pays off in the end. He is often compared to writers like Rushdie, Eco and Calvino in terms of post-modern, magic-realist styles of writing, but I find him to be much more in a tradition of American writers such as Burroughs and Vonnegut. I prefer him to Don DeLillo as well, and I don't really understand why they are so often mentioned in the same breath.

Javier Rodriguez, LTW Tattoo, ES- powerful stuff; guest spot at NYAdorned 11/13-17:

So true! I have about three big ones left--actually, I could probably fit five if I wanna jam 'em in behind my knees (oh, lord)--so I'll only have room for little ones soon enough. But those just make you want more and more, don't they?

Just finished up about 30 minutes ago. Now enoying a nice cold pint of Perroni.

I guess math isn't her strength

That guy spelt "ART" like KoЯn.

I'd much rather tattoo the crazies, fatties, etc. and be able talk about killing zombies than inking the over tanned uptown julie browns exhibiting their zanax prescription. Case in point; I like to derail some people when they are the first timer questioning me to be serious about how much pain is involved minutes before I start, it don't matter what I reply with as they will soon know so sometimes I just say "I compare it to the first time ya have anal sex, that shid hurts!" and it totally derails them and they generally don't reply or the replies will vary between males and females to something so "off the wall". But one time after I was underway after the "no reply/response" this lady stated "You lied! I'd much rather have anal sex than this!" I had to laugh. As to the variety of "earthy and real people" we get, I once had a lady in the chair getting a bird of paradise on her should, her back to me, and this guy stopped by needing to talk about some deep marital stuff he was going through and how his Wife left him for ANOTHER WOMAN. I told him that I had once pondered as to "who would know better than another woman how and where to please another woman", now the lady in the chair hadn't said a word since we had began and was not part of this discussion but at that point she turned her head towards us and spoke up "That's a crock of szhit, this beotch was eating my pussy last Saturday and she didn't know what the f*%k she was doing" at which point I couldn't help but burst into laughter. I love my job.

I hate that PBR is considered hipster. In Chicago most of us grew up with PBR and Old Style. It's what our father's drank. It was Union made, working man's beer.

I had our wedding date engraved inside my ring. Recently, I got a new ring just because I thought the old was outdated and liked some of the new stuff I was seeing. I ended getting a tungsten something or other and it cant be engraved. It was funny to my wife and I because we both relied on that ring to remind us what year we were married. We were actually celebrating our 5th anniversary when part way through the evening we looked at the ring and realized it was our 6th. Oops. So after reading this thread, maybe I will get the date tattooed on my finger, under my ring.

My wife commissioned Daniel to paint a painting for us as my wedding gift. It's incredible! He hand delivered it to her in brooklyn. It's at the framers right now, can't wait to get it back. One of the 1000+ reasons I married her.

OH NO!!! Let me try to fix... BUCKET CAT!!!!

higgs is a talented, eccentric MAN. not a divine guru. this whole "cult of higgs" that has sprung up the last few years is fucking stupid.