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I just got this gar from Mat Welch earlier today. I also got a little beer mug filler from Paul Holland while he was guesting here, but I don't have a picture. I'm pumped on 'em!

So I decided to join. I'm also really bored at work and my husband has been on my case to join for awhile. So hi! I think I met a few of you when we visited SF!

Hey everyone, so I got the first session in on my qilin yesterday! Would've posted earlier, but I was exhausted and passed the fuck out after getting some food in me. It was originally going to go on my arm and back but Greg didn't count on my arm being that small and the stencil looked really squished. He talked me into going with my thigh and I'm so glad I listened to him! I was also a bit apprehensive about some things like color, but he firmly (but kindly) put his foot down and told me why my ideas would not make for a good tattoo so I finally canned it and let him do his job. Couldn't be happier with the result!! He's not too sure about the belly color yet (may go silvery blue or golden pink) but the hair will probably be ochre and we'll probably add some peonies in the third session. I could only get through about 4.5 hours before the shaking and shivering set in.

From Chad Koeplinger's Instagram tonight: Instagram

Funny how bad breath was more acceptable than either one. At least I brush my teeth every day.

I would like to quote this post I made, and say that my little sister finally seems to be coming around to good tattoos. So stoked to see her get some work.

Bart Bingham instagrammed another one last night. Brokeback Powell Peralta ripper:

And just cuz we're talking about them, here's *my* brokeback girl: by (http://instagram.com/leodarlintattooLeo D Guajardo)

I think this is quite sweet (by Andrea Giulimondi):

I think Bob Geerts is going places, he's 23 and still apprentice at the moment, but yeah, he's got soul. His instagram: Instagram

... like a long sleeve shirt? Wait. You don't own a long sleeve shirt?

El Monga:

The Burning Lotus lady was born in 1960. Not a senior. Anyway, off to go do Pilates now.

I have peer reviewed this study and I agree with all findings

These are my findings: Doing what you want to is cool and never a turn-off for the right person. I surveyed 1 person for this poll. 1 out of 1 agreed. The beardo in the other room would probably agree w/me too though. So let's just say 100% of the tattooed women and bearded men in this house were on board. :cool:

Shameless bump for good buddy Dan Nelson @ Greenpoint Tattoo in Brooklyn

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Post your favourite swallow tattoos. I saw one today that I loved from Capilli Tupou: Instagram

The general consensus around here is that those tattoos with no black outline will not look good for long and that "bold will hold". I would keep looking. Are you in NY? There's a wealth of good artists in NYC. If you love the way that looks you could always risk it... what were you thinking of getting?

@deadsp0t – I have a couple, but nothing worth showing. I'm actually here to see if anybody knows of good, traditional tattoo artists in or around singapore. I'm a big fan of the old school traditional style, but most local artists i know of tend to favour oriental/realism styles instead. - - - Updated - - - @Zillah what else did you do besides seeing our silly mascot! I've been to New Zealand too, visited Auckland, Rotoroa, a few other places I can't remember right now. As someone who plays rugby, New Zealand was a great experience.

I would just like to add that I clicked on the link in the first post, and I saw a Miskatonic University T-shirt. Cool ass shit.

Hi, Living at the border of France and always being tattoed in a french tattoo artist, I could inform you from my point of view: French state was crazy. In last quarter 2013 they have afraid all tattoo world by suddendly making a law project to cancel 59 of the 153 ingredients used in tattoing inks... New reglementation should have taken place at 1rst January 2014... French tattoo artists and their customers were really shocked as this law is concerning 90% of the tattoing inks. In other words, the tattoers would have had 2 choices if law become elligible: tattoing in black/grey only in their shops or tattoing still people in colours but at home and ILLEGALLY of course... like in the time of alcoohol prohibition in Chicago.. Yeah baby Yeah Reasons to forbidden these ink ingredients were not pretty clear: State is assuming they are carcinogenic.. but no medical evidence tests behind. Finally, a syndicate of tattoo artists went to discuss with the State healthy and Safety authorithies and finally managed to cancel at last minute this law project. They took opportunity to work together and reinforce some dark some like the traceability and ingredients on the ink stickers. I'm so happy this law was not published. Like that, I can still go to my french tattoo artist and perform tattoo in colours.. But this episode had an impact on tattoed people because we learnt that MAYBE, it's POSSIBLE that some ingredients in our coloured tattoo currently in our skin COULD be toxic or carcinogenic .... the only thing is maybe no medical labatories didn't prove it at 100% till now...:confused:

Ooh, I would like to also suggest the Preacher series and "Air" by G. Willow Wilson. And Lynda Barry's Marlys and Freddie stories, which are published as approachable little books. The latter totally blew my mind recently. Lynda Barry is one of my all-time favorite humans. The Best American Graphic Novels thing that comes out every year offers a taste of many graphic novels, some of them pretty great. Have fun! You're making me want to read more comic books :)

I posted something here, and then realized that I really don't want to feed this thread. But the gist is that, as a client, I only really want to see computers assist with tattooing if they're helping an injured tattooer do his or her job. The delete button is my friend.

