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just got this guy.

A. Next week Shane says "I didn't come here to make friends". We know how I feel about this. B. For the last census, I identified as an Eskimo just to 'hack' the census and make the numbers screwy. I think some of us should try to get on the show, be model 'human canvases' for the interview, then just be total douche customers when our time comes. Shawn to tattooer: Dude, no disrespect, but you smell like taco meat.

Discovered a great little studio called Wood Street Tattoo in my home town, Swindon, of all places. Got this skull as a walk in from a super nice guy, Kris Manyana. I think he did a really nice job.

Robert Ryan is one of my favorite tattooers, and the majority of my tattoos were put on by him. Cobra design originally by Sailor jerry, repainted for the asbury park tattoo convention. the script underneath was tattooed by Rich Heller, also at Electric tattoo in Bradley Beach NJ. and the girl was tattooed on my 20th birthday, lots of fun. the dagger on my shin was designed by Dan Higgs. One of my favorite tattoos so far ALSO, an extremely underrated tattooer is Tom Yak, also at Electric Tattoo

"Her woodcut style" is something she took directly from Duke Riley and has only been doing for about a year or two tops. And look man, I fucking hate cancer and wouldn't wish it on anyone, but just because someone is sick doesn't mean they can't still be an asshole.

I made posts on the facebook page because there were at least 5 of MY designs in there. None of the stuff I posted or really anything anyone else posted was actually "Shit talk". It was people just finding out about it, and being upset. I posted something about this on another forum, so instead of retyping it all, I'm going to go ahead and copy and paste it. "In a case such as this where the person can't even make a simple clean design she is clearly tracing shit off the net and trying to make her name on it. The owl of mine that she used isn't flash. It was a tattoo that I did on one of this forum's members as a matter of fact. The other stuff of mine that was used was from one painting that I made for another tattooer that while in flash form, was a one shot painting. No prints. So she traced it and added it to her sheets. These are all in a book that she was selling in Philly. Making her name off designs that obviously aren't hers. Tattooing DOES have a history of reinterpretation and appropriation, but there are lines. When I design flash for sale I don't care who tattoos it as long as it was bought from me and you aren't telling anyone that you drew it up. When it hangs in your shop or sits in your flash racks or book, my name is still on it. No problems at all. Go for it. When you use it instead of drawing something because you're lazy and then tell someone it's yours that's bullshit. Also, when people are tracing tattoos right off the net and passing them off to the unaware masses as their "clever" designs it's bullshit. And I completely understand, once you put it out there, it's liable to get lifted, but does that mean that opinions on such behavior can't be voiced and standards shouldn't be set against such behavior? Absolutely not. People need to say shit to suckers. Tattooers seem to forget that yeah there.s a big tradition of lifting designs and whatnot, but there's also a tradition of protecting what's yours. Either by booby trapping it, making sure your name is ALWAYS attached to it, or by keeping it off radar. In this economy I'd love to be the off the radar guy. Just can't make it work, and if I'm spending the amount of time drawing, researching, reading, collection references, and building a stylistic vocabulary that is at least a little my own, then yes, I should be protective of it. There's also the thing where tracing, and repainting flash by long gone, or otherwise retired old timers is different than repainting and then SELLING under your own name a bunch of shit being done by today's current people. Shit's gonna happen, people are lazy, everyone LOVES to say there's nothing new under the sun, but it doesn't make it right or true. Chick is a thief. Ain't nothing on those sheets hers and a huge amount is from current people tattoos. Not even flash. She was at our booth in Philly this weekend. She didn't even buy my set after selling her book with my shit in it." So to the person who was saying these things were never meant to be made public, and they were for personal use and to show clients, or to show clients, why even do that? Why trace my shit to show HER clients? So the people who don;t know ay better will see those designs as hers. That's not cool. Her illness aside, it's still a crummy thing to do to a lot of people. I take issue with how You've come in here using "our favorite medium to talk shit" and try to talk to us like we're 12 year olds. Sorry she's in a bad way with cancer, but my sister is fucked to the nines with cancer but I still think she's the shittiest person I know. If this was truly about the merits of the sketchbook, then just stick to that. Don;t bring up things that don;t matter to the argument to just try to drum up some sort of viewpoint on her like she can't be called out on this shit. I was AT Philly. She was in my booth. Talked to me. Still sold sheets with her name on in and mine, and other tattooers designs on them. None of those pages said anything like "designs by Wells, re-imagining by Jeiven." Which is kind of the thing you do when selling some shit that isn't yours. I didn't even know about this shit until a few days ago or I would have said something. And when get to Brooklyn next week I AM going to talk to her. Like an adult. So save the "you guys are all shit talkers" crap. Some of us are pissed. Look. I'm no tattoo genius. I'm just a dude making tattoos and trying to make clients happy like everyone else, but I work my ass off to do so. My library is huge and very little of that is tattoo books. I spend hours upon hours drawing and re drawing. Again, I'm nothing special, but why can't she do that if her stuff is supposed to be so personal? Go to museums and collect old books. Not facebook tracings. The sketchbook you said was so AMAZING is 98 percent CURRENT tattooers drawings. Not old Jerry flash.

