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this tattoo is so damn awesome, and i felt the need to let you know that.

I'd posted this in the latest tattoo lowdown thread, but it ought to go here. This is mine right after the 1st session on June 30th. Tattooed by Paul Pearson at Tried and True Tattoo in Smyrna Tn. I was leaning a little to the right, but you can get the jest of it.

Mike the Athens, Greece, finished yesterday, two days work,swollen as f..k. But very happy.

Motorhead Oni - Tim Lehi .

My worry about publicists and tattooers is pretty much this: Is the guy trying to make some money, or is he trying to get famous? If he's trying to make some money... god bless him. It's a competitive world and everyone needs to make some coin. If having a publicist is about trying to be the next celebrity tattooer.... Stop it. I don't know the dude. He puts on a clean tattoo and could be a damn nice guy who just wants to put on MORE clean tattoos and is using social networking to get to that end. I don't know the publicist. Maybe she's a really rad chick who just wants her friend to be exposed to more people. In the end- thats part of why I feature tattooers I like on OV. I want you to get a Michael Bennett tattoo. I want you to get a Robert Ryan tattoo. Sure there's no financial gain in it for me*, but I like to see the kind of tattoos I get get done. If that makes sense. It makes me happy when I hear "I went to Dave Bruehl because you recommended him" because I love David, and I like that someone got a really rad tattoo instead of something crappy. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. Maybe I'm not reading enough into it. [

Eil Quinters did the eagle, and Mike Schweigert did the rest. Mike posted it on his Instagram yesterday.

chad pfft :rolleyes: sounds like some skinny pants wearing snob, i doubt you guys have a kickass time but will hope you do anyway. chad as if that sounds like someone who could do a killer tattoo :rolleyes: ;)

Found this thread through the search function while looking for tattoo shops in Portland. New favorite thread! Anyone else have any cool 222 stories? Thank you so much, to everyone who already posted.

I'm fairly sure he walks the straight edge to the nearest bar.... - - - Updated - - - I kid...

I'm a publicist, or have been/had to be in the past. I can see what your saying don't get me wrong, However in mine and others defenses - I work in indie music. There is no (or little money) and you do it for a love and usually because you believe in the project/artist/s and you want to see it and them do do well. Not all publicists are like this, sure. But not everyone is ingenuine or shitty. I won't take anything on I don't believe in as I can't sell something I'm not passionate about nor would I want to. That and I don't have the time lol.

Anyone starting to get excited? I am heading up from Columbus for Sunday all day. Getting tattooed by some guy named Chad.

@Lochlan I figured I was going to end up playing the waiting game. Maybe I'll show some before and after pics, not to keen on putting my tattoos out on the internet. but now I know if I'm planning a night of hard drinking, knee pads.... Like if I ever find myself in Oakland with D, hella gonna wear some pads.

Here's a better photo of the tattoo Bailey Robinson did

Here is my tattoo from yesterday by Alessio Ricci at Avalon 2

how about we let this thread die?

@Brian Wermund, Read this at least twice.

I travel to MAKE tattoos! 3 hours each way two days a week to New Jersey.

I was fortunate enough to live around the block from 222. I went in there a bunch and was the pesky kid with no money, i bent Juan and Rassier's ear a few times with tales of tattoos i didn't have money to get. They had a pretty good bullshit detector but humored me anyway. I got to watch Paco paint the side of the building and when i was a bike messenger I delivered a heavy ass box of flyers or something from the print shop to 222. Scott was there to receive it and asked me how the hell i road there with that package. I told him I rode it on my bars wedged in between my forearms, and he gave me a $20 tip. It was one of the only tips I ever got while messengering.

