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Here we go again... I got up at 6:30AM, partly hungover after attending a birthdayparty the night before, to catch the bus to the airport. Thankfully I slept through most of the flight from Oslo to Newark airport. Now my feet are tired after walking around brooklyn for X ammount of hours, so I'm taking a breather at my hotelroom (NY smallest btw) before heading out again. I visited Saved and Smith St. briefly today, which was really cool. I'll probably try to get a walkin at Smith St on tuesday. Crossing my fingers for that one. Tommorrow I'm getting tattooed by Cris Cleen at Saved which I'm really looking forward to. More updates and pictures will be posted daily in this thread. Hope some of you will enjoy it. Now I'm off to the pub to get beer (or four). Maybe I'll run into @gougetheeyes if I'm lucky :) Cheers!

Please consider letting this--and possibly many other things--go.

i've had comments like this get back to me concerning the desk guys at my shop and they only make me wonder about the customer. i highly respect our staff at frith st and like them very much as friends, they are trustworthy and take care of me and my appts and if they were useless, they wouldnt be employed for sure. I could easily say this applies to most good tattoo shops. i'm not sure how well your encounter went, just saying be careful what you call people online, it can come across much more harshly :) good luck with your tattoo :)

It looks like Hardy Marks is going to put out a 30th Anniversary printing of all of these later this year. It should make a nice Christmas gift to myself.

5. Joining online forums when you have no real interest in the subject matter

He (Chris) called me last night. Nice guy and now I wait. Luckily i have other appointments sooner with Dan Martin and Matt Rinks.

Your hotel room looks like a ship's cabin. Have a great time in New York. Look forward to your updates.

It'd be fun to see a Baphomet from Dan Santoro over at Smith St. OR, SHIT, see if Ron is in town in NYC that week at Three Kings.. or Tamara or Dan Trocchio.. or anyone there! Or @Perez!

What the hell was I babbling on about. The tattoo is on the inside of my shin

thanks for clarifying. I seriously spent a good minute trying to figure out how that was a thigh... :confused:

I don't mind the intensity. Just the cliche.

God I remember being a young metal head in the 90ds and thinking all I wanted was Paul Booth tattoos....so fucking glad I was broke! I dont hate them but 30 year old me does not want them on my body.

Did you guys see that tattoo Paul Booth did of the demon with the maggots? Yeah. Me too.

Stell

This is something that encounter at least once a week..... you know how when you have a dentist appointment you try to cram 6 months worth of flossing into 15 minutes before your appointment? or if you have to go to the doctor, you try to shower up before you go in for whatever is ailing you? WELL PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TAKE THE SAME LIBERTIES WHEN YOU ARE GETTING TATTOOED!!!!!!!!!! brush your teefs so it dont smell like you been munchin on shit sandwiches for lunch. if you are getting your foot or cankle area tattooed, please wash your dawgs and wear a clean pair of socks! dont come in after working in the sun on the job site with your work boots and wool socks. and for you goofy hipsters.... wash your feet, borrow some socks from your dad, and wear a pair of shoes other than the sorry ass moth holed pair of vans you bought 5 years ago and have been wearing EVERYDAY since. you're gonna spend hard earned cash on a cool tattoo on your foot only to slip said foot into a pair of sneakers that smell like onions and vinegar?! not so smart. do the right thing. and while you are at it, wear some pants that fit you and put your girlfriends shirt back into her closet.

