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I got a consult with Stuart Cripwell coming up this weekend. I'm so undecided as to what to get!! So many possibilities!! This will be my first time at Spider Murphy's too. I'm excited.

I've decided on Rock of Ages for my Steve Byrne tattoo in January. Pretty excited!

FIVE EPISODES!!? HELL YEAH. My favorite part of the first deVita episode was Scott Harrison's story about the stencil. SO GOOD.

Hey there, I'm Hunter. Live in Austin, TX. Full time artist trying to break into tattooing. I have about 30-40 hours in the chair under my belt, and currently in the process of completing my right leg with the wonderful Nathan Haynes here in town. Here is a shot of my leg so far to break the ice (sorry its an IG rip, it's all I got). I hope to contribute as much as I can, and thanks for having me.

I have a private movie theater, and we can stream from youtube. I watched episode 1 last night on a 25foot screen. So so rad.

From Iain Mullen today. So happy with it! Had a great time and it wasn't as horrible as I had imagined going over the elbow.

Finally getting my neck tattooed in jan. Maybe I'll take video of it so you can see how much of a baby I am.

Scott Harrison's story about the tattoo is great but what about the panda scroll?

Yeah, it's amazing how popular that spot got for how painful it actually is..... the good ol' days when women got "badass bitch badges" and men got arm bands that wouldn't wrap all the way around cause they heard the inner arm hurts.

I'm leaving for New Zealand tomorrow. Getting my thigh tattooed by Simon Erl on Saturday, sight-seeing for a week and then starting colour on my back with Jelle on the following Friday!

My mom has parkinsons it sucks I felt kind of sad watching this, its going to end up being a monument to a great man- at least its shaping up to be a fitting one On a happier note, a well known artist that I know got a couple of all black blastovers from him last year, and they looked very very good!

fuck yeah it is, if i ever had the opportunity i would definitely have him tattoo his signature on me somewhere.

The obvious Parkinson's symptoms made me sad. I work with a lot of folks with Parkinson's and it's a super tough disease. I'm sorry that ANYONE has to go through that. :(

For me it's been the lower back. Whoever named that spot "Tramp Stamp" obviously never got one. If they had they would of named it "The Badass Bitch Badge".

This was so great and we're so lucky that we get five episodes of it too.

Throwing in my tattoo in the hat. This was done by Eddy Deutsche a week and a half ago.

This kills me , follow the evolution of a Bob Roberts Battle Royale backpiece complete with soundtrack ... The Battle Royale Tattoo by Bob Roberts

Any art collector that hasn't considered buying some of his work is failing.

Figured i'd bump this thread with a little update. Today was deadlift day and I managed to lift 120kg, which is a new PR for me. Every time i break a PR it boosts my pride and self esteem. It's a direct result of my own hard work and that's the best feeling ever

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When researching the Zeis book I came across a fair amount of info about Floyd Samson. He was mostly a circus and carnival tattooer. Met Zeis working with the Cole Bros circus. Stayed in contact for the rest of Zeis's life. He settled down in Rockford in his later years. From my understanding helped Milt keep the supply company going for a while. Zeis's daughter was worried something bad happened to him because he just disappeared one day and they never heard from him after that. I assume he got the traveling bug but who knows. I will have to do some digging and see if I can find any info about where and when he died. His flash is really folk art looking but very cool. I would love to have a sheet of it. Sheet below was on ebay some time last year.

@slayer9019 : buns of steel

Shark, sea snake, octopus- now there's a different one!

In our household... we like our Battle Royals with cheese and no whine, in one shot... Preferably in one sitting. I'll post a couple pics... It was his kids first tattoo, one sitting, like 8 hours...

i stopped caring about shit like this, or i'd be angry 24/7/365. either way i'm tattooing and will continue to tattoo, i don't give a shit what's going on where...

I was 15 and I forgot to bring my clothes into the bathroom with me to shower(so I was fully dressed when exiting). I went out to get my shirt and my mom saw the tattoo on my arm. After gasping she said, "well I guess I should've expected this". Soon after she kicked me out of the house. Four years later she let me move back in for a little and let me set up a 'home studio' in the garage and even tolerated all the cholos coming over to get tattooed. Very hip lady

I was 14 and my mom chased me through the house trying to stab me with a pair of scissors. Ha-ha lets say it didn't go well.

Interesting. Well, just on a positive note. My parents were born and raised in the bible belt, however, they moved to California as soon as they had me because they weren't happy there. My mom was raised Southern Baptist, and never wanted to force any beliefs on me, therefore, as soon as I felt alienated in church, I stopped going, which was quite young. My mom took me to get my first piercings in high school because she said "At least a hole can heal, better than a tattoo!" Hah, so she actually went with me to hold my hand through my first tattoo a little while later. She thought it was so beautiful that she considered getting one done herself by the same artist. She has one tattoo. She was a very sheltered and goody-goody I like to call her, all her life, especially before she hit 30. However, in one rebellious moment, her girlfriends convinced her to get my dad's initials on her chest. She drank 3 beers through a straw and let someone do it right there in the bar with a needle and ink. Most of my life she told me they were my initials (my dad and I have the same ones). My mom makes me show my tattoo (on my ribs) EVERYWHERE I go, it's pretty annoying at this point. Meawhile my dad was as wild as they came growing up. He tried to get a tattoo once on his bicep, it was too painful for him. He has a DOT tattooed there, I think I must have made fun of it since I was 10 or so. When I showed him my first tattoo, he was blown away by it, and ashamed at the story of his dot tattoo, haha...he kept asking if I was ok, since I showed him when the tattoo was still fresh. I'm blessed to have great parents.

I got my first tattoo when i was 23,and it was a heart with Mom inside.I got it because i love my Mom,but also because she told me if i didn't go to rehab,she would throw me out of the house.I never thought of getting a tattoo before,but in rehab,my roomate was in the special forces,and he had all these cool tattoos.So when i got home,i wen't to the local biker/tattoo shop and got me a Mom Tattoo.My Mother didn't really care much..But she's one of the reasons why i don't smoke PCP anymore.

I think it was 2002…. I hadn’t been home for a while from joining the Navy and so when I went home on leave for the first time in 2 years, my brother and I decided to bond by getting a tattoo. We told our mom we were going to the fish/reptile store, which my brother spends a long as time at. 6 hours later after paying a visit to the Tattoo Asylum in Las Vegas, NV. On my forearm, I got a rose and some background work on a recent tattoo I had acquired elsewhere. To hide it, I went to Wal-mart to get a long sleeve shirt to cover it up. I came home rocking my new forearm tattoo, but next thing I know, my mom sees me and gives me a hug, as she pulls me to go talk to my aunt who I haven’t seen in a while, she drags her hand down my arm! So I tried to hold back the cringing, but when she started to squeeze I made a cringe and after she thought about it for…. 15 seconds, she says “Que Chingado! You don’t wear long sleeves, What did you do?” She pulled up my sleeve and POW! That’s how she learned I got them. She was upset for a while, but she got over it. She still doesn’t approve of tattoos and she especially doesn’t like that I’m adding more to my body, but she says, “(in heavy Mexican accent) It’s not my problem, its tu esposas.” Which my wife kind of dislikes, but in the end she sits by me at the tattoo shop while I add some new ones. Haha.