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I'm always jealous of this convention. Some year I'll get there.

Welcome! Matt is killer for Japanese style work at Kings Ave, and yeah, pretty much anyone at Invisible. RG is great, and I think Damien Rodriguez is criminally underrated.

If you want to get in with Grez, I would email or call the Manhattan Kings Ave shop. He generally books his conventions wall to wall, sometimes even doing tattoos in his hotel room before or after the convention hours. Dude is an absolute workhorse. I've seen a handful of people get walk ups from Scott at conventions, too. He's so fast and he doesn't always book as solidly as others, so he's left with some free time. You can likely get something from him. Can't wait to see what you get from Marina. I really like a lot of her stuff.

At the risk of derailing my second thread of the day, the discussion of "tats" is interesting. I don't really care one way or the other if someone uses it, but it's not a term I'd use. But there's just something funny about the way Oliver uses it over and over and over in his LST interview that you can tell it's just him and his terminology. Something about it works. It reminds me of the discussion of Freddy Corbin and "bro" in his Tattoo Age video. It's sort of a gross word that Freddy makes his own. Of course, I used to use bro jokingly and ironically, and now it's worked it's way into my regular vernacular... Regardless, welcome to the forum!

At the risk of derailing, the idea of Riot Fest just seems like a nightmare to me, but goddamn do I really wanna see Jawbreaker.

Not sure, but this thread may be able to give some help. Welcome.

I haven't checked this thread in a minute and holy crap is there some insane stuff going down. Well done, everyone.

Nice. Yeah, I'll be getting tattooed at 12:30 on Saturday the 8th with Grez. The shop guy, Dylan, is really awesome, so despite not being primarily a walk in shop, they try to get people in when and where they can. Either way, Kings Ave or not, you have a million options. Good luck and enjoy your trip. Drop me a message here on Insta if you happen to be around the Bowery on the 8th! There are a million great places to eat around there.

Yeah, I've definitely see people at Kings Ave do walk ins on almost every trip up there. I'll be there on July 8, if you're in the area and looking for an LST meetup! Smith Street, NYHC, and Rose were all super friendly and accommodating when I've stopped in to check em out.

Crap. I meant to post my Grez rose from a sheet Malone drew for him, but totally forgot. Still have yet to post it online. Maybe someday.

I doubt I'll make it this year, but we'll see.

I'll be up at Kings Ave on July 8th. Now, just have to solidify what I'm getting.

@oboogie My local shop has a few great Stell sheets, and I've always wanted a handful of pieces from it but haven't pulled the trigger. That one rules. I freaking love that ROA with the skull and snake above it. So awesome.

I may have to work out some logistics, but hopefully in with Grez in July.

I saw that the other day. Seemed like the writing had been on the wall with that for a minute. I got the impression he'll be tattooing out of Seventh Son, but I forget where I saw something like that.

Awesome. Can't wait to see what you come out of that with! I have to email Dylan about getting in with Grez again since my plans for next weekend seem to be falling through at the Prestige convention. Haven't been up to Grez/KA since October, so I'll have to remedy that!

@Baboom I saw that last night and got so stoked for you.

@Gingerninja Awesome. I'm really excited to see what comes of that. Tell him and Dylan I said hi! If Scott doesn't get back to me about Prestige, I'm going to try and book something with G.

I am actually on spring break and if I didn't have my daughter's pre-school Easter egg hunt in the afternoon, I'd actually love to pop up. I haven't been up there since October! What're you getting from Grez?

So much killer stuff lately. Nice work, guys. I'm trying to be patient waiting on an email back for something in May...

Gutsy endeavor. Well done.

It is definitely awesome.

I've been out of the game for a few months, but I think I'm going to email Scott Sylvia about something else from him at the Prestige Convention in Philly in May. Just have to think about what I might want...

I used to do the hot bath actually. I've been told that's a pretty traditional Japanese method. To be honest, I don't know why I ever really stopped, other than it hurt like hell and it's not always convenient, particularly when I was traveling to NYC for tattoos often.

I had this conversation with my local artist today, who wants to get tattooed by Scott at the Prestige Convention in Philly. It's always such a great experience. I've been tattooed by a lot of people and will likely be tattooed by plenty more, but if for some reason I only ever got tattooed by Scott, Grez, and my local artist Keith, I'd be more than happy.