Hunter Morrow

Dag Nasty? Awesome.
Ive been blasting this in prep for July 4th:

Mostly the new OFF! and Napalm Death LP's gettin rinsed to fuck just now, plus some old hardcore ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-eIcymrzVE

Stopped into Cathedral Tattoo yesterday and got myself a spur of the moment birthday banger from the talented CJ Fishburn.

No wisecracks. Here's my Jeff Cribb tattoo (spidermums). Brian Bruno did the Kitsune...

I believe you're thinking of this backpiece Nick did.

Proper pluralization isn't a big concern for the guy. Just guessing. Just a hunch of mine. I'm going to go out on a limb and posit he doesn't really give a fuck about grammar.

Everyone likes exotic animals like tigers and panthers (as they should) or majestic animals like horses and eagles but I'd like to see some more conventional animals, pigs, cows, chickens, etc. A lot of those sort of animals really translate well in american trad.

did anyone catch this gem on their Instagram feed today?

@ian was it Grillo's instagram? If so, yes and amazing.

They've sold 11 million records I believe.
THE BOARD IS DOWN WITH THE CLOWN 'TIL IT'S SIX UNDERGROUND WHOOP WHOOP

Is there any thread on this forum that can't be enriched with ICP? I could listen to that Jugalo Island song all day.

Well, I guess my sleeve was pretty damn patchwork!
I had quite a bit of homemade work on both arms, and as I got a bit older, I started to cover it up. The second pro piece I got was by Dale Grande of CTC, a pair of roses over a banner with my name and my wife's name on it. I was just shy of 21. A year or so after that, I went into CTC with a couple of my brothers, and as long as they were there, well, hell, I had to get SOMETHING! Anyhow, there was a dragon curling around a dagger that I took a liking to, so Dale used it to cover an old nickname in a banner I had poked into my right bicep. Sometime after that, I happened to stop into CTC and took a liking to a parrot on a branch with a flower and some flourishes on each side...that went onto the inside of my lower arm, directly opposite the roses and banner.
And there it sat for many, many years. We had five kids, worked a bunch of different jobs, and got some work done on my left arm. Started that with a dragon rising out of a mass of swirling black clouds with a couple of lightning bolts through it. Pretty crude by today's standards, it was done at CTC by, I believe, Mark Miller, on a night that Dale chickened out and stayed home because of a blizzard. It was a coverup of a rather large piece done somewhere very secure that was causing me some trouble in keeping a job. Shortly after that, in 1984, again at CTC, Dale used a composite of a demon's head from some flash and the cover of the face on King Crimson's "In The Court of the Crimson King" to cover a homemade "Death Before Dishonor" around a sword on my lower forearm, just above a panther head he had done as one of his first pro tattoos, also a coverup. When he did the demon's head coverup, he worked it into the dragon on my upper-left arm, using clouds and a design of different sized circles. And there that sat, for many, many years.
Maybe ten years ago, I decided to finish out my right arm, and went back into CTC. To my surprise, Dale wasn't tattooing much, but he turned me over to Miles Maniaci. Miles wrapped my arm in onion skin and traced all the work that was already there. I had been researching images from Odinic lore, and had five basic designs I wanted. The first was a shield device worked in gold that dated back to about 900 A.D. that was unearthed in what is now northern Germany, the second was an image of the world serpent found on the same shield, the third was actually two separate sets of Celtic knotwork found in a manuscript in an Irish temple predating christianity, and the fourth was a set of Elder Futhark runes that I felt represented the path of my life, and the fifth was a line-drawing of Wotan seated on his throne with one of his wolves at his hand and one of his ravens overhead.
Miles worked on the drawings for about a month, and then called me in to look at them. It took me about a minute to say yes, and we started to knock-out four and five hour sessions shortly after. It turned out quite well, I do believe Miles is a master of his craft, as well as a true artist.
And there it sat. Not for many, many years, but about ten.
I had gotten divorced, and am engaged to a wonderful Lady who brought a daughter of her own to the house. This last year, we went back to CTC and had Nick Colella, whom I had met while Miles was sleeving my right arm, put a Sailor Jerry piece on each of us, and put an old Black Cat Firecracker logo on each of my knees. Nick's work is a trip. I believe he is one of, if not the, master of Traditional, yes, with a capital T, Tattooing. I went back maybe a month ago and had him put on a "seated eagle", an old piece of Cliff Raven's flash that I had wanted since I got my very first pro tattoo at his shop, along with a group of roses, surrounded by banners with the names of our six kids on them.
I go in tomorrow for Nick to put on a very old piece on my ribs, and at the same time, to start planning for sleeving out my left arm. It will be a challenge to mix the Japanese elements that Dale used in his cover-ups, the traditional panther's head, and whatever we come up with. I have some ideas, but I'll just sit on those until after I have a chance to sit down with Nick and see what's possible.
Whew! Mucho Typo! Anyhow, yes, a lot of what I have was researched and planned, I pulled art books by the pound out of the library and had a librarian spending damn near full-time researching images from pre-christian Europe for me. Had color plates of all of those elements with me when I went in to consult about the sleeve. But a lot of what went onto my arms was fairly random, stuff that caught my eye and my fancy when I saw it, or that was concocted on the fly by Dale with a ballpoint and a collection of snipped-up acetates.
Planning is good, but letting events and your heart take charge sometimes is good too. I sometimes feel sorry for the guys I see now who go in an order up a sleeve ready made when they're like 23 or 24. I think maybe they are missing out on the chance to live their lives, record their adventures and their beliefs, and then, when they're old enough to have lived them and seen the meaning behind them, to link them all together.
.02, and apologies for the length!

