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Went in for outlines. Came out happy. You get more than a tattoo from Robert Ryan, that's for sure.

Conn posted this on Tumblr: Mostly just affirming what has already been rumored. I like the part about his helping with travel expenses, though. What I want to know is how long he will be tattooing for this time, but I guess we can't really know that.

Taurus tat gun.

Ok, I'm late to the party again, but I'm gonna drag up the Guns vs Machines thing again... It doesn't fucking matter. I used to think it marked a difference between 'them' and 'us' but then I learned it's regional too. So I dropped it. Many older English (or maybe even from elsewhere in the British Isles) tattooers used to call their machines 'guns'. Many still do. It doesn't mean they can't tattoo. That's guys we'd consider 'Old School' or 'Traditional'. Yeah, maybe their equipment didn't shoot anything, maybe they were using equipment with electromagnetic motors rather than a doorbell circuit with just regular coils, but that's what they got called by working professionals. 'Guns'. Get over it. Stop getting high and mighty because you heard some 'insider' terminology at the Tat Spot or the Tattoo Parlour or the upscale Dermagraphic Adornment Boutique, or maybe you read it on the internet. I guess you can be the authority on tattoo terminology now. Good for you. I'm gonna keep slingin' ink on my bitchin' clients with my tatty-zap guns and also I'll be tattooing my regular customers as per usual. They way I say it shouldn't be of much concern. Recently I've heard so many time-wasting, lazy-ass, no-talent-goons tell me how much they 'Respect the Craft', 'Honour Tradition' & put their 'Heart and Soul' into their half-assed doodles while asking for an apprenticeship/job/critique/applause/handout/validation, that the terminology has become meaningless. The end result of the effort should be by what measure they, we and I'm, held accountable. Sorry to be so Off Topic.

-Part 2- Where do I start...? On sunday evening, right after my last post, I went over to The Richardson in Brooklyn to say hello to LST's very own @gougetheeyes (aka Patrick). He was barbacking there that evening and I was thirsty so it seemed like the obvious thing to do. As I expected he was the nicest dude ever, and while he was working I hung out with his lovely wife Brittany the end of the bar. My english got worse for every beer I drank that night, so I'm not sure if she understood half of what I was saying at the end :) Anyway, it was a great night. Unfortunately I forgot to snap a few pictures, but for some reason I took a photo with a homeless heroin-addict named Isaac Hays (or so he claimed) on my journey back home. Monday started with an american breakfast in the form of a bacon/egg/cheese sandwitch before I headed over to Saved for my appointment with Mr.Cleen. The weather here is crazy humid and HOT, so I was pouring with sweat when I finally got there. Fortunately for me they had a kickass aircondition there. I picked out a couple designs from Cris' pre drawn designs book, and we got to it. He wa going to do one design on the top of my forearm and one on the bottom, but after we finished the one on the top we found out that it stretched over a little bit to the bottom, so the next tattoo wouldn't be symmetrick. Instead he drew on a snake to cover the open space, and we did the second design on my leg instead. I even got a free print on high quality wiping-paper, haha. Today I got up early to head over to Smith Street in hopes of getting a walkin appointment to fill the last open space on my right arm. I was really lucky as Steve Boltz's appointment was stuck in traffick, so he drew on a torch design like it was nothing, and got to it. An hour later I finally had my arm completely covered. After that I headed to the Shirts and destroy shop (near Saved) to pick up some shirts. I buy close to all my t-shirts from them online, so it was a real treat to visit the shop. Now I'm thinking of heading down to the times square area just to be able to say that I've been there. Hopefully I can get some shopping done too. If anyone in the area is down for a drink or two tonight give me a holla! :D

Any rotator cuff exercises you do will help. You can never get enough RC work. Just do it at the end of your workout. Also just to update you guys on my training. I've decided to back out from the bodybuilding show. I just wasn't far enough along for my preference. The goal was to take top 3, and with the conditioning I have, I would have been lucky to place that high. So I'm off the wagon and eating and drinking again, oh what a life it is, haha. My goal short term is to keep lean and ride the contest prep rebound to get some amazing strength gains.

JEFF CRIBB. he is generally not booked out! He's at Hero Tattoo in Conway, it's only like 15 mins from myrtle! Going anywhere else would be pointless!

Isn't Jeff Cribb down there? I bet he is booked up, but it would be worth trying to get in and get a little something. His tattoos are super tough.

Think of what the poor guy-or girl-at the front desk has to deal with, each and every day! The artists get, usually, a good amount of respect, but the guy at the front desk? That geek that hassles you for money, and makes you fill out forms n shit? Fuck him, right?! I've never had a bad experience with a front-end type. Even tho' I limit my actual tattooing to Chicago Tattooing Co., I visit parlors wherever I travel, and I travel a lot. What I have found is that when I go in, as long as I am up-front about not being there to be tattooed, but just checking it out, I am treated pretty well. Most often, I end up talking with whoever the artist running the shop is and so forth. I guess it's the same old same old, you get the respect you give.

I saw that on his Instagram feed- amazing! I was telling my girl that I should get something like this, since my hardcore Catholic Mom gave me a hard time about taking part in a Hindu wedding- oh the conflict. Glad it's on you, sir :D

Gettin inked bro

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That's the thing with some tattooers, they're more then ______ ? They tattoo good energy into you or something, if you go to the dashboard on the Occult thing Shawn, if you can look at my drafts, look at the post about tattoos and cooking I have been trying to work on... And then help me finish it hahah...;)

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.

the original post isn't referring to rejection or a reaction as that would be post tattoo/healing process. it was a question regarding ink not going in the skin during the tattoo process which is a matter of technique.

