Dan S

urggggg... tequila. such a good idea at the time.. so not a good idea the next morning.

My daddy always told me to never drink any likker had to be dressed up with fruit first...words to live by!

that's fair enough.. Theres a fair few great shops in that area of the UK that are having to deal with this kind of thing alot.. and are ending up fixing lots of mistakes! i just cant understand how people end up with these tattoos.. DO THEY NOT HAVE EYES?!?!?!

What's truly amazing is that no one has woken up in the morning, looked at their new tattoo, and gone down and broken his spokes.

Dale will keep the shop going strong, for sure. Mike Dalton and David McNair are two of the most prolific and least talked-about tattooers on the scene today. Both have been at the shop for many, many years, and I sure doubt they'll be going anyplace soon. If you've never seen their work, you should definitely check it out.

As for the rest, I said it before, hang on to your hats! Nick's new shop will be opening fairly soon, and in the meantime, he is laying down excellent work per usual in guest-spots around town and out of town.

And he and Mario will have plenty of other talent with them.

Delicious, I can only say the same to you as I said to someone else.

Get what you want. If someon else doesn't like it, tell them to sod off.

If your family has superstitions based on the belief of the cult they beling to, THEY are the ones that need to deal, not you.

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There's a shop in South Beloit, not far from here, that has a big sign out front, "Tattoos from $40, piercings from $10".

You just know it's a high-class operation...I was thinking of blowing off Nick and going to them exclusively.

Not.

My mother was in the hospital high on dillota .

Dilaudid.

Good stuff.

i see your kill feds and i raise you a fuck cops

acab lfod

KILL FEDS

Sailor Jerry released flashbooks.. I think on some level that makes it different. I completely understand the issue if you put your best into designing something and then someone copies it.. When a client brings our shop a design of that nature we reference but change it.. no direct replica's ..just not good ethics...especially considering that the style of each tattooer is different.

Sailor Jerry also did a ton of custom work, and it has been copied endlessly.

I understand the issue, and agree that a tattooer should reference, not copy.

My point was that there was a person involved in this, and he was being ripped on, and I felt that was bogus.

Period.

...women are attractive to look at.. why not cover your body in attractive things :)

I agree completely, and try to do so at every opportunity!!!

So my question is.. can you have TOO many lady heads? is there anything wrong with just getting all the tattoo's that you want without worrying too much about them being 'samey'?

No.

Get what you like, and if someone else doesn't like it, tell 'em to sod off.

Yeah healing my inner arm is a pain, specially since I'm carrying a 18kg backpack all the time and living on the road atm. When I got it the tattoo it was 27 degrees celcius in Italy, which was a bit too much and I couldn't stay out of the sun so now im in Germany for a little while till it's healed, luckily I can stay here at someones apartment. I can't imagine itching on both thighs and upper arm at the same time, that must be horrible! Good luck with that haha

That's a 40 POUND backpack, Homer...you ain't been in Europe THAT long! (if you had, you'da called it a rucksack!)

Everything old is new again, eh?!

When I first started shaving, really, it was just that choice, straight-razor or d.e. I used a straight-razor at first, then changed to what was called a "safety-razor", or what is called a d.e. here. I stopped shaving when I was 21, but started again, what, maybe ten years ago. Don't shave it all, but what I do shave, I typically use an electric razor.

For soap, Williams, what else?! It's like .49 a cake, and fits in the bottom of your mug just fine. I still shave with a blade every few weeks, just to keep the electric honest. Typically use a straight-razor...I've got six of 'em I rotate, everything from an English model from the 1800's to a relatively new German one from the early thirties.

Only thing I can say is strop hell out of 'em, and before you butcher yourself, shave a balloon. When you can shave a few balloons in a row without popping 'em, you're good to go!

And for any of you rich blade-shaving aficionados, I have a brand-new, in the box, WWII-vintage safety-razor. Gots to imagine it's a Gillette, but I will check if anyone is interested. Open to any offer.

Gosh dad, glad you could make it here!

@Eilin may have broken the internet. Superb.

DAMN!!!

And here the AlGore is on vacation this week...

Folsom is down to Medium now, right? What level were you celled at?

Yay! finally finished by upper back today :D I'm sooo happy :D :o By Valerie Vargas at Frithstreet tattoo

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Kills. Totally.

The man got a tattoo he likes, so let's rip on him because we don't like the tattooer.

Class.

Fuck this.

So you think it is ok if another tattooist gets one of your custom tattoos from the internet and traces it line for line and passes it on as their own?

Im sorry if I have offended a small number but people here on the forum but tattooists like Gen from the biscuit family in Korea are leeches in my opinion.

I live by good morals and If something isn't right I will speak my mind, if you don't have morals what do you have right.

This guy has mad skills why does he deem it appropriate to disrespect another artist and his client who has probably worked damn hard to afford it and endured much pain to get his custom tattoo.

I was gutted when I stumbled upon this on Gens' instagram a while back, my dragon is now reproduced onto probably and unsuspecting client of Gen......thanks

I hear what you're saying, and if he is reproducing line-by-line, yeah, I wouldn't be real happy about it.

On the other hand, how many times have, say, Sailor Jerry's designs, custom or not, been reproduced, line-by-line? I guess it would all go to how it was done, as a straight copy, or an "influenced design", or what.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Le's Pho, Argyle n Broadway, about ten minutes from CTC.

Obviously you have a nice tattoo it's just a shame it's a Shige knock off.

Why is it a shame that his tattooer copied someone else's style? Anymore, almost all tattooing is evocative of some other persons work.

Man, get a smaller piece on your leg, or where it isn't as noticeable. Experiment with some color. I've known some brother's do good with red, some with orange or yellow...see what it looks like, and if you like it, hey, there you go.

There are Black tattooers in most cities, and I'd think one of themn could speak to these issues more concisely than a White tattooer, simply out of a better understanding of their own skin.

I have single-needle tattooed more than a few Blacks, even some plum-black brothers, and never really had a problem with scarring or more swelling than a White would have with a comparable tattoo.

@Dan S are you blurring swazys or other WP images out? or just gang symbols you want to keep off the internet? I dont mind seeing them but understand if they could get them in trouble.

Just blurred out actual identifiers. A few of those Brothers are dead, a few are in the joint, at least two are on the street, and I don't want to casue anyone problems.

Most of these tattoos are popular outside of russian prisions. It would suck if a Russian really couldnt get any of these images for fear of death.

Actually, very few of the actual "signifying" tattoos are worn by anyone but an "in-law" in Russia. There are some heavy possibilities for someone who hasn't earned them. Same here, if someone was to put on so-called "gang" symbols, things could get hairy right chop-chop.

Sandman, you should credit the article you posted.

http://createvisualculture.wordpress.com/cruciformity/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Russian-Criminal-Tattoo-Encyclopedia/180948251928150?sk=info

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_tattoo

Same lame shit is regurgitated all over the web.