Hadn't seen a thread for this?.. saw the page yesterday on facebook, can't wait to see it - https://www.facebook.com/TattooNationMovie "New Feature Documentary Film, Coming October 2012 Tattoos used to be a sign of rebellion. A middle finger salute to the rest of the world. Outlaw bikers got tattoos. Sailors on leave in Singapore got tattoos. Lifers in the joint got tattoos. Now, your mother’s got a butterfly on her ankle and your kid’s sporting a tramp stamp. What happened? How did tattoos go from the renegade, readymade, carney cartoons inked as fast as possible to the art form they’ve become today? That transformation is the subject of the new documentary film, TATTOO NATION. TATTOO NATION tells how a few incarcerated but very talented Chicano artists changed the world of ink forever. It follows three tattoo pioneers, Charlie Cartwright, Jack Rudy and Freddy Negrete, and shows how a new, fine line style using detail and shading to achieve a remarkable realism revolutionized the world of ink. In 1975, Cartwright and Rudy boldly opened the first tattoo parlor in the heart of East LA’s Chicano community. They hired a recently paroled teenager who, while in jail, unknowingly established iconic images that spoke to an entire generation of Chicanos. Freddy Negrete became the first professional Chicano artist employed by a mainstream tattoo parlor - a tattoo parlor that was embraced as a new vehicle for self-expression by the Chicano community in East Los Angeles. For the first time, these legendary figures tell their stories in a feature-length documentary film. Included are other important figures such as David Oropeza and “Chuco” Caballero, winners of many prestigious tattoo competitions. Their victories brought international recognition to the uniquely American approach known as “Black & Grey”. The world of tattoo, and the way we regard tattoo, was forever changed."

Don't let the stupid nickname put you off! I'm obsessed with tattooing and I can't wait to learn everything I can about it, heartbroken that I only realised my obsession at the ripe old of age of 28 - all those wasted years, I've got a lot of catching up to do :D x

That would be the front wall looking south onto Belmont. That whole are was stone barrio at the time. Mostly P.R. right there, just north and just east were Whites, lotsa hillbillies, and there wasn't a lotta love to spread around that 'hood. Latin Kings had an open-air dope market in there, just west of the el tracks, and it was real easy to get your head split right down to the pink-meat. The inside of the studio was actually pretty nice looking, and Cliff had things in there you just didn't see anywhere else, like autoclaves and such. You walked in, and there was an open area, maybe ten feet deep, and then a counter, not quite chest high, but enough to stop someone from doing something ignorant. The whole place was pretty tiny, and if a float was in at Great Mistakes, it would be a line of Squids out the door and down the block. Funny, but the remembry plays trix, so I may remember it as bigger, smaller, shinier, whatever, than it actually was...it was a year or two ago.

let us know how that works out for you, ok?

Theres a lot to be said for a bit of vitamin D and happiness for weight-loss and health .

Oh shit, didn't realize your in NYC already. Now the question is....can us New Yorkers actually get a meetup going while your here!

Stoked for you, my man! I've been waiting for this blog to appear.

Should have asked this with the NY question. You fly from NY to LA? Where are you heading while you're in LA?

I was going to tell them about the time that Owen Jensen stole all of my flash and put his name on it. Dammit.

Have a blast my good man!! Can not wait for this adventure to unfold :cool:

there is no "shooting of substance" into anyone.

Thanks so much, Stewart! I'll let him know.

Thomas Hooper. Zac Scheinbaum at Saved. Trocchio for sure. John Reardon. Seth Wood. Eli Quinters. Big Steve at FunCity. Maybe even Albrigo. Any of these guys would do awesome, non-hokey satanic/heavy shit in black & grey.

Dan's still a little too Paul Booth for him. Think Baphomet or goat head in a pentragram as opposed to "horror" themed stuff. Now do you see his dilemma? I told him to just get tattoos, like a normal person. Then he laughed and punched me.

Dan Marshall is at Tribulation Tattoos. Tribulation Tattoo - Liorcifer, Dan Marshall, Tim Kern I think that the one guy doing the black and grey stuff, Liocifer, would be the best pick. I don't know, I think the colors kind of brighten and perk the tattoos up too much for something "slaytanic." Just my completely uninformed opinion. If you wanted a bunch of color in it either Tim Kern or Dan Marshall would be great for that. My preference would be for Tim Kern, in my continuing quest to gainsay and antagonize everybody on the forums. :)

Better be Trevor McStay!

Next time this happens just put a Smith Street forcefield around it >_<

I did god dammit.

Did somebody say seventies?!?!?!?! So, these aren't strictly tattoo pix, wasn't posing to show off the work, just pix from back in the day that happen to show tattoos. In two of them, you can see an original first-edition Chicago Tattooing Company tee-shirt. In the first pic, the guy doing the restraining is wearing ink he got in Milwaukee in the early 60's. Can't see it, but he had a tat we called the "jumping green jesus" on his chest that he got when he was 15, probably the single worst piece I've ever seen come out of a "professsional" shop. The other two pix have work by Dale Grande from CTC in them.

