Our Endless Days

@SStu I'll have to take another picture. That was from a blog post of mine months ago.

here's my leg tattoos. both were done by Jet at Love Hate Tattoo here in Rochester. EDIT:The knee ditch sucked, and these two only go into the lower part of the knee ditch.

does the videos not work for anyone else when you go to vice?

this here, man. if you are even slightly apprehensive, just wait and go to a different tattooer.

Love his work. He does some really great stuff.

Haha so good

i was talking to my girlfriend about this recently and I think that you could say this about pretty much every aspect of life. Most everyday people don’t take the time to educate themselves about most things ie good music, books, tv, movies, art, really anything. People are just impatient, and, to be quite frankly, willfully ignorant. How many regular, everyday individuals will consider what you hear on the radio as what music has to offer? If you’re not willing to broaden your horizon, you’ll most likely be left with bland shit. the sad part is that the internet makes it so much easier to do research and find your niche, and people still don’t. my younger brother lives in long island. He goes to some shit shop out there for his tattoos. His tattoos, for the most part, are straight up garbage. I try to point him in the right direction of quality tattooers and shops, but he just doesn’t want to listen. For him, he’d rather go around the corner to some schmohawk tattooer than travel an hour to get tattooed by someone in NYC. He also doesn’t want to pay the cost of getting tattooed by someone in NYC. I went with him when he got tattooed once by said tattooer. I was blown away by how shitty this dude made my brothers tattoo look. Again, I tried talking to him and talking him out of it, but he just wouldn’t listen. He straight up thought he was getting a quality tattoo.

fuck

Vice is so awesome. they have tons of great write ups and videos not pertaining to tattoos.

this shit sucks. i'm originally from NYC/LI and still have a bunch of family there. everyone seems to be ok, but my dad's house seems like it was flooded.

this. oliver peck and chris nunez watch these folks do really awful fucking tattoos. I understand they’re doing what they’re supposed to in terms of the confines of the show, but fuck.

just saw shawn's post in my bloglovin feed. i can't watch the video until i get home, so i won't be able to comment on it until then. up until this weekend, i've done everything i could to boycott that show. my girlfriend asked if i'd watch it with her, so i agreed. what a horrid, piece of trash, god awful waste of fucking tv air time. not only is the show a shit show of dumbasses, but none of them seem to have any skill. they're all straight up garbage, expect for that bald headed dude that does new school tattoos (he seemed pretty good at doing new school tattoos). that one dude with a mohawk is seriously a jerkoff. i was getting angry whenever i watched him. he clearly has no respect for the craft of tattooing, and his remark about traditional tattooing being 3rd grade while he's smoking with the 10th graders made me want to throw my remote at the tv, especially considering the dude did one of the worst traditional tattoos out of a collective group of shitty traditional tattoos. the one plus was seeing oliver peck shit all over them and and richard stell's beard is fucking stellar. sorry for the rant, but that show is an utter pile of shit.

definitely. you can't deny that this show is immensely better than 99% of the shit that is on tv. with that said, at times, the show can be laughable. some of the dialogue is so forced, and the fact that everyone in this post-apocalyptic world is an amazing marksman is pretty ridiculous.

first 3 episodes have been good. that ambush scene on the vets was a fucking joke, though.

this book is an excellent read on the history of traditional tattooing. i felt like a little kid reading goosebumps getting through it.

is it safe to assume everyone is fucking pumped for deVita's segment?

my girlfriend has to regularly talk me out of driving to nyc to get tattooed. shit's bad, man.

haha right on!

yeah. one of the things that i've been trying to decide is Whether or not I want to go to a tattooer here in Rochester or possibly buffalo, or do I save my money and travel to nyc to get tattooed by dan. Luckily, Rochester has a pretty awesome convention that is attended by some great if I went with the former. as well as a guy that's tattooed me a bunch that's great and Rise Above in Buffalo. as it stands, I’ve been saving and holding out so I can keep making treks back and forth to nyc to get tattooed at smith st. I really want a fluid, flowing collection of work, so I’m trying hard to not stray. - - - Updated - - - @CultExciter i love those all photos of individuals that have body suits from one tattooer. bob shaw's is the first that comes to mind. such a beautiful collection of tattoos. originally, i wanted to just get an array of different tattoos, so my right arm reflects that, but i've been attempting to plan things out more so that eventually i'll have a symetrical look to my tattoos ie lady heads on my shoulders, cat heads in my arm ditches, crawling panther on my right shin, crawling jaguar on my left, etc. i love seeing individuals that have symmetrically planned out tattoos. tl;dr, nerd talk.

this was one of my favorite segments yet. dude seems like such a humble guy, which is amazing because he's immensely talented. was surprised to see he lived with his folks.

I stocked up on batteries, wood for the fireplace, canned goods, chips, already had plenty of booze, cereal, and granola bars. Bring it the fuck on, sandy.

i want that look of a coherent body suit where everything is planned and meshes well, but i'm totally the same way. a lot of my tattoos haven't turned out how i planned they would i.e. size, some of the placement, things like that. that's one of the reasons why i want to get tattooed by one person. shit's hard to limit yourself to one though.

i was recently asked this question, so i thought i'd ask it here. How do you balance the desire to get tattooed by a bunch of different tattooers as opposed to getting stuff done by one person? It’s really tough. Since last summer, I’ve been getting tattooed by dan santoro and I really like the continuity of the tattoos he’s done on me. on the flip side, there are so many amazing tattooers that I want to get tattooed by.

it's baffling how stupid people are

i recently had a FRIEND just straight up grab my arm, move it all about, and examine it to look at my tattoos, without asking me first if that was cool. she's not a super close friend, but still. how the hell do you just do that to someone? in what world is that cool?