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    I dont mind at all! I just didnt want to put it in here also, would have felt like force feeding people it, but when you did it, its a different story ;) :D And yeah, your opinnion matters! All I get from the blog is these kinda comments, so they all vital to me. Thank you, again :)
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    Whadda hell?! I didnt add the quote box? :P Well, I HAD something to add. Too lasy to write anything new ;) But, I agree 100% when you talked about feeling privileged for getting access to all that info. Fucking amazing.
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    Personal High Point: getting real money from my job, seeing my mom smile and passing the 5kuy exam in Aikido few weeks back and getting good feedback. Personal Low Point: Mom being sick, falling somewhat in love but loosing. Best Thread: was tattooing as popular 100 years ago as now..... Best Album: Hmmmm, I've been listening to other stuff than new, but if I had to pick one, Further by The Chemical Brothers Best Film: Youth in Revolt. It was released 2010 in Finland so it counts :p Great movie. Best portrayal of a cool as fuck 16nish year old that is actually fucking cool. Best Show/Concert You Attended or Didn't: None Biggest Guilty Pleasure: Junk food Best Restaurant: Local indian restaurant. Kaavya kitchen Best Tattoo of the Year: My legs by Sailor Andy, no pics sorry
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    Chuck is THE MAN. My blog post about Chuck, The Man Pitch black 1891: C.W. ELDRIDGE
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    Hail

    Petri Aspvik replied to Petri Aspvik's topic in Initiation

    Pavel also talks about similar stuff as Martin, as far as I can tell. That you should train constantly but not to the point of exhaustion everytime. Like you have guys who go to the gym and after the work out cant walk for 4 days and just lay around and eath junk food (to over exaggerate) So, for example, according to Pavel. You do simple weight lifting exercises, such as dead lifts. Do them with heavier weights, that you can do safely for example 5 repetitions. Then you call it quits, and do it again tomorrow. Or something else. Again, train so that you feel fresh after the work out, or as Steve Justa says that you should feel stronger after a work out. Then do something else again in the third day, then something in the 4th. etc. Same as Martin says when he talks about Frankie Edgar, that how he stays in shape for the whole year, all the time, and doesnt have a grueling 6 week camp before the fight. But stay in the groove all the time. Pavel does the same with push ups etc., and calls it greasing the groove RossTraining.com • View topic - Grease the Groove Well, shit, its easy to say these things NOW. Like you said, back in the day when you did it, it must have been constant trial and error. Which is of course great for us younger guys, since you guys paved the way. Thanks for that :) But, it is as you said Stict with simple basic routines but train hard and with intensity as he says "It's like sushi;You go to Japan and sushi is beautiful simplicity,fish and rice .And it's incredible". I plan on doing that. What was your special area of expertise? Did you train for example just basketball players, or everyone? Would be cool to hear :) Read this interview by Pavel if you are interested. The man shoots straight, sometimes too straight maybe, but I like what he says T NATION | Pavel Tsatsouline: The Evil Russian - Part 1 T NATION | Pavel Tsatsouline: The Evil Russian - Part 2
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    Hail

    Petri Aspvik replied to Petri Aspvik's topic in Initiation

    Oh, and I forgot to add that I am allergic to p-Phenylenediamine p-Phenylenediamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is in black henna ink for example. So the doctor suspected that it would be in the color used (the brown or white), but that isnt certain. Her info seemed to be more about hennas than actual tattoo inks. And when we did a patch test for the colors (and they were in my skin for a week) they didnt cause anything, only the patch where there was p-Phenylenediamine. She says that maybe there is such a little amount in the inks, but, I dont know. I am skeptical. Anyone ever heard that inks have p-Phenylenediamine?
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    Hail

    Petri Aspvik replied to Petri Aspvik's topic in Initiation

    Hey Kyle! I read that you have a fibromyalgia. My mom has it also as she does other ilnessess such as Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (which requires her to use an oxygen mask, or the little "wing" masks that you just put in your nose) and other stuff too. Im so sorry that you have fibromyalgia :( Its a horrible thing to have. That is cool that you used to be a personal trainer! At the moment in really into stuff that Martin Rooney (a great article! T NATION | 11 Myths of Warrior Training) and also Pavel Tsatsoulines stuff. Did you train any specific athletes yourself? And I'm keeping my hopes up and mind positive about the tattoo thing. Hopefully I can get tattooed at some point again. And yes, it has opened new doors so to speak, when you start to think that maybe I can have like 2-3 tattoos still. Makes you really THINK what you would want to get-
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    Hail