i made an appt to get a rose and my moms signature in a banner by scott. he showed me the drawing and goes.... "i think its too big. what do you think" i say..."whatever you think is best" he goes..."ok" now im the dude with the biggest rose tattoo on his neck ever haha sat down in the chair and he reaches over to a literal pile of machines. there had to be at least a dozen all up on top of eachother. he spread them out a bit and grabbed the two or three he needed. i think i owned two liners and a shader at that point in my career haha. it was such a cool ass experience. and for future reference, if you let scott do what he wants, you end up with a huge neck/face rose or a grim reaper riding a rooster pointing up at your "good times" haha one last thing... got to meet Hector Fong there. cool dude for sure!!! havent spoken to him in a while. i hope hes doing well. and i remember scott yellin at him then callin him "a chinese mexican or whatever the fuck you are" went to the closing party/auction. it was awesome but shitty timing. it was in february when i had nooooooo money. i just got back from a trip home. wanted to bid on a rassier painting, but my roommate wanted to as well. i let her buy it. she got it super fucking cheap!!!! i hate her guts now. oh i remember noah also scraping shit off the floor with a razor because eddie said he fucked up haha

Here's a picture I took myself, it's at a totally fucked off angle, but you can get the idea.

All those re-runs of "Gangland" I watched finally paid off ;)

And he works so goddamn fast, it's unreal. But I agree, him and Mario have such distinct styles, both are great though. If I'm going to get something that's straight up American traditional, I'd go to Nick, but for something kind of weird, Mario does some cool shit.

Yeah, guess I'll hold off on that "Smile Now, Cry Later" piece I was gonna get put on my cheekbones!

I don't think there is anything wrong with using a publicist, but this approach is unprofessional and disrespectful to both you and their client. There is a lot of tradition behind the tattooing profession and even when you are trying new things, you have to respect that tradition. This is just amateur hour and the person doing it should be ashamed and embarrassed.

Perfetto? Hahaha. Sorry. I have no idea who did this. Any insight?

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I was afraid someone on here would be a publicist. Sorry Duffa. I lived in Los Angeles for eight years, and my experiences with publicists and agents were generally pretty bad. Sweeping generalizations are never good or right, and I don't usually make them. I will rescind my statement now that I know there is at least one publicist in the world that I think is a nice person.

Oh the jokes that are sure to entail on board a ship of men wearing kneepads hahaha.

@MadeIndelible monday before SOG with @Scott Sylvia and penciled in friday aswell. Saturday @Valerie Vargas is doing a couple of tattoos for me. Are you touching up stuff from last year? I have heard around about touchups like they are real common but never have seen them mentioned on LST

@Abellve - I am envious of your Triumph.

OV is niche and I like it being niche. The guy's stuff was nicely done by it's just not the kind of stuff I feature. I might have considered it had the artist himself contacted me. But having a third party contact me was weird for me. Right now OV is me and Jennifer Stell. Eventually I'll have other people helping out, but they have to be people who get it. We're never going to take ad revenue (though for my birthday I'm going to ask for presents. Believe it!) and we're never going to be a general tattoo blog. So it's strange when I get email like that.

I don't care how Kat Von D got anywhere. But I would imagine it might have had something to being married (formerly) to Oliver Peck and being an attention whore.

I know I'm a couple pages behind on the response, but I was stoked to log in and see the Carmichael and Leu tattoos on the same page. Can we get less scratcher bullshit/ego stroking/personal validation threads and more awesome tattoos like these instead? Please and thank you.

Found a short article about Horitomo's involvement in designing the tattoos for the characters in the Yakuza video game series. Has anyone played any of these games? Horitomo-san began tattooing in 1992, although at the time he was not versed in the art of traditional Japanese tattooing. Instead, he focused his studies on the western style of tattoo artistry at a street tattoo studio. At that time studios which advertised their services openly on the streets of Japan were a real rarity. Following his initial studies, Horitomo-san went on to work at various tattoo studios based in Tokyo and Osaka. In the meantime, he was also actively taking part in various tattoo conventions, including shows in Amsterdam and Spain. In 2001, he finally began to learn traditional Japanese tattooing from a master of the style. Four years later, Kikuchi-san (producer of the Yakuza series), saw some of Horitomo-san’s work in a magazine which featured several of the best traditional Japanese tattoo artists of the time. He was impressed by what he saw and decided to get in touch with Horitomo-san at his workplace in Yokohama and ask him to be a part of the team for the first Yakuza game. He has continued his relationship with the team ever since that time.

