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I have a feeling that we have met the most recent re-invention of Bruce Cove/Andre Murray/Master Zao

Things have been a little weird around here recently.

It's going from bad to worse rapidly.

if it looks like piss, smells like piss and tastes like piss it probably is indeed piss.

^!!!! whoa!! Thanks for that link, perpetrators are exposed!!

Most forums I've been on allow you to either search by thread or search by post. Seems this forum only allows you to search by thread... that's an inconvenience. However you can partially get around that by using Google to search LST.

Use the Advanced Search > Search Single Content Type > scroll down > boom

I had a chocolate craving before my last session. I made a batch of brownies and brought it to the shop. They were destroyed! Looks like I'll be making a batch every session now! :-) And man, brownies are good at 2am when I needed the sugar rush.

Bringing food and or sweets to the shop is one of the best random surprises you can do for us/your tattooer/local shop. That always makes our day.

Funny that this got brought up today; I did that today for the guys at the shop working on my truck. Just showed up with 3 pizzas and got some high-fives and split. A random 'thanks' and show of appreciation for people doing you a service goes a long way.

@CultExciter - I figured. But after wrestling with the sucky search engine again, I said screw it, let me piss off some folks and ask. Maybe there should be a section here called, "Shit that's been beaten into the ground" .

I have to say that this was a great response and I second your new thread idea. Thanks for making me laugh.

^WHOA plagerists!! Damn I want answers too now.

Halifax Master Tattoo Artist group, year 2012, established a Downtown Studio: some of us returning as international travelers, who have drawn inspiration from great artists such as Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, H.R. Giger; the Filip Leu style of full body tattoo artwork, now then, please attempt to imagine combining all those qualities, with the added Tattoo realism style of Tom Renshaw in his wild life, landscape and portraits, consequently you must have arrived at our downtown Halifax Tattoo application Studio, furthermore, however, we happen to be pioneers of Biomechanical Tattoo design and application.

Is that an actual structured sentence? I mean I'm not an English major but it sounds a bit odd.

Furthermore, however, consequently, I am curious as to what makes these folks 'pioneers of biomech design and applicators'.

Edit; I just examined more of this site because it's very baffling and vague about who actually tattoos there. So I decided to click on various links under the 'menu' and found that they are posting Mosher's drawings from his books right there online as their 'traditional Japanese tattoo designs'. SUPER FUCKED UP AND NOT OK AT ALL. @Victor I would distance myself from these folks and not post anything else from that site. If you are involved with that shop than I would step back and see that this shop is doing one of the most taboo things to do.

Does trash polka mean 'tattoos that aren't tattoos'? or just 'tattoos that look like shit'?

If someone asked me for a trash polka tattoo that 'would get the wtf are you talking about' look. Please don't get something like that @scubaron and if you realllllly have to do it just bring in a reference to the shop, don't use that bizarre term.

That must be a euro thing.

@TuchakaTattoos are supposed to have a little bit of soul in them. They are not mechanical and they cannot be reduced to a 0-10 rating.

Thank you.

I was in the middle of a really long reply and just said 'fuck it someone else will handle it'. Thanks gouge.

Also where do the rubberbands go?

Yeah I don't see anything to adjust tension; rubber bands, wheel or otherwise. In fact there's so little bar exposed that all you can do is put them all the way in the back seat thus being rather ineffective.

It's basically laboratory grade dirt; no, ink companies won't tell you what's in it if you can even get them on the phone; and as far as cadmium poisoning, not gonna happen don't worry. You will not get poisoned from a tattoo.

It's possible but it could wind up muddy and brownish

"I want a tree, to me that represents life" very rarely translates to a tree that looks alive and full of foliage. Everyone wants the dead tree and never recognizes the oxymoron

You're welcome homie! And yeah the text closely follows the lectures

Gonna bite your steez on the dowel

This is a terrible picture of it though because it is damned hard to take a picture of your own arm.

Kudos on the die tattoo!

... Try taking a picture of behind your own ear. I think I spent 20 minutes trying that one.

I'm gonna start telling clients to bring a roll of paper towels, a razor and some tape. BYOS

Has anyone used this on a ditch or behind the knee or some such area yet? I'm not asking to be argumentative I'm genuinely interested.

Dungeons & Dragons thread to the rescue.

Yeah yours worked out well even if the red wasn't carried over to the roses, the weight throughout the tattoo is evenly balanced.

I think the toughest red/black cobra ever tattooed is the Grime front torso one (no disrespect towards yours it looks awesome) but admittedly also has a tiny splash of gold. It still could've worked just as well if that had been red.