Forgot I didn't have pic of these up here. My 3rd tattoo- Inside right bicep from Ezra Haidet, Triple Crown Tattoo, ATX

Morning after shot to show placement.

I am in a similar state. Wondering where the backpiece ends and the thigh tattoo begins or how to work the two together....

sometimes i wish i was really fat so i could get more tattoos hahahahaha

Tattooed by @mario desa @Frith Steet Tattoos. The picture is from Marios Instagram/Frith Street Site. It's on the inside of my thigh.

Doug Daniels - The Daniels File (The old etc. Elitefts site)

I moved a fold-out sofa up 2 flights of stairs, with twists and turns. Not sure if I want to do reps of that tho.

Kyle- When I was o-lifting in the main I high bar squatted but mainly I preferred the front squat, I felt like there was a more direct carry-over in terms of the movement pattern. There's no doubt I could low bar back squat a fair bit more, but I was never super comfortable under the bar and with that movement pattern. I think for sports performance and leg development high bar or front squats are better, but that's a very anecdotal / personal opinion. While I've always aimed to break parallel when I squat I never actually went 'ass to grass' - felt like it was overkill, and also like I was going quite slack at the very end range of that movement at the bottom, whereas just going under parallel I felt like I was loading tension and ready to come up out of the hole. I think I've exhausted this cycle of GVT. Gained 2kg but I think i'm a little leaner too so quite happy with it. Despite all the benching my shoulders feel good. I wondered how I would know it was time to switch things up, and the simple answer is that about a fortnight ago I felt like I was going into the gym and just couldn't face the 10x10 and wasn't giving it my 'all'. I think variety is important to keep motivated and I gather it's probably no harm when it comes to hypertrophy either so I have gone to this for now- Upper body day A1 Flat bench variation A2 Inverted row / bent over row variation B1 Incline bench variation B2 Pull down variation / pull up variation C1 Bicep variation C2 Tricep variation D Core Lower body day A1 Leg press A2 Leg curl B1 Single leg squat variation B2 Single leg posterior chain varation C1 Supplementary work C2 Supplementary work D Core Keeping the rest between super sets to 90 seconds, keeping the rep ranges in 8-10 for the big exercises, 12-15 on the supplementary stuff. I know you guys hate the leg press but I still want to steer clear of putting a bar on my back at the moment. Back to bulgarians on the single leg work, single leg RDLs for the other exercise in that super set. Getting about 3 sessions in a week, plus 1-2 escrima classes.

Some people don't get that there is a difference between 18 years of experience and 1 year of experience 18 times. :-)

bit more photoshopped celebs, actually just one celeb...:NICOLAS CAGE CAN PLAY EVERYONE

@Duffa That's the strange thing about Japan, they don't think of the naked body how we do in the west. Yeah, it could be a bit strange from time to time but over all I don't think they think much of it. Seen tons of photos of people getting tattooed on their upper backs, but still completely naked. Example: Talking to one of my female friends about Japanese High School (separate boys and girls schools) and she was saying on very hot days they just take their skirts and shirts off and walk around in their underwear. I was like holy shit I wanna go to that school. Another one is my tattooer came to the bar I work at, met a girl and she said she works in porn. When I went to his studio later that week we started talking about her and it ended up searching in google. Now Im sitting there in my underwear (squid slacks) looking at porn. Didn't pay to much attention to it cause I didn't want it to get any weirder then it was two grown men, one in underwear, watching porn. It's just a culture thing.

here are some relevant threads and blogs: Good Tattoo Customer Behavior Your Favorite Clients & Client Experiences Cancellation List Tattoos Today and Research Tattoo appointment etiquette Least Painful Spot to get Tattooed Most Painful Spot to get Tattooed Yelp and Tattoo Shops Best Post Tattoo Care Tattooers Most Hated Request LST Preferred Tattoo Professionals Funniest Tattoo You Have Question for Tattoo Customers, Tattooers Portfolios Now That I'm Sixty, Do I regret it? Walk-in Horror Stories Cable Invasion Artist That Sign Their Tattoos

thanks a lot geezer (i like my women small and dirty )