Graeme

I think the visual effectiveness of tribal tattoos comes from their size and they way they work with the body, and I really don't see that with your design. Same with phoenix tattoos. I think what makes them great visually is that there are a lot of elements there with the wings and the tail that you can get a lot of movement and make the tattoo really work with the body in interesting ways. Look at the one @Dan S just posted. It's small and it's simple, but there's a lot of movement in there and it looks like it sits well on the body and so it's a great little tattoo. If you really like way that tribal tattoos look and sit on the body, that's great, but find somebody who specialises in them and talk to them and get them to do something custom for you instead of finding an image you like on the internet. It will be more effort but it will be completely worth it in the end.

Tattoos are pretty much the coolest thing in the world! I'm also pretty much constantly amazed by the quality of work people here have. I have this joke about Instagram how if you see amazing work it's either on a tattooer or on an LST member (which, I know, are sometimes one and the same). Instagram in particular is insane. I know that so much is lost by seeing tattoos on a tiny phone screen, but the amount of mind-bogglingly awesome tattoos that are being done every single day in insane. Like how crazy is it that Horiyoshi 3 has an instagram?!? I hope this board is able to show people that having really good, like jaw-droppingly good, tattoos is something anyone can have as long as they're willing to put the time and money--and when you compare it to collecting other kinds of art, it's really not much money at all--into it.

I like this one Zac Scheinbaum did: If you got a battle royale there instead you would never have a boring day again because there would be a fucking eagle fighting a snake fighting a dragon on your arm. Williamsburg.

Hi and welcome to LST. Where are you located so we can help you to find a good artist to go to.

Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BkhtJM8CqE The slow part is slower, heavier, and doomier than on record, and the fast part is just crushing. I don't think I really appreciated Bill Ward enough until I saw the video of this show. I have a bootleg DVD of this show but it's all up on YouTube. Really one of the greatest bands of all time.

I often think about what it would be like if it was 1970 and I heard the first Sabbath album for the first time. I think I would have probably shit my pants because it is still so heavy even by today's standards. Have you seen the videos from the Paris 1970 Sabbath show? Unbelievable stuff.

I have three more big sessions on my arm between now and the end of April, I'll see after that. - - - Updated - - - I'm looking forward to the new edition of Bodies of Subversion as well: http://www.amazon.ca/Bodies-Subversion-Secret-History-Tattoo/dp/1576876136/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355240342&sr=8-1 We have the second edition and it's a really great book on women and tattoos from the nineteenth century to the mid-90s, full of really sharp analysis and a lot of great photos. The only problem with it is that it's a little dated, but this new version should fix that very nicely.

When I saw today that the Bloodwork books are on sale right now it almost bummed me out that my money right now is earmarked for actual tattoos. The books plus shipping costs to Canada = serious tattoo time. Really happy that the Tattootime reissues are in my budget though.

Very nice! I'm due for a second consult with him soon, he's going to put a big tiger on me. Super nice dude and a hell of a tattooer. Also for anybody interested, Dave Knight just opened (or is about to open) a shop in Sidney, BC. Arno who used to tattoo at Imago is now working at PSC and he does great tattoos as well.

Hahaha yes, this. Last got tattooed in late October, next getting tattooed in late January and I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN MAKE IT THAT LONG. It's like I'm a junkie for tattoos.

If you need to explain it because it can't communicate anything by itself, it's shit art.

I couldn't find it searching for Futurama, and I hope this isn't because I live in a primitive backwater country. I'll look again.

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Needles and Sins posted a link to an interview with Fuzi, the guy who did the Scarlett Johansson tattoo: Interview: An Exclusive Chat With 'Ignorant Style' Pioneer FUZI UV TPK | Complex From the interview: Totally unique, except for on craigslist. What a choad.

Just doing my part to keep this thread ugly. Antediluvian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI1y9x_qn-w Teitanblood: Blasphemy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga8AGPk8IsU

Looks so amazing! - - - Updated - - - Looks so amazing!

I am super happy for you that you got a great tattoo and that it did what it needed to do. We can't choose our bodies, but we can make them more beautiful with tattoos.

You put on some great looking tattoos, welcome!

Awesome! A great start to the squidpants, and I especially like it because my sleeve is based around the same story of the raven stealing the sun.

Different places on the body heal differently. I only have a couple of small tattoos on my legs and they healed fine (some of my easier ones to heal), if you look at the lower leg tattoo thread here, plenty of people have had long and difficult healing processes for their legs. Just wait it out, leave it alone, and if it needs touching up when it's all healed, talk to your artist and it shouldn't be a problem.

The shiny, plastic-y skin is a normal part of healing. Give it time and leave it and the scab alone, it will fall of when it's ready to.

The last Converge album I heard until the new one was When Forever Comes Crashing. Then His Hero Is Gone broke up and I decided that hardcore punk had nothing left to offer. I stand by that but the new Converge is good.

New jobs rule! I had an interview yesterday that went well, which was cool because I did the interview in French (which I can speak, but not super well, and especially not when I'm nervous), and also because the company approached me. It's nice being at a point in my career where that happens. It's a new thing for me. I've been drawing a lot over the past couple of years and I'm starting to feel that I'm getting somewhere with it. Last Sunday I went to a life drawing session that I go to very irregularly and I had the same model I drew the last time I went (which may have been around April?) and comparing my drawings to the ones I did then, I've gotten a lot better and my drawings are a lot looser. It's awesome to have a concrete comparison like that.

It's a difficult question. In general I try to live simply, and I prefer to support small and local businesses and keep my money in my community. That said, it's complicated. I work in craft brewing, which is one of those quintessential local industries. And I think looking at people who drink craft beer, there's a tendency towards thinking that it's good to drink craft beer not only because it's delicious but also because you're supporting local businesses and the local economy and so on and so forth. And that's where things get really complicated. Craft brewing, probably like a lot of "labour of love" workplaces, is notoriously underpaid. If I worked for one of the local mega breweries I would make about 50% more than I do now. So what's better for my community: drinking "local beer" that pays its workers less than it could or mass-produced fizzy yellow stuff that is made by people earning a much better wage, and that money is going back into the community. I wouldn't give the smaller breweries a free ride in that they're less morally suspect because they're small either. Brewing requires a lot of capital and investors aren't necessarily jolly, beardy craft beer types who care as much about making quality beer as they do about the bottom line. There are a lot of idiosyncrasies in the industry and I don't want to generalise here but the "buy local" thing can be problematic. Like I said, when you get into the specifics, it gets complicated.

Also the Pitt Rivers Museum with its collection of shrunken heads, antique firearms, and a Coke bottle bong.