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First thing i thoughjt of when i read that post ...

Get a snake or you suck at getting tattooed. (Whatcha gettin'?)

Contact him now: https://www.facebook.com/GrimesBlackClaw Personally, I think Lango gets slept on at that shop, so check him out, or any of the other awesome shops in the Bay Area (Blackheart, Temple,etc.) Besides, San Francisco is definitely one of the nicest/coolest/interesting places in California and worth the trip on it's own.

I love ass cobras!

Forgot about this tattoo I got a week and a half ago from my friend Josiah at Imperial Tattoo here in Portland. Almost healed, shitty photo, but really shitty spot to photo as well.

Just secured an appt. with Chris O'donnell at the Long Beach convention in June... Beyond stoked!!! :D

If you call Skull & Sword and tell them when you are coming....the worst they can do is say Grime is booked up! I have heard of people walking in though and getting tattooed there....probably all the planets aligned or something BUT if I were you I would call and ask! You may be asked for a deposit though but it will definitely be worth the money! And if he can't....there are a ton of great tattooers in the area! Good Luck!

If I were getting tattooed in California in August I would try and get in with Jeff Rassier.

Agree 100%! See also "So You Think You Can Bench."

I hate categories .

Sorry to be an old stick in the mud but at your stage its better to get familiar with a weight by repping with perfect form ,reps build muscle not 1 rep max's .Nothing kills motivation like missing lifts , always try to tighten everything up and move the weight better /stricter ,once you've completely dominated that weight then look to slap on poundage .Unrelated but I recently watched "so you think you can squat " by elite FTS on Youtube and think it should be made compulsory viewing .

the Lucero show was one of the best nights out I've had in ages. Even though I'm a square. :D

@Kev, yes!!! I think it's almost mandatory you get an NYC tattoo at Smith St. at some point.

I say get things as you get them, and don't worry about the space or size. I think some of the coolest tattoos I have ever seen are the ones that are worked into odd spaces.

A bit more more done. Tattooed by Daniel Albrigo at Frith Street, yesterday. Another session later in the year.

Melvins/Unsane later this week.

Without a doubt I would go sit with Jess Yen Horiyen:

My girl just started this over the weekend. Mike Moses, Thicker Than Water Tattoo, NYC. This guy is consistent blowing my mind with his illustration skills. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Moses' iPhone.)

Life's a bitch. Most people live paycheck-to-paycheck all their lives...if they're licky enough to have paychecks! IF you're in grad school, I imagine you won't be one of those, so be patient.

Billy Hay has started to do some awesome Japanese work. Its lovely

I am heading to Philly this friday to get a little banger from Topper! I am tempted to spend the night and head to Brooklyn on Saturday and try to get tattooed by Mike Perfetto......not sure about that one though! :)

Like you had to ask :D A big ass Cobra!!

I played a show and they had free pizza. I stole 5 boxes of pizza and ate it all week. Now I hate pizza.

Congrats, but manage your expectations on that. That is a very sizable jump; most of us would be ecstatic to add 30 pounds to our bench in a year. Having said that, go attack those weights!

back on track.......

I'm staying in Soho for three days later in the summer... Going to maybe try and get a walk-in in Frith St.

The ol' tiger on the ribs! I'm a big fan.

Outline done on rib panel. Tattooed by @Stewart Robson at Frith Street Tattoos.

Yeah man. I think most of us know that it isn't very polite to discuss how much someone charged you, etc etc. People who make it about the money don't care about the art. Luckily, those of us who actually get solid tattoos by solid tattooers can say so. I mean, bragging itself is poor manners, but it sure is nice knowing in your head. My mom told me a story once about how she was checking out at the grocery store. The person in front of her was covered in shitty tattoos. She called me later, relayed the story and said, "The only thing I could think was my son has so much nicer looking tattoos." :)

I like to bounce back and forth having 2 tattoos done in close proximity. Get the outline done on both, wait a couple of weeks and go for the color on each one. Alternating the work on them is one way to get the thing done and satisfy the ink jones. CG

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Stell tiger

done by david bruehl at think ink in norman ok soon to be tattooing at Red Letter 1 in Tampa I already bought a shirt a vote for me means someone gets mine if I win, Although champion sounds good everyone wants to be a winner(contest winner)

Haven't posted in a long time. Some rad tattoos in here guys. Here's my entry. Finished by Nikko Hurtado a couple weeks ago at Black Anchor Collective. Shitty camera phone pic doesn't do it justice..

if vargas,gouge and hooper or the likes were on the show I would roll the dice on being a "canvas" but not for C-money,trixie terrors, and tat me up timmay

proper Tom Collins w/the new Faultline Gin... yummy!