I bought a new mattress and boxs pring for the headboard and footboard I just antiqued [good] and the box spring will not fit up my stairs [bad], so I just spent the last hour removing the NUMEROUS staples securing the dustcover, sawing the wood frame at the half point, and tomorrow will be bending that sucker in half with the help of a friend. Then I've got to get some metal brackets to reinforce the sawed parts after it's in place and bent back to shape. Biggest pain in my arse, ever.

@El Dolmago That is a great tattoo. Very jealous.

I can't open the link at work so I'll check it later. I see a lot of people 50 and older at tattoo shops now. I plan to keep going and I'm only 59, got a lot of space to fill in.

When Miles tattooed me around Christmas this year, he said he was a little annoyed about the photo that went around of him with the caption "our generation will be some weird grandparents" (and variations of that) He said he was in his 40s and just had his first kid damnit, haha. I wonder what he'd say to being lumped in as a senior!

Are you into more historically-oriented graphic novels? Art Spiegelman's Maus is an absolute must. Joe Sacco is great and his books on Palestine and Bosnia (Safe Area Gorazde and The Fixer) are both excellent. I really enjoyed Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis which is about the Iranian Revolution. These should all be fairly easy to find too. I'm currently reading The Black Star by Lin Carter: I like going through used bookstores and buying books with good cover art, and you don't get any better art than a Frank Frazetta painted cover. The book itself is pretty run of the mill sword and sorcery but is enjoyable nevertheless. This is what a fantasy novel should look like, fuck those photoshopped bullshit covers.

Nice tattoos and welcome!

Are you in the market for an EA/PA?!

I don't mean to be a nazi or anything, but can we please stop using the term heavy-handed to refer to how painful it is to get tattooed by someone? Heavy-handed is a term used for a particularly stupid person and has been around for a really long time. How about we just say "it hurt really bad because I was wearing pants?"

Bart Bingham: And a couple of skate reapers by Frankie Caraccioli:

If everyone agrees on Santa Cruz, I would love to hitch a ride if possible. My vote is for Oakland though. Because I'm biased. :cool::cool:

I got this one finished today. I was told that the green in the buoy will settle down in a day or so. The artist is Papa Joe in Boise, ID.

Love the kitties peeking out!

just.amazing. Chinese Artist Paper Classic Sculptures

you're damm right 30 is still young!!!!

I think Kim-Anh Nguyen (aka @bleakandblue) has only been tattooing for 2 years, which seems impossible. But in this interview from March 2012, she says she's only been tattooing 6-7 months.

How about adding our own @smiling.politely to the list.

Adrian Hing of 166 Tattoo in Melbourne, I'm pretty sure he has only been tattooing for about a year.

Beer can be very inspiring. I don't want to derail the thread any further though.

Maybe Tin Tin should just pack up his whole shop and move it to Los Angeles, you know, just in case! :-D

Petition is a rather quiet way for the french to protest , normally there would be setting up blockades at Calais setting fire to sheep n shit ... (only joking by the way ;) )

i'll have one of what he's having...

The difference between swallows and sparrows, take note:

I think there's a subtle difference between a Swallow and a Sparrow tattoo particulary for someone in the U.K. . I think of a Swallow tattoo as more angular and slimmer and over here it can have associations with someone doing time or a "hard-man" . Swallow tattoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look up and to the left. LST logo. That is all you need.

I got married to a tattooist and started tattooing when I was 19. He was heavily tattooed. I am now married to another tattooist who is even more heavily tattooed. I had a brief thing with yet another heavily tattooed tattooist. I think my tastes may be a bit skewed, but I am 50 now, and a heavily tattooed man is my standard for attractiveness. If I was single I couldn't imagine looking outside of my "community" for companionship. That's just what I find physically attractive and has nothing to do with whether I would like someone's personality though.