Iwar

Great interviews Patrick! Congrats with the new title :)

So was I when I first came here. Welcome!

It's working on Vice.com now, so for those who prefer watching it without a bunch of censor-bleeps; hit this link Mike Rubendall | Tattoo Age | VICE

Just got an email from Chris Grosso and they are working on a fix! I'm sure it will be up and running soon :)

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You were in Machete??? Youtubelink please! ;) Either that or tell me where I can spot you.

Thanks Valerie. I also received lots of compliments for the tattoo you did. I think @hogg especially enjoyed seeing it close up (almost as much as I enjoyed seeing his Horitomo sleeve in person :) ) Didn't you see the "rose and diamond" on the second picture by the way? Hehe... Thankfully Marius has taken on the challenge of trying to make it look a wee bit more pesentable.

Here you go: http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/tattoo-101/1437-san-francisco-treasures-page2.html :)

I tried my best... this picture doesn't do it much justice though (Meyer piece on the right if anyone's wondering)

I asked the same question before my trip and got a bunch of good suggestions in this thread: http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/random-crap/830-things-do-san-francisco.html

Looking good @jade1955 Who did the leopard head?

Came across another picture of this dude You can thank me by doing another round of "what's he thinking here" :D

That sounds fucking AWESOME @asradin!!! I'm jelous as hell, but I don't envy the pain you must suffer through. Jesus! I definitely prefer backpieces that goes all the way down to the back of your thighs, and that's what I'm also aiming to get some day. I'm not sure, but I think it was Stewart that at some point said that if you don't go down to the back of your thighs, what else are you going to get there that will look better, or something along those lines. Sorry if I accidentally misquoted you @Stewart Robson Oh, please do share!! :D

Lucky you! What are you getting and how big are you going? Hope you'll share pictures with us along the way (if you and Stewart don't mind showing "in progress" work of course)

I just noticed TIM LEHI posted this picture on his blog. Even though it's bloody and as fresh as can be, this picture will probably do the tattoo more justice than my crappy iPhone camera.

The other two pieces of my squidpants are still healing.

Howdy-ho Mason! Welcome...

You cracked the code, haha! We didn't know what to put in the banner, so I suggested he just put a tiny black heart in there instead of leaving it open. Given up on facebook by the way?

As some of you know I visited San Francisco recently to get tattooed by Scott Sylvia, Tim Lehi and Grime. If you haven't seen it already you can check out my travelblog here: http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/blogs/iwar/232-oslo-san-francisco-travel-blog.html My Scott Sylvia piece is as good as healed now, so I thought I'd start by sharing that one. The rest will be posted here as soon as they are healed and I get decent pictures. All I have to take photos with is my iPhone, so please excuse the mediocre quality.

I love these "three questions" blogs! I also love religious imagery in tattoos, but as an atheist I feel it would be weird getting something like that myself. I know Seth Wood made a Darwin/evolution flashsheet a while back. Maybe I can get something from that someday instead ;)

No new pics of your back on Marius' blog :( Frisco was great! I'd go back tomorrow if I could. You can read all about it in my blogpost. Pictures of the tattoos will be posted in the forum section as soon as they are healed.

Check this shit out! I guess this is what you get for tattooing both the back and front of your leg the same week... Notice how crazy the sockmarks are on my swollen leg, haha!

Thanks [MENTION=133]MsRad[/MENTION]. If I lived near by I wouldn't miss a single meetup. I'm so happy I got to join the 1 year anniversary one though. Maybe I'll be there at the 3 year anniversary :) Glad you enjoyed it @Petri Aspvik . My budget just for tattoos was around 4 grand, which turned out to be more than enough.

Holy shit Robin! Thanks so much for sharing and making me jealous. Any progress on your back since last time?

This will unfortunately be my last post here. I'm writing this from my livingroom, dead tired after another 23 hour (give/take) of travelling. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I got what I came for and then some, so I'm not in a position to complain. Thanks for all the nice comments and feedback to this blog thing. I really appreciate it! Next year I'll try to do New York. Sunday, the day after my Grime appointment, my norwegian buddy that lives in Berkeley drove me out to the Great Mall near San Jose so I could finally do some good ol' shopping. After a few hours there I convinced him to drive into San Jose to find the State of Grace shop so I could take a look around and maybe pick up a shirt. After a lot of driving around we finally found it, but for some unknown reason the doors were closed. I also tried calling but it just went straight to voicemail. Oh well, atleast I got a picture of the entrance, haha.. Later that evening I hooked up with some fellow norwegians from Trondheim that had gotten tattooed by Grime the same week as me. How weird is that? They came in during my appointment so Grime could take photos of their tattoos. Turned out I even share an ex girlfriend with one of them. It's a small world apparently. I thought I was departing monday morning for some reason, but when checking my papers it turned out I was departing tuesday morning. I was so happy to find out I had an extra day that I decided to once again drop by Blackheart to see if they had time for a walk in on tuesday, which they did! Cody Miller managed to squeeze in a cute little seahorse between some larger pieces on my right arm. Fillers are fun! Besides getting tattooed that day I took a long walk around the mission district in the beautiful weather, and also ate the largest burrito I have ever seen. So that's it I guess. Hope you guys enjoyed my ramblings. Pictures of all the tattoos from my trip will be posted in the forum section as soon as they're all healed and I have decent pictures of them. Last picture. Downtown Oslo while waiting for my bus home....