    Petri Aspvik replied to Petri Aspvik's topic in Initiation

    https://www.kokkola.fi/kulttuuri/museot/en_GB/khrenlundin_museo/ Im grateful for the forum :) Rules!
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    What the fuck...! I was looking at your pic and I thought you are like 29 or 30! Unless you got tattooed when you were born.
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    Hail

    Petri Aspvik posted a topic in Initiation

    Shit, I just saw this area of the forum... Hmmm, my name is Petri Aspvik and I dont tattoo or ever plan to tattoo. I would be shit and I respect tattooing too much to tattoo. I practive Aikido (just over a year) and just started training with kettlebells. I take care of my mom as she is getting older and has all sorts of ilnessess. Shes not in a BAD shape, but not as good as she could be. So I do all the running errands, like go a to a bank, shop, what ever needs to be taken care off, help her in the shower if needed, sometimes cook, do the dishes. I work 6 days a week, Tuesday-Sunday, in a museum. Part time. I have a blog, I write in it and sometimes feel bad and start thinking that should I just not write it... Because I dont want to "blow out the cover of mystery" that is around tattooing. So I try to write "poetically" or some shit. Also I do interview for TAM, Swallows and Daggers and Tattoonow sometimes. Got my first tattoo when I was 15. A Wu-Tang logo when I was in a group home of sorts. Got more shit tattoos after it and then have 3 good ones. Why only 3 you ask? I have a nummular excema (and im low on cash most of the time) and had a reaction to brown ink last time I got tattooed. All else was fine in the tat, black, red, green. Dont know if the excema caused it, because they dont even know what caused the excema... Nummular Eczema And the skin doctor said that I must think long and hard if I get a tattoo again. She advices against it. The fucking irony, I tell you! :D Really changes your outlook. To think, Iits possible I couldnt get a tattoo ever again. Fuck me... Well, thats life. Hail and Metta
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    And I think they are from the book 1000 Tattoos by mister Henk Schiffmacher.
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    Thanks! Been little slow after the Higgs post, but should have something coming in the blog soon enough. And I'm just clad I found this site via gougetheeyes. Fucking rules!