You mean this guy?:

My '62 Impala from 7 years ago. My pride and joy for 5 years. Started with something like this:

ended up with this two years later ( went from a 235 3 speed to 350/350 combo)

Under the hood:

My current project is a '78 CB750 street tracker/ Jap bobber

my brother has a bunch of tattoos, but a lot of them are pretty shitty. i try to inform him of good places/tattooers to go to , but he never wants to listen. it's only been recently that he's somewhat opened up to what i have to tell him. the dude lives a little over an hour from NYC and still goes to shit shops out in long island. fucking ultimate head scratcher.

Spotted this one in el Barrio in Milwakky last summer. Got out to snap a pic, and had to back up to a porch to get it all in. Didn't notice the Vatos were all hanging on that particular porch!
Turned out all good, tho', they were digging the piece as much as I was.

Thought I would put it out there as I have restored a few old VW buses over the past 10 years or so.
My favourite style would be the original paint patina look, I like to fix the rust and try to match the paint to look as original as possible.
If you are into cars at all post them up.
Here are a couple of pics of the cars I have worked on.
from this (recently sold this one)

to this

Another during work

painted and finished

There is this guy who looks to be in middle school covered in some butt ugly tattoos. As bad as the tattoos are, the rapping could be even worse.

Proper pluralization isn't a big concern for the guy. Just guessing. Just a hunch of mine. I'm going to go out on a limb and posit he doesn't really give a fuck about grammar.

There is this guy who looks to be in middle school covered in some butt ugly tattoos. As bad as the tattoos are, the rapping could be even worse.

There is this guy who looks to be in middle school covered in some butt ugly tattoos. As bad as the tattoos are, the rapping could be even worse.

There is this guy who looks to be in middle school covered in some butt ugly tattoos. As bad as the tattoos are, the rapping could be even worse.

God Is Not Great is a wait for it...wait for it...
Great book.
I particularly enjoyed his revised, 21st Century Edition smashing of Mother Theresa.

I thought "raised in a barn" meant you violating something related to physical politeness and propriety. Like...
"Take your hat off before dinner! You weren't raised in a barn."
I was kinda raised in a barn when I was a kid, though.
The sun tattoo thing with words under it will just remind everybody of Raisin Bran With Two Scoops, though. Or Sublime.

I thought "raised in a barn" meant you violating something related to physical politeness and propriety. Like...
"Take your hat off before dinner! You weren't raised in a barn."
I was kinda raised in a barn when I was a kid, though.
The sun tattoo thing with words under it will just remind everybody of Raisin Bran With Two Scoops, though. Or Sublime.