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by Tim Lehi So stoked on how this came out, will definitely be going back to him for more once I save up.

Opie G. Ortiz posted this 20 year old Hardy backpiece on instagram a few days ago

Is "foul" some kind of Toronto-only slang for "awesome" that I'm not aware of? I was seriously thinking of attending Montreal in 2014 anyway (really wish I'd gone this year) but if there's any way I could be included in attempting to eat this I would be way in. When I saw the poutine my initial thought was that I would need the assistance of three others to eat it - maybe only two if they were accomplished eaters or if I was really hungry. Also - when I was watching the video and the timer was at the 12 minute mark I thought it was counting down from an hour. Can you believe how fast that guy put the first three quarters of that poutine away!?!

LOL no,you can keep your crackhead loser asshole politicians !

@Graeme I want Neil Peart & Joey Shithead for my Leaders !

I'm just going to leave this here. imgur: the simple image sharer

Big Brent from Mastodon has your answer !

By WT Norbert today. Its a bit bloody in these pics. Saw Chad Koeplinger at the shop, if I knew he was in town I'd have booked in with him too! Bummed by a missed opportunity there.

lady head by Valerie Vargas skull drawn on by Stuart Robson

My two latest lowdowns! Cat-lady by Valerie Vargas at Frith Street Tattoo, and start of tiger and dragon thigh piece by Marius Meyer ( will post a better picture of this later!)

So the knee torture is finally complete. My knee/thigh demon by Matt Van Cura done at Invisible NYC.

Been listening to kadaver a lot. Doom sabbath with a healthy portion of hawk wind whooshes .

Yup!! Haha!! No just spreading the word! Just trying to help .. I wish they would hook me up with some kickback for all this P.R!! Haha

I'll do a trade?

Lol Sent from my KFTT using Tapatalk HD

@Killercook76 are you sponsored by 3M ? ;)

Thanks guys. Couldn't sleep last night. I kept looking at it and thinking I should of used the tegaderm like I planned. I go back for filler on the 19th so if any touch ups are needed I can do it then. Looks like I will use tegaderm from here on out to prevent this mess. I still have no idea why I scabbed so terribly when the other 5 remained smooth and just have peeled with no scabbing. I am keeping my fingers crossed cause right now it looks like everything is mush. Sent from my KFTT using Tapatalk HD

Just checked out your back piece, looks great, I look forward to seeing the pictures later. I got 3 hours on my crane and turtle thigh piece on Wednesday, will hopefully finish all the background. Then back again 2 weeks after to finish that portion of my leg with the colour.

You should absolutely come to the 2014 convention, and we can do a LST poutine meetup again. I am not sure about the Crise Cardiaque though. That guy makes it look almost easy but I have had trouble waddling out of that place after one of their poutines, so a good share of fifteen pounds of it might be too much for me.

Lots of "tattoo ego" on the line -- artists and customers, alike. If you get an "original" piece (at least, you hope it is), then you have the satisfaction of being the first to have it (like being the "index case" in a disease); if you get a copy of that piece, well, it's a copy (like that Ben Shahn print, or Annie Liebowitz photo hanging on your wall) -- you like it, it wasn't free, and you don't/can't claim it's the original. So, what's the problem? Don't we say "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? And maybe -- just maybe -- successive iterations of the design will [gasp!] be better than the original, introduce changes in it, or adapt it for customer differences (color preference, skin color, etc.). I prefer to save any ire for remakes of Hollywood movies or TV shows (where the remake is rarely as good as the original). YMMV.

Loved the Mayfair Witches-read it many years ago, one of those series you just don't want to put down, or to end. Aaaand that is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes! I remember watching it when I was young and wanting to cry/laugh/scream all at the same time over how awful that would be. Mom dropped off Dr. Sleep yesterday but I've not started it yet. I did finish a really good one called Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. About a man who is very active/rich and is in an accident and ends up a quadriplegic, wanting to go to the assisted suicide place, and the woman who is hired to help take care of him. It made me cry my eyes out. Worth the read for sure.

@Gregor @Johannes @slayer9019 If you want our politicians you are more than welcome to them.

