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I should be used to this by now... But I'm obviously not. So a prospective customer came into the shop today ( she has been in before looking at portfolios, consultation etc.) Now she wants to begin her sleeve and wants to know if we would be interested in trading because she is currently in training for( insert whichever : esthetician, hairdressing, massage therapy etc. ) Really? So you think that would be equitable if I after years of tattooing would trade with you who have not even completed your training?

I had a scratcher offer to trade tattoos for tattoos. I would have given money to see the look on my own face, I was absolutely baffled.

smile and nod, i tend to joke around about everything so i find something to joke about rather than actually answer the question of how their tattoo looks. usually, i just tell them it sucks because they didn't get it from me, so that i can feed my babies (even if it's a nice looking tattoo). if someone really wants to pin me down on my opinion in regards to their tattoo, i ask if they like it? and if so, who cares what anyone else thinks. and if they are unsure about it, then they already know that they aren't happy with it. i did have a waiter while taking our order, take his shoe and sock off and put his foot on our table and ask what i thought of it...i said "awesome, i'm just glad you were able to get it up on the table so i could see it real good before the food got here" i didn't even look at the tattoo but would've said anything to get his sweaty foot off the table

Found this pic of my boss, you can really see the panther head done by Dan Higgs on his chest. I would say the tattoo was done in 1991-1992 and the photo was 1994, but it still looks pretty good to this day. Funny I was hoping to find a photo of his Freddy Corbin Rock of Ages on his ribs, but all you can see is a little water in this photo.

Haven't seen a dedicated all-around art thread, and Hogg couldn't think of one either. Tattoo-related or not. Stuff you've done or stuff you like. Hobo Nickels: Appalachian History » Hobo Nickels Coin collectors today consider the hobo nickel a numismatic treasure, a tribute to long- forgotten folk artists who often literally carved for their supper. The Buffalo nickel debuted in 1913, but it wasn’t until the Great Depression struck that hobo nickel carving reached its peak. During this period, buffalo nickels were the most common nickels in circulation. The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a ‘knight of the road,’ with no regular source of income, could take one of these plentiful coins and turn it into a folk art piece, which could in turn be sold or traded for small favors such as a meal or shelter for a night. In a community of generally anonymous drifters, two carvers rose to prominence among hobo nickel creators. Bertram ‘Bert’ Wiegand was born in 1880 and carved from 1913 to 1949. He signed his coins by removing L I and Y from L I B E R T Y, leaving only B E R T. He tutored the man coin collectors consider the giant of hobo nickel carving: George Washington ‘Bo’ Hughes (born between 1895 and 1900 in Theo, Mississippi). Bert met the young teenager in a jungle, or hobo camp, along the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio railroad line, and Bo’s first nickels appeared two years later, in 1915. Bo carved till about 1980, when he was last seen by his friend of 40 years, Williard Chisolm, in a Florida camp. Life as a hobo took its toll: the rigorous manual labor Bo undertook to survive during the money-tight, poverty-ridden 30s rendered his hands stiff and permanently damaged. Frequent beatings by ruthless detectives prowling railroads (where many hobos resided) in search of freeloaders and thieves compounded his dexterity impairment. Nevertheless, devoted to his craft, Bo worked through the pain and frustrating impediments throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, but in 1957, while he was working on a nickel, his chisel suddenly slipped and struck his hand. The injury forced the once-great hobo nickel engraver to resort to a haphazard punching method. Bo continued his work, but with less frequency and diminished quality, and as America moved into the post-war era genuine hobo nickels became a thing of the past. The U.S. Mint ceased striking Buffalo nickels in 1938. Skull Nickels: Skull Nickels | Colossal A number of Hobo Nickel artists etched away the flesh of the subject to reveal these awesomely macabre skulls.

hard to believe i opened up my shop, boars head tattoo parlor, 1 year ago this weekend...time flies when ya having fun!!!

I do say I found it is hard to find anyone tattooed that doesn't have at least one bad tattoo. Unless you're lucky like @Iwar I think that people like shitty cheap tattoos better most of the time due to either two things. 1. They don't know better. I was in this boat at one point. Cheap, crappy tattoos are way more previlant than good tattoos. 2. People are cheap and/or are doing for a fashion statement. In their mind its like picking up a pair of (insert brand) jeans for cheap. These are the same people that usually question why do I buy a 10 dollar bottle of chimay instead of a "thirty pack of natty ice".

i'll be there all day saturday with machines.

So where's the pic?

Wow. I wouldn't have guessed that anyone besides Pushead would've done that. That specific example is way too close to call it simply influenced. Grayson Perry. Yeah, it's a huge pic, but its the best way to see the whole quilt, and in its true color. *hm. apparently LST won't let me post it at actual photo size. click here to view it at a size to appreciate it

If someone is talking to me about tattoos, it's usually because they've seen mine, so I make a point of telling them where I got them and who specializes in what. I think specialty is an overlooked point here- most good artists can do everything, but if someone was looking for Japanese work in town, for instance, how could I not mention Trevino? Sometimes it's not about just a good artist; it's a matter of the right artist for the job.

It does get tempting to tell people their stuff sucks if they are insisting that you go see their "self-taught-tatty-wizard" 'cause "you coulda got your sleeve done for a 1/4 of what you paid for it brah"...

