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i have a theory that some of the new users are really just @Pugilist in disguise posting about endless text/no outline/watercolor tattoos just to push @Graeme 's buttons. and then he angrily scrubs the dishes and cleans the house.

Andre is the man, that piece is UNREAL!! I had a session with Grime yesterday, Andre hung out most of the day and I FINALLY took delivery of the 2 watercolor paintings I bought from him. He's a bad ass tatooer, expect big things from that man in the future, between his own amazing style and whatever the Skull and Sword guys do to influence his style he''''s going to be killing it. If Grime wasn't doing my back, Andre would be. No question.

Manatee jumping over the moon was a go-to that I pointed out any time some clueless person walks up to the counter and says "what should I get?". No takers.

Dolphin. Sunglasses. Guitar. Mohawk. You know what I'm talking about. But then Ugly Tom Michael had to go and do this...

@Tesseracts This is my leg. Arrows are tough.

For what it's worth I feel no animosity towards panthers. My thought process when thusly: "What's the toughest thing I could possibly get, so everyone can see how nails I am?" "I know, A Panther" "Wait, with a fucking dagger through it" and then that turned out to be too much tough for me to handle, so there's a butterfly as well: Seriously though, it looks cool. What more reason would you like?

Yeah, don't know why tattoos with meaning gets so much heat. Maybe I am too new. In addition to quality, I want to have some kind of connection.

Dude, it's not cool to out the kinkier aspects of our marriage to the entire internet...

To be honest I think the whole fake-hair tattoo is super goofy, but then again I'm not the one losing hair. @hogg are you gonna start getting fake hair tats?

Doubtful... this is on a sheet of super goofy designs including things like a watermelon dirigible.

A guy who tattoos in a local street shop was telling me about flash they have of a manatee with a big cock. Nobody has ever gotten it, kind of surprising given the neighborhood really, but you can't account for taste. I wonder if there's any relation to the manatee jumping over the moon design.

I'm a devoted user of their aerosol 60 SPF - - - Updated - - - Yes he is - ask @Mark Bee about dragging me around NYC in 40C - ugh. I barely survived the summers in Japan. I grew up in the desert - give me the dry heat any day. @irezumi I lived in Japan and spent quite a bit of time in Malaysia so I can back up that Toronto is officially evil humid in the summer - not quite Louisiana but significantly evil.

Well every answer so far makes perfect sense. How could I have been so blind!

There's a reason we come back to dragons, panthers and the like. They're timeless, and well..just fuckin cool. Just done a quick count of 9 dragons, but not 1 panther. Thanks guys. Panthers head to be slammed back of neck next tattoo! - - - Updated - - - Fkn how cool. Just texted tattooer about slamming panther head back of neck. Locked in for next week. Fuck this forums awesome.

@Zillah - sorry to hear! I don't know about rabbits, but I give one of my older cats 1/4 Pepcid to help her appetite. We did that with a dog as well - maybe your vet might think this could help? Molly the cat is also losing her sense of smell, so I warm her food and she "finds" it more easily. - - - Updated - - - I know, like, RIGHT?!? I mean, seriously, I don't know why we can't express the inner meaning, like, because it's what I'm really FEELING, you know? I have the word "believe" in Comic Sans on my side in 2 inch letters. I need to be able to see it in the mirror every morning and night, so I remember to believe in myself, because every day the world just wants to tear me down, and it's really hard, you know, to just turn away from the HATERS who just have to hate, so if no one else will, I have to believe in myself, you know? I don't know why no one here likes letters, I mean, that means you can READ it, right? Otherwise, how would I know that a rose would mean for me to believe in myself? although a rose is very beautiful, but could mean other things. I want people to know that I believe in myself and I am strong enough to show the world that. I also have each letter in a slightly different color, to represent a rainbow, because every day is different, with different challenges, so every day I may have to feel differently to truly believe in myself, otherwise it might not feel real to me, you know? But since all the letters are outlined in really solid black, I don't think anyone here could really be that much upset about it, I mean, like, really?

The sun isn't going to devour itself!

New signature.

If I didn't think most newbies would take it seriously and/or offensive, we should have an "Ask @Graeme" thread where you propose your new age idea, and he comes up with a badass traditional alternative.

It's how we used to kill panthers and gorillas.. before the internet RUINED TATTOOING.

it is a sexual thing. the dagger symbolizes a penis. i have a dagger stabbing through a skull and eagle because i love skulls and i fuckin love america.