The first story is from a parody show on CBC radio. The second story, about the Rob Ford tattoo - sigh - well, that's my city.

crack smoking and face tats? i think i might like canada...

Bob Roberts.... Stan Moskowitz.... And my pal Tattoo George Benjamin..... This coming year I'll be adding Tony Polito for sure......

I've decided to take my stuff in a more defined direction, here is a new piece along the lines of where I'm trying to go.

Awesome! Love those! Here is the start to my outer thigh Tsuru Kame [/img]

First, thank you. Second, Do you want it fixed/reworked or do you want a complete cover up? How far are you willing to travel?

Here's something to think about, you just made a broad generalized statement about folks who do tattoos. And then wonder how it is that someone can make a broad generalization about police officers.

I am a man. I want a butterfly tattoo.

YES!!!! AWESOME! Love her work! Wooohooo!!!

Does this friend also think that rose tattoos aren't manly? Because there is no tattoo more manly than a rose, and that's a fact.

I think you were there on their opening night. I was there for a little while that night, but I didn't know many people outside of Nick, Mario, and Chad. I don't know them well- I'm just a customer.. I recognize a lot of tattooers by their work, not so much what they look like. :) but I'll bet there were a few LST folks there I wish I'd said hello to.

While acknowledging what you hint at about the complex issue of masculinity, I'm going to say that I think that butterfly tattoos are actually pretty tough.

second tattoo i ever got. from a book of old japanese butterfly designs. tattoos all around it now. sort of a crappy pic sorry.

This is some flash from @Perez, I thought it was super cool.

Thanks ross! Yea after it was done I was like holy shit...that's loud.

I was walking through our (new) neighborhood and saw a tattoo shop that was closed for the day. Went home to google it and found out that their work is... interesting? Lacys Tattoo - Tattoos

he could always make his own

Oh, what the hell. I'll post mine here, too: By Paul Dobleman at Spider Murphy's. I didn't give him a ton of room to work with, but he still pulled a great, unique take on an iconic image.

I really like wrist and neckband tattoos ,But I'm having trouble locating pictures.It would be sweet if you guys had any to upload,heres some by daniele ceyen I really like.

Here are a couple of shots of my ankle collar done by Nathan Draper at The Pearl in Toronto. I'll post the chest pics when Tim gets a little more done in the next few weeks. Sadly they are upside down and I have no idea why. No one is rushing to hire me for an IT position, that's for sure.

[/img] Finally figured out how to post correctly.. Apologizes !! Tattoo by Chris Garver , Invisible NYC

Yeah, this reminded me of a time I had a conversation with a friend's friend. I think she asked me about my tattoos initially and it somehow segued to Hardy. At that point she spewed some trash about Ed Hardy thinking of the clothing. I responded by trying to inform her that he's actually a great artist, a legend in the tattoo world, and a great influence on people despite what feelings there are towards the clothing design. Also that it was Audigier who she should probably be disgusted with. In her elitist arrogance, her look at me turned to disgust and saw me as a huge douche for even trying to say anything positive about the name "Ed Hardy". That pretty much ended the conversation and we happily went our separate ways. I might not necessarily be a fan of the stereotypes wearing the clothes but I'm far less interested in the people too elitist to have an open mind and who trash others they know nothing about.

I think Kahlan raises an interesting point. My opinion is, reproducing work of classical artists that were never intended to be tattoos is kinda cool. There is no mistaking the work of a Dali or a Giger. No one could ever wrongly take credit for it. I think Giger's style has certainly been "quoted", if you will, by many a tattooer and perhaps to the point of plagerism or insult depending on the quality. Then there is someone like Sailor Jerry. Obviously one of the most important people in tattoo history whose work is something of a standard in modern tattooing. His designs have been copied millions of times and even indirectly, plenty of designs can be traced back to him. How does he fit into this discussion? I suppose, in his case, we are again talking more about flash than original designs meant for one person. I'd still be interested in hearing people's take on that.

What about when people get Salvador Dali, H.R. Giger tattoos and all that.. Would that be considered a form of plagiarism as well?

I also like this flash sheet from Theo Mindell