JAllen

I usually tell folks to try a strapless or possibly a sports bra.

That reminds me of a quote from the late great Rollo Banks: "...the basic premise of tattooing is pretty goofy. It's like, here you have this human body, like a beautiful piece of sculpture...like somebody owns Michelangelo's David and goes 'I just bought this and I want to get some fire and devils and things on it.'"

One word, insanity.
4 days of non-stop amazing metal blasting your face.
Partying until 4am-or-whateverthefuck
Awesome crowd (actually somehow I hung out with almost exclusively Canadians)
Taake KILLED IT!
So much sunburnt
So much hangover
So much awesome.
I'll be back again next year.
Everyone brought their A-game, and killed it. Really solid!

New Godflesh is out. 14 year old me in gleeful.
Decline and Fall EP | GODFLESH

I still consider this to be the best metal song ever.

Contact the person who did the tattoo to see when a touch up is possible. Start there

Contact the person who did the tattoo to see when a touch up is possible. Start there

Contact the person who did the tattoo to see when a touch up is possible. Start there

Dude! I was part of this! I wrote a good majority of the Hellfest 2005 guidebook, and sadly those douches ruined it!

I miss this band so much. Some dude who records a bunch of shows just put out a ton of Hellfest 2004 videos.
The Hope Conspiracy - July 24, 2004

Chrome bodysuit=robocop reboot.
Don't worry everything repeats itself as far as trends go. New means, you just got exposed to it. Be ready for the 90's reboot because it's coming. Not limited to just tattooing. I've been seeing weird and frightening fashion statements being made on a regular basis. Some hybrid high waisted Mc hammer pants, just one example. Lots of 90's movies being remade too.
I'm ready to start doing that chrome tribal robocop bodysuit on the first new trendsetter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm9hHwGBd3Y


Scream Of The Butterfly is still one of my favorite songs. Cassie Eats Cockroaches and God Machine are good, too.

New Mastodon:


New Tombs, with album art by Thomas Hooper:

Chrome bodysuit=robocop reboot.
Don't worry everything repeats itself as far as trends go. New means, you just got exposed to it. Be ready for the 90's reboot because it's coming. Not limited to just tattooing. I've been seeing weird and frightening fashion statements being made on a regular basis. Some hybrid high waisted Mc hammer pants, just one example. Lots of 90's movies being remade too.
I'm ready to start doing that chrome tribal robocop bodysuit on the first new trendsetter.

Chrome bodysuit=robocop reboot.
Don't worry everything repeats itself as far as trends go. New means, you just got exposed to it. Be ready for the 90's reboot because it's coming. Not limited to just tattooing. I've been seeing weird and frightening fashion statements being made on a regular basis. Some hybrid high waisted Mc hammer pants, just one example. Lots of 90's movies being remade too.
I'm ready to start doing that chrome tribal robocop bodysuit on the first new trendsetter.

Chrome bodysuit=robocop reboot.
Don't worry everything repeats itself as far as trends go. New means, you just got exposed to it. Be ready for the 90's reboot because it's coming. Not limited to just tattooing. I've been seeing weird and frightening fashion statements being made on a regular basis. Some hybrid high waisted Mc hammer pants, just one example. Lots of 90's movies being remade too.
I'm ready to start doing that chrome tribal robocop bodysuit on the first new trendsetter.

Chrome bodysuit=robocop reboot.
Don't worry everything repeats itself as far as trends go. New means, you just got exposed to it. Be ready for the 90's reboot because it's coming. Not limited to just tattooing. I've been seeing weird and frightening fashion statements being made on a regular basis. Some hybrid high waisted Mc hammer pants, just one example. Lots of 90's movies being remade too.
I'm ready to start doing that chrome tribal robocop bodysuit on the first new trendsetter.

Chrome bodysuit=robocop reboot.
Don't worry everything repeats itself as far as trends go. New means, you just got exposed to it. Be ready for the 90's reboot because it's coming. Not limited to just tattooing. I've been seeing weird and frightening fashion statements being made on a regular basis. Some hybrid high waisted Mc hammer pants, just one example. Lots of 90's movies being remade too.
I'm ready to start doing that chrome tribal robocop bodysuit on the first new trendsetter.

Chrome bodysuit=robocop reboot.
Don't worry everything repeats itself as far as trends go. New means, you just got exposed to it. Be ready for the 90's reboot because it's coming. Not limited to just tattooing. I've been seeing weird and frightening fashion statements being made on a regular basis. Some hybrid high waisted Mc hammer pants, just one example. Lots of 90's movies being remade too.
I'm ready to start doing that chrome tribal robocop bodysuit on the first new trendsetter.

This is why I like you.
I love traditional tattoos, immensely. They are great. But I also love getting tattooed by people who are illustrative, who are technical, who are bold, and who are delicate. I like getting tattooed by people who can draw. An open 21 liner (jokes folks, I hope no one ever does that) and a bunch of skip-shading isn't everything.

I think people are really overstating the timelessness of traditional tattoos. I first started seeing them in the mid to late 90s when hardcore kids started getting them. I would guess this was to a large extent the influence of Higgs trickling down, though I did know a dude who got a bunch of bad old metal tattoos covered up with some really beautiful classic traditional done by The Dutchman in probably around 98 or so, and that was coming from a different place. Regardless, traditional tattoos have a time and a place, there isn't this continuity with them that a lot of people imagine there is, and my suspicion is that it's probably not going to be too long before traditional is going to be looked at with the same kind of sneering derision that a lot of people usually save for tribal or chromed out dragon sleeves. I'm not saying that a well-done traditional tattoo isn't going to age super well and that a big fuck off eagle on the chest or roses or a panther or whatever isn't always going to look badass, because it will, and I'm going to continue getting tattoos like that because they're powerful and they get me stoked, but don't fool yourself into thinking that they'll always be the "cool" tattoos. There are a lot of twenty year olds out there who are keepin' it super old school by getting face tattoos who are putting on shitty "traditional" tattoos that look like total ass. There's stupid things circulating of old timey celebrities with traditional tattoos photoshopped on them, I mean, there was a recent thread here about a gallery show of fucking porcelain dolls with traditional tattoos painted on them. Shit is becoming an unfunny joke.

I'm just saying that we should beware the hubris of mocking how ugly a former tattoo trend while thinking that our current tastes are timeless and will never seem outdated to anybody. I love my traditional tattoos, but I also know that they will look very much of their time and uncool to people somewhere down the road. Tastes change. No one and no style is immune.

I hope this board still exists in ten years so that I can read the equivalent thread to this that makes fun of how absurd traditional tattoos are.

The penultimate example. Guy Aitchison. 1992.

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