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saw his solo band a few times in the early/mid 90s and it was pretty awesome actually. he ripped each set with ferocity.

Reunions like this are always disappointing

I looked up a picture Thomas took of my tattoo a few years back when it was in progress.
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One of those arms is covered up...the other arm is being worked on. I still dislike most of my old arm tattoos.

OMG this. At the last Montreal convention, we were pretty sure we spotted @eisen777's wife as we recognized her chest piece that he had posted on here, and then we felt like the BIGGEST CREEPS EVER.

hope this helps.

Random check proved fruitful... Marcus Kuhn's - The Gypsy Gentlemen - Home
Paris is up!
I just finished and it's another great episode. There's a pleasant surprise (to say the LEAST) at the end, "On the next episode"... cannot wait!!!

Might as well. Greg Christian @ Handcrafted Miami

More pix in the latest tattoo lowdown. It's hard to shoot photos of your arm yourself, haha.

sorry if you're using a smartphone to see this; its the only size worth viewing.

I mostly go to tattoo shops. Mostly.

I go to the shop where the tattooer I want to get tattooed by works.

O'Donnell does the best snakes in tattooing...everyone I know references his snake style.

When in doubt...go dryer. Your body can heal a tattoo "dry" completely fine.

I have had two sessions done on my back in the last two weeks in fact three days apart, and the only after care I have used is washing the tattoo twice the first two days with soap and water and then just showering normally, and I have had no scabs and the tattoos are basically healed. I also got from the back of my knee to bottom of butt cheek outlined and background done, used same method and seems to be healing fine and this is day 4.

Got this outlined the other day, by Josiah Laughlin at Imperial Tattoo, Going to do a big mum on the ass cheek, maybe a hannya on the other cheek, back of knee not very fun, but glad that part is done.

@Roca53, that thing is nuts! I know you're stoked. @eisen777, I hope he has some snakes in his idea book, because i am totally gonna grab one up.

Yeah that's me. He couldn't get the panther and tiger to work well so he drew the tiger fighting a snake. I'm really really really happy the way it turned out and I also got to take a look at his book. It's incredibly awesome and he hasn't started tattooing out of it yet, he wants to wait until it's completely full.

Pattern fill-ins from Thomas Hooper today. One more session to go.

@eisen777 ,
I think one of the earliest Conan short stories (The Phoenix and the Sword from 1932) actually deals with Conan as King, late in his life. There's an attempt on his iife and basically he ends up chopping a whole conspiracy's worth of assassins into dog-meat in his chambers ('Rush in and die dogs - I was a man before I was a king!'). It'd be cool if this is in that vein - a gnarly old badass Conan a little like Batman from 'The Dark Knight Returns'.
Saw 'The Hobbit' today. Crucially I went to a 2D showing... I can't imagine watching 3D for nearly three hours - recipe for a headache. Also, when you've got a lot happening on screen, in semi-dark and with special effects, things are hard enough to follow at the best of times. When I watch an action movie in 3D I feel like I'm going blind, everything is a blur.
As for the movie itself, I've got to admit I found it really enjoyable. If you go into it bearing in mind that 'The Hobbit' was a kid's novel, whereas 'The Lord of the Rings' was aimed at adults after the first few thousand pages, you can't exactly feel annoyed at the fact that this doesn't have the heavyweight themes and sheer scope of the first three movies. Basically, this is an adventure story. Great action scenes, likeable characters, a surprisingly successful injection of humour... What's not to like?
To be honest I was worried that the dwarf characters would just be toilet-humour Jar Jar Binks type figures. Actually I think they worked pretty well - particularly Thorin and (I think) Balin.
Not sure how they're going to squeeze out another 6 hours of movie out of this, but I'm looking forward to the rest, either way.

@else your knee looks awesome!
Since Steve Byrne is the topic of conversation lately, I think it's time I stop lurking and contribute with my first post. I got this from Steve on my elbow a few months ago while he was in California at Port City. Great guy. Loved getting tattooed by him. Definitely plan on getting more tattoos from him.

Everything in that O'Donnell book is going to be rad.

Everything looks good, normal and progressing well. Just follow the aftercare, 10% of the work is done with the laser, the rest is your body and your attention to the aftercare.

I guess we go to different galleries because this stuff looks like the presumably student-created ads I see on public transportation for the local graphic design school.

good picks!

good picks!

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