That I can turn on the TV at dinner and see an eviscerated corpse (thanks "Bones"), but I can't see a topless woman because that's harmful in some way (?)

I hope the post of this picture comes through, it shows the top left machine of Walter Cleveland's using the Condenser, the 2nd and 3rd from the left are the two frame styles he used and came to be known for. The two of his rubber band/coil spring A-Bar machine are chopped Bill Jones squareback frames and considered his first attempts in making them a working machine. Something to note is that these machines really work well! Amazing the way the rubber band machines work, the machine with the longer teeter totter on it is the shader and the shorter the liner. Also, when you connect and disconnect the condenser, it appears to have no less effect than a capacitor, the spark is arrested. I called Scott and spoke with him at Tattoo Charlies in Baltimore, Scott learned from Dennis Watkins and Watkins from Charley, point being, Dennis's machines have the oldest form of a capacitor I can find. After thinking about the question, I figured as to what the earliest could be so I looked to the earliest example of a capacitor on a machine and what I found was Dennis Watkins from Tattoo Charlies to be the earliest I could find. Scott is gonna get back to me after he ask's around about it. Also bear in mind that Dennis worked closely with Paul Rogers and there would be a likely connection, I just hate to assume and post anything without backing it up with hard proof. Enjoy the pic.

The first capacitors were not capacitors at all, they were condensers, as in the "Points coil effect" of Edison applied to the internal combustion engine ignition of the points and coil adding the condenser to preserve the burning of the contact points in the ignition became necessary to prevent machines falling out of time with an enlarged point gap in need of burnishing of the contact points from the excessive snap of electricity. Working similar to the capacitor of today that fills and only releases X amount, the condenser simply arrests the spark. The true origin to the 6 volt condenser application to the later creation and application of the capacitor, as the capacitor in the form we use today post-dates in "electronic's" and not the dawn of the "combustible gasoline engine", can be found in Walter Cleveland's tinkering and among allot of his creations or experiments in the elaborate door bell concepts. The 6 volt condenser can still be applied and work, it's just BIG, you can do so by attaching the single wire spade connector to the contact screw binding post and you can still get the 6 volt and a 12 will work equally and pick them up in auto supply stores, I use early Harley 6 volt replacement condensers. The point made of the use of the condenser versus the capacitor are that the condenser works to arrest and save your points from burning quickly, in the day that the guys at the shops were running off of a bank of machines that ran all day and all night knocking out tattoos on sailors while in port for a few days strait, they needed to keep things from falling into repair and running smoothly as we all know, when things are not, it makes for more time consumption when time was essential. The Capacitor however works as just that, it limits the capacity, so two different electric components with two different applications. Lyle put in print once that Walter was the man accredited to inventing the "capacitor" in use of the tattoo machine but I don't believe Walter ever reached the days of the capacitor advent that we use today and it most likely came from necessity through someone who knew enough about transistor radios/electronics to make the switch or someone who burnt the devils lettuce and figured it and then the passage from then on became part of tattoo machine evolution. The "facts" are, the West Coast appeared to have capacitors on machines in use and photo form prior to anything else I have found. I know this doesn't answer the question of the "who and when" but it does lend to the advent of controlling the flow and operation of both mechanical and electrical evolution of the machine, Spaulding was offering them in the 1970's and I can't remember when I switched to using them, didn't use them until the early 80's. Other things to note of Walter's experiments would be, the rubber band and coil spring controlled A-Bar machine, the side mounted nipple on the A-Bar which became antiquated by the use of constant changing of the needle bar for each customer as the needle bar was drawn tight to the nipple then to be considered "fixed" until the pins wore out, the use of mixing 8 wrap and 10 wrap coils, his work at developing a very light weight machine, square coil cores, the creation of what now has come to be known as "true spring" of cutting an angle into the A-Bar for the spring "pitch". As a footnote for evidence, I have examples of all of the above, from reworked early Waters frames and hacked Jonesy frames to what he came to use most commonly which were seconds supplied by J.G.Russell, they always appear "shop floor paint green" and have notches evident on the frame that is evident of a factory second as they are casting flaws and not always consistent. I would like to think that Walter was "the Father" of the capacitor but it is an important thing to keep the candle lit on facts when the record of history is of concern. Most important to note and to Walter's credit would be that he really invested time and care in understanding the machine long before there was so much that we see now and to mention that he had to have a love for what he did as he was born left handed and tattooed left handed for many years until he lost the fingers from a saw mill accident, Stoney mentioned he lost them in WW-I but we know now that the saw mill was the culprit, regardless, he continued to tattoo by understanding how to work with the right hand. This is not to mention all of the greats that he worked with and the circle he kept in a day and age that had no internet of cell phone. He certainly had a true love for his trade and the Cleveland Family certainly carpeted the halls we walk today and should never be forgotten.