Avery Taylor

Who the fuck is paying this dude $300 an hour? He is a good tattooer, but what the fuck. I guess that tattooing Sponge Bob Squarepants on famous people gets you a lot further in this world than it should. I don't want to be too much of a douche-bag about this, but I just don't get it. For all I know the guy may donate 90% of his money to charity. As far as the video goes I don't care much either way. I do not have any homemade tattoos, but I usually like the way that they look. I like the simplicity, and the roughness of them. What I don't like is poorly executed "professional" tattoos. Usually when someone is getting a homemade tattoo it is a memory that they are looking for, and not a great holy shit that is beautiful piece of artwork. When I see someone with a bad tattoo that they paid for then I feel like they were cheated, and that bugs me. Most people trust that if the city you live in felt confident enough to give someone a business license then that someone must be reasonably good at their job. The one thing about the video that I don't care for is the tattoo itself. I don't feel that it captures the rawness of a homemade tattoo or the quality of a professional tattoo. To me it comes across as an exercise in arrogance. But as the old saying goes "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one".

Shawn is getting tattooed by him in Brooklyn, but I am pretty sure that he is tattooing in Portland still, just not in a shop. I am going to Portland in a week, and was going to try and get tattooed by him, but I don't think that I will have the time.

Fucking awesome. Nick does some real cool shit.

The funny thing about tattoos is no matter how good or bad they are the only thing that matters is that you like the ones you have.

Panther head with a spider-web around it?

Josh Mason does some really nice work in this style.

On Ebay someone is selling prints of some really cool Dominick Chance flash. I think that he may have the originals as well, but I am not sure and don't have time right now to go look it up.

Hero Tattoo I can't remember where I came across this guy's work, but I keep coming back to it. My favourite tattooers aren't generally specialists. They are the ones that can work in any style, and still make it look like their own. I think that Jeff fits into this category.

I was thinking about a Jesus on one side and devil head on the other, but now I have a big crucifix on my thigh so that sort of kills it.

Hey Ursula, I am not HeadOvMetal. Her name is Stephanie, and she has the best Flickr ever. My photostream is nothing, but my favorites are full of great photos. A lot of which were taken from HeadOvMetal's photostream.

Knee Tattoo by Bob Roberts on Hector Fong | Flickr - Photo Sharing! I would suggest this, but it is taken.

Is that $$$ for a shop in Vegas?

I don't remember Chris running water, but I guarantee that he drinks more Hawaiian Punch than anyone on the planet.

I have heard rumours about Richard Stell and Clay Decker opening up a shop in Vegas later this year.

Chris Conn from the Blackheart blog

His home is incredible.

Thanks Ursula, but I did not say that it was the only shop worth a fuck in Toronto. I don't know a lot about Toronto, but I am familiar with Scott McEwan's tattoos, and he does nice Japanese work. Eric if you are looking for any tattoo related advice in Toronto I would say that Ursula is the person to ask.

TCB Tattoos would be a much better choice if you are going to do it in Toronto.

My feeling is that this thread should be dropped.

Maybe you should start running a cover-up special.

There's nothing worse than having to be identified period.

Nice to have you back Nick. Thanks for the photos.

Glad to see this thread up and running again. Someone needs to get Nick Collela back into the mix.

I guess I know which moderator. Welcome.