gougetheeyes

I have a great post-tattoo ritual, a long nap the day after getting tattooed, I think my body needs the extra zzzz's to heal.

Dari, how do you sleep after? I think sleeping is the worst part of getting tattooed for me!

everything is sex. sex is the main motivator in everything we do. evolution.

Panther?????

I'd boil it down to a combination of style and attitude. A tattooer's work to get me in the door and how well we get along to keep me coming back. Trouble is, there are so many I still want to get work from it can be tough!

I've noticed a recurring theme that kind of revolves around food here. Unless you're Jinxproof and you pump yourself full vicodin and YE OLDE ALE. Epic.

I heard a story of the Dagger through the rose starting off as a fuck you to England. Dagger through the English Rose.

Also, can't believe I don't have a dagger and rose. This makes it even better.

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Really like the old rope around the wrists, though I didn't plan ahead and can only do one wrist now. And according to Mario, I have a chest bordered with vaginas! ..which has actually always been the joke since they kinda look like.. ahem, vaginas.

i think generally well planned tattoos always look good on women.

i think a large backpiece always looks amazing on women, but i usually like the heavily tattooed look on girls, thats what im aiming for myself anyway. good strong pieces, not so much the whimsical fairy dust and black-and-grey-with-a-bit-of-color stuff.

Everything I would've said, only better. I think when women go for the "feminine" looking tattoos, it ends up being that wispy, no outline nonsense when all they needed to do was think a little bit about size and placement.

"I fed a fish to pelican in Frisco Bay.."

I maintain that nothing tastes as good as a post-tattoo beer.

I read that as "post-shower beer," which I also agree with 100%.

And Frog, I hope your ripping as many farts as I expect you are ahaha

I need more than one kind

Good to keep a well-stocked medicine cabinet for all occasions, tattoo or no.

Floors are lookin good! Any fun tiling stuff or just all wood/laminate?

after sushi, beer, medicine

beer is medicine

When I get tattooed I usually eat something good and filling and show up with a seltzer or coffee or juice or all three. I've been doing this for years now and realized it's become kind of a ritual.. making sure I have enough time, etc. Afterwards, I almost always pick up a single Budweiser tallboy.

Got me thinking because I know everyone has their rituals. Mine are more like "things I usually do" rather than rituals, but I really look forward to doing them on tattoo days.

Pushups, meditating, any good OCD stuff??

Hahaa genius! This dude got a tattooed cowboy hotdog in a beach chair with a drink and sunglasses... There was something like EAT ME incorporated, too, but can't remember.

I just covered a panther with a bigger panther the other day.

Picture! How'd that big one on your leg heal up? Only caught a glimpse of it after you'd decided to go on a run when it was still fresh.

Dan DiMattia. http://calypsotattoo.com/

I'm not super into the tribal thing but watching Dan work and hearing him talk about the designs is always a lot of fun. He does some really nice stuff and a lot of his work can be really fun. He's also a force of fucking nature -- get him talking about his chi and you'll never hear the end of it! Also, don't ever agree to spar/wrestle/box with him.. you will lose. He may be one of the simultaneously nicest and toughest dudes ever.

Really dig Mario's panther/tiger/animal heads. Getting tattooed by him next Friday -- pretty pumped!

At this point, I've got a steadily growing list of tattooers I'd like to get work from.. I'd say half magazines/interviews/internet and half word of mouth. Seems a lot of it is in conversation or an interview when someone tosses out names and I might not know a name so I'll go try to do some research in books/internet/magazines.

But a good attitude is what makes me want to keep going back. My first big tattoo was done by Dave Wallin. It was snowing and near closing time and he wasn't at the shop, so the owner called him up, Dave came down, talked to me and wasn't a prick, drew up a sketch and we put on the outline. Five years later, Dave's done a bunch of my tattoos, I worked in his shop and while I had to give it up for my day job, I still help out on wknds scrubbing tubes. A good attitude can make you wanna do that.

Nothin?! Shit..

This comes after a comment Julio made: "this guy rolled through the shop in san jose once. kinda rockabilly type with is rockabilly girl. he did have a mustache and goatee going on. but under the mustache you could see he had a mustache TATTOOED on him!!!!!!! it was kinda in the shape of the pringles guy.

he wanted a day of the dead sugar skull of him and his girl with a dagger. i drew one with the silly mustache. he never came back to get it tattooed. i think i offended him with the funny mustache on the skull that represented him."

There have gotta be more folks holding on to drawings like this that never happened!

Don't mention the cancellation list. Make it for those dozen or so who are really committed! Also, when I saw the title of this post I thought it was about blacklisting names.. which I think is also a good idea. If you're a no-show more than a couple times, extra flaky or obviously having drug time in the bathroom, you get blacklisted. Like at Hop Sing's.

...I watned to flush her head down a toilet.

You mean a loo?

you sat like a lil champion when I did your ribs!

LIL CHAMPION? .........new rap name.

Ribs and ankle/foot area. Got a lot of space left compared to most of you on here I'm guessing.. I'm truly worried about my back. And kind of hoping I'll never make it to full ass.

Getting my ankes tattooed makes me feel like a girl broke up with me in 8th grade.

The area where the ankle meets the foot was fucking brutal. I had a really easy time with my elbows and my chest was like dozing on a tropical fucking beach with a drink compared to a lot of other spots.