Leaderboard

Hello, my name is Lindsey Carmichael. I work at Gold Rush Tattoo in Costa Mesa, CA. I am happy to finally be a part of a Scott's tattoo forum, the first forum or blog of any kind I've been connected with ever, and look forward to checking in often. Thank you for having me.

Mine here, done by Stevie Edge at kaleidoscope tattoo in Sydney.

Matt Shamah is guesting at kings avenue right now...

Five tips to dominate the Deadlift. T NATION | 5 Tips to Dominate the Deadlift

Wow looks like a fun shop and a cool guy! Might have to swing by! I am definitely looking for a walk in point to flash and get tattooed in the same day experience. I like getting custom pieces and going to custom shops but I feel I need that on-the-spot tattoo experience.

Album Stream: Baroness - Yellow & Green :: Featured Audio :: Paste And I'm not just saying this because they are friends of mine. This shit is good!

I am King Jaffe Joffer, ruler of Zamunda.

Keto 6 weeks report: down to 9.4% BF and down 3 pounds of fat while maintaining the lean mass number above. I stayed strict- LOTS of protein and fat, under 30 carbs a day w/ no cheat days. Coming back in, I've decided to move to TKD (one "cheat' hour a week at the end of my workout cycle where I eat whatever the hell I want. Last night it was a cupcake, lemon bar, and like 4 croisant wrapped sausages). I'm light, but I feel strong and haven't lost any noticeable strength in my lifts. To be honest, I can't wait til the Fall to start eating my brown rice and oats again. I also now have one more tattoo on my chest ;)

Flyrite in W'burg, Three Kings in Greenpoint, True Blue in Queens (only shop I've visited in Queens).. Lots more. TTW seems to keep up for the walk-ins. I'm less familiar with Manhattan. But there's a ton in the west village! winkwinknudgenudge.

The last time I was an unwilling guest of Suffolk County, there were gang tattoo pictures on the precinct walls where I was being booked. Obviously I'm inked.... I asked how come you don't want to take any pix of me, I was in a gang (when I was 14...)? They just looked at me and kept doing the fingerprint thing... CG

@sbrookins, too true and the last thing this industry needs to do is give up ownership of some of the fundamental elements...like the building and maintaining of a client base, building a reputation and controlling what we do and how we're perceived. If you sell off pieces of this thing to the entertainment industry and outside interests you don't get to cry foul when they abuse it. Sadly people that have the opportunity to do so are selling everybody's shares since, for better or worse, we're all in this together to a great extent. And yeah, all that aside what the hell Facebook generation is this that people just shoot out emails saying their guy should be on your site? Even if publicists had a place in our industry, that's a piss-poor example of one.

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

So the itch to get tattooed is getting unbearable waiting for my next session and want to pick up something kinda small in the NJ-NYC area. Any good suggestions? I already know Smith Street is awesome but any other suggestions? (also any local artists chime in if you want). I also remember Thicker than Water being mentioned

I fucking hate tattooers with no tattoos.

Ahh, this is just too f*cking good. @CultExciter is right about the drums - they sound sweet.

I got both of those Valkyre albums! Good stuff.

I was lucky enough to get a promo DL for this a few weeks ago and it took a little time but Im really digging this album. Its a lot to digest at first but yea it works.

if i'm not mistaken, Krooked Ken owns that shop but doesn't regularly tattoo at powerhouse. he's mainly in MD.

Update: Been doing the rubber band stuff that physio gave me for the shoulder, and my shoulder is 95% good. Sometimes gets tight, or when I sleep on it gets sore. Other than that, groovy! Finished my heavy deadlift routine earlier than intended. It just got too heavy. Did 2x130kg and then few other 2x with lower weight. Then few weeks from that started the 1RM and I was thinking that if I did 2x130kg, I will work up to 140kg in few weeks. Bullshit! :D did 132.5 x 1 and it was heavier than shit! I knew that have to step baaaack and start again. I did a 3 week rest and started last weeks with this http://www.ontariostrongman.ca/resources/training/magnusson_ortmayer_dl_program.xls I went way back on the weight. I put the projected max at 112kg. Reason is that the calculator is funny so it shows this as the 12th week work sets (sets, reps weight) And not 112kg. Even if you put it as the projected max. Well, dont care :P Reason I put it so low is the 8+ sets. I suck at long sets in the deadlift, so taking it easy :) My goal is a meager 160kg (180kg is my real goal, but I dont know if thats too much) at the end of next year. No rush.

