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Got tattooed by lester at electric ladyland in new orleans this weekend. A piece of flash of their awesome spider murphys collection. Got to see his mike wilson backpiece, such a nice dude and awesome tattoo.

I stand for little old ladies who need a seat on the subway.

Thought I'd upload these images of my Dad's tattoo's, hope they maybe of interest. They were done between 1963-65 in Brighton, UK by Alan Bonnick.

Personally, I stand for taxonomy. Taxonomy is the practice of classifying information and placing it in categories. For instance, on this board we have categories for a number of different types of information. One of those is "Random Crap" toward the bottom of the main forum sections page, where this type of discussion belongs. I guess that makes me authoritarian?

Floyd Samson tattooed by Milton Zeis

I feel bad for anyone who has to be around that woman at any point during their day, be it at work, at home or because they are friends. What an ignorant fucking cunt. How about you get over yourself and realize that your children aren't 3 year olds anymore and there isn't shit you can do about it. If she really loved her son as much as she claims, she'd have no problem over looking something so superficial and realize he's the same little boy she raised, and he's turned out the way he has because of how she raised him.

I get a panther tattoo cause it's badass. Not because it's a soul window. End of story The fuck did I just read

It's far from finished, and there's far to go yet, but here's a picture of the progress on my backpiece. This is after three sessions and a total of 10.5 hours of tattooing.

Man I fucking love Bio-Dome. Not even joking. That movie has a special place in my childhood and heart. As @Paulywhore let you all know in another thread, I'm a whore, so I only stand when men with money demand it. Seriously, why is this guy still here?

Here's something to say...you made this thread bogus without any help from anyone. What people are trying to tell you is that there is a very politically diverse group here, all shades of the spectrum from Left to Right. Why bitch-up a tattoo forum with political stuff? You got zip. Why should anyone spend the time to formulate a big, heavy, theological response to a lame question? I mean, shit, at least you could spend a minute trying to make it look a little bit like you're trying. Windows to the soul? Fuck are you on??? Only sensible thing you've got in here.

I'd be willing to take a stand for fewer threads like this one clogging things up.

C'mon, this is the only direction this thread can go in now. "

you could drive up to the SFO Convention and have him do the tattoo instead of someone else...

It seems like those two categories are essentially the same thing. Also, there are some design threads getting thrown in the those two (like I would think the Full Back Piece thread should be in Designs.) As for naming conventions, I think calling the combined Tattoo 101 and War Stories something like "General Tattoo" will cut down on 1) people asking about tattooing advice ("101" implies school/education) 2) War Stories sounds like a place to vent, which I think gets covered pretty well in Random Crap. Just putting that out there.

I quickly glanced at ths before I read it properly. I thought it said "I stand for taxidermy"

You realize this is a TATTOO forum- you know, tattoos, those pictures we permanently stick on our very impermanent bodies. Some are good and some are bad from a technical perspective, some are thought out and planned and some are seemingly chosen at whim, but perhaps based out of a lower drive in our id. But whatever the case, this is most certainly a virtual forum about tattoos in a virtual space called the internet. You can argue that this is real all you want, but in my opinion, it will have little effect on what happens to me, sitting at this keyboard as I hunt and peck this out. You want to affect real change, get offline and do something. You're concerned about the treatment of women, life, consciousness or the country you're from, get out, volunteer and do something about it. Or have circular arguments with random strangers on the internet, many of whom I should point out, aren't even from your country. It's your life, not mine indeed.

Here's my current set-up... Guitars: Gibson SG Standard Fender Deluxe Telecaster Hagstrom Viking Deluxe Hofner Club 50 Gibson Les Paul Jr. Squier Classic Vibe '60s Strat Pedal Chain: Boss TU-2 -> Vox v847 Wah (Modded) -> Telenordia TA-23 -> Telenordia TA-100 -> Boss DD-3 -> Boss NS-2 Amps: Black Face 1965 Fender Princeton Reverb into a Fender Vibro-King 2x12 Cab

at the risk of derailment . . .

I think this is it, from his instagram:

Calm down or get the ban. This is your second warning.

Two from Western Australia's Rick Luder , circa 1970's .

posted this in another thread but here's one I got yesterday from Max Kuhn

Max Kuhn

i hope its a "mom" tattoo. i once showed my mother a new tattoo i had gotten, i was about 23 years old, she took a look at it, started crying and told me i was ugly. this article resonates deeply with me. the woman who wrote the article is a complete fucking moron.

This is my back. Can't believe its all done.

@Kev, I'm an advanced hunt-and-pecker myself. I'll stand and drink a beer to that! - - - Updated - - - I also stand for the greatness of this film, @Paulywhore probably agrees. All jokes aside. Everybody stands for something. We are a bunch of tattooed folks who have diverse political and socio-economical backgrounds. If you want to know what we stand for, why not make the question less vague. Like, "Hey CultExciter, are you socially liberal?" And my answer would be, "Sure, for the most part. I don't care what other people do with their lives as long as they don't care what I do with mine."

