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I'm not sure where that design originated but there's a 1930s flash sheet by Karl Lark in Flash From The Past with that design on it (I assume that and Revisited are where contemporary artists got it from) so it's been around a long time.
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My specific experiences are different, but I agree with the general sentiment here about tattoos being as much about the experience of getting them, and getting to visit new shops and meet new people as it is about the actual mark under the skin. That said, as I spend more time getting tattooed I also really like the relationships that develop with people you see repeatedly, so I can see myself getting more tattoos by people I've already been tattooed by just because I like them and enjoy getting tattooed by them. So yeah, either way is cool with me.
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Tattoo Culture Magazine
Graeme replied to Graeme's topic in Tattoo TV Shows, Documentaries and Media
It's basically unreadable on my phone because it's laid out like a proper magazine and so everything is way too small. It does look very promising, however. The Robert Ryan interview seems to be a reprint of the one @Petri Aspvik did for TAM #23 (which I bought a copy of at the Montreal convention last year) and in my opinion, that is great because the TAM interviews I've been fortunate enough to read are fantastic because they are actually really substantial and insightful and I think that people who aren't tattooers but who are seriously interested in tattoos can learn a lot from them, and I am thrilled that I have a chance to read these. There's an interview with @Bunny Switchblade in there too, which is super cool. @Guen Douglas has an article in there on how to look at portfolios...not sure if it's the same article she wrote for TAM, but regardless, it is great that these things are getting out there. And yeah, I way prefer paper to screens, but this is still rad. - - - Updated - - - That works, thanks a lot! -
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Graeme replied to Graeme's topic in Tattoo TV Shows, Documentaries and Media
Downloading it on my phone right now. Also I have an Android tablet that I recently got as a gift and don't really know how to use yet, does anybody know how to get this on there? It doesn't show up in the Google Play store when I search for it, but it doesn't show up in the App Store either (I had to get iBooks first), so I assume that I need to download some kind of reader to get it? They should just print a paper copy of it so morons like me don't get confused. -
For TATTOOERS ONLY, what's your biggest pet peeve?
Graeme replied to dari's topic in Crazy Tattoo Stories
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Cool, welcome! In addition to your tattoos I really like the articles you wrote for the TAM blog.
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First post, first tattoo. Pics and details inside (full sleeve)
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Tell us about your tattoos. We aren't going to touch them.
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^^^ This guy's a comedian.
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Black and white is fine with me but I wish there were pictures of flash or designs. It's a strange book in a lot of ways. There's an ad on the back of the book for a book called The Seven Deadly Sins of Hollywood that "deals with all aspects of the Hollywood way of life, from the obsessional interest in psychiatry to the obsessional cult of personal publicity" so I am assuming that the publisher, Oldbourne, mainly published sensationalist books, and the Burchett book is sort of along those lines. There's a lot of really cool stuff and stories in there, but you kind of get the impression that the book was published (it's also worth keeping in mind that the book was "compiled and edited" by Peter Leighton, based on notes Burchett had left behind in preparation for a memoir so what we're left with isn't necessarily what Burchett would have written himself) because it is sort of sensationalist and a curiosity. I was shocked to read Ed Hardy's introduction to the reissue of the Tattootime magazines where he mentions that prior to the publication of Tattootime that there had only been four books about tattooing published in English in the 20th century. There just wasn't the interest in preserving the history and traditions of tattooing prior to that, I guess.
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Here are all the photos printed in George Burchett's posthumously published book, Memoirs of a Tattooist. The book has been out of print for a long time--my copy was published in 1958 and there was an American paperback version published in, I think, 1961, and there have been no reprints of it to my knowledge--and it's very possibly even in the public domain at this point which is why I'm posting it. Admins, if this isn't okay please feel free to delete this post because while I think this is worth sharing, I don't want to step on anybody's toes here. Apologies for glare, shadows, etc.
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Robert Ryan posted this on his instagram today and it made me think of this thread as it shows both an aged realistic tattoo that didn't have enough black in it and a blastover that does.
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Sailor Tattoo Exhibition on the Maritime Museum in Stockholm
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I thought it was pretty bad, like the first five minutes of a tattoo stretched out over two hours. It never got to that point where I could just chill and enjoy the experience. When I got it done, I had worked a twelve-hour night shift the night/morning before, and then only slept for a couple of hours, and not super well at that because I was getting the tattoo at a convention and so I was all kinds of excited, and I'm usually not really "with it" at the best of times when I work nights, nevermind while getting poked with needles....so I wasn't well rested or in the best mental space going into it, and that contributed so much to not enjoying getting that tattoo. I gritted my teeth, took a lot of deep breaths and got through it though, and the tattoo is great. Getting my other inner bicep done in a little over a week, we'll see how that goes.
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It seems like a lot of the Hardy Marks books go for $$$ once they're out of print. @Pugilist paid over $100 for the Flash From The Past book (the original, not the revisited one) because she wanted a tattoo based on one of the EC Kidd dragons in there and just figured that buying the book is part of the cost of the tattoo. It's a reminder not to sleep on that stuff when it's available.
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I always look at bookfinder.com for books because if there's a copy of a book for sale sonewhere on the Internet, chances are you can find it through there. Anyway, they have listings for a few copies of the Rock of Ages book and it seems like you got a pretty good deal on it, but not so good of one that I'd be suspicious that it is "too good to be true" or anything like that.
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Graeme replied to dari's topic in Crazy Tattoo Stories
She's a photographer mainly famous for taking pictures of her coked up asshole friends in nightclubs.- 158 replies
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Well, it has lubed up conversation. Welcome to the forum.
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Graeme replied to dari's topic in Crazy Tattoo Stories
I love reading Yelp reviews for tattoo shops. Favorites include a review of Saved that remarked on how the tattooers consider themselves artists there but they don't even know who Nan Goldin is, and one of State of Grace that was about how great the shop is, how the work is all first rate but that they would have to give it four stars instead of five because it isn't in San Francisco.- 158 replies
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Graeme replied to dari's topic in Crazy Tattoo Stories
I live around the corner from a busy street shop that's one of the longest-running shops in the city. It's one of these no-appointments, first-come, first-served kind of places and they put on solid tattoos. They seem to tattoo a lot of people who are getting their first tattoo and probably don't really get how a tattoo shop works because I read a negative review of the shop online where the person was complaining about how they wanted to "try on" a whole bunch of stencils before deciding which one they wanted and they were mad that the tattooer wouldn't do it.- 158 replies
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That tattoo is so ridiculously good!
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I would say that I'd have your back too, but shit, I'd probably just hide behind you.
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I take your point and if I was to do it again I just wouldn't have responded because while I think that he started an account for essentially the reasons @reverend1 said directly below your post, it isn't my place to make snap judgements on who does or doesn't belong on this board and it's better to be friendly and welcoming and let things sort themselves out than to be insulting from the start. I will try to be more mindful of that in the future. That said, I think I could recognise more posters here by seeing their bare asses than their faces because I can't think of anybody here who posts pictures of themselves that aren't focused primarily on their tattoos, and if you signed up for an account without first figuring out what kind of place this is, then I don't know what to say.
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Matt Arriola's tattoos look unreal from the tiny Instagram pictures of them, I would love to get tattooed by him.
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IL is also the abbreviation for Israel, no?