@Kev I've done cheat days and cheat meals but a '' cheat hour " has the added element of challenge to it . Good going on the diet , used correctly I found cheating had me looking fuller and more vascular whilst keeping my lifts up .

Guy Ursitti: Just some asshole on the internet, just like Scott Sylvia, Mario Desa, Stewart Robson, Tim Hendricks and all the other neckbeards that frequent this place.

The Republik of Mancunia! Welcome.

Can we let sleeping threads lie?

come on by we'd love to tattoo you -ttw

or, he's a tattooist that specializes in covering up cover-ups!

"...and blow a fuse in your name!"

Designs By Michael Angelo (Mike Perfetto) Eric Jones: The ‘Perfetto’ Experience of a Lifetime « TAM Blog @Bunny Switchblade can attest to his awesomeness. Wow, I just saw that @kylegrey and I were on the same wavelength.

Electric in Jersey. NY Adorned almost always has someone good doing walk-ins. Top-shelf in Queens. Greenpoint tattoo.

@Dan S you are seriously a wealth of information!

@Lochlan will said new shirt be in mediums? (Not going to lie, really really want to see what it is And who it's done by!haha)

Anyone that is non-Italian and is named "Tony" is an obvious dyed in the wool poor imitation of a aborted fetus floating in a toilet in a 4th floor walkup tenement. CG

I think one of the beautiful things about tattooing is that you basically are this jack of many trades, as in you have to be a pretty well rounded individual.. You can build your own machines and needles, make ink, make the flash for the tattoo, then make that into a tattoo, make the customer enjoy the experience, and then make your station ready for the next one.. There's a lot of different types of character building and sense of self in that whole deal, and when you start bringing other people into it to take care of the parts you're not so good at, it dilutes it. That's probably why a lot of the older guys get upset when younger tattooers don't even know how to make their own needles and inks, because to them it seems as if you're less pure of a tattooer.

My wife has promised me a trip to the Uk on our 10 yr wedding anniversary for a sleeve from one of the great artists over there. That's 7 years from now, maybe Valerie will be taking new customers again then?

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.

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

@gougetheeyes no mediums yet or white shirts for guys but what I can say is we should have a new shirt very shortly!

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

Here's what Lindsey Carmichael of Gold Rush did on my arm yesterday. Killer filler! He squeezed this in-between a few existing skulls. The arm is filling in nicely!

Maybe do a sliver of research about Elvis before you decide to have opinions on him. I remember when I was in high school, too.

Thank you for posting these pictures. I can't get past the 'nazi question.' But very much appreciate having the photos out there. Anyone know what is up with the Phantom of the Opera mask the second picture? More interesting that blurring out a face.

@G.Uristti

When I was six or seven there was a sixteen year old girl on my block with a tiny spider on her ankle. I was in awe of this, and wrote in my diary that I was going to get a spider tattoo as soon as I turned eighteen. Found this diary when I was cleaning out my mom's basement a few weeks ago--I'm a bit late, but am finally getting that spider done Monday.

Congrats! And enjoy your ringworm.

Completed my first GORUCK Challenge today. 13 hours, 14 miles with a 40 pound pack carrying all sorts of fucked up things around, walking down Van Ness without socks or shoes, and more push ups and flutter kicks than I can remember. And a few trips into the ocean. I suggest trying one out when it comes to a city near you. They are going international as well.

NEW SAINT VITUS RULESSSSSSSSSSS....doooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm