chrisnoluck

first after a break over christmas

really cool! i love the girl face in the leaves and all.

the lady and i have appointments with josh adams next wednesday while he's guest spotting @ old soul. even though i just got tattooed on thursday i'm still super excited to hang out at old soul for the day and get tattooed!

been messing around with some different stuff lately. these two are ink on cardboard. 16x20"

Done

this ones killer!

@chrisnoluck Tattoo Marks in State College? I got my first few tattoos at their old shop behind McLanahans.

Yep!

took a drive up to tattoo marks today and got this from lowercase j.

i've gone the last two years and have had a good time and got great tattoos both years. i wish there was less vendors & shit there but what can you do. i'll be there saturday all day, at this point i'm not going to make any appointments but we'll see. definitely would be into meeting any of you that will be there.

last nights efforts

few nights ago

Doesn't @chrisnoluck have a frog similar to that one? It's such an awesome design and that's a great story. Tattoos are the coolest thing in the world.

yep, i've got a similar frog on my arm from lowercase j

Finally making a trip down to Electric Tattoo in NJ and getting tattooed by Robert Ryan. I'm going to be at the Philly convention at the beginning of February, so i'm just going to NJ the Friday of the convention. Probably not going to make any appts for the convention but we will see.

got this today from justin hyde

my cousin got this one from him

that's awesome! any other tattoos from him?

my girlfriend ordered me a copy as an early/late christmas gift. can't wait to check it out.

hard to get a decent picture but this is my biggest painting so far.. 16x20"

from tonight

i travel a lot to get tattooed. sometimes i get tattooed by someone multiple times, sometimes i get tattooed once by someone and then don't really have the opportunity to get tattooed by them again because they live across the country.

Man, I've always loved this design (Polito originally?) and I especially love it with Max's flair added.

Not sure where the design originated, he just had some books with line drawings in it that he drew up and wanted to tattoo and it was in there.

Yesterday morning at 7 AM my girlfriend, my cousin, and myself drove down to Richmond to get tattooed by Max Kuhn. It was my 3rd session on my back and we got about 4 more hours in on it.

My girlfriend got her stomach finished

My cousin came along and got his 3rd tattoo. I just took him to get his first back in June or July from Shrewsbury, then he got tattooed by Lowercase J last month.

About 4 more hours on my back today with Max. I'm going to try to make another trip down to Richmond before the end of the year. Sorry if it's huge but I'm on my phone right now.

I am hesitant to even type this, but I think I need to start slowing down. I believe I've gotten 11 tattoos this year, and I'd like to get 2 more to make an even 13 for 2013, but I'm also not a very large person. I've only been getting tattooed for about 4 years and probably have 25% coverage. I'd like to get tattooed for many years to come and I know my tastes are going to change. What's probably going to happen is I'm going to stop getting tattooed for a little while, save up a bunch of money, and then start working on the really big pieces.

Honestly, I'm starting to feel the same.. After having trouble finding a spot for a palm sized tattoo when I was in SF it really hit me. Since January 1st I have been tattooed 10 times (and got tattooed 2 days before new years this year). I also am getting tattooed on Friday and then again on December 4th. So that will make it 13 before New Years again. Last year I got tattooed around 15 times. As much as I say I want to slow down a bit, I love traveling and I love tattoos and getting them. I'm already planning to go to the Philly convention in February and then getting tattooed by Rob Ryan the day before the convention.. Also planning a trip to Ann Arbor in April to get tattooed by Jeff Zuck & Cole Dunn.. maybe after then I will take a little break :rolleyes:

It may be mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but who is doing your back in Richmond?

Max Kuhn

finally get to contribute to this thread again on friday. driving down to richmond for session 3 on my back, i'm excited to knock out some more black but at the same time i want to puke when i think about it.

i put together another little zine of drawings & paintings. full color on cardstock, hand numbered out of 13 (just in time for halloween). if anyone is interested you can send $3.50 to [email protected] via paypal (as friends/family) with your address in the comments and i will send you one.

It's undeniable men have faced discrimination, but in my experience, people are more comfortable being nasty to women. These are mostly the type of people too cowardly to confront someone who might fight back, and in a culture where girls are raised to be sweet and demure, we're not expected to say anything in these sorts of situations. ;)

Israel is conservative in some aspects, so those reactions don't surprise me.

I definitely agree with this. My girlfriend works as a bartender/server in an Outback restaurant, she ALWAYS gets comments from people. A lot of people will flat out tell her that "tattoos are ugly, why would you do that to yourself?". I, on the other hand have not ever once received a comment from someone being rude. I get the "where do you get your ink?" questions a lot and "doesn't that hurt?" but other than nice comments I've never come across anybody being rude. I'm not even sure how I would react to a rude comment about them.

mine doesn't have a lady head or anything with it but here's my little moon man from Justin Hyde