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I wouldn't train any upper body exercises without running through my Rotator Cuff drill , I'm prudent about warm-up and always start with only the bar on all major exercises for twenty reps . Touch wood but I've never really had any training injuries but I guess once you've heard (from the other side of the gym ) the gut-wrenching sound of muscle tearing from bone that is a pec-tear you learn to be cautious .

deadlifting would help if anything do your pronate your shoulders(slouch) sounds like you could have an impingment(not a doctor just have seen this many times) i would cut presses for now and slowly work into flat or decline dumbells or pushups as you feel better try theses exercises http://www.permanente.net/homepage/kaiser/pdf/6979.pdf I especially like exercise #2(could be done multiple times a day . Basically the bursa sac gets pinched by the joint and causes pain and in some cases impede range of motion. You could also implement Joint ROM exercises if muscle tightness was a facilitator at getting to this point

Cue some unsolicited internet advice : If your shoulder hurts when you press then I'd be inclined to try and figure out what it is. Personally, I had no problems with my shoulder ROM (hypermobile, if anything) but I still got that classic front-right shoulder pain when I benched. Eventually it went from something I casually wondered about to something that stopped me flat benching until I fixed it. I think it was a pretty vanilla muscle imbalance, but I'm glad I caught it relatively early. I know you said you went to a physio but in my case I ended up going to three before I found one who actually could relate the problem to the programming who had caused it and had a solution. In my case, that was shitloads of band pull-aparts, lateral raises, extern raises, band hugs and rows galore (inverted rows, barbell rows etc). Fixing years of low-rep pressing without much in the way of heavyish rowing to balance it out except pull-ups. Ironically fixing my back and developing some scapular stability actually also improved my benching since I finally had some foundation to press off. And then I found a new way to injure myself :rolleyes: If you really do feel tight in that position you could try rolling against a lacrosse or hockey ball. Stick it anywhere it feels tight and work it in there. Junction of your pec and shoulder, maybe even your lats and around your upper back.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he isn't booked up. I have been to Myrtle Beach and good taste is not in abundance there.

I'm t-minus 3 days to my appt with Victor Kensinger. Gettin stoked...:D

Right on. I have some work from him from 93 or so. Power lines bro.

Is that the one with all the trolls or are you the only one? Seriously, when is it enough? You kick up a bunch of dust, make all kinds of noise about sticking to your views and then when you've derailed a perfectly viable thread, you say, "Ok, it's cool. I don't care anymore". Why act like you care at all? Just skip it or at least take it elsewhere. Here's a tip. Don't worry about Tom Gabel's gender unless you're dating him and don't worry about what we call our equipment unless you're spending any time at either end of the machine. These are our words for our things. They have nothing to do with you. Even if it started with a misstep, this thread could've been a good example of what not to ask here and why...instead it became another episode of the Hunter Morrow Show...but I guess I'm just feeding the trolls now. --end rant.

Has this really not derailed yet? Jesus. Anyone see the Hatfield and McCoy show yesterday? I was intuiged but missed it. Is it worth tracking down?

This for the day:

This guy taught me about Op Art:

That is killer I hope to visit one day.

Patrick, read the thread, you will find some common names, I don't know of starter kits, but it's always fun to grab the cheap shit on sale and play with it you can grow your supply set as you do as well... "There is also books, and other paintings, and prints, look at stuff, don't just start tracing, and thinking it's as easy as replication, see the images, draw..." and he muttered some other shit before walking out to smoke... , Richard had to add...

Agreed. I love Robert Ryan's tattoos.

That is fucking awesome

You'll go straight to hell, though, drinking it out of the wrong glass.

I mean at least spell "douchebag" correctly...if anything.

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

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

Y'know, I was at Newark airport the other day, AND in Brooklyn last night to see ASOB like two blocks from 3 kings. We should have done something....

@Iwar @gougetheeyes @truejew @Perez @Jack and whoever i missed. When are we gunna have a meetup while Iwar is here?

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.

Me too!

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

Maybe you should find a new and more experienced person to apprentice under again. Sounds like you didnt learn very much from a shitty teacher.

Specializing in flesh? Coming to me at my convenience? Perfected touch? That sweet tribal decor on poster? SATISFACTION GUARANTEED? These guys know a thing or two about marketing, that's for sure.

Cool! Please share pictures after they heal. I'm getting the ol' dagger through the neck from Bailey.

I recently had a young lady make fun of the awesome eagle on my chest. She also said that people with tattoos just get them to make up for their lack of personality. I told her to get the fuck out of my apartment.

Or you could talk Bob or Richard into doing it, it's a mix of each one of their panthers... It was funny to watch them actually, they were kinda grabbing the red sharpie from one another like siblings... But it ended up cool, I saw Richard half the two correction lines, and meet in the middle and make something a bit different so it wasn't one or the others panther... Blackheart is prolly a better option though, both Bob and Ricardo are working on a new set of flash together with Aaron Coleman... So it's crunch time. Okay, non sequitor. I need to be packing boxes or something.

Tattoo flash painting isn't really painting even if you use a brush. It's "illustration colored with a brush". I mean people didn't even really consider Rockwell a painter. He was an illustrator and his paintings(illustrations) were far better than what 99.999999% of us are all putting out. Outside of flash, and flash style paintings I don't really do that stuff much anymore. I did it for years before I was a tattooer so I'm going the other way that a lot of people are going. I'm not branching into painting, I'm leaving it alone for more tattoo based illustrations. Weird.