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Let's just say there was a time in my life where I never would have imagined that I'd brew beer for a living! The 90s were a funny time.

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!!

Luis Campos recently posted some great flash based on this gem on Instagram: CAMPOSTATTOOS

Oh like edge tattoos have ever prevented anybody from partaking.

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.

good picks!

I feel that Virginia Elwood and Robert Ryan have recently (actually I think the Virginia one might go back to September or October) posted great Ganesh tattoos on their instagrams.

And me, jerkoff!

My husband has no tattoos and is not an "alternative" sort of person in any way..no piercings, no tattoos, no wild hair, nothing. He wears polo shirts every day:) He's an ex cop so definitely has the straight laced look. I love tattoos and will probably be fully covered one day (well, no hands/face/neck, unless I win the lottery and don't have to work). It's caused no friction between us, luckily. I tell him my ideas, he gives me input on what he thinks will look best. He is an artistic person so that helps. He'll brainstorm good tattoo ideas for me! But he's very supportive, luckily. It would be hard for me to be with a person who wasn't. He talks about maybe getting one eventually, but who knows. The good thing, I tell him, is if he wants a tattoo, I won't let him go small/cheap. He has mentioned getting a tattoo of a train, and I have the perfect train half sleeve mapped out for him in my mind :) One thing I'll add, I think it helps we both have expensive hobbies. Me tattoos, and he does a lot of war gaming, and he paints that models that he uses, so the painting and tournaments he goes to can be expensive and eat up a lot of time. We both like guns, which is also expensive. But I think it helps, b/c he understands the importance of finding a good artist and spending what is needed to get great work. He never tries to get me to find a cheaper artist, b/c he gets it.

Think about all of the people walking around with anchor tattoos, that aren't sailors, hell I have plenty of nautical tattoos and I don't even own a boat. I have a skull with wings, but far from a Hell's Angel or even a biker for that matter. Of all the girls I know the one who drinks and parties the most has "Straightedge" tattooed from shoulder to shoulder. Now something like that I would reconsider, but all the implied symbolism is kind of silly. I mean think about the tramp stamp, popular for awhile, then women shyed away because didn't want to be labeled as tramps, but the tattoo really had nothing to do with the level of promiscuity someone exhibits, nor does said promiscuity necessarily make you a tramp.

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

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.

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

Nicely done homie! Excellent addition to the crew :cool: And he's has already popped his ban hammer cherry - oh it's a proud, proud day

My very first (24 years ago!). It was flash on the wall and the only thing I could afford. I sat down in that chair and thought I was the coolest thing ever. It was the closest tattoo I could find that looked like the Expolited logo and it matched my haircut at the time. As bad as it is, I can't bring myself to cover it up. So sentimental still....

@Eilin ill call you with my spliff/joint with a face complete with bloodshot stoned eyes, best pic I can find is this after its 2nd laser. Has since been covered and my mates are gutted as they had 22years of taking the piss out of this one. My bat and moon is looking considerably better now its had the crap knocked out of it by laser for the 6th time......me hoping ill have no more bad tattoos by year end...:)

Hahahah, that is how I feel about this one I don't think I could cover that masterpiece up!

DYNAMICTATTOO.COM 71 Swan Street, Richmond, 3121 Vic AUSTRALIA You want Trevor McStay. Really.

My favorite name is for the paper towel that goes under the saran wrap at the very bottom of a large piece, the "gravy tray."

First off I would like to thank everyone for their kind words. I am Lee Hanna's sister. Reading stuff about him makes me smile. You can't imagine how much I miss him! I print things off that I find written about him online. I am making a scrapbook for his daughters that he left behind. They deserve to know what a kind, caring and loving person he was. He touched so many peoples lives it's unreal! Please keep telling stories about him if you have some you would like to share!! Thanks Again!!!

This thing is killer. Thanks for the link.

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).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ac5vyhxWk4

hahaha i wanted that one too! a friend has it as a trampstamp.... yeah hhig were soooo amazingly good it's ridicilous! pauls drumming is cruuushing yes. and yeah hardcore pretty much got boring the next years after that...nothing really good since 98! haha! damnit, now i need to dig out the fools gold 7" aswell...

Cobra Noir and Buried Inside were always favorites of mine that were not The Tragically Hip.

I've never tattooed anyone, but I don't see how you're skin will stretch out and make that shading better. It's not blended well at all. I wouldn't go back to the original tattooer.

The OP's only real problem is listening to ever dumb thing people say and not spending 5 mins to troubleshoot his problem or lack their of.

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.

Haha Juggalos are a big thing around here and their community just continues to grow. I got a clown tattoo on my leg this past summer by Frank William and I told all my friends I was just showing my clown love.

Love this! Makes me want to get a cat-tattoo even more! - - - Updated - - - @else great looking knee! Will be cool to see it healed too. You are tough! :cool:

I was in a relationship for just over a year with a girl who didn't have any tattoos and definitely disapproved of me getting more. She wasn't vocal about it most of the time but would get upset whenever I said I was going to get a new one which was only twice while we were dating and after the appointments wouldn't even ask how it went or whether I liked how the piece turned out. She barely even looked at the new pieces in fact. She did come to a convention with me once but after about an hour of walking round on the first day she just sat down somewhere and did some sudoku. Needless to say she didn't come back on the second day of the show. Once she even came out and said that I loved tattoos more than her. Turns out she was right in the end. I don't mind whether a girl has tattoos or not. In my opinion an attractive woman is attractive with or without them. I think what is important though is that either they have an interest themselves or at least can appreciate why I enjoy them so much and understand that I will keep getting more. Getting my thigh done in two weeks time in fact!!! Woo hoo!!!

I have stuff on both my upper arms from the 85 to 89 period that's pretty shitty, and had faded on its own to the point it could have easily been covered, but it was so sentimental I just ended up getting all of em touched up to look like new shitty. I'm really glad I did now. Losing that would have been like cutting my finger off to get rid of a wart.

However it feels, and however it goes, I will make one prediction: it will be worth it.

If I drew this, I swear I would frame it. - - - Updated - - - Actually, I think this should be entered into the next contest. Despite @Pugilist's commandments, I'm bringing this image to my next appointment.

Hell yeah throw in some pike style L.S.T. lettering and it could become like a membership thing . Sparrows on the fists would be a dope touch too .

i think someone needs to get this

Never bring a significant other or parent with to get tattooed.

If your wife has a problem with you getting a tattoo it's probably a good idea to.... A) Not get tattooed B) Get her on board with it C) Get tattooed behind her back, and face the music you come home I doubt any tattooer would appreciate a client and his/her significant other fight over size, placement, design or anything else for that mather, in the shop.

Ya i definitly understand. Good point. I didnt really think about how it could be considered the techincal stuff but that makes sense. No offense taken, I will ask around my to my friends who tattoo and travel. Thanks for the heads up. And to any moderators on here my bad i didnt mean to post something too close to being considered technical. Much respect.

This Rick Ta Life masterpiece finally resurfaced. Thanks B9.

yes!

I knew I shouldn't have clicked on that. There isn't enough porn on the internet to get that out of my head. :-(

A few years ago, Bill Salmon told me that I should get all the tattoos I want as soon as possible. He said that the older you get, the more it hurts and the longer it takes to heal. Mr. Salmon knows a helluva lot more than I do about these things.