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Dennis from Providence Tattoo

I was at my local tattoo shop last night getting some work done on my backpiece and got to witness an 82 year old lady accompanied by her grown children get her first and probably only tattoo. She got "DNR" in small fancy script over her heart. Turned out she has a bad ticker and wanted a Do Not Resuscitate tattoo. She took it like a champ. It was awesome!

When I catch people staring at my hand tattoos on the train I'll slowly move my hand towards my crotch and then pretend like I caught them staring at my dick and give them a disgusted look. That or just lock eyes and don't break for a solid 3 count, it freaks the shit out of people, actually had someone switch train cars after that once.

Andrew McLeod- Chapel Tattoo in Melbourne He does such nice solid and bold work

Thanks to all LSTers (new & old) and the tattooers who have taken the time to do an interview with us and give your time and knowledge to try and make a good tattoo site/forum for customers and tattooers!!!! Also to the moderators @hogg @gougetheeyes & @slayer9019 who have taken on a thankless job of managing the daily playpen!!!! Lastly, I would like to thank the Wrights and Sylvias for their time and energy that they put forth on this venture of ours!!! To many more years and continuing to work to try to help people get better tattoos supporting the good tattooers and shops.......

Happy Birfday, LST, and many, many thanks and much respect to Lochlan and all the staff on keeping this an interesting and valuable resource.

Thanks @gougetheeyes Miranda & Cookie @ Pop's in Kingston, NY Geddes Jones Paulsen @ Shady Lady in Kingston, NY Jay Salerno @ Vision Burn in Dunmore, PA Thomas Hooper @ Saved in Brooklyn, NY Chris O'Donnell @ Saved in Brooklyn, NY Freddy Corbin @ Temple in Oakland, CA

some bert grimm flash from dan santoro

got this little pipe in my ditch yesterday by timmy tatts @ tattoo marks. my girlfriend got this awesome parrot by timmy as well

There's an Ed Hardy documentary on netflix. Maybe the best line from the whole thing is what he says about what hurts the most. His answer, "the tattoo you're getting right now".

You should come visit. Melbourne is a pretty amazing city..good culture, good people, good coffee I work at Dangerzone Tattoo in Fitzroy

wait for it wait for it

I'm pretty new, but I'm so pumped to be a part of this community. Here's to the next year!

Happy birthday LST! I joined just over a year ago...and have gotten my best tattoos since then. Coincidence??? I think not!

That's a good one @Erica.

Happy Birthday LST... Here's to many more!!!!

@RoryQ There is literally a point of "diminishing returns" because only so many BUs are soluble in boiling wort...anything beyond that is wasted. I think it's something like a maximum of about 100 BUs in a standard gravity wort, more BUs in a higher density one. Granted I can't think of many commercial examples that are overhopped like that...BrewDog's "Nanny State" comes to mind, though that seemed more like a marketing gimmick than an actual beer, which is my problem with that brewery. Didn't actually try it though. @David Flores There are plenty of really hoppy beers that are well-balanced and I don't want to come across as anti-hops because given a choice of styles I would drink IPA more often than not (trying to get out of that habit though). I do think, though, that a beer that is overly focused on packing in the BU and aroma can sometimes be a little bit one-dimensional for my tastes. I really like the Six Points Bengali Tiger IPA because it has a really solid malty backbone underneath the hops.

LST, NYtimes, Gmail. Every morning and in that order.

Happy birthday LST and many more to come.

It has been a blast watching the community grow, and meeting some of you in person - some of the nicest people I know for sure. It's also been really satisfying to hear the stories about our members getting on the right path and getting some top quality tattoos as a direct result of what they have learned here. That is really what our whole mission is all about. I know my list of who to get work from has changed.. Thanks to everybody who comes here and contributes!

I'm also very honored to be a part of this place. Thanks so much to everyone.

This is just my opinion but I like tattoos, So as a consumer I will do my best to get tattoos from artists who like tattoos as well.

One of the few times a staph infection would improve a tattoo.

Dagger done by Valerie Vargas yesterday

Skull & snake on me by Valerie Vargas.

Awesomeness occurred (and I'm not just talmbout the sriracha butter sauce). Great to see familiar faces and really great to meet Mr. and Mrs. @gougetheeyes!

Yeah i got that one done right before you

Got this pretty little thing from Mr. Adam Gibson at Good Times Tattoo in Salt Lake City yesterday.

Here you go!

