JAllen

@irezumi, an rodent mouse.
To the original post, good luck if you just do a big binary piece. The guy I used to work with did one that everyone else in the area refused to do. He said it was a nightmare. Just zeros and ones...no matter how perfect some tattoos, we're not machines.

@irezumi, an rodent mouse.
To the original post, good luck if you just do a big binary piece. The guy I used to work with did one that everyone else in the area refused to do. He said it was a nightmare. Just zeros and ones...no matter how perfect some tattoos, we're not machines.

@irezumi, an rodent mouse.
To the original post, good luck if you just do a big binary piece. The guy I used to work with did one that everyone else in the area refused to do. He said it was a nightmare. Just zeros and ones...no matter how perfect some tattoos, we're not machines.

if you are interested in tattoos why would you want to spend less time researching tattoos?

I know that I'd be bummed if you started spending a lot less time here, but I get it, and I feel a lot of the same frustration. There's so much good, reliable information here, and there's really some truly amazing stuff in Scott's interviews, that I feel if you can't be bothered to do a little bit of legwork yourself, why are you getting tattooed in the first place?

Face to face is the only way to initiate any rapport.

The times I've been tattooed, nothing happens without a deposit - including booking a first session. If you are so annoyed with his behavior you can A. go somewhere else, or B. stop by the shop and find out what's going on, and leave a deposit with a date made in the calendar if you decide to stick with him. This is not complicated stuff here.
I've had sessions rebooked before, it's not a big deal. Life happens.

at the very least try incorporate the binary into a more visually appealing image. maybe a tradtional heart filled with binary? or a skull with binary "etched" into it. or a clipper ship named the "SS 011000110"

What the fuck happened there?!?
That's not a panther cover up; that's a combo of a panther eating a black rose while wearing a black top hat with a thought bubble contains black flag bars with the whole thing surrounded by black clouds.

saw them totally sober on the through silver in blood tour at the point in atl which would've been 95ish i think. that place was tiny too. by the time i left i felt like i'd been doing drugs the whole show.
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I think there is one that @dcostello made long ways back

I am an ABO Ceritfied Optician (well I was, I have let it laps)......I wear a lab coat but my neck and hands are tattooed and there is no way for me to cover those!
It really depends.....can't you just wear long sleeved shirts and have them hidden?
I work full time and have been an Optician for over 25 years with mostly visible tattoos.....and to be honest I really enjoy the doctors who are willing to accept me for who I am.....
I guess the question here is.....do you want to be who you really are in life OR do you want to hide that and bow down to what you are perceiving is people who won;t accept you because you are tattooed?
If wasn't easy for me......I was actually not promoted into management at Lenscrafters because of a silly tattoo I had on my index finger I got when I was fifteen......mind you I was able to train people for management.....LMFAO!
I learned this from a former manager about 7 years ago.....
BUT....you know what....having to work twice as hard to get where I am now made me twice as good as my peers! ;)
I have run several optical departments in hospitals and managed a few stores and private practices.....
I am working full time as an Optician at a VA Hospital by day now and working full time in the evenings and weekends as a tattoo apprentice....working my ass of to learn to tattoo the right way!
Let me just say this.....I hope you will be strong and brave and be one of those doctors that keeps his tattoos BUT if you don't.......please don't ever put a dollar sign over giving an Optician who has visible tattoos a chance because you may find the best employee you could ever want to have if you give them that chance!

So if I understand your story...
You approached the guy with your tattoo idea. He said, "Yeah, cool." You didn't leave a deposit. You didn't make an appointment.
You went to the shop and he traced your arm, showing he had every intention to do your tattoo. You didn't leave a deposit. You didn't make an appointment.
He posted on Facebook that he had an opening and you wrote back. Maybe you were the first; maybe you were the hundredth. A lot of tattooers who post on FB and IG still want you to make appointments via email, phone, or in person. And when in fact you did email, lo and behold you got one.
Too bad he had to reschedule. It happens. Maybe he had an out-of-town client who couldn't rebook, who knows? In any event, he offered you another slot, twenty-four hours later, after regular shop hours, meaning he went out of his way to accommodate you.
Get a tattoo from the guy or don't. Some artists are worth waiting for. I haven't been getting tattooed for twenty years, but I do understand it's a unique business -- not like buying a T-shirt at the mall.

I think there is one that @dcostello made long ways back

At this shop you go to, are you required to leave a deposit to make an appt/start a drawing? Personally I don't nor have I ever worked at a place where I would do any artwork, outside of what was doodled during a consultation, until a client has left a deposit.

Everything Slayer just said.

I can tell you I've been accidentally double-booked, dates forgotten, etc, in the past. I also generally always get tattooed after hours, some tattooers just like that for whatever reason. I actually like it because the shop is different after hours.

RIP H.R. Giger

saw them totally sober on the through silver in blood tour at the point in atl which would've been 95ish i think. that place was tiny too. by the time i left i felt like i'd been doing drugs the whole show.
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a crash test mannequin holding a bent bumper

saw them totally sober on the through silver in blood tour at the point in atl which would've been 95ish i think. that place was tiny too. by the time i left i felt like i'd been doing drugs the whole show.
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I think this would be a good option:

^yes

I didn't know they had a new one, I'll have to get that. The first one was great too...it really continued on what Tom G Warrior was doing on Monotheist, which also ruled. That was a WAY better reunion album than I think anybody could have reasonably expected.
I saw Triptykon when they were touring on that first album. They fucking killed it.

Neurosis in Denver in October, can't wait for that. It's probably been 15 or so years since I saw them last.