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Here's my tiger. It's pretty gnarly looking right now. I wouldn't share it any place but here, but I know y'all will understand. Totally in love with the thing! And now I have one big cat on each leg - total protection from evil eh? Man! I'm so swollen!! Can't even fit my leg in most of my pants!!

Here's some fillers I have had done the last couple of months, all by Tony Nilsson at Bluearms Tattoo here in Oslo :o

Here is my shark based off flash by Matt Howse, Tattooed by Stevie Edge at Hunter and Fox in Sydney Australia. Some more great tattoos this month, seems to get better and better every month.

Mine from this week! by Ron Henry Wells

Ok Ill play .... mine is fairly interesting. My wife (of 10 years) has absolutely no tattoos, but she is the reason I have any idea what a nice tattoo looks like! As I said in another thread, I come from a small town. The only tattooers within 100 miles were shitty scratchers, so that was all I knew. I was always attracted to the idea of tattoos, and as a kid I would draw on my arms and stuff, but man, when I saw these shitty tattoos on my friends I just couldnt hang. When I moved to Austin, I met a couple of tattooers but they did black and grey stuff that I wasnt into, so I got a little kanji thing on my back and that was it for a while. Then I met my wife. She was good friends (grew up) with the Deep Ellum crowd in Dallas including some of the guys in punk bands and a couple of the dudes from Elm Street. Man, Holy Shit! These guys (and girls) were getting the most badass traditional tattoos ... totally covered. I couldnt believe how awesome this stuff looked. I mean, I had seen the flash sheets but no one in my hometown ever picked the cool stuff. And if they did, it was rendered very poorly. So, I asked those guys who I should see in Austin, and of course I have plenty of options. And then I started forming my own opinions and getting tattooed, slowly. So yeah. My completely untattooed wife, in a round about way, taught me about good tattoos!

I finally enrolled as a PhD student. It's taken almost a decade just to be able to begin. I don't have an MA and went to art school, so I was told by the university I wanted, 'I'm sorry but it is simply our policy and without a good Master's degree you will not be considered.' I got depressed, then indignant, then pissed off. So I spent a month reading, focusing and writing a proposal and extra essays, sent it all in, and proved (mainly to myself) that I could do it. That felt pretty good.

Well all i can say is weather you agreed with Huck as a business man or not he was a huge part of the tattoo world and for that we all can agree. Some hated him because he was the biggest tattoo supplier name for years and years with advertisement in almost every magazine selling starter kits and what seems to have become the blue print to shops and stores that are now selling supplies with no inhibitions. Others knew him as the ex-business partner of the late Paul Rogers and also have an opinion of him from those stories, but many of us were in the Spaulding starter kit generation and the book A-Z was a large part of our beginning into the tattoo world. so it seems that no matter what side you were on in the world where Huck Spaulding was we have indeed lost a huge part of an older tattoo world and with that said, R.I.P. Huck.

Here's my healed lady from Todd Noble :) I feel bad for not mentioning him in my earlier post. As I actually have a lady head from him, he should also be on my 'favorite lady heads list' too! :eek: :o

I have just drank a lot of whiskey heres my chest its not a piece but i think yoda and dragon are staring at each other , midnight run is on forgot how good that is too sorry about the photo blame jack daNIELs maan that was ghard as fuck

Thanks rev! I love the thing! I've been sitting around with my pants leg rolled up gazing at it all morning.

Where were this girls friends to take her out for martinis and give her sassy advice? BFF FAIL :(

Here goes! This is my hindu influenced panther by Chad Koeplinger done 1/18 at the Star of Texas Convention in Austin, Tx

One day, I'll get to Oslo. And on that day, I too will receive some killer filler.

I have a bad ass Pharaoh's Horses on my chest! I should get a healed photo of that one one of these days.

@else TOO GOOD! - - - Updated - - - Another "I know I'm gunna lose again" posts. It's an older pic and missing some updates but whatever! or in the words of @Dan S....Just to keep in practice Regino Gonzalez Invisible NYC

I'm surprised it took ten pages for boobs.

I would not go visit a museum for this.

You won't be disappointed. Lot's of great work happening here. I'm actually headed into Blue Arms tomorrow. :)

I think I would be remiss if I didn't add Junii Salmon to this list, considering she's a) a total bad ass, and b) she did my last couple of tattoos, and will be doing more! 'b)' of course is not a criteria for this list, but I thought I'd throw it out there ;).

Eilin, you've got nicer fillers than lots of people have tattoos!

Well, as long as you aren't jailin' tough, drawers hangin' out in the breeze, 6X white tee-shirt, baseball cap with an ironed brim n the tag still on all busted sideways, klown shoes with the tongue flappin' n the laces draggin, yo, then you should be okay!

Definitely Nazi, Juggalo, Straight Edge, Guitar players universal symbol.

My picture taking skills are not the best, add in the fact that its a coverup and he flew through the whole thing in a couple of hours makes me believe Ross is a serious talent.

