RoryQ
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Anchor Bock and Anchor Summer Ale last night...
I really liked the Bock - super stuff.
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My questions have, I'm sure, been asked and answered a thousand times on here, so I won't get into that.
So why then go on to...
My one question is, how many tattoos does a tattooer need to have to be taken seriously?
Groundhog day indeed... Best to use the search function for the original mega-thread on this topic, end of story.
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Looks interesting - a similar concept to the PorterHouse we were discussing earlier. As far as the selection goes, looks like they have the 4 regular offerings plus 1 seasonal and 1 fruit beer?
The czech-style black lager sounds interesting.
I used to have to spent a few days a year in Cardiff - I wish I'd known about that place, it might have made the place a little more tolerable (apologies to any Welsh forumites).
Actually perhaps I'm being unfair to Wales, I'm actually quite fond of Braines ale and Breconshire brewery's various offerings (they do a lovely pale ale called Cribyn).
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Sadly I think I'm the only one within range of this bad-boy. It's a small Irish craft beer festival - there's also food (roasted whole hog, pies, nothing complicated).
Beer and pagan holidays, winning combination...
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I would have liked to go this year (and maybe meet up with some forumites) but I'm on holidays while this is on... (Japan - also admittedly bloody well looking forward to that too).
Ross Nagle from All Star Ink apparently has some slots left, judging from Facebook, if anyone fancies getting some bad-ass trad work.
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I've got a book on Maori tattooing called 'Mau Moko', written by a group of Maori academics (most of them tattooed) who interviewed Maori artists and people with a lot of moko. The book is a fairly academic survey of the past, present, future etc. One of the chapters is a fairly robust presentation of all the different strong feelings about moko and kirituhi. It might provide some of the perspectives you're after?
YouTube interview with the authors
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This is a really interesting thread. I guess I expected the food-related rituals that people have - but I'm surprised about the topical pain relief ointment and the pre-tattoo drinks... Not judging anyone, but I always mentally ruled those things out as potentially earning me a bollocking from my artist.
For me my rituals coming back from The Family Business in London were that I would always walk up to Islington and have a few pints of cask ale. Then dinner followed by cheesecake. :p
On the topic of pain relief, I did a double take when someone I knew with a new backpiece told me that they took oxycontin or an equivalent painkiller during long sessions. I had assumed that was a total no-no - or am I just seriously naive?
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His back is certainly big enough to fit that kind of panorama on!
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Teargas, like a curfew or baton rounds, would probably result in the police being rounded upon for being too heavy handed... I wonder will they get the go-ahead for any of that? I believe the Met have said it's a decision for parliment (some of those options, at least).
I feel like the Met are caught between a rock and a hardplace. Too soft and passive a response and they are accused of being caught flat-footed or being incompetent. Too aggressive and pro-active and when people are inevitably injured the liberal media, a significant portion of politicians and assorted community groups would go ballistic and look for individual officers to villify for going over the top.
It was gratifying to see Kurdish and Turkish business owners out protecting their property on TV - fair play to them.
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Sorry to drag up this thread, but it seemed like the most appropriate place for this query-
We're hoping to visit the Yokohama Tattoo Museum in the first week of September. I've been checking their website and translating it into English and am struggling a little to understand what they mean about taking a '10 days hiatus per month'. It seems to say something about being open 10 days, then closed 3, then open again etc.
Can anyone shed any light?
I was also curious if anyone knows if Kazuyoshi Nakano i.e Horiyoshi III's son/successor works out of Yokohama and takes walk-ins or bookings? (Apologies if that's a ridiculous question, but again although I've looked at his page on their site I see a gallery but no contact details).
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Agreed, that was a really interesting post, useful to hear these snippets of modern tattoo history....
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I finally got around to sorting pictures of my chest - these were done in February / March of this year so I'm not sure if they count as 'latest tattoo lowdown' material though...
This oni head, also by Mo, is older, but I didn't have a pic of it until now.
It's funny, when I look at this picture I don't so much see the tattoo as all the bare skin below it, and I think 'damn, better bring that down the arm'.
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I've got a bunch of Seiko watches, including a couple of Japanese-market only that I am probably fairly nerdy about.
In terms of clothes I have a thing about Belstaff and aside from tattoos they are probably my biggest 'luxury' expenditure, between us my GF and I have six of their jackets. Pricey but they make some seriously nice heritage-type leather jackets. I used to wear nice suits and ties at work, but to be honest they just kept getting wrecked so now I save nice clothes for private time.
Like pixxelated I hoard books. I buy in bulk, trawling every secondhand bookshop in the city for vintage science fiction. I don't think I've thrown on out in about fifteen years. My GF says if we get married this will come to an end.
