Petri Aspvik

So, you are comparing the Leo Zulueta backpice to a speedo and a nike logo? :D Disgrace...

This Rory Keating backpiece done by Leo Zulueta. Rory is the one in the right. Its just perfect.

At the time of those pics, who all worked at the shop that you can see at the second pic? And yeah, thanks!

Petri will do just fine. Sound too formal when you use my full name and I am not old :D And yeah, the face trough door in Shining IS a great tattoo subject, but like you said, why not the boy or mister Bush :p Its just for me, what I have found out that usually when I love a movie, then the stuff I really would want to get tattooed is 75% of times not the poster or anything like that. It is some feeling, some pivotal part to ME. Of course all the things I mentioned from 2001 ARE the so called stock images, but shit, who says I am the cats pyjamas or some shit :)

Smart thinking maxx1221. I also loved it as a younger me and was thinking about a tattoo, but that idea died in few months. I have had other movies tattoo ideas, but none of them hold water in time. For example Office Space Peter gets hypnotized and the part where his face is all "ahhhhhh" serene after it, that face as a B&G portrait. I took like 50 freese frames of it. Donnie Darko The numbers 2001: A Space Odyssey The floating baby, the ape hitting the bones or Bowman. This is propably my favorite movie of all time. Love it. It's a perfect movie. Art. The Ninth Gate I have seen it about 15 times. Another perfect movie. And actually, my last tattoos were influenced somewhat by it. Or there is a key and a book in the blades of the daggers I got. Cant remember others... But one thing I dont get is that when people get a movie tattoo, its ALWAYS the same fucking Shining face trough the door or some other stuff. Nothing wrong with it, but it makes me think that if they actually like the movie or just want a "stock image" from it. Type The Shining in google and take the first pic The Shining - Google-haku BUT, my favorite movies are allready mentioned 2001 and The Ninth Gate. Then also American Graffiti. Stalker was fucking amazing. I waited 5 years to watch it because I was afraid I would be dissapointed. I wasnt. Art. Good Will Hunting hits home really hard for personal reasons. One of the resent year hits for me is Felon Felon (2008) - IMDb Amazing movie. Seen it about 6 times already. I didnt expect anything else than a good friday night OK action movie, but god damn! It went deep. Hits home to anyone who think about the blurred line between the animality in us. The darkness and trying to be good and not in any "good vs evil" type of way, but more the hidden deep darkness, or normality in all of us, and how you can embrace it and actually be a better person for it. Balance. Great movie.

Cool name, hail Satan

I cant see it. Protected or some shit

Everyone has seen these, right? YouTube - TrueLove2k9's Channel Best shit ever

Thanks for the pic! I had no idea that Tux did that. Great tattoo

I really like Stoney St. Clairs ladies. The hair looks like out of a 50' rockabilly hand book and I havent really seen anyone (or at least can remember) who does them like him. Only one I found online. Stoney St. Clair Ladies Flash Then Theo Mindell is someone I second, and also would like to ad Marco Cerretelli. But Theo is maybe my all time favorite in any type of style Theo Mindell tattoo pictures He is THE MAN.

Thanks for the sharing of memories irezumi. Any change getting to see the tattoos he did for you?

Would love to hear more about the man!

I read that you wrote Satan...

I asked Seth about Tux when I was doing the Dan piece and he had interesting info about him. Or it might have been the way he "said" it that it made it interesting:D :p But, here is the first draft of the Higgs article. I scraped it because I thought it was too preachy and took too hard stance regarding tattoo artists, and when I am not one or plan to be one, I decided to write a new one because I wasnt comfortable with it. But, here it is, feedback and bashing is welcome :)

I thought that Brent Hinds from Mastodon has a cool face tattoo but when I looked at the pics he just has the side of his head tattooed? I could have sworn he has his cheeck tattooed! Who the hell was it that I saw in a magazine then... About getting tattooed in visible areas before anywhere else, I agree. First sleeves, chest, back blaa, then hands etc. Btw. Is Freddy Corbin religious or is he just really into the aura of religious tattoos? Have to go watch the interview now...

Yes. This is amazingly well written. As is anything with Bruce How... normal. Fucking amazing. And this part Fucking amazing. Its normal, everyday life, but its so romantic that its more than life. Or its life seen as it really is, in all its sorrow and beauty. Thunder Road is fucking amazing in the Born to Run box where there is the live dvd from Hammersmith Odeon. Fucking sony or what ever, but they take all the good versions of the youtube, so the song isnt there anymore. But, its fucking great. Just with piano and total darkness, where you just see Bruce singing.

Greatest. Shit. Ever! Sadly, Im not as cool as you guys. My first tattoo was a hand poked Wu-Tang clan logo that I got in a group home when I was 15 and then my first "real shop tattoo" was this angel demon thing that has Korn written in its shirt. Yeah... Fuuuuuck... If I would get a band tattoo, it would be something to do with Bruce Springsteen, because he is THE MAN. Been listening to him for about 13 years. Could be practically any lyric of his. Other one would be maybe a quote from the interview I did with Great New Jersey band Spanish Bombs DREAMWORLD REALISM: Interview with Spanish Bombs Thats the coolest line ever.

Great topic about this stuff! 64 posts, 4 pages. Great shit Stretching and Exercise for tattooers - Nickbaxter.com

Forgot Norm (norm awr norm awr (NORM AWR MSK) on Myspace)

Im on the fence about it. I love script, but this type of stuff appeals to me too. What do you guys think of people like Mike Giant (www.mikegiant.com/tattoo), JK5 (JK5 on Myspace), Ronnie Sanches (Ronnie Sanchez ("Ronnie") on Myspace) and Baba (http://www.vintagetattooartparlor.com) ?

Yeah, good point about proper rest!

Hehe, I just found in my computer a first edition of the Higgs blog. Its 8 months old and fuck me, its different than what I wrote! I'm contemplating that should I post it here or not... Do people actually care? Would it be even cool to post it? Meaning, would there be another chip out of the Daniel Higgs mystery tree...

Btw. Saw this amazing bad ass tattoo by miss Valerie Vargas and thought that who was the first TATTOO artists to start doing these so called black metal fonts? Dettmer? Example of a Dettmer/Uncle Allan work also attached I think the visuality of the lettering is great. Kinda like graffiti or Jackson Pollock paintings. Controlled chaos, but spirit in a different form.