More great stuff from BTC , thats the look I'm rolling with got the 40's hair and a few tatties . Oh and best tattooers hair award goes to Ian Flower and Luke at New School Ewell .

Got in another 5 hours on my tiger last night @Memoir w/Spencer. He put on a thicker outline, a bunch of shading, and white in the whiskers & eyes. Next session (in 3 weeks) he's going to add a couple of mandalas to it.

Chris Trevino perfection tattoo

Bristol Tattoo Club .

Most of my tattoos I got from Carlo, working out of Aloha Tattoos in Barcelona. He apprenticed under Monga and while you can definitely see that quirky influence, he definitely has his own thing going... Rötor is also working there and while in a completely different and weirder direction, I think his stuff is also amazing...come to think of it, that whole shop is nuts..

I tried to think of something I wanted tattooed on me that I didn't already have and couldn't come up with anything. Plus any idea I had would have paled in comparison to this design. Further proof of the importance of flash.

Horiyoshi III: (old work of his) (Horiyoshi III said on his Instagram that this was probably from about 25 years ago)

Makara Snail by Chad Koeplinger - - - Updated - - - Well i dont know how to post the picture bigger

Makara Snail Tattoo by Chad Koeplinger

Here's mine by Jordan at FST.

Tattoo infections linked to bad ink never heard of this stuff, but I bet Catfish is never gonna live this one down.

Shared by a guy named Don , found on Grant Cobb's IG . Tattooed by Bob Shaw 70's Pike , best ever .

Soyouthin tatood australian; getatoueerde australier uit Boons Magazijn 1901 dutch

http://www.ghank.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Funny-Tattoo.bmp

@hogg This thread was really created to get you to post up a pic of your Cripwell roses I'm really digging the modified mala idea, since I'm not Buddhist, something like the Tibetan version that use the tiny skulls: - - - Updated - - - Awesome black and gray collar design from Goethe:

http://www.facebook.com/jedhilltatttoo?sk=info I follow this guy on Facebook, he puts on a great tattoo and has been doing since the 70's I hear? This is the kind of tattooer I want to be tattooed by.

i just saw this and the mention of berit from tatau obscur and felt like i had to say something. while i don't think i would get tattooed from her, she needs to be respected partly because of her history in berlin. she was one of the first tattooers in berlin to actually know how to draw and helped break the hell's angels control of tattooing by simply refusing to pay their protection fee. jan and fide from fuer immer both worked at tatau obscur before opening their own studio. she is one of the older tattooers in berlin and everyone respects her, including lars uwe who some would think is one of the greater tattooers in this country. she might not be well known, and her style might not be everyone's cup of tea but tattooing in berlin wouldn't be what it is without her.

I know this is slightly off topic but I thought MsRad's question was interesting and it's not worthy of a brand new thread. I'm not a historian, so I won't attempt to give dates and I don't know how long everyone has been tattooing but knowing where those guys worked makes it clear that they all influenced each other. That makes it all even cooler to me. I didn't work with all these guys so maybe I'll miss some important detail but I know a few of them and the people they worked with. Hooper used to work at IntoYou, when Xed LeHead worked there. Jondix used to visit and do guest spots. So did Mike the Athens and his 'student' Tas. Then, Tas' work had much more Thai/Tibetan and Borneo/Micronesian influence than it does now, so did Hooper's. Tomas Tomas moved from a different shop in London to work at IntoYou. So at one shop, including guests/friends you had: Alex Binnie, Xed, Thomas Hooper, Jondix, Mike the Athens, Tas, Tomas Tomas and Duncan X. There were of course other awesome tattooers working there who specialised in different styles but these 8 people are very influential in the dotwork/blackwork (non-tribal) styles. Hooper and Jondix are close friends and have done series of paintings together and a few collaborative tattoos. I see Mike's and Alex's influence a lot in the work of Jondix, Thomas and Tas' (non Japanese) work. A lot of the dot shading comes from Xed and Tomas Tomas, I think Tomas in particular took it further than anyone, to great success. It's been awesome over the last 8 years or so, watching this amazing work grow out of existing tattoo styles and have other influences slowly added to each person's work and seeing them push themselves and tattooing in general. To me, that's perfect way for new styles to develop, rather than someone deciding that they have invented a 'new thing'. If these guys weren't awesome enough most of them can do great tattoos in many other styles too. I have learned a lot seeing their work, particularly Hoopers healed work in the flesh and nervously tattooing next to it.