JAllen

Julian Beever



Edgar Müller - Metanamorph


and this is from kurt wenner

Jennifer Maestre






and pencil tip sculpture done by dalton ghetti
Pencil Tip Micro Sculptures By Dalton Ghetti:: Kidrobot's Blog, The KRonikle

i found this site the other day by accident, cool stuff
CoffinQuilts.com - Home of Mary Kenyon's Tattoo quilts! The original Tattoo quilt!





oh and dave sparks is from dayton and does some great folk art...i've got a james traficant bed pan that is great .
http://sherocksproductions.webs.com/davesparks.htm

Go to a street shop that's been around for a good long while and they'll have loads of the stuff.

I completely agree. I've been getting acupuncture done on and off for the last 10 years or so, and I'm definitely in the 'can't avoid it' category. I've never had any problems.
Can I derail for a second and say how awesome my last acupuncture guy was? When I was on my first visit to his office I was looking through his portfolio in the lobby (when have you ever seen a doctor with a portfolio before) and on one page it showed pictures of a surgery being done in Japan when he was working in a hospital where one of his roles was being an anesthesiologist. This patient was getting brain surgery done while he was awake but with receptors being blocked; literally cap peeled back but fully alert and smiling as he sips some water or eats a bite of apple.
Mind blown, no pun intended.

I have never had any difficulty getting into veins because of tattoos because I go by the feel of the vein, not the sight of one.

every tattoo I do contains tiny particles of black sabbath.

CHAOS!!

Waxy wrinkled looking skin is what it looks like after it peels. It takes around 30-45 days for your skin to look normal after the tattoo.

CHAOS!!

Waxy wrinkled looking skin is what it looks like after it peels. It takes around 30-45 days for your skin to look normal after the tattoo.

CHAOS!!

CHAOS!!

CHAOS!!

Complaining about "forum police" because I made a suggestion that some people agreed with and some people disagreed with? How thin-skinned are you?

The 'signal to noise' ratio can be a problem on any forum which, at a certain point, has a lot of experienced people posting on a topic. That knowledge base pulls in a lot of new posters, keen to ask questions, sometimes not getting the established culture of the forum, and you can get noise that dilutes the content to an extent.
The thing is a closed-door or overly insular forum can be no better, because you end up with cliques and group think.
The most successful forums I've seen are the ones which manage a kind of dynamic balance. I think LST is managing that now, just about.
But like @irezumi alludes to, LST has lost out when tattooers stop posting. If we ever end up a forum which is entirely populated by collectors only, however educated, then that'll be the end for me.

There are some interesting points brought up here, some I agree with and some I respectfully don't, but I have to agree with @Graeme in that we don't need to be talking about hand or finger tattoos on this forum and for the same reason he mentioned.
That brings me to a thread de-railing topic.
It is the nature of things and people to evolve, everything around us in life and in the digital world is evidence. Not always a bad thing, but often brings about mixed blessings.
This forum is evolving and in its own way that is/was the point of it, to talk about and educate people about good tattooing. The initiation thread has been blowing up with new members constantly and that's a great thing to see because it shows the amount of people that are interested in learning more about good tattooing, or (although fewer and fewer) people with vast amounts of experience and information come to share it.
It is a positive thing to try to help fairly new people to tattooing learn about topics that they might not know about yet, just out of sheer ignorance(The word ignorance not to be taken in a negative light). It's great that there is a place for people to share this kind of information with each other. But personally for me it is rapidly evolving into me sitting at the front desk telling every single customer the bad news they don't want to hear. This is a topic that I've been doing for years and years and years and pretty much still tell people every single day in real life. It is becoming more difficult to want to participate when all I'm doing is basically saying the same thing I do every single damn day to people. This forum has been kind of a refuge for me when I wanted to escape the bullshit questions that I face all the time by people who like I said just don't know better yet. This place was almost all professional tattooers and or people who were heavily tattooed, which is what was the appeal to me. The number of professional tattooers that still post here has been dwindling at a fast clip over the last year or so. And I think I know some of the reasons why without having to ask them. One reason is "busy working" but that's not what I'm talking about.
Hogg, I know you have asked us to save you from hearing "this place ain't the same anymore" (although it is undeniably true) but I am trying to show that there is a positive side to this evolution. Like I said it is merely just mixed blessings, not something BAD. I'm just a little bummed because it's evolving into an animal that I probably wouldn't of been interested in if I were a recent arrival.
Thanks for letting me soapbox for a minute. I still like a lot of you people.

@irezumi pretty much covered everything that needs to be said.

@irezumi pretty much covered everything that needs to be said.

tattoos make everything look better.

There is a small small number or tattooers who can properly put in a palm tattoo, and I've never seen any bottom of finger tattoos attempted by any of them.

Is no one selling tattoo magazines anymore? I remember that they used to be filled with a pretty diverse array of styles in each issue.
Has the intervebs finally ruined any sense of adventure for the masses?

Is no one selling tattoo magazines anymore? I remember that they used to be filled with a pretty diverse array of styles in each issue.
Has the intervebs finally ruined any sense of adventure for the masses?

Is no one selling tattoo magazines anymore? I remember that they used to be filled with a pretty diverse array of styles in each issue.
Has the intervebs finally ruined any sense of adventure for the masses?

Is no one selling tattoo magazines anymore? I remember that they used to be filled with a pretty diverse array of styles in each issue.
Has the intervebs finally ruined any sense of adventure for the masses?