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might as well throw up my own snake. I fuckin love it! (Yes thats fully healed)

It's been a while since I've captured/edited anything, to be honest. I have some more Royboy stuff lined up here soon!

Drunkenly thought I called my girlfriend and left a really long message that I do not remember. I woke up with a text saying "You need to call your lady, stop calling me when you are drunk. Love, Dad."

ehh i more so set up the appointment with antonio because i already wanted to get tattooed by him and since my band will already be in frederick that day for recording... why the fuck not? i'll have to check out those guys though. baltimore is only a 2.5 hour drive or so from here so i could always drive down another time. - - - Updated - - - p.s.. posted this in the full backpiece thread but i figured i'd post here too. got this lined yesterday by max kuhn.

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my right hand, by Hunter Spanks

I regret telling my fiancee that I was worried that my friends, who are organising my stag party next year, are pretty irresponsible and that I was worried it could end in chaos (someone being murdered, nightclub burning down etc). ...Should have just kept that one to myself.

Rob Noseworthy painting: For total nerd reasons, I love the Star Wars/samurai crossover stuff because of the Kurosawa influence on Star Wars.

Because people want to posture about how crusty and old school they are? I have a friend who's main source of income is suturing up the huge stretched lobe piercings on tattooers who want to talk shit about piercing.

Need a t-shirt..haha. This is by Morten Transeth at Blue Arms Tattoo, Oslo - Norway.

So many good snake tattoo posts here! Sick one from Dan Sinnes at The London Convention: ..and a sick one from Xam: A couple of nice snakes from Marius Meyer: and my very own girlhead and snake:

I decided to group together all the threads currently about old tattoos, and tattooing in the past. He is a list of links to all the threads I found relevant. If I missed any please post up a link in the following and I can see if I can get it edited into the original post. The interviews posted here by @Scott Sylvia, which are located in the blog section. Here is a selection below: LST Interviews Erik Gillespie Stewart Robson Valerie Vargas Danny Reed Chad Koeplinger Henk Shiffmacher Hanky Panky Beppe Strambini Phil Kyle Oliver Peck Katie Sellergren Jeff Cribb Dan Dringenberg Kore Flatmo Tim Hendricks Bryan Burk Freddy Corbin Nick Colella Josh Arment Juan Puente Books books tattoos tattoo culture hanky pankys awesome new book milton zeis tattoo boooks traditional-american-tattooing-books ed hardy tattoo world tatoo history books shops tattoo books tattoo book review world compromise i dont bob roberts Videos/Documentaries old tattoo documentaries marcus kuhns new project who else has seen true love documentary video three tattooers one tattoo white dragon belfast henk schiffmacher art tattoo essence amsterdam video ed hardy tattoo world documentary ppv tattoo documentary john samson tattoo age vbs video asian art museum shige horitomo horiyuki horitaka horiyoshi 3 related Misc old tattoo photos acetate stencils legends tattoo history museum exhibit local tattoos sailors exhibit Old ink archive tattoo discoveries found sale horiyoshi iii exhibition london's somerset house If you would like something added to this list please add a comment and mention @slayer9019

Howdy- I guess I should finally get around to my introduction. My name is Doug Hardy. I tattoo at my father's shop, Tattoo City, in San Francisco. I was apprenticed under Michael 'Rollo' Malone at China Sea Tattoo in Honolulu from 1992-1996, then moved to Minneapolis where I worked at Northside Tattoo, The Ink Lab, Uptown Tattoo and finally The Aloha Monkey. After almost 12 years in the Frozen North, I moved back to my hometown to help run Tattoo City and be my father's right hand man after his retirement. I also help with Hardy Marks Publications and try to stay connected with other artists when I'm not wrangling my goddamned cats.

My name is David. Born in a city just east of Houston, Texas. I will be 30 in 2 weeks. I moved up to Austin in '93 with my family. Got my first tattoo (two) the day after my 18th birthday at Diamond Glen's Rivercity Tattoo. Third tattoo the 3rd day after my 18th birthday and 5 tattoos by the time i graduted high school. I apprenticed at a tattoo shop that was a paid apprenticeship by Notorious Ed in 2002. I did not finish there but tattooing homeless people on Tuesday for free with very interesting. Worked as a body shop estimator for 7 years. Worked at Mom's Tattoos down the street from Rock of Ages. The owner (Deb) was teaching me and another guy to tattoo back in 2006-2007. Meet my wife. Married in 2010. Going to school now at University of Texas.

@RoryQ no murders please but a nightclub burning is acceptable

laser then blast over it with an epic backpiece!

Andrea Furci at The Family Business, London.

