amoxill

bumping this thread to see if anything has changed for US artists crossing the pond. i'm contemplating a show in france this June, but don't want any surprises when i land. any suggestions?

i feel ya. we have 8 other shops (!?!) within about a 5 block radius, so we deal with a ridiculous amount of "price shopping." it used to be hard for me to turn that work away, but over time it has become apparent that some people simply do not give a fuck about the quality of the tattoo and just want a bargain. a few learn the lesson, but many never do.

san angelo. worked this show last year and had a blast. our whole crew will be there again this year...

Woof mildly hung over. Bob Seger does strange things to a man.

Kev, although the artist list isn't posted, I think most artists know at this point if they are going. If you have someone in mind it wouldn't necessarily be too early to contact them. You'd be surprised how early some artists book up. I missed the boat on someone I wanted work from @ SFO this weekend; they were booked over a month ago.

about to head to the airport.

see y'all at the party...

fuuuuuck. gonna go stick my hand in a wood chipper now.

hawk pretty much took the words right out of my mouth, but i'd be remiss not to reiterate that my post was never intended as a dig toward any particular body type.

i would've posted if it had been a bald skinny chick from Baytown, a hirsute Armenian bodybuilder, or a Hindu dwarf.

the salient point being that despite the sanitized and glamorized tattooer-rock star image perpetuated in reality programming, for me the reality of a good bit of this profession is being elbow-deep in some stranger's ass meat while my friends are at the bar.

(which, by the way, is fine by me.)

Yeah contrary to popular belief, the cool Grimm and Jensen redraws are the exception rather than the norm.

At least that's been my experience thus far.

just another saturday night. my co-worker snapped this candid pic as i was about to start a walk-in. enjoy! (mildly nsfw)

i'm a fellow houstonian...actually born + raised in manvel(!)

welcome to LST!

We should do our own version of the "it gets better" PSA for people with crap tattoos.

been jonesing to visit chicago again and have wanted to get tattooed from jef for a long time.

may have to make this happen sometime in the spring...

now i feel obligated to incorporate the woop woop on general principle. a variation on the old drinking game, perhaps. so whenever gary oldman shows up on screen and makes a very serious look of consternation, i will probably feel compelled to yell out "woop woop." if roving gangs of 14 year olds are allowed to carry on phone calls/serial text-bookface marathons at every movie i attend, surely i am well within my right here (?)

end thread derail rant.

It would be woop woop only if I got to see it before some yokels in freakin Finland

Lucky bastards in the UK got Tinker Tailor last month and it doesn't open in the states til December.

Which means we probably won't see it in Houston til March. Womp, womp.

awesome.

weird. my money's on at least 1 scene with gosling ripping out someone's heart and/or throat with his bare hands... logan's run seems strange and refn was supposedly on the shortlist for die hard 5 *shudders*. though drive was apparently stuck in studio development hell and attached to hugh jackman (?) for some time. gives me faith that he (refn) could probably make anything watchable.

drive was the first movie i've seen in a very long time that exceeded my expectations, and easily the best film i've seen this year. refn has been steadily ratcheting up his directing chops since the pusher trilogy - the michael mann comparisons are apt. i've had the soundtrack as heavy rotation drawing/painting music for the last week and want to see the movie again...

Thank you, my Houston friend, for letting me know I need a babysitter for that night!

haha no problemo. a bunch of bearded tattooers getting rambunctious and possibly topless? how was this not already in your calendar?

"The Hero with a 1000 Faces" by Joseph Campbell was good, if a bit dry. "Way of The Tarot" is very informative and offers a peek into the way Jodorowsky interprets imagery-heavy mystical stuff, but not hippie-dippy.

After that, I'm going to try and pick up this-looks super interesting:

Amazon.com: Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (9780307475299): Jake Adelstein: Books

kev,

tokyo vice is a phenomenal read. the yakuza-related dirt that adelstein gets into is pretty unbelievable...

who's all going to be at the bay area convention??

I'll be there all weekend.

That Qaddafi portrait is the shit.