Graeme

Yes! Greyhounds!

Juan Puente posted this Tom of Finland tattoo on Instagram a few days ago:

I took this picture of Civ at last year's Montreal convention. He attached a little reading light onto the guy's shirt, how cool is that? I believe he was drawing on a heart with a "MOM" banner.

Elbow is going to suck but no matter how much it hurts you'll still have to STAND STILL (Sorry not sorry)

@irezumi Those sculptures are so cool. Looking at the New York Botanical Garden website, it seems like this is an annual thing? I'll have to get down for it at some point...if the King's Ave de Vita thing is an annual thing as well maybe I could go down and do both on the same trip. Those sculptures remind me of a topiary exhibit the Montreal Botanical Gardens had this past summer. I thought it was super amazing to see this stunning examples of this art form that I only vaguely knew existed. Here are some pictures from it: The pictures don't really get the scale of them, the way they move in the breeze and fit in the landscape, but it was pretty incredible stuff. Sometimes people do some really fucking cool things.

Welcome! There is definitely a lot of great stuff on here, but the only way you'll get a real understanding and appreciation of tattooing is by spending a lot of time getting tattooed. Where about in Alberta are you? There are plenty of great tattooers all over the province.

Hello and welcome Tim! You found the right place if you want to learn about good tattoos. Start with this thread, watch the artist interview videos, look through the forums...there's a lot of great stuff here. Who did the tattoo you have?

Hahaha, seriously. That's how you do a spur of the moment tattoo. @Rob I that is such a fucking powerful panther.

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Haeckel has another book called Art Forms from the Ocean (or something similar to that, anyway). I don't own it, but I have taken it out from the library, and it's certainly worth looking at. From what I remember, it deals mostly with pretty biologically simple life, and isn't in my opinion as interesting visually as Art Forms in Nature. If you look around though there are loads of books with some pretty spectacular scientific drawings. One that I find really impressive is Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. There's so much cool stuff in it. Haeckel is kind of on his own though in the way that his drawings and paintings segue with geometric forms. It's kind of sacred geometry for atheists.

That's because you don't teach in Norway. I'm sure he's Mr. Culto to his students.

Isn't Nocturno Culto a teacher?

Here you go.

Hello and welcome. The artist who did the tattoo will have the best advice about healing and aftercare, so the best idea is to contact them if you have any questions about how your tattoo is healing. That said, I'd stop with the ointment and let the scabs dry out. Keep the tattoo clean and dry and you should be good.

And that's just the linework! Shading and coloring will be even more fun!

I live in the gay neighborhood in my city and I can't think of seeing many men with jellyfish or butterfly tattoos. Not long after moving here, however, I realized that I'm not the only hairy man here with a tattoo of a bear.

I have a bunch of Haeckel tattooed on me. Art Forms in Nature is an amazing book.

What you get out of tattoos has a lot to do with the effort you put into getting them. Coming here and saying you want a good tattoo when you seemingly can't be bothered doing any legwork yourself, not even to the extent of looking through portfolios on the internet and seeing what you respond to, doesn't bode well for you.

Yeah, he's great. Me and my wife both got some Doc Forbes flash from him and the tattoos are beautiful, they healed up really easily and nicely, and he was a really nice, fun guy to get tattooed by. I can't ask for more out of a tattoo than that. Looking at your instagram, I'm sure we know some people in common through the late-90s hardcore scene in Vancouver. Possibly we even met at some point. Anyway, welcome to LST!

Cool, welcome! I recently got tattooed by Chris Hold, did you apprentice him?

The JCM900 is in my opinion the worst amp Marshall ever made. I had a 50W High Gain Dual Reverb and it sounded like crap. That chip distortion sounds like garbage, and the amp has no balls. When I had that amp I was playing with a guy who played through a JCM2000 and the 900 had no presence compared to it. I have a Laney Pro Tube Lead now and it's great...it's pretty similar to a hot-rodded JCM800 in a lot of ways but costs a lot less. I'd still love to have an 800 though. A lot of my favorite music was played through those amps.

Great looking tattoos and JCM800s, awesome. Welcome aboard.

Do you really not have your own opinions about things?

This is so awesome.