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I haven't made an addition to this thread since page 30 something. My time has finally come! Richard Stell, guest spotting at Smith Street Tattoo in NYC. It was an awesome experience. Richard is hilarious. He had my abs cramping up at one point from laughing to much... or it was the hypoglycemia setting in. Regardless it was a lot of fun.

This is my new leg by Robert Ryan. Had a great time at Electric on Thursday, and this is definitely my new favorite tattoo. I have a feeling I'll be back there a lot...

My hubby is not on LST yet anyway but I am excited about his new tattoo...this was after his 1st session w/Kim Saigh a couple months ago. I don't seem to have a pic from his second session but a lot of black was added and some cool swirls. Tomorrow he will get color in the flowers...

Books Shipping this week. Sorry for the long wait. The release party was a blast. I will post all the photo booth pictures as soon as I have them.

so clean! every line is perfect and the shading is as solid as it gets!

Tiger tattooed by @Stewart Robson , Frith Street Tattoos, London, UK I love it!

Took a trip to San Francisco and decided to get a piece by Jeff Rassier to fill some empty space. I asked him to do whatever weirdo tattoo he wanted, as long as it wasn't too vulgar... ended up with this Fu Manchu head with a serpent body that fits perfectly. Needless to say, I couldn't be happier!

I don't know about that, but if you click on the quick links it'll give you the option of seeing all of today's active threads.

Tattoo Predator is the first line on my next business card.

I heard Mike went back to work yesterday and did some tattoos. I don't know how heavy of a schedule he's working while he's still healing but I guess he's back at it.

Well, here's some progress. Probably only got one session left (touchups, getting some brighter purple on the bottom lady's robes, all that jazz). A long, long way from where it was 9 months ago :D As always, artist is Rachi Brains at Black Throne (ETA: somehow I always stuff up these attachments... click to embiggen)

My dads eagle done in south Chicago in 1983

Latest by Sarah Schor. While she was guesting at Frith Street.

That is stunning! Tattoo's not bad either ;)

Howdy all1 I'm Maxx Tucker from Natchitoches, LA...and I'm just another goddamn tattooer

You mean this guy?:

Local Book On The Man Who Popularized Tattooing | Radio Colorado College small NPR spot about Zeis.

I just found out this is on my buddy Nate, it's nuts in person!

maybe someone with a ton of followers can plug LST on their Instagram? Get some new blood 'round here :D

@jade1955 posts are some of the greatest on there!!

Wednesday afternoon/evening with Nick Colella at CTC. Tattooing a painting by Ralph Johnstone, who worked with Tatts Thomas on south State St. in Chicago on my ribcage. Should be a party.

I'm visiting Tantrum Tattoo tomorrow and who knows what will happen! No plans (friend getting tattooed) but you never know

Did someone say Grez???? Oh....fuck yeah!!! Grez did a personal favorite of mine on a good friends wife......he is near the top of my list of people to be tattooed by right now!

here is a nice pair of skulls done by Nick Chaboya

My girlfriend has pretty much no interests in tattoos but is pretty supportive of me getting them, but when I mention in a very distant hypothetical future getting my back and torso done she doesn't seem to be super fond of the idea. I don't even really think that I want to do those things at this point, and wouldn't be financially stable enough for a long while, so it's not an issue really. However, she isn't crazy about eagles, no matter how many I show her, and I think they are one of the best tattoo images there is. I don't think she'd go as far to tell me not to do it, but I'd hate knowing she doesn't like any of my tattoos (yeah, yeah, I know they are supposed to be for me, but still).

Electric is like Jersey's version of Smith Street,but the prices are much more reasonable.

woot, Rusty ya made it to the party

When I met my husband 10 years ago I only had 1 small tattoo and he had none. I started getting a couple more here and there. Last summer I got 2 tattoos pretty close together. He and one of his friends came with me for one of them and we all ended up getting one. He was 41 when he got that first one. After getting that one, he got the bug. I booked my Kim Saigh appointment for Feb and when he saw my beautiful roses, he decided to book with her. Now I have 6 tattoos and he has 2, but his second one is a half sleeve --his 3rd session w/her is tomorrow. So he went from having none and not even seeming that interested to kind of surpassing me. He is already talking about what he's going to get for his other arm. I'm psyched. I've influenced him and his arm looks rad. I'm really happy that now we share this interest.

Being a single dude, more tattoos have done nothing but help me find ladies who are also into cool stuff. Funny how that works, eh?

Nice, saw that sucker on instagram! I visited Electric for the first time a few weeks ago and I, too, have a feeling I'll be making some trips down there. Seriously incredible shop.

Thanks everyone, I'm really chuffed with it. It's kind of weird, I was out last night and a couple of times people came up and were like 'you're the guy with that eagle by Valerie' - Instagram and the internet is crazy like that. Also, maybe it's just where it is, but it's healing up really well. My other tattoos have tended to scab up quite a lot, they come out fine in the end, but this one really hasn't very much - I bought some Dr. Bronner's liquid soap to clean it up with, recommended by Valerie, and haven't really done anything else to it.

@The Hyena cant wait for update! ron henry wells http://laughinghyena.wordpress.com/

I've worked at places where it was best that the shop help didnt get involved in what the customer wants/what the artist will be doing and at places where the shop help did get involved and made it more convoluted. It could go either way. Most of the time I dont want the counter to tell a client what can or cant be done, what something will cost, etc. Leave that up to me. Girlfriend or whatever it's mostly a receptionist's job. Greet people warmly, answer phones, sign them up, tell them an artist will be with them shortly and ring up what I tell them to ring up. One of the best counter help I've worked with is a dude that works the front at Bolder Ink. He's been doing that job for over 5 years and does exactly those things (also gets tipped out more if we ask him to scrub tubes). The way I see it they get paid by the hour to sit there and do those things. If I want coffee I can walk down the street and get it myself. We aren't rock stars.

i am perfectly content with my dumb phone

"It's Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmee!..."

Or at Theresa & Johnny's Comfort Food, a few doors up!

mmmm Sol Food. don't forget to dump the whole bottle of orange salsa on your plate

and when you're at Spider Murphy's eat food at Sol Food!!

Ghanan movie posters:

Also Bay Area Discovery Museum on the Marin side of the GG bridge right down in Cavallo Point

FAIRYLAND IS AWESOME. Its in the Lake Merritt area of oakland. Your kid will love it.

My half sleeve, now complete. Tattooed by Crispy Lennox at Black Garden, Drury Lane, London. I love it. And the icing on the cake, Crispy gave me a limited edition print of one of his beautiful girls.

The morning after can be awkward sometimes..

who did the skull hands? looks like Lango from skull and sword stuff. I got this one from uncle allan in 09' at his shop in Copenhagen.

The sea foam green is left over car paint from my old fifty-fifty, haha.