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Interesting article... I think I've only had the Osaka style, must watch out for the Hiroshima style. The only thing I'm not a fan of in/on them are the fish scales... I find it kind of weird the way they keep curling up and moving around due to the way they react to the heat (it's like there's some invisible breeze in the restaurant).
Above is a link to the London-based okonomiyaki chain that I go to, on the offchance that one of our UK members is interested.
They're pretty authentic, as far as I can see, comparing it to the okonomiyaki I had in Japan. As with the California-style okonomiyaki mentioned in MsRad's article they also do their own 'house' take which basically just involves stacking two okonomiyaki on top of each other for us greedy westerners, as far as I can see.
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I only get decent mexican food when I visit the U.S or possibly London.
Last time I was in Chicago I went to Rick Bayless' restaurant Frontera Grill and his cheaper sandwich place Xoco.... Both pretty amazing, but to be honest the best mexican food I had that trip was from some random neighbourhood place out in the 'burbs where the bill came to about $6.... Maybe that type of food works best as cheap and cheerful street-food.
The other type of food I particularly love but can't get here is Okonomyiaki.... I know a small chain in London which is pretty amazing but there's not a single place in Dublin that serves it.
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Double post, sorry
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Found my new favourite restaurant at the weekend, on a trip down the country for a couple of days.
O'Brien Chop House Restaurant Lismore, Waterford Restaurant
It kind of reminded me of the Hawksmoor restaurant in London that Valerie mentioned above ... They do all kinds of old-school butcher's cuts of meat... Hanger steak, marrow, all kinds offal and huge steaks on the bone. They also do whole trouts and hakes and whatnot, intended to be shared.
We got an 800g prime rib for two for dinner. They hand you the steak, and then they hand you a big bone-handled butchering knife to do the business on the thing. Deliciously rare ... I mean it was ridiculously buttery and tender. Served with hand-cut homemade chips (fries to you Americans) and little jugs of pepper sauce.
Drinks-wise we had a couple of bottles of '8 degrees howling gale pale ale', new from a microbrewery in Cork set up by a kiwi and an aussie.
Unfortunately can't see a way that many forumites are ever going to get the chance to try it unless they're not only in Ireland but on a trip way down to the south of the country (it's in County Waterford). The area it's in is a bit of a foodie mecca... Within driving distance are two of the best craft breweries in the country (Dungarvan Brewing and Metalman brewing) as well as the only michelin-starred restaurant outside of Dublin, based in the Cliff House Hotel in Ardmore.
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Drank a fair bit of bourbon over the weekend (yes, it's not whiskey or even tenessee whiskey, but it's close enough for government work). Eagle Rare mainly... Made Old Fashioneds using flavoured bitters I haven't come across before - a premium brand doing them in orange, chocolate, peach etc.
Going to get to work on that Crown Royal next week (it's at my parents' house right now).
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Some really good tattooists in Scotland these days. I love Richard Pinch's work (and his body suit by Filip Leu is pretty amazing too)>
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Hmmm.... Looks like a London Met hat on the copper in the background? Basing that on the check pattern... although I think a fair few other UK forces make use of it.
is he english? or an american just wishin' he was an english skinhead?
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Double post, sorry.
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My girlfriend brought that article home :) . I was like "I know who that guy is!"
And yeah, it makes a change from the usual sort of tattoo-related stories (The one that sticks in my mind is the girl who claimed she fell asleep during a tattoo session and ended up with a faceful of stars she didn't ask for).
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I heard a Norwegian journalist on the radio this morning and they were saying that his first court appearance might be closed, but only because the police are still investigating whether he had an accomplice.
After that he was saying the first order of business will probably be to determine whether he is mentally ill or is fit to stand trial.
Apparently the maximum sentence he could get, if tried and found guilty, is 21 years.
The end of an apprentice - sacking your mentor.
in Crazy Tattoo Stories
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This sentiment was also expressed by Mario Desa and Stewart of late.
The forum will be all the poorer for non-participation of tattooists. Some of the most interesting posts on here, let's be honest, have been the ones from experienced tattooists talking about the history of particular figures within the industry, or the finer points of the way they see their trade.
However, I'm not quite sure what can or should be done about tattooer forum members being pissed off with stupid questions like the one that kicked off this thread. It's the internet, a certain amount of spam is inevitable and no matter how sacred the topic there will be someone along in a short while to piss all over it- often unwittingly.
If some tattooers are offended by this to the point that it means they're not going to come back to the forum - well, that sucks, sorry to see you go. But I must admit the comments about 'coming here less and less', or wistful mention of a tattooers-only subforum and whatnot do also smack to me a little of "I'm taking my ball and I'm going home". I will miss some of the contributions but equally I won't miss that aspect.
I know this probably won't be a popular post, but so be it.