Just because you got something stabbing through your head doesn't mean that you're having a bad time

I just saw a post from Grime saying that Andre Malcolm is moving to Skull and Sword. I never heard of the guy, so I check out his Instagram... all back pieces. This one is intense. I bet it takes someone to be very strong in character to get this on their back.

I already look too awesome as a bald man. To quote Holden Caulfield, "He was one of those bald guys that comb all their hair over from the side to cover up the baldness. I'd rather be bald than do that."

I read that. I just remembered that there's a Transformer that's a panther/car. Now I'm stuck with a terrible 80s tattoo in my mind. As you were.

No matter what you want you should instead get two animals fighting. Unless you want three animals fighting.

Find the best artist you can and get a dragon fighting a lion as a full torso piece.

Because it's rad, that's why.

Because the easiest way to make a tattoo tougher is to put a dagger in it!

Just got back from a three-day silent Buddhist meditation retreat with Noah Levine and Against the Stream in Joshua Tree. Hard to be away from @TrixieFaux and the little one, but it was beautiful and challenging and (hopefully) life-changing. There was a lot of high-quality tattooage on display -- I call them Tatuddhists -- but of course I couldn't ask anyone, "Where'd you get your work?" Noah himself is pretty much covered with work from @Scott Sylvia and I think @Juan Puente, Eddy Deutsche and some other dudes. Funny how I kind of stumbled upon ATS. 1) At a kids' birthday party, a friend introduced @TrixieFaux to this other mom and was like, "You have tattoos, she has tattoos, you guys should be friends!" As if -- but it turned out she was pretty cool and also Noah's wife. 2) A few days later, we went to a Jondix art show here in L.A. (where we met @ian among others) that just happened to be at the center. I don't believe in all that hippie shit but for sure the universe was trying to tell me something. Anyway if you happen to be in SoCal check 'em out Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society but they're also opening one in San Fran and in NYC there's Dharma Punx which I plan to check out when I'm there next month.

Since Horitomo posted my arms on Instagram I thought I should share them here. All shading is done. Next session color begins!

Andre is the man! This in-progress piece by Filip on Ching from East Tattoo is killer!

I can see the end, possibly one sitting left. As you may see in the dragons belly, my body doesn´t like the the powder blue pigment Marius used in it, so his going to blast over with the same blue color that he used in the sword.

Martin Lacasse in Philly makes some very nice dragons. Also check out Pagoda City Tattoo Fest

Going in for more on my back tonight. (Oh boy does *that* sound inappropriate.) Trying to get my head into the game.

in the philly area or better yet allentown pa. my first was from the quillian in allentown. i really like the way it came out. plus it was a friendly place, not even close to some of the sketchy places ive seen in philly

Starting my back on the 14:th of June (!!!) Very stoked and nervous, such a commitment.

Aw, man -- I remember slathering up with baby oil for a quickie tan back in the day rocking the Specials on my big-ass yellow Walkman or whatever else I listened to in high school. So so dumb in retrospect but we were all immortal then. Nowadays we look at this site for sunscreen info:EWG's 2014 Guide to Sunscreens

@hdmark Go to Martin Lacasse at Olde City Tattoo. Get a badass dragon from a criminally underrated tattooer without a crazy wait. Be stoked.

Get a lions head on a dragons body..

And/or fire.

Because it's a diatribe railing against the butter industry. We must use knives only for meat, not soft and salty pats of fermented milk.

My tattoo for this month. That's four for four. Got this from Wan (instagram: wan_tattooer) during his visit at Idle Hand SF. Took the pic from his IG also.

Actually wrote today, which turned out well. Just a couple really short pieces, but still writing.

He just had some work done. Probably still not right in the head ;-)

You are insane. ;)

While I had originally planned to work on my back today, we ended up filling in a few spots on my legs. The tattoos are from Dan Higgs' flash and were made by Tim Pausinger at The Pearl in Toronto. Sigh. Sideways pic.

I was lucky to catch this angry panther on my inner bicep from Tony Hundahl when he visited Oslo last week :D

I know you said no shunga, but get a shunga tattoo! Or a crab.

Here's the results of my first sitting for my crane and peonies back piece with Richard Pinch in Aberdeen. I'm delighted with it. It's a bit peely still (sitting was last Thursday) but seems to be healing nicely. As you can see, he made a start on the shading, and there's colour to add too, and it's going to be extended downwards over my bum in time. - - - Updated - - - Ack, that's tiny! Oh well, you get the idea. And hello, everyone, by the way!

that Victor guy was my favorite tattoo pope.