Had a great day at Black Garden Tattoo in London with Crispy Lennox, today. First of four sessions on my half sleeve. Got the outline done in three & a half hours. I had just about had enough by then but worth it. I love it.

I think Mike was 22 and I was 19 or so and we're in the shop and these girls come in. Mike smiles and says "hey, ladies... do you know why women wear makeup and perfume?" And the girls giggle and say no. "Because they're ugly and they stink" and went back to tattooing. He made a lot of friends, young Mike Wilson.

tattooed on my calf by Mike Schweigert on my 18th birthday at Electric Tattoo, Bradley Beach NJ

A bunch of my clients have been contacting me non stop to sign up for the casting of season 2 of this shit show. And it just occurred to me that this show can definitely hurt the reputations of the few tattooers that are good on there. Think about what is being said to them by the 3 stooges. It's not a good look even if they are right on their critiques. So not that I think I'm bad but 100,00 before taxes isn't worth it

I think this is more or less healed up. Bit of a rubbish photo but I'm only using the Mac. Got to get a proper pic later to forward onto Ching. The last session (face and headpiece) has settled down and blended in with the rest. And yes, I really am this pale. Over the rest of the year I am looking at a couple of smaller traditional pieces on my right leg, and then sometime towards the end of the year I am going to try and sleeve the rest of my right arm with Ching - got a design planned out already.

I joined just to contribute a photo of my neck-to-knees backpiece done by Dan Wysuph at Samuel O'Reilly's in Santa Cruz, CA. My username here was derived from the nickname I earned by spending so much time naked in their shop. I think Adam Barton originally coined it and everyone there calls me that to this day. It took 20 three-hour sessions over the course of almost 2 years. To answer an earlier question regarding healing, it is not sitting on fresh tattoo that hurts, it's sitting down or standing up, or just about any other activity that makes your clothes (or sheets!) rub the area. Also, having a wife to help with the cleaning aspect of the healing process was a huge help. -1891-

Anyone seen these yet? Japanese fart scrolls prove that human art peaked centuries ago

Looks like its going to be one stunning piece when all finished

so ...''abigail ''is a CG webset cruiser of some sort? that crap is creepy/orwellian.

@jade1955 - oh snap? I just lifted it straight from his blog?.. maybe someone should email him and let him know its not actually London that he'll be tattooing in? Lol, this could be an interesting series of events

For me, it's purely aesthetic. I prefer the look of a single, well-composed, continuous piece on the arm. Different strokes, is all.

In a nutshell... yes. I obviously prefer 'you smell like taco meat' but it's not my place to dictate which meat product you drop. Duffa to tattooer: Man, you smell like a wallaby just cracked a fat; can you make my tribal more tribal? (I had to consult with an Australian to make that authentic) We can add flavor to it. :D

Oh they definitely count for something, but so does the internet.

Yes @Abigail your right, the roses are beautiful, but I think you hit the nail on the head - the chicken tattoo is very beautiful. I think there is something in that for all of us ;) ( @hogg & @Lochlan - the bots appear to be developing AI and learning to quote AND post lol)

franz stefanik is gonna be there april 28- may 1st at wood. you should try to get something from him!

Dipping into the darkness-Chriss Dettmer the black hole ,Hamburg. chriss dettmer: glaub ich selber nicht...

Im with some of the other comments....although i personally have done some of these things... prosthetic painting? pinstiping? etc.... what has this got to do with tattooing. how bout acetate etching, needle making, hell toilet cleaning. maybe have some drunks show up and haggle price....these things have a lot to do with street shops.

Respect and fair play to you also Sully for looking out for yours.However playing the old school/new school card is also very lame ,real old school know that the old days were not all they were cracked up to be .I know a debilitating illness does not hamper one from using a computer ,defending themselves or on occaision drawing .I don't understand you attacking the credibility of this site or indeed posting your name in capitals ?

some cool ones on mr. hooper's blog lately

Mike is a tattooers tattooer.

