Hands On

I believe that most tattooers have an hourly rate. Find the artist you want to do your backpiece and figure out their hourly rate. Discuss the tattoo you want to get and ask how long it will take them to get thru the first session. bust out your abacus or slide rule and bingo... you know how much your first session will be.

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Howdy! Welcome to LST!

I think it depends on the content of the review. If you checked out their portfolio, you should be able to see the quality of their work. Reviews can let you know if the tattooer's an asshole before you go talk to 'em or give you some insight as to the atmosphere of the shop. gotta take all good and bad reviews with a grain of salt and judge for yourself.

only thing i know about mirimar is that's where they trained in top gun!

Chad Koeplinger. He was cool about it and actually got a nice, clean, accurate outline despite my writhing in pain the whole time!

Good thing he tattoos very fast, otherwise itd take me ten sittings to finish! Everyone in that shop tattoos fast. They were knocking out tattoos faster than episodes of Miami Ink. ;)

what did you end up getting? i think there was a thread about this, yeah?

couldn't help but imagine this as a painstaking backpiece.

3.2 million dots...

Damn... this thread gets antsy!

What's ROA mean?.

Rock of Ages

just looking at Xed Le Head's website - this is on Lucky Diamond Rich.

ouch. this reminds me of adam sandler's foot in mr. deeds.

I'm suprised no one's posted this gem yet

any way we can vote this as the LST theme song?.. have it come on automatically everytime you open a new LST page... and hide the stop/pause/mute button.

gem indeed.

you definitely found a good place to soak some stuff up. welcome!

there's some crazy shit on youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzynAzvArJk

atop the google search...

(crickets)

Iron Will is a sick book. Is it not available anymore?

are there any other places i can look for pictures on what i can do for my knee? i feel so stumped. flowers keep coming to mind as a cool subject matter but i can t visualize what flowers would look like. one girl i work with got an oyster with a pearl on her knee and it looks so cool! i dont know how i feel about animal heads right now, to me it just doesn't seem to feel like it fits for me! i have 7 months before my appt. so i can keep brainstorming!

7 months is a long time to think of something to get. just keep researching and i'm sure you'll find something. Ask your artist for some ideas of what they'd like to put on knees. Something just might click.

There's a beautiful ROA painting in Tattoo City. I attached a mediocre picture of it, but that's probably best anyways. Go see it in person!

That's why you should watch The Increasing Bad Decisions of Todd Margret it's with David Cross and Will Arnett. David Cross wrote on AD.

as soon i saw that you mentioned will arnett and david cross, i went home and put on The Increasing Bad Decisions of Todd Margret. i had some good laughs, but my wife wasn't as into it. i'll have to watch it when she's not around.

twin peaks, arrested development and america: the story of us.

the documentary on every important era of america is really well narrated and has amazing production. perhaps a personal favorite because i love the gilded age

Arrested Development is an all time favorite! So much random, messed up shit going on and each character is hilarious in their own way. The writing is pretty brilliant.

Thanks!

Nice pics. Welcome to LST!

Gotta agree with hogg... his speed isn't a factor here. Go get tattooed by him and treat yourself to a graduation gift. You won't be disappointed.

Got it worked out. Appt is on the books.

did you decide on something? is it a surprise or what?

Had the exact same realization. Efficiency of motion. The perfect amount of lines, shading, and color.

Looks like you got a CB200 tank on there. I just started to ride last April and got a couple little 200s myself. Pics below...

I think this convention stopped there last year too. And just like this year, I had no clue it was coming until it was here. I haven't really heard anyone mention it. I can't seem to find a lineup either. I might have to stop in though.

http://www.myspace.com/313243738/photos/14729499#{%22ImageId%22%3A14729499}

Edit found lineup still no one that I know tattooing there.

There's a short post on the TAM blog

I might check it out as well.