Before the convention (over email) we had discussed doing something "hindu inspired" which I guess is what he's into these days. A few nights before the big day I had this dream that I was watching a documentary about "shamanic battles against evil" and Chad was interviewed in the documentary and was showing all these pictures of big cat tattoos and discussing how they were especially powerful against evil forces. So when I got there and we started talking about what to do I told him about my dream and he drew it up for me right there. :D

Jack Rudy, Charlie Cartwright collaboration flash

Thanks everyone! I'm already annoying the shit out of the other mods with stupid questions, but I think I'm slowly getting to know the ropes. @steve1461686340 even granted me the honor of swinging the mighty banhammer to one of our most recent spammers today :cool: Thanks for trusting me @Lochlan @steve1461686340 @tammy @dari @gougetheeyes @slayer9019 @hogg I'll do my best to help out!

I went to an exhibition on sailor tattoos today, where they display old pictures and flash from the Maritime Museum's collection. Thought I'd share a few pictures with you here. The quality is not great on all of them, but hope you'll like it :) (I wasn't sure where to post this, so moderators feel free to move it elsewhere if needed).

Please help us welcome @Iwar as the latest addition to the LST Moderation team! Iwar has been with LST since the very beginning and as you all know is a very level-headed, cool cat and we're thrilled to have him on the team. Some of us have been lucky enough to meet him in person during his visits to the states from Norway, from whence he hails. Now we've got all the time zones covered for 'round the clock moderation - spammers beware!

This is easy, I would never date someone thats not tattooed. And he must have good tattoos, if the guy has shitty tattoos all over him that tells me he has really no interest in it and we won't be a good match, since tattoos are such a big part of my life, and one of my core interests. :cool:

Actually, Mikael Harrstedt is guesting this week. So I'm giving Tony a break. :) Tiger head in the left arm ditch. At least that's the plan.

Kul för dig! Always nice to see us vikings all over the place(again...we found america berfore columbus...)!

I think two weeks is a general time frame for being able to safely work tattooed skin. I would wait well past that point before you consider a touch up though. Give it a couple months to fully settle and heal and then evaluate the tattoo again.

Don't know about SE, but there are several Skin groups that use some variant of that. I wouldn't let that stop you from using some form of it if you want to express your dedicatio to your ax, though!

@Shaun1105 thanks mate!! File on my computer has been updated and correct credit given ;) and @Jack lets just hope we don't have to go another ten pages with out boobs :p

I have a lot of old documentary footage of Kari tattooing from the 80s- when I clear my hard drive or buy a new laptop (it's time) I'll add it to OV for ya'all.

Just got an email from Chad Koeplinger- we're finishing my stomach on Monday!

Well I got a drum and the dragon going in now from knee down.

Hey-all Women should know how to defend themselves. She is getting ready for her blackbelt test, as is her 16 y.o. sister. Gotta be strong!

hhahaha funny thing..i told my lady that over dinner today...fucking magnets...how do they work? they pull stupid peoples faces off!

@Iwar is the best dude!

Well I, for one, welcome our new Norwegian overlord! Congratulations @Iwar, you will make a good mod...

Oh man. Its the worst. What a fucked up community. To each his own, I guess. I remember ICP being a new thing. I was sure it would die quickly. No such luck!

Else, that is the finest looking knee I've seen in an age! I think you're my new hero!!!

Love the tiger! And looks better than I'd expect it to at this point! Awesome.

I haven't seen the Avatar one so I'm going with this one because maybe I'm jumping to conclusions based on incomplete information here but none of those other tattoos seem like the person who got them was very likely coerced into getting them. Maybe I'm wrong here and that soft-brained BME hippie is right and that this face tattoo is a testament to love and shit, but I've never experienced or observed love that looks like that. Seems more like abuse to me. The tattoo itself isn't the point.

Way to go dude! May your Banhammer always swing true!

I would say you are in a similar position as myself. I work a job that does not like tattoos and I have to keep em covered up. Now while I only have my upper arm done, it went past the point of polos/short sleeve buttons-ups to be worn ever again. I also would love to fill my right arm up and have it "complete" but I also greatly enjoy rolling up my sleeves when I get hot (job can send me all around the world). While I really don't worry to much about loosing my job or anything in regards to that, I also am keeping it conservative at the moment. If you are like me you have TONS of room left elsewhere. I am about to start on finishing my left leg in a month. That will fully satisfy my urge to get tattooed for around a year, and I am getting a killer "sleeved limb" tattoo done. (The technical term for this is "squid-pant sleeve"). I say if you got any hesitation about the placement, save it for later. Like I said, having the ability to roll up your sleeves is key to me at least.

I think any large scale Thomas Hooper work is mind boggling. Especially the large pattern work. I find my self wondering how many times was the stencil laid? How many stencils? If their were several stencil what parts did he draw in? And then once you have all that on, just make the lines right? Seriously amazing stuff.

These 2 are from Todd Noble. I thought they where quite nice. Tried to find a link or something to add here but I couldn't find anything? (I ripped them of visualamor.com )