Gregor

What the fuck is wrong with people?!!?!??!
I bet if some famous painter has done those they'd be considered masterpieces to be cherished for generations.
The main thing I hate about being an artist, is the fucking art scene. Seriously seeing things like this makes me so angry I can't express it. How can this guy get sent to jail and someone like R.Crumb isn't?
On the same note y'all should watch the movies "Who The Fuck Is Jackson Pollack" and "My Kid Could Draw That", that is if you want to spend the rest of the day full of hate for art snobs like the people who put this guy down.
I like the paintings posted and I'd have no problem hanging them in my house.

hahahahaha. Dude... every one in the shop would walk by and say "Dude... why does he have a trach?"
I just tell people that he has chronic respiratory failure.

Done @ Sacred Tattoo by Andy Moreno. St. Francis and shit. Its for my dog who got put down a year ago. Sorry about the shitty cell phone shot.

Poor guy , Kinda similar to the geiger / dead kennedys thing in the 80's but at least Jello won !!

Happy Birthday !!

The other day I was looking at Shiges' site and saw this photo

I then realised that this client must have the same concerns and considerations for his artist as @hogg does ;)
Shige to client "Lets get a photo of your chest piece and sleeves" Client to Shige "Just let me take off my pants"... lol.
(yes I am aware that on shiges' site you can see that the same client was getting photos of his backpiece at the same time... but for the purposes of hilarity we won't acknowledge that)

These are by Horitsune II from Osaka Japan. The first is on his pupil Miyazo and the second is on tattooer Rob Admiraal (The piece on the lady is one of Robs' clients/his work)

^^ So friggin good!!!

I tried to find a better photo of Robs' backpiece, but good luck finding much if any of Horitsune IIs' work online. There is a series of videos though called 'Onko Chishin' and are well worth checking out, so do it ;)

Check this shit out! I guess this is what you get for tattooing both the back and front of your leg the same week...

Notice how crazy the sockmarks are on my swollen leg, haha!

I don't really have a problem with people asking me about mine b/c I don't have that many and they're not 'out' all the time. But I do find it annoying when peole find out you are tattooed and say "Oh, my guy could hook you up." I try not to be rude to anyone, but sometimes I'm not sure what their tattoos are supposed to be. I had one girl tell me (I guess she'd been asked a lot) and I still couldn't really see it.

Love the black and the lightnings! ;)

the guy i work with saw them at a small theatre a couple years back and then a month ago when they opened for return to forever. didn't have the cash to go to either show but he said it was pretty incredible.

I like the pretty pictures !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTLfVBFynX0

http://www.vice.com/tattoo-age/trailer-mike-rubendall

I'm breaking my word and posting a pic from the end of day 1 of my backpiece, because I really like this photo, which I have borrowed from White Dragon Tattoo (the Belfast-based studio hosting Ching and Hua).
So, we got six hours done yesterday. I'm resting today then booked in tomorrow for another full day. Ching suggested we do the outline and some shading for a little over half the back yesterday, and then get the rest of the outline and some more shading on the untouched side of the back on the second session. I will probably do another 2-3 sessions next year (not sure when or where, yet, depends on their convention and guest schedule).
Ching and Hua were fresh from the London convention. They didn't appear particularly tired, but Ching explained he'd began another backpiece (a big Hannya) and done some sort of half-sleeve and a hand tattoo over there.
He had the design for my back ready - a representation of Guan Yin against a bamboo background, with a bird. The bird is a traditional motif sometimes associated with Guan Yin, as I understand. I believe the story goes that the bird was orphaned, and subsequently flew to Guan Yin, who looked after it and taught it - and it became her disciple, basically.
I'd sent over my dimensions so he had a stencil which appeared to work, with some adjustments for the shape of my back.
I'm not going to say it was particularly pleasant getting six hours done, but I had deliberately slept well and not drank anything much for about 10 days - I think it made a big difference.

I think this sums it up pretty well. RIP!
For anyone unfamiliar with Kanames' work here are just a couple of examples. His works, painting and documenting Horiyoshi III's female clients are truly stunning so lets start with one of those ;)

The Atlantic Magazine, just put up a 'piece' about tattoos from around the world.
I like it because it's just pretty much pictures of tattoos with captions about them, rather than boring blocks of text.
Thinks there is something there for everyone to either Love or Hate, which is right way to go.
I don't know what everyone else will think, but I thought it was well done.
Here's the link:
Tattoos - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Someone asked me today why I got my tattoos. I said "because Stewart Robson was drunk".
That confused them and I made a run for it.

I like the pretty pictures !!

Horimatsu
Matti Sedholm aka Horimatsu is a dark horse. From sweden he does Traditional Japanese tattoos. Tebori. Matti is a great tattoo artist who REALLY studies Japanese history, culture, Ukiyo-e, zen and everything else surrounding Japan. He has been for years one of my favorite tattoo artists.

Panther head tattooed on the back of my upper arm by Nick Colella on Saturday.

got this bad boy on Thursday. Earl is the middle name that my dad gave me.

pretty fucking stoked on it.