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  1. William Burgess
    ...are they even available anymore? Really would like anything, but especially the late 70's early 90's era stuff. I know he sold many sets of these flash. They are the ultimate catalog of traditional style tattoo designs ever, in my opinion.
  2. William Burgess
    I beg to differ...these are from a studio in the Bay Area. At least the ones you posted, especially the eagle show at least some artistic concept to them. The photos you posted were pretty low rez, and not healed so maybe they are worse than what I am seeing. But check these out. Pretty sure they are all fresh and still look aweful. Would you believe she has almost 20 years experience?
  3. William Burgess
    Are these supposed to be examples of super-aweful tattooing? Hot Stuff looks a little crude, but pics 1 and especially 3 are really bad? Sorta liked the eagle a little. Lines look pretty clean(Its intentionally broken where the wing is highlighted or at least thats how I am seeing it) and shading looks pretty smooth and developed. I have seen much, much worse in my experience.
  4. William Burgess
    Damn it, meant to put the double negative and say "is not something I should not have knowledge about". Guess there is a time limit for editing posts here.
  5. William Burgess
    I remember bringing this up years ago in the Starlight Tattoo Forum. The general consensus was that the customer(and many tattoo artists who simply buy and don't mix themselves) have no right to know. Any opinions as the whether this is ethically right? As a someone who simply buys, I have no clue as to what is in the pigments I use. One time I went to my colleges chemistry lab and inquired about an analysis of pigments I had, but they said they didn't have the time or resources to do so. This wouldn't have been necessary if it simply was stated, as is pretty much every other commercially available product. Obviously the customer doesn't need to know recipes for mixing, but knowing what chemicals are being permanantly injected into ones body, in my opinion, is not something I should have no knowledge about.
  6. William Burgess
    I am still trying to find this article I read a while back, it was from an artist lamenting the fact that everyone wants to do tattoos these days due to "Maimi Ink" and the like. One artist was recounting his talk with some kid who was going on and on about how it was his destiny to be a tattooer, how it was his calling and what not. So he asks the kid, "well what kind of work do you got yourself" and the kid was all mortified and said how he just wanted to do them.
  7. William Burgess
    The reason I brought this up was that the design is pretty much used as is without much change. Whoever thought to draw a panther in that position, which would not occur in nature was a true originator in my mind. One of the coolest flash sets I have seen were simply reworked Mary Cicely Barker faries arranged on flash sheets.
  8. William Burgess
    Isn't it true that one of the most classic tattoo designs of all time, (the panther crawling up the arm) did not even originate as a tattoo design? Wasn't it from a childrens book or something?
  9. William Burgess
    Big ol' wrap around forearm eagle on me by Henry Goldfield, 1992. Sorry about all the hair!
  10. William Burgess
    Tattoos on me by Rollo at China Sea, 1989-91.
  11. William Burgess
    Same one that appeared in one of the "Tattootime" publications from the early 90's? You can definitely see the aging. How old is the piece? 30 years?
  12. William Burgess
    So how big is your shop in terms of S.F.? I am looking to open one in the next few months, total space is 192 S.F. Think thats even smaller the China Sea was.
  13. William Burgess
    Four hours on my thigh one day, than another 4 hours on the same piece the very next day. They day after the second session, every time I got up from a sitting position, I literally had to wait about ten seconds for the painful swelling sensation to subside enough for me to walk. The rapid influx of blood really made it throb.
  14. William Burgess
    I have a little "new ink test pad" on my ankle consisting of random little triangles/squiggles. Think I am going to experiment with the peroxide theory. I will post the results, before/after healing.
  15. William Burgess
    "Not with coverup" Daaaamn!
  16. William Burgess
    I think this is key to lessen scabbing and quicken healing.
  17. William Burgess
    Someone decided to put hydrogen peroxide on a piece I was really proud of. Lets just say the healed result was...unflattering! If someone ever regrets a tattoo and its still fresh, this will give the results of a couple laser treatments from what it looked like.
  18. William Burgess
    Just the fact that they would offer money for someone to disfigure themselves like that, I find morally bankrupt. Not to mention the fucked up publicity for our profession.
  19. William Burgess
    But really its just the same as a lot of attitude people get from tattoo artists. I was asking a question that was obvious to him, but not so much for me. If a person a) has money to spend in my business, and b) is not being rude in general, I try to cut them a little slack for asking the "dumb" questions. But anyway, one of my pet peeves, which I don't think falls into the general ignorance area is one someone says "you better do a good job" or "you better not mess this up". Like I am going to fuck it up or not do my best without the threat. BTW I really like the "how much is a bag of groceries" retort to the question "how much is a tattoo". I will use this the next time I am asked. With a cheery tone of voice of course, as this does fall into the general ignorance area.
  20. William Burgess
    While I can relate to being pissed off about general rudeness, I feel some things tattooists need to lighten up on. Basically being unknowledgable about tattoos in general, asking questions we have heard a million times before, bringing references on phones, wanting stuff that is too detailed or won't work. A gentle approach goes a long way. The way I look at it, I patronize a lot of business where I don't know jack, and I don't appreciate being treated like an idiot for not being in the know. A good example is when I went back to my local print shop. I was asking why I couldn't open a certain file which was a flash sheet I had scanned to a tiff file. The print shop guy snapped at me "ITS A MULTI PAGE TIFF FILE!! YOU CAN'T OPEN IT UNLESS YOU HAVE PHOTOSHOP!!" I am like ok, can you change it to a file that I can open? Again snappage "I CAN'T DO THAT! YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE ORIGINAL IMAGE!" I am like "ok, I have that, could you please scan it again?". I also had them saved as PDFs for easy printing. So he was like "I am just going to change these PDFs into JPEGS". I said I would prefer to have both, as the PDFs print original size and all. Even more snappage " UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO PRINT THEM OUT, THERE IS NO USE". I calmly explain to him that they are commercial art, of course I am going to print them out. Then I ask if I have the jpegs and alter them, they can be saved into PDFs again, right? More snappage "ONLY IF YOU HAVE PHOTOSHOP!" The guy was literally yelling at me. Needless to say, I won't be doing business there again. Think about that the next time a customer says asks about things that seem readily apparent to you. A lot of times people are not trying to be difficult. You are the expert, not them. Try and take this into consideration.
  21. William Burgess
    I guess the most crazy thing that happened to me was when I was left alone to work the shop while the rest of the crew went to Sturgis, and had to do a forced death head coverup. I won't explain what that means to those that don't know already, but lets just say it was pretty nerve wracking. I was a pretty inexperienced tattooer at the time. Thank God it was pretty uneventful, unlike the stories my boss told my about similar situations in the past.
  22. William Burgess
    As a cautionary tale against scratching, here is an atrocity I did, pre-apprecticeship in 1991, and what I covered it up with recently.
  23. William Burgess
    Hana Boy Koi healed
    Hana Boy Koi healed
  24. William Burgess
    How fuckin' unethical can those Golden Palace folks be? These people are obviously not in their right mind.
  25. William Burgess
    Well you are going to need some more... :D
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