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I'm pretty sure as soon as the girl walks in the shop she'll know that when she was saying "barcode" her heart meant "dagger through a panther head"

so I know I talked a lot of shit about future plans and things that didn't work out before, but I finally set an appointment for my first tattoo! a certain Myke Chambers had a cancellation at a convention just down the road from me, I'm so stoked right now

Cree McCahill

Here is a picture of the tattoo I have from Zach. He has a better picture of it on his website. [/img]

My first tattoo was put on by Stano in Daytona. I was 17 and drove down with a couple of scary older skinhead dudes who barely tolerated me. Got the comic character Judge Dredd on my shoulder, because this sort of thing happens when a dyed-in-the-wool nerd tries to be a tough guy - "I know, I'll get a tattoo of the biggest badass in my *pushes up glasses* comic book collection!" Anyway, like 10 years later that goddamn Stallone movie came out and I walked around groaning every time anybody saw the damn tattoo until a couple years back, when I buried it under this:

is it offensive if the pics in the national geographic look like this?

Marco Hernandez while he was guesting at Electric.

Here are two Dave Gibson gave to me....

Henry Lewis:

Here ya go.......

I clicked through a couple pages, looks like he's apprenticing. Better book your time in now!

A very good choice......tell him his Sister say hello!

Not as long as she gets to bite his head off when it's over. :p

that's the opposite of the drill! let us see those Wilson cats!

I'm not naming names, but you'd be surprised.... ;)

I'm with @phickey: I can't see anyone at Smith Street doing a barcode. Tell her to get a kewpie with a price tag hanging off of it.

I got this snake and rose from Frank Carter at Frith Street Tattoo. The photo is from Frank's instagram.

I was 21 when I got my first tattoo. I'm glad I waited until then or I would have some really stupid shit on my body. My boyfriend had gotten a few tattoos from Tony Sellers aka Fat Tony at Hobos Tattoo in Portsmouth, NH. I really wanted to get one so my boyfriend took me to go see Tony. I told him I wanted a rose on my shoulder and just kind of left it at that. He showed me one that he had in his sketchbook and without even really looking at it, I said sure. I remember being so nervous as soon as he started to tattoo me that I was shaking. It was so bad that he had to stop and wait until I calmed down. That rose is still one of my favorite tattoos that I have. Tony has since become friend of mine and I highly recommend him if you are ever in NH.

Maybe, I havent got one since December.

I was 19, and I got the Rocket From The Crypt logo on the inside of my arm. I thought I was so punk. Luckily, it was done really well and has since been filled in with color. Now it's my little red rocket. Crudeness intended. 11 years later I still dig it.

If you're interested, i recently posted an interview that I did with Zach Nelligan during the Roc City convention. Check it out on my blog: Our Endless Days | A blog for traditional tattoo enthusiasts

Curious if anyone else in here collects old acetate stencils? I would really like to have a peek at other peoples collections. For some reason I almost enjoy collecting stencils more than flash. I just like holding an old acetate in my hand and imagining how many people got tattoos from it. Here are some of my collection. I have a bunch more I need to take pictures of. Bob Shaw Owen Jensen

I got mine three days after my eighteenth birthday--I'm sure I thought I was showing maturity and restraint by waiting those three days too--and I looked so young I'm pretty sure the tattooer thought my ID was fake. I wanted a bird, so I got a swallow off the wall. And now I have a whole bunch of bird tattoos, but it's still one of my favorites. Done by Joao Paulo Rodrigues.

This is happening near me too, kids straight out of high school getting covered neck to toes.

brb fellas, i'm gonna go get sum flesh tattyed on these old bonez.

Also, nothing like three skinny half-naked white kids crouching in a cave to intimidate THE FUCK outta you.

Hahaha spoken like a true Presbyterian! Always got to throw the trinity in there for the celts. I grew up Presbyterian too, which is why I think it took me so long to finally become atheist. The church I grew up in was so reasonable and balanced it took me a while to see the true nature of religion. I had to go out and see the way other people worship and hear what they believed and I was not impressed.

Let us know as it gets closer as that'll be right around our two year birthday so I am sure we'll be having something and we can try to plan it during that time. Are you looking for something in Oakland proper or just a reasonably priced hotel? If reasonably priced look at Emeryville as it is the first town over the Bay Bridge which means an easy middle point if you'll have a car.

I am so excited to blow the pants off this thread. Stell next weekend! Although, that chest eagle is so awesome. Glad to see you finally got it finished!

no more virgin skin for you! you'll be cursed with the mark of cain from here on out.

I don't doubt it, I know that Sunday was just slow overall. But, yea, being in such close proximity to Wrigleyville I feel brings out the idiots in droves.

My older work was all acetate stencils. The stencils were usually made from the wall art by an apprentice. Perforate all those little holes along every line... I used to watch them do it. I can recall the artist cursing when they had to cut a fresh stencil. They were usually kept in a drawer in some sort of order and had the reference # from the flash on the wall. CG

HAA!! Man, I hope this girl doesn't end up with a bar code.. she might get some sticker shock when she goes to the checkout.

My goal is to find a tattoo shop where they are shooting porn in the lobby now.

This is after my most recent back piece session with Jay Cavna. Next appointment in two weeks. More color!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/health/07real.html

For some reason I think I missed this thread -- thanks Bunny! @ShawnPorter hope you don't mind me linking this from OV, but here's a great post from the Philly convention. Perez picked up an old Lee Roy stencil and I was lucky enough to stumble over to his booth and get it put on, with graphite and all. Lineage « Occult Vibrations

Pulp Fiction fans? I have a pre-release poster signed by most of the cast including Tarantino hanging in my apartment. Its why I have renters insurance.

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there is no heaven

Rad Cork... Now, next order of guest spotting. . . Houston, and Austin folks, we'll be in Houston Wednesday thru Friday of this week, holler at me to set something up. . . And Austin people, we are going to be coming out to Rock of Ages this weekend following the Houston visit to Scorpion Studios. . . only two days though, we gotta haul ass back up to Dallas to catch a flight... Going to NY, I've never been, kinda nervous...

I understand fuck all of all the things you have so far posted, sorry mate

Timothy Hoyer

I'm kind of collecting lady heads from different artists. As it's been mentioned by others, I love the fact that such a classic design can be interpreted so differently person to person. I have 4 so far. Here are 2, one of them is the classic Bob Wicks flash - both by Matty D'Arienzo (both taken right after). The other 2 are a girl from valerie vargas and a girl head/butterfly from El Bara. On my list for others are steve boltz, jordan teear, virginia elwood, nick collela, pretty much anyone at spider murphys (that's a hell of a lot of travelling though so it'll take a while!)

i will call and ask if they ever travel and let them know I have lots of boyz ready to get freshly tatted by a real Newyorker.

New Order > Joy Division

joy division is probably one of my favorite all time bands..i've even got the album from when they were called warsaw as well as a bunch of bootlegs and side projects, just happened to see a hooper backpiece of the unknown pleasures album the other day whilst searching the interwebs.