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    It all gravitates and feeds form eachother, giving life for eacother. Just like flash. You have to look PAST it. BEYOND it. Fuck man, thanks for that post MsRad. I think you made it clear... I get it.
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    YES! Great post What I started to think when you wrote is that he felt the world around it. What had MADE the images, still images that he took, he must have captured the process, the life it had lived, the present moment of that building. It wasnt just a building, because he saw what was AROUND IT. Life
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    THanks again! My own blog is my humble way of trying to do at least a fraction of the stuff guys like you and Chuck (and Harriet in Bookmistress, great place, I need more money) are doing.
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    Holy shit hawk, THANK YOU! That was fucking amazing! Where the hell do you get this stuff!? Are you Chuck Eldridge? :D I want to be you when I grow up. Or know what you know. Because I always knew I dont know shit, but now it was proven! :D
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    No prob, thanks for asking :) Do you want to expand your view? Would love to hear more about your comparison to photography Clad that you send me the link man :D
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    That is I think one of THE QUESTIONS. I dont know if I can give a simple answer, but it is the way you feel when you look at some old Owen Jensen flash, like this one. It has IT. There is something in that flash that you just can FEEL. And it lacks in so many new ones you see. WHY it is there, its pretty hard to say. Depends on a person I guess. For me its partly the fact that I like to uphold traditions, they mean something to me. Its the blue print for US, as humans. And I think its magical. It makes you feel closer to the world. And when you ad to that the aura of what tattoos where, a sort of secret club which made you part of something, then its just cool. Theres a another aspect that ads to the aura. And when you think about that important a tattoo can be to a person, then I like the aura around it to be something that is respectful. Not something that is copied just because someone thinks it makes them instant king of the hill. Like they could buy soul. When you just have to show it to have it. Be true to yourself and your feelings. I think then you can make us all, as human feel connected to EACH OTHER. That to me is the mystery and aura in tattooing. It's the blue print for our souls That is the best way I can put it now.
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    But, on to the topic. As shaneenholm talked about originators and the new generation, for me, as a collector, I agree because there is a enormous romantic aspect in all of this. It is the lineage in there, the feeling of togetherness. It is for some reason many times lost in the new works you see. Because of course as it has been said in this topic, there is a difference between the old sharing of info and the new way. As I wrote in my blog post about Dan Higgs about people seem to act like they want to be the kings, the myths themselfs. Just instantly elevate themselfs to those same romantic pedastals, and not actually build their careers and desings to that level that some day their peers and the clients can lift them there if they want to and "deserve it" (I think in the end of the day everyone who puts their heart into it deserves it). Its like some matrix type shit. Just plug yourself in (go to facebook, myspace etc) and copy the "knowledge". It bores me and saddens me as a client, because I want to feel the fucking mystery. And as it can be seen, its not about who does the most original shit. All the greats, Coleman, Lieber, Higgs, Hardy, Collins, Devita, Jensen, Stoney and so on, they were influenced. But they also respected. At least it seems like that. The aura is different. I could try to say more but all of this comes out in my blog, so I dont have anything more to say really... edit. I wanted to ad. When I talk about that I need more mystery etc., it doesnt mean I JUST want some weird occult stuff. But the mystery can be just honest pure work. Detication and good heart. You know. In these days, THAT is romantic.
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    If you read the last TAM issue where I interviewed Sailor Jerry Swallow, I think if I remember correctly (the interview was originally like 65 pages long!) he talks about this in there. Check it out! If it wasnt in there, it has to be in the original and I can send the part to you if you like? I havent even read the magazine version so I dont know how much Crash had to cut for it to fit the mag.
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    Great stuff you said there Shane as in the rest of the topic, but will just fast comment on this because it reminded me of the tat Sailor Andy did for me, that was old Cap flash/stencil (still cant remember which is was, fuck) http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/war-stories/41-whats-your-favorite-tattoo-your-body-page4.html#post4103 But, I think the tiger had its paw around the snakes head. I said to Andy something like Dude, you forgot to put the paw there! (this was like weeks after) So he just laughed and said something like It has been cut off, deal with it! :D Funny shit! So, yeah, I agree with you Shane.
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    I dont know if this thread is cute or just plainly gay ;) I just mixed some inks. Got some in my pants. Will you wipe it? Slooooowwweeeerrrr.... I just said cute, does that make me gay? What do you guys think of Shawn Barbers stuff? Do you know the people he has painted and how do they feel about it? Are they weirded out?
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    You too! Great fucking forum man, thanks for the "secret" ;)

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    I just breath in, and then out :) Or as mister A. P. Shrewsbury beautifully painted But yeah, it can suck fucking balls ;)
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    Have to go with this one. Done by Sailor Andy, an old Cap Coleman stencil if I remember right? Well, anyways. It was like 22:00 in Friday night and I had a idea to get tattooed. Andy is in Helsinki and its about 500kilometers/about 310miles from here. I had originally and idea for two pieces of art done by Erik Von Bartholomaus (http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/98/l_dc1d1f35825340ff8c73913693cc98bf.jpg) and then another one which I fucking cant find right now! Cant even remember who it was by... It was like this tiger dragon with hooves on or something... But, I send them both messages and asked for permission and they said cool, go for it! I asked Andy what is up and he said that he has one cancellation for Saturday. I said cool and slept for few hours and hopped in the train. Got there, and the printer was broken... I said what I was thinking of getting and the pics was in my email. And he was like Ehhh... Fucking tons of lines here... I would have to trace it from the screen... He was hesitant as would anyone, so I just said the classic Well, do you have anything you been dying to do? So he had the Cap piece that had been hanging in his workspace for about a years or so. I said fuck yeah and he did. Bad ass shit
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