Matt Rinks does awesome work....he added a "trailer trash bunny" to my collection complete with vag & blown out butthole....lmfao! Another guy you don't hear much about is Eric Gregory....he just sits at Little Vinnie's kicking out incredible tattoos every day! Brady Duncan is in Annapolis, Maryland.......Tom Beasley is in Glen Burnie.......all these guys are in and around the Baltimore area! - - - Updated - - - yeah man.....stop by Olde Line Tattoo in Hagerstown and check out Dave Kruseman's work! He did my thumbs and the side of my head....dude is top notch and a really awesome guy! It's right where I-81 & I-70 intersect...you'll pass within 3 miles of it on the way to Frederick!

thanks @Iwar nice way to wake with some coffee

I got one with deno on the fifth, so i'll have premature ink.

That snake on the face...damn, dude. Be easy!

He holds the tattooing equivalent of a Rhodes Scholarship , most recently I heard him associated with Asakusa Horiyasu .

Chris Smith? Zach Dole? Matt Headley? Katie Sellegren (I know she is moving)? Andrew Stickler, Adam Shrewsbury, Jeff Whitehead? Also agree with pretty much all the rest posted.

this is from gil taimana. fucking badass

Kind of! Yeah I would have to agree x10. That's who's doing my left arm (tiger, lotus, mandala...). Aside from being amazingly talented, he is a great guy to chat with. I've got 4 sessions down...2 to go. His card reads: "I'm not the cheapest, just the slowest."

Fuck yes Freddy Negrete is the man .

Budget cuts. Police departments in the UK had something like 20% of their budgets cut, so I am guessing that a stricter policy on tattoos could potentially force people out of the police? Though I can't believe that there are so many cops with hand, neck, and face tattoos that it would actually make that much of a difference.

He tattooed a spider lady on the side of my knee two years ago (it's in my gallery) and pierced my nurple in the before time.

And, you can drive a little closer to Baltimore and see Mr. Matt Rinks. I would!

got this outlined yesterday by max kuhn. looking forward to finishing it.

... or not enough beer..... Rob

Little filler I picked up at Blue Arms tattoo here in Oslo a month or so back. Tattoo by Christoffer Wøien, design by Bert Krak.

Just got back from jacksonville. Super fun trip and got some super fun tattoos from Jesse Gordon at Inksmith and Rogers on 3rd street. First of the trip. Basically said dagger with something weird. we got weird Little drawn on filler the next day a print he gave me Was going to get another one on my ankle, but unfortunately was too hungover to withstand too much Also, going back to get eagle/snake on my chest by Mike Wilson on Dec 1st.

If we can have topics on food, weight lifting, music and "random pictures", I don't see how one thread on piercings is gonna do any harm. On topic, my personal perspective is that I've had piercings in the past, but I get sick of "babying" them - having to clean them meticulously when they get gunked up, making sure I don't lose any bits of the jewellery that might come undone, being careful at shows so they don't get bumped/ripped out - tattoos are only annoying for a week or so while they heal, piercings are annoying forever :P

I figure enough people liked this in the Latest Tattoo Lowdown thread to warrant an entry here. Done by Johnny Bones at Full Circle Tattoo in San Diego, CA. Johnny be good!

Good for you, but, wow. Last Sparrow Piercing. This feels like usenet in 1997. Sorry. There are plenty of places online for this stuff, but nowhere else other than Last Sparrow for serious tattoo talk. Yeah, I'm a dick.

Spencer added another lotus, a lily pad, and some cool background mandala stuff to this last night. He also put some negative space around where my daughter's name already was, by the top... now I have to wait until January to continue. Funny how first I asked for a tiger coming down my upper arm. Then he had all these ideas I liked so it grew into what was going to be a 1/2 sleeve. Now... there have been more cool ideas and it's going to be 3/4. By the time it's done, we should have a better camera.

@bravnik who needs intros when you come in showing work. I like the idea whos doing it and where?

Nick CTC

might as well have another crack, Tattoo around the clouds and Kraken is fresh/swollen in this pic. Tristan bentley, Ocean ink Sydney Australia

"RT @gypsy_gentleman: The Community Channel in the UK will now be showing all the current and upcoming episodes from the series. Cheers!. ..." YAY it's on telly in the uk now !

Hahhha. Fucking funny. Literally, 20 seconds after I wrote the Hail Satan and posted reply, my coworker walked in and said Hail Satan. I need some tissue paper :D

I have hundreds of hours of video of Cliff tattooing naked. Think they'll license that? When the jock douchebags who'll likely be the first wave to wear the Raven line (Cause Ed Hardy and Jerry are SO last year) start showing up at the mall, I'll post it on the Huffington post... "Wait.. he was a tattooer AND a homo? Man, I'll go back to Abecrombie and Fitch!". Douches.

I don't have any cover-ups on my body but I tattoo a hell of a lot of them. Most of the larger work that I do (bigger than 1/2 sleeve) usually incorporates some kind of cover-up. I started to make a point of NOT taking a 'before' picture. Sometimes I do, but I found that the cover-up requests got bigger and bigger the more cover-ups I showed. Covering a half sleeve sized tattoo with a full sleeve compromises the end product but I sometimes enjoy the challenge and the problem-solving aspect of it. This is one of the more tricky ones from last year or so, when I used to take 'before' photos: I got an email today asking if I could cover a full sleeve - with a sleeve.