Mike outlined my back piece in about 1.5-2 hours. Including any very quick breaks. You can see a photo of it in the full back piece thread to get an idea of the size and detail of the outline. One of the very nice things about getting tattooed my Mike is that he is not interested in taking breaks, or spending half the appointment talking about bullshit while his machine runs in the rinse cup. He's a tattooer, and an amazing one. I have never once felt like he's over charged me, I've never felt like he wasn't in the mood to tattoo, never felt like he was rushing through something, nothing like that. He's always been really open about how long he wants to work on something for, and for how much money and it's always turned out awesome. Plus like the others have said, he can draw and tattoo just about fuckin' anything. I mean you could want a weird chair, or traditional sailor tattoo or some Japanese stuff and it will all be top quality work with no complaints. Let me know when you are going to be in town, as I will have moved back to Jax by then. Oh and book your appointment in advance, when I was getting my back done I usually had to book about a month ahead of time, so coming from out of town I imagine you would want to get that appointment locked in while you can. He's working at the location on 3rd st, the # is on their website Inksmith & Rogers Tattoo

Hand poked by Mark Mason at Addicted Tattoo in Barcelona. 4 different sized needles.

A customer said ''leg sleeve '' I had to hold back, I wanted to blurt ''squidpants!''...hehe

have done german 10x10s for workouts but not as overall program. Keep us posted rory

AND I'm pretty sure what @jade1955 was implying was that if any LST'ers are traveling to his home town of Swindon to get tattooed by Mr Stefanik, to let him know and then the first 'Swindon LST Meet Up' can occur ;)

Cool mate ,very intense with the super-set option.For me I use drop-sets,partials or other real high intensity stuff very sparingly and vary them, once every three weeks or so .

Anyone ever given GVT (German volume training) a decent go - any views on it? I'm going to work more in higher rep ranges for the rest of the year. At the moment I'm more or less doing a Mike Boyle 3-day a week template, but have always been curious to try something stripped-down and high-volume like GVT. I haven't previously done any purely hypertrophy orientated training and thought I might be a couple of months of progress out of it. Was thinking of doing something like Warm-up as usual- -Mobility warmup -Neck and shoulder prehab Then (either super-setting these with 90 secs rest or seperately with 60 secs rest between sets)- Upper body day 10x10 Bench @ 60% 1RM or bench variation etc. 10x10 Inverted row with feet elevated or other row variation Lower body day 10x10 Squat variation @ 60% 1RM 10x10 RLD, leg curl or variaion Probably do some arm and shoulder assistance work and midline work after the main lifts if I have the energy.

Haha yeah, I'm pretty lucky that he's gonna be at the shop. Actually, he arrived a few days early, so if any LA people want to get tattooed now, I believe he is going to be at the shop tomorrow ready to go...

Yeah! You'll be in with Bob 6 days before me. Can't wait to see all the LST BR pics in a few weeks.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm getting a full sleeve as my first tattoo for several reasons, not necessarily, in this order; First I like the look of a sleeve, Second I found an artist who has done some killer sleeves, Third I'm 54 and want to get tattooed while I'm still in good health, financially able and have good skin. I'm doing the sleeve in sections and just had the outline of the first section done. Just thought of the forth reason - I'm an anal retentive who is obsessed with symmetry and thematic continuity. :-)

PS if any of you guys end up coming down to get tattooed, come say hi to me, I'm the ugly guy that sits all the way in the back of the shop.

First, let me start by saying as a disclaimer that I, as an independent poster, in no way represent Last Sparrow Tattoo. - (Sorry @Kev had to steal this line from you.) First point. Just because someone is a nice person or they are sick, doesn't mean they can't do bad things. A person's physical state or personality has no bearing on whether a course of action was right or wrong. Second Point. I didn't see anyone talking bad about the shop. Third Point. You stated that you don't know this forum (or read anything outside of this article), but you made generalizations about the going-ons of the forum and how it is unreliable. While it is the internet, in my opinion it is a very informative forum/blog site. Also you stated that ". No one ever gets outed for being unsterile or for overcharging for their scratch tattoos, but somehow this has made your 'recent news' list? POOR FORM GUYS!", there a a number of threads that we out people for being scratchers and any form of being unsterilized. Fourth Point. I personally trust the opinion of someone in the industry (some here have been in it for quite some time) over the thoughts of people outside the industry.

Do you want me to go to her shop and bust ass in her face?

This was done by a guy up here in Ak that has the same attitude as the jgoss guy that got banned yesterday.

Second!! I love the pantherhead from his newest flash set.

there has been 600 "artists" working this event for the last few years. if you have something to offer, its one of the best shows there is. too bad about 550 of the tattooers have zero to offer. LOL.

I'm fairly sure Ronnies is in Stroudsburg in Pa. I went there to visit him last year. He was sittin in there middle of the day waitin for business. He had a new set of flash just painted for the Philly con. and has lots of great old photos from over the years. Well worth a visit if enyone is ever in the vicinity. Ronnie tattooed my friends girl recently and the tattoo was beautiful, real nice. He is a real character and a gentleman.

[/ATTACH] heres one im about halfway through at the moment