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Had Chad K. finish my eagle this past friday night at Congress Street Tattoo in Portsmouth. Love it. So glad it's over.. A brutal couple of hours, but so worth it.

Here is another picture of the same tattoo I posted in this month contest -thread. Tebori by Horimasa Tosui done in his private studio in Amsterdam last week at wednesday. The pictures are from yesterday.

Tebori by Horimasa Tosui in his private studio in Amsterdam. The baku was done at wednesday and the pictures are taken today (sunday).

Here is the newest addition to my collection by Chad Koeplinger. He was amazingly fast! Only took about 1 hour start to finish and it is bigger than my hand.

Saw on Horitomos' and SOG's Insatagrams that they are going to be putting out t-shirts, too:

Seeing all these Chad K pieces is making me super excited for my upcoming appointment with him! Seriously some phenominal tattoos kudos to you guys @BrianH and @Rob I.

Got a traditional Jason mask tattoo from Skylar G. at Current in San Jose and then a sandwich at Ike's. Going to Temple on Tuesday.

I'm not impressed, if you are going to troll you have to be more subtle and more believable.

Had you mentioned Nazis, we could have at least had a Godwins Law moment.

Getting a new tattoo is an awesome way to kill time while you wait! I talked with Jebb Riley and Jason Scott while I was waiting for Chad to setup and eat lunch. Jason was super nice and my Chris O'Donnell sleeve prompted a conversation about art/prints and Timothy Hoyer (apparently he has guested at Congress St in the past). Jebb was also friendly he asked me about some of my tattoos and he showed me his koi/animal head sleeve by Grez. And because it is an intimate space I got to watch Jebb do a few walk in tattoos while I was laying on the table. Great shop and I'd love to get more work done there in the future.

just got this dude last night pretty rad, a little oozy still, hard spot to photo

LST is always 5 clicks away from Hitler, like Wikipedia.

fuuuuck. i need this shirt.

DUDE, first of all, thank you! Second of all, he drew the snake with that exact image in his head!!!!!

Just curious what is the name of this small custom shop.

This. Welcome to the site though, and best of luck to ya!

When you're constantly crab-walking up stairs because of your fresh thigh/knee/ditch/calf tattoos.

They let you become an apprentice having no tattoos of your own, and you'll start tattooing within three months of starting your apprenticeship? Danger Will robinson. Anyway, enjoy the site. :)

I'm going to be hanging out with Pushead on Sunday. You know. No big deal. I'd love to hang with you folks, but... he wins :D

@Rob I that snake makes me think of this: Very rad!

Ugh, seriously jealous of both of those Koeplinger tattoos.

I'm glad I finally found a site like this. I've been seeing all these tattoos all over Instagram, and now I finally get to see the owners.

Done by Tim Pausinger @ Pearl Harbor Gift Shop in Toronto on july 2nd. Who knows, maybe people will really like this one!

Here it is, my naked self on a cold winters night...finished and healed pics of my back by Dean Sacred.

Shoulder to shoulder - ship on one side, lion wave on the other.

hello there.

Where are you learning to tattoo?

Oh, I agree with you on that. Being less than satisfied would suck. What I meant was that for all my tattoos they are at least 10% different that what I had in mind initially; and as a result I like them even more than I otherwise would have.

If you live in Illinois, I'd absolutely try to make it to GREAT LAKES TATTOO. Literally all of those guys would be able to do a killer cover up on that! Also, you definitely cannot go wrong with a rose coverup. Great choice.

There was one detail not in the stencil because we talked about it right before. Except we weren't exactly on the same page. This was probably my mistake, hindsight 20/20. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2

Welcome to LST! Looks like you are a fan of Ink Master.

@BrianH That is awesome. It is such a great shop!! Tony is another great one. He started me on my quest for good tattoos after he did the Lacasse snake on my forearm last summer. I love that guy. Did you know he used to be Robert Dinero's personal assistant before he became a tattooer?! Crazy!! Your tattoo from Chad came out amazing!!!

Thank you for all of the kind words!! I am thrilled with how it came out! Chad is such a super cool dude and made the horrific pain a bit more bearable! @BrianH - Yes! Another tattoo! Chad was running late when I showed up for my appt, but Jebb Riley wasn't busy at all, so we started a panther cover up of an old Celtic tattoo on my arm. Just did the line work since minutes after, Chad was ready to roll. A lot of tattooing went down that night. I absolutely love how this is coming out, but am hesitant to post since Jebb hasn't put it up on Instagram yet. Can't wait to finish it. Jebb is an awesome tattooer and I've wanted something from him for a while. He just happened to have an amazing panther in his sketchbook that I fell in love with on the spot.

Eagle on the chest always rules, and that is for real one of the best I've ever seen. Really stoked for you!

That baku is incredible, @Wilhell! I bet that one took a while. His tebori method hurts less than some I've felt. How was it?

Just got this rad shrimp filler last night

a_whiley for my personal account and my art account is nofireinmylungs

Noodles_Tattooer, I Like it.

End Of An Era And The Beginning... - Luke Wessman - Self Made Tattoo Artist There is some cool photos of Dave's shop in San Diego on Luke Wessman's site. There is just one angle of influence he had on tattooing, it's hard to really define what each persons role in history of tattooing is, but Mr Gibson definitely has one. I hear so many different stories about the guy good and bad, but his stuff speaks for itself and his influence is undeniable. Funny when I look at pics I think about how similar our shop looks to that, and then I read I find out there is a good reason for that, Terry Tweed helped him set up that shop. Our shop is not exactly set up like Terry's shop, but our owner spent a whole decade working at Terry's shop, so there is a lot of his influence on how a shop should be set up.

I'm mad jealous. Hope you get something from him soon.

This is on my friend Nate. Taken from Brian Bruno's instagram.

thats amazing! i decided that there may be other colours than black and grey on this painting haha

So it seems that the 21st is a good day, so the 21st it is. I am gunna say 4pm at Top Hops since I got free drinks after showing up after they closed after last tattoo. So to establish it (and I will post it in the first post): When: July 21st (Sunday) Where: Top Hops What: LST NYC Meetup #3 I'll show up a bit earlier.

The only people i recognize is Matt Howse, Ms Mikki, The tattoo emporium, A couple shops from around Seattle,and Black Shamrock Tattoo from California. Nobody I couldn't go get tattooed by on any other week, or at the Portland show besides Jack Rudy and Matt and I think Matt is going to tattoo me after the convention in Portland (hopefully).

Do yourself a favor and call Spider Murphy's and see if you can get an appt with Matt Howse for the convention. (415) 460 6979

Just for fun-- I have one more Ive noticed as of late, please stop bringing in your pizza, burritos, hamburger, fries... etc Eat before coming into the shop. I don't want to smell your onions or pick up after you or collect your garbage. Is it just me, or does anyone else find this to be really strange behavior? I don't bring pancakes into the salon when I go to get my hair done. COME ON PEOPLE.

Thank you very much Stewart for the kind words ---- Tattooing ,would quite possibly- not have been the same without them.

That I can turn on the TV at dinner and see an eviscerated corpse (thanks "Bones"), but I can't see a topless woman because that's harmful in some way (?)

this is rad, I was thinking of staring a thread like this bit figured everyone would just shit all over it. anyways, glad to see it's already here.. This is what i'm currently working on (unfinished at the moment) It's hand embroidery and paint on fabric. It's going to be a patch for a denim vest. I've also been making what I'm calling embroidered talismans the past week, here's one of them It's also hand sewn and is about2.5"

Skate design I did for TNS Industries