Graeme

Yeah but people presumably saw the tattoos from season one and still wanted to be on the show so basically everybody involved is a knucklehead.

What he's done on my arm so far (look at latest tattoo lowdown or the dotwork thread for a picture) was two hours of tattooing and there are a lot of lines there. He's really fast, especially for the complexity of his tattoos. He's amazing. He updated his website recently but before the update if you dug back far enough he had a post about how that really amazing skull backpiece he did took 29.5 hours and dude looks like he has a good sized back too.

Attn: @Avery Taylor and @PhilB Sacred Heart puts on some nice tattoos. A friend of mine got a couple of birds on her chest about ten years from Steve Moore when he worked there and they still look great. Steve Moore is on the Island, I think in Nanaimo, now though. Other friends of mine had some really nice work from The Dutchman, but again, this was around ten years ago. Nick Wasko puts on some great traditional tattoos.

Tattooed guys talking about how they don't like tattooed women give me the douche chills.

Trying to steer the conversation back to metal...John Arch-era Fates Warning kills it so hard.

Hello! I am familiar with your tattoos and I think they're great, welcome to LST!

I don't have a huge amount of experience to compare it to, but I see a lot of comments about how collarbones are bad. When I got my first collarbone done it was all over the place in terms of how it felt...some bits hurt a lot, some I barely felt...but there was a moment when he went right over the bone and I felt the vibrations through my entire skeleton. It wasn't so much that it hurt so badly as it was that it just felt really not right. It made me dread doing my second collarbone, which I had to do because otherwise I would look lopsided and I wanted to fill that space before I started my sleeve. The second one felt a lot better.

The lady head you posted in the tattoo of the month competition looks great.

I spotted this on the front of a copy of one of the local papers that was laying around the break room at work today: So there are always job options with visible tattoos. Probably helps if you're a local celebrity though.

I'm not so old that I'm now "older folks" am I? Though I found going on to the forearms (which I did a whole month and a bit ago) was a pretty heavy decision.

Hahaha, and I do have eight sessions booked with two different artists between now and the start of June so I can't exactly afford to get small pieces in addition to that.

Congratulations @ian and @Scott R !

I have the next session on my arm at the end of January...and I hope I can make it that next couple of months without getting tattooed because I'm really starting to get the itch again. I was thinking some Greg Irons flash could be super cool because I really dig that stuff. I shouldn't have posted this because you lot are a bad influence and are going to tell me to go for it.

Been thinking about these guys lately, one of my favorites from the 90s: They were probably more of a hardcore band than a real metal band, but in that dirty raging grinding hardcore kind of way (ie the way it should be played), so worthy of inclusion here.

@Pugilist was saying the other day that she noticed that a student in one of her classes had a little anchor tattooed on her thumb but nothing else visible, and that she didn't seem like she had other tattoos. I've seen a fair number of hand tattoos on not otherwise visibly tattooed people on public transportation too, like just little things on fingers or script on the side of the hand or whatever. Always on young people. Maybe they've put more thought in it than I assume they have, but it seems like there are a lot of young people going on to spots that are very difficult to conceal pretty casually.

Also even though it seems like he's not updating it anymore @Petri Aspvik has/had a good blog about serious tattooing: Pitch black 1891

Yeah that one is good. I also like Swallows and Daggers though I feel that with Instagram there's less of a point in blogs that are mostly pictures of tattoos. Needles and Sins can be pretty good too.

The only tattoo blog I am interested in is Shawn Porter's Occult Vibrations: Occult Vibrations

There are plenty of IPAs on the market and while there's a variation between ones from different breweries--or between different ones from the same brewery!--all IPAs share fundamental characteristics regarding alcoholic strength, apparent extract, colour, bitterness, aroma, etc. Though if you put a Budweiser next to a Sam Adams Boston Lager next to a Pilsner Urquell...there's very little in common between them other than the type of fermentation. How many examples there are of each style doesn't really matter. Personally though, I think way too many people are far too concerned with beer style.

The way most beer competitions work is that beers are entered into different categories and are then judged against the criteria set forth in those categories so what is normally being judged, to be a little bit cynical about it, is technical competence and falling within the range of what is considered acceptable for the style. That the beer is "good" or not isn't really the point.

Tattoo Age has been so great overall, but these deVita episodes are really something truly rare and special. We're so lucky that they even exist and that we get to see them.

Nice, he does such beautiful roses.

This won't help you but I love this Bert Krak shark (hope this link works): Photo by krakhouse • Instagram I've never really wanted a shark tattoo but this one makes me think I'm wrong about that.

I think beyond the gainful employment thing, I wouldn't want to go on to non-concealable places because I don't want to always invite the attention. I used to work in a bar before I started my current job and one evening a couple of young-ish (ie mid-20s) guys came in with some really heavy tattoos...nice looking work, but hands, neck and throat, maybe faces, I don't remember...but it was an Irish pub that made most of its money off the pre-hockey game crowd and so they got a lot of stares, and I overheard them complaining about it to each other. And it's sort of like...what did they expect? You don't get that kind of coverage hoping to disappear into a crowd, and it has very little to do with perceptions of them being good or bad people.

Just looking at Mo Coppoletta's tattoos on The Family Business website there's a Kintaro tattoo with rocks in it.