I'm convinced that a 2x12 is all anyone ever needs for live guitar. Having ran the gamut of combos and full-stacks, I'll sell amp heads all day, but I will never get rid of my Orange 2x12.

He was stoked to do it which is always great. He said barely anyone gets them off that wall. Which is a shame considering they had Richard stell, Greg Christian, Tim Lehi and the Murphy dudes flash plus some other good stuff

Thanks guys, I can't believe how it turned out. So stoked on it.

Great to come back to this thread and see what every one has been up too. Especially happy to see that it is in fact a fellow forum member who is getting that crazy Chris O'Donnell Wolf-piece. Can't wait to see it finished, thought the idea was rad even when I only saw the sketches. As for me I am waiting for this friday when I finally get my time with Deno at Stockholm Inkbash, in early october I am starting my major knee piece with Joel Madberg SOOS, later this week I'm meeting Iain Mullen to talk about putting in the lower part of my right sleeve. Aaaand.. hopefully I can get on Peter Lagergrens list for 2013 and make that upsidedown ROA on my thigh. I declare these 10 coming months until summer 2013 to be the year of big pieces!

This would be fucking awesome.

@Paul H dad was a badass

Head's up... Dallas, we had a couple last fucking minute cancellations, so I am pushing out leaving Tulsa another 4-5 days or so...I am not satisfied with where we are at... it seems as only now things are starting to roll, but that's life... We're having fun, but super tired, and hot... the ac in the old whorehouse hasn't been on, it's brand new but the wiring and circuitry is really old, and kinda rigged up as opposed to put together.... we have demo'd, what needed to come down, and are now building the inner bones of the shop... He only has two appointments so holler... lot's of time open, if not, we're grabbing motorcycles, gear, and a few other important things that need to be home... and HOME is now Tulsa, OK... thank god. I'm so tired, I'm sorry I haven't posted a bunch, or even been onsite, but all is well and if you need to get ahold of me, it doesn't take that much to do it. . . :) And, still got time, in Harker Heights, SFO, Richmond, and whatnot... so holler.

Johnny Walker tattooing at Jerry's shop , Honolulu 60's .

So I finally watched this shit. And with as.. confusing (?) as it was, it's more sad than anything. Girl was obviously super fucked up and has a ton of shit she's dealing with and to me, it's more infuriating that this was "a thing" and a "sensation." I don't really have a good response here.. I hope she's figured out how to wipe.

Just got booked in for a small one with Deno at the London Tattoo Convention. I wasn't going to get tattooed there this year but I have no will power.

Start of my back. Marius Meyer is doing it

Hardy and Horiyoshi - Con Safos .

Vargas

Not mine, but here's an incredible pair of legs that Myke Chambers did.

What made me laugh was the amount of replies that needed to be deleted because they didn't abide by the community standards.

Doesn't look too shabby, but being a perfectionist myself, I'm going to have to examine it much more closely before I can render an opinion...

Came across these pieces today from Bill Canales and Rudy Fritsch and had to post them to my favorite LST thread... Don't know anything about the artists on this one but the caption said Amsterdam Tattoo Convention 1994, thought it was an awesome picture...

by Jeff Ensminger 2 apologies - a/ not quite 4 weeks old, so still quite shiny b/ photo compilation skills are non-existant.

61 reissue sg>boss tuner>rat (sometimes but mostly not)>Marshall plexi reissue. simple as possible. I also have a sunn model t and sceptre but they are in retirement for now. p.s. I am jealous of the classic 30. Play through my friends occasionally and the tone is amazing. His is an older 4/10 before they changed the logo. Love that thing.

I was suppossed to become a professional jazz musician, instead I ended up a professional engineer with a gear problem: Guitars: Ricky 360 Les Paul Studio Fender 68 reissue, rewired w/ Burns TriSonics and series switching custom sunburst Squire 51 w/ lipstick pickups '76 Ibanez Rocket Roll flying V Rebuilt/re-wired P-Bass Amps guitar...Fender Super Reverb is my jam w/ a glass of juicy Orange Or-50 bass...70's Peavey 400W superfestival running into a 2x15 ampeg fridge and a 4x12 peavey black widow. Also have a Peavey 400W power amp which I slave off the superfestival and run 2x 4x10 columns with...BASTARD LOUD, i feel sorry for the new neighbours that just moved in! Organs !!! Hammond B-200 Farfisa Leslie 147 100 year old upright Piano just about everything on this list has paid it's dues on the road. no touring anymore, happy to stay home and play/record with my old musician buddies for shits n giggles here's a pic of the 68 Strat and Squier 51 that I rebuilt and rewired...see that engineering degree did come in handy after all

This is Jack Rudy's first "portrait". I think he said it was done in 1975. This guy was at the GTC 35th anniversary party a couple months ago.