Freddy tattooing ODB in Hanky Pankys shop in Amsterdam-what a cast . Ol' Dirty Bastard in Amsterdam Part 1 of 2 - YouTube Ol' Dirty Bastard in Amsterdam Part 2 of 2 - YouTube

I've had mixed experiences as the Richmond show, but no experience with the new folks running it. More than anything I just need a dang vacation, and Richmond means boiled peanuts and old friends. So if the show sucks... I'll go see a movie :D

I like tattoos that look like tattoos. I don't like Peter Aurisch's stuff.

The Mingins Photo Collection - Amsterdam Tattoo Museum click on 'expand'.

Here is a nice Higgs tattoo I found recently. It was tattooed by him, not someone else tattooing his flash.

Metal related- Arik Roper (covers for The Sword, High on Fire, Sleep, and others): Arik Roper John Dyer Baizley (covers for Baroness, Skeletonwitch,others)

Julian Beever Edgar Müller - Metanamorph and this is from kurt wenner

Personally, I never understood the Guy Fawkes association (outside the "V for Vendetta" comic, which is set in ENGLAND). Guy Fawkes and others were plotting to kill the Protestant King James I (the bible editor) and they were executed for treason, leading to a lot of anti-Catholic stuff in England and empowerment of Puritans. Give me a Thomas Paine mask any day;)

really like those clocks! Jason D'Aquino

Stefan Strumbel

Jennifer Maestre and pencil tip sculpture done by dalton ghetti Pencil Tip Micro Sculptures By Dalton Ghetti:: Kidrobot's Blog, The KRonikle

here's some work from two of my favorite artists that don't tattoo. Vania Zouravliov: Takato Yamamoto:

I recall reading an interview in Skateboarder magazine a few years back where Bobby Puleo discussed his interest (or, possibly, obsession) with collecting things, and that he may try to display them. Good to see he put that mild bit of insanity to use.

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

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

Dale Chihuly saw this last one at the Victoria Albert in London; and a few others at the BMA. So incredible.

title is mis-leading. if that is a thread to post your own artwork, then lets narrow this one down to 'stuff other people did that i think is interesting, tattoo related or not' does that work better?

I will take animals in top hats riding unicycles smoking pipes with monocles and mustaches over people coming in with pictures of the cast of Jersey Shore as reference material. I am just saying things could be worse.

The problem is not CEO salaries. The problem is how much influence these large corporations have over our government. The reason so much deregulation (in banking) has taken place since 1980 is rich assholes paying the elected officials to look after their interests and not those of the entire country. A few people making enormous amounts of money does not matter. It only matters when they are paying government officials to rewrite the Constitution so they can make those enormous amounts of money. The George Carlin quote that Dari added at the beginning of this thread is dead on. Also some of you may have noticed that my location is Canada, but I am an American. I am married to a Canadian, and when we started weighing the pros and cons of raising a family in the US or Canada it did not take long to make a decision. I consider myself very lucky to have been given a choice. I am not saying that the Canadian government is perfect, but Canada was the right choice for my family. And even though I live in Canada I follow US politics and events much more closely than Canadian ones. The final thing I will say is I don't think we should expect perfection from any government, but we should expect a hell of a lot more than what the US government is doing right now.

From the article Executive pay Executive pay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The typical salary in the top of the list is $1 million - $3 million.[4] The typical top cash bonus is $10 million - $15 million.[5] The highest stock bonus is $20 million.[6] The highest option exercise have been in the range of $100 million - $200 million.[7]" Now I'd like you to explain how that amount ISN'T arbitrary and unrealistic. Also, $20 an hour works out to about $32k after taxes-not sure how that's an unrealistic number. The bottom line is the guys CAN'T do these jobs themselves-they're MBAs at the most and they're expertise lies in numbers and paperwork and even that is delegated to someone else. You honestly think the CEO of Coke knows how to make a batch or the CEO of Toyota could put a car together?

I totally understand, just venting a bit. That list is so catnip, makes me question it's origins a bit. Personally, I just think that when you look at the Tea Party model vs. Tahrir Square model, the Tea Party model is what is going to work in the U.S. In fact, given the news out of Egypt, seems like the Tahrir model isn't working out as hoped for. By definition, to have 'conviction' is to have a 'point of view,' I would hope this movement's point of view is that of the working/middle class. The one word I wish they would bring up is 'FAIR.' Not in some Starbuck 'fair-trade' way, which would just make tens of millions of people just smirk and change the channel. But 'fair' in the sense that it is not fair that hardworking and honest people are getting stuck with a bill for millionaire banker/businessmen/gamblers, who get to keep the profits. Socializing losses, privatizing profits is NOT Capitalism. That would resonate with more people, I mean, it's what resonates with me. It's not about carpet bombing rich people, I don't have a grudge against people who create enough of something to sell at a profit that they become wealthy. Great! It's the people who get/got rich by creating nothing, and then when it went to hell, stuck other people with the bill.

175 billion dollar tax-payer bailout in 2008. 32.6 billion paid out in bonuses to bank employees in 2008. Not one of the demands on that list is more ridiculous than that.