New one today by Stevie Edge

i fell for it...

too many @Bubbleberry 's

I've spent the last 14 months scrubbing bathrooms, floors and tubes to get where I am. It isn't easy to find someone willing to dedicate their time to teach you their craft. You have to prove that this is truly where your heart is and it will be worth it to them. An apprenticeship isn't just learning to tattoo, it's paying your fucking dues. I have never had a problem just going into any shop. I have been able spend time with tattooers whom I really look up to and they have taught me many things even though they were not my mentor. Why? Because I'm doing it right and I've shown them the respect they deserve. That woman treated you the way you deserved to be treated.

I figured that while in California I should look up some other shop locations. Who knew that Spider Murphys was not too far from S.F?!? I just booked in with Stuart Cripwell for one of his great moths. This trip is going to be awesome!

4 sessions down, (hopefully) one more to go! OUCH!

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

ran across this card, from when i was there in 1999 (sorry about the cell phone pics)

FYI (for those who care about these things), I just happened to notice that we now have 222 registered members on our forum. Very auspicious!

It is interesting that 222 will always be revered in the same was Realistic was, Scott did the roses on my neck in '99 I do have an Eddy story tho, I grew up in Sydney Australia and came to SF for the first time in 1992 and seeing Tattootime 5 and also a few traveling peeps with Eddy work he headed the list of people I wanted to get work from, of course my taste was pretty different to what Eddy was doing at the time and I had my buddy draw up a tribal arm design for me. So if it wasn't the first day I was in SF it was the second my naive 21yo legs marched down to 722 Columbus Ave North Beach and it was 11.55 entered the shop and there is Eddy mopping the floor with some scruffy bum watching (of course that turned out to be Dan Higgs) but alas did not see that they had not turned the closed sign around, so they informed me they were not in fact open yet which kind of made things a bit uncomfortable because I just waited outside and twiddled my thumbs for 5 minutes until they turned the sign around. Its funny because I did not end up getting tattooed there because of that (I went and saw Leo Zulueta in LA and he did the work for me), and I think I just wasn't ready but I often think what I would have ended up with if I let them go to town I sill think that early Tattoo City kinda set the style for the world to follow, now that I am pretty well covered I realize that it shaped me to do the research first to get good tattoos and I have traveled all over to get them. I did try to get an appointment in 96 with Eddy but this was a few months before 222 opened and he was busy with getting that together, so I had pretty serious coverage by the time I saw him in 2006 and he blasted on the mask in record time and this year he did some windbars with flames on my belly tying together the work on my legs to my front so all good things come to those that wait! -Duncan

I moved to SF from Austin in 1997. Leading up to my move, I was finishing a piece with Chris Trevino, and every time I saw him, he'd tell me that I had to get tattooed by Eddy when I got to SF. He'd also tell me stories about his guest slots at 222 and how it was the nicest shop he'd ever set foot in. By the time I actually got to SF, I was broke. I stayed that way for a few years, but when I finally got a decent bonus in 1999, I went straight to 222 on my lunch break. Rassier was the only guy there that day, and he told me that Eddy's wait was 6 months. (It's funny to look back on that chat with Rassier, as my wife and I both have a few tattoos from him now.) The 6 months finally went by and I got my half-sleeve from Eddy, which he knocked out in no time at all. Right before he started, I said, "So, are you as heavy as Chris?" He laughed and said, "No one's as heavy as Chris, dude." We talked a lot about martial arts, other tattoo artists and the usual stuff, but the funniest thing is that he lit up a cigarette and my girlfriend asked if she could have one. He said, "Yeah, but you gotta smoke it outside." She thought he was joking, but he was dead serious! "It's my shop--I'm the only one who can smoke in here." So she declined, haha.

My dog also came home yellow that day.

Can't say I was there BUT.....I can say I got a shirt!!!! LOL