Avery Taylor

If I tattooed Courtney Love I would go and get a tetanus shot as soon as I finished.

If you post a picture of it in a blog it does ;) :P

If I tattooed Courtney Love I would go and get a tetanus shot as soon as I finished.

got my palm done today by Andrew Conner...wow that was something else but so totally worth it

'scuse the swelling it set in pretty fast

Who the fuck is paying this dude $300 an hour? He is a good tattooer, but what the fuck. I guess that tattooing Sponge Bob Squarepants on famous people gets you a lot further in this world than it should. I don't want to be too much of a douche-bag about this, but I just don't get it. For all I know the guy may donate 90% of his money to charity.
As far as the video goes I don't care much either way. I do not have any homemade tattoos, but I usually like the way that they look. I like the simplicity, and the roughness of them. What I don't like is poorly executed "professional" tattoos. Usually when someone is getting a homemade tattoo it is a memory that they are looking for, and not a great holy shit that is beautiful piece of artwork. When I see someone with a bad tattoo that they paid for then I feel like they were cheated, and that bugs me. Most people trust that if the city you live in felt confident enough to give someone a business license then that someone must be reasonably good at their job.
The one thing about the video that I don't care for is the tattoo itself. I don't feel that it captures the rawness of a homemade tattoo or the quality of a professional tattoo. To me it comes across as an exercise in arrogance. But as the old saying goes "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one".

i'd rather sit 3 hours on my ribs than 30 minutes on my palm. i got my second palm done yesterday with Lehi, scott did the other. what a nightmare, i can't believe i waited till after i got sober to do this one. the fucker is still on fire. haha.

@Iwar, Scott did this one on me around January/February.

got a few of these left from a recent convention. 16x16 or 18x18 don't remember. $30 and some shipping. my email and paypal: [email protected]!!

Shawn is getting tattooed by him in Brooklyn, but I am pretty sure that he is tattooing in Portland still, just not in a shop. I am going to Portland in a week, and was going to try and get tattooed by him, but I don't think that I will have the time.

Ok...you convinced me. haha
Nick Ley

The funny thing about tattoos is no matter how good or bad they are the only thing that matters is that you like the ones you have.

The funny thing about tattoos is no matter how good or bad they are the only thing that matters is that you like the ones you have.

The funny thing about tattoos is no matter how good or bad they are the only thing that matters is that you like the ones you have.

The funny thing about tattoos is no matter how good or bad they are the only thing that matters is that you like the ones you have.

The funny thing about tattoos is no matter how good or bad they are the only thing that matters is that you like the ones you have.

That's because I'm an idiot.;) Yeah, my forearm is black. It's not a cover-up either.
Like the saying goes "Once you go black, you don't go back."

Amund Dietzel tattoo done in 1956, 55 year old tattoo still makin the the guy smile.

Josh Mason does some really nice work in this style.

Hero Tattoo
I can't remember where I came across this guy's work, but I keep coming back to it. My favourite tattooers aren't generally specialists. They are the ones that can work in any style, and still make it look like their own. I think that Jeff fits into this category.

Hero Tattoo
I can't remember where I came across this guy's work, but I keep coming back to it. My favourite tattooers aren't generally specialists. They are the ones that can work in any style, and still make it look like their own. I think that Jeff fits into this category.

I got a cool dragon head from Theo Mindell on my left knee. You can see pics in my gallery. As a general rule, I think things like heads, skulls and masks work particularly well for that spot.
And for what it's worth, it hurt far less than I feared it would.

Here's a closer picture of my back.. The last ones I posted I now realize were reversed.

I don't know it depends on what people are trading? My kid is pretty cute so I think I could get a lot for him.

I was going to get that too, and then without knowing my best friend did so I don't want to anymore. Then I thought about doing matching Jap flowers but my dude has that on his. So now I'm probably going to do a rose on one and a peony on the other.... maybe... unless I think of something else.. also thought about doing a tudor rose on each..
I tried to find a picture of my friend's knees and couldn't but found this from the same artist. His name is Stuart Archibald.

Hey Ursula, I am not HeadOvMetal. Her name is Stephanie, and she has the best Flickr ever. My photostream is nothing, but my favorites are full of great photos. A lot of which were taken from HeadOvMetal's photostream.