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Had this Jason Butcher piece done and some filler :)

@peterpoose Just take it as someone loving what you get so much that they have no sense of self-worth, to the point that they'd get something that you got. As Chaz, the graffiti artist said at the Perseverance show, biting is the highest compliment.

lol indeed :)

Yeah, yours has the sultry. The other chick looks zoned out or ready to sneeze.

Any thought to contact them and ask WTF, even if you aren't upset?

Lol nah, what would it achieve :)

Feel free to look at his other awesome works lol

https://www.facebook.com/tomas.k.bruchac/media_set?set=a.10201025650743772.1073741826.1242558370&type=3

I suppose I'll contribute to our collection of giant ass-flowers. Finished a few weeks ago by Grez!

I love this!

@peterpoose i'm speechless that the artist is showing off his copy by posting the original next to his. also the eye is the copy is a little fucked up... looks like she has a lazy eye.

And nicotine stained teeth lol

I just recently had my custom piece by Victor Portugal copied! I thought I would be slightly annoyed but to be quite frank it doesnt bother me one bit. I will still struggle with why someone would want the same tattoo as someone else but its the way of the internet I guess :)

People with gas masks and octopuses :(

New piece I had done today by Jason Butcher :)

Jasons a really intelligent guy, witty and real chatty. Lovely bloke!

8 hours in total but I have to go back in 3 weeks for the highlights :)

Not sure if you guys know but I got cocky with my Remis piece and never bothered healing it properly. It got really infected and smelt like rotting flesh.

I just had it recently fixed by Remis so thought I would share and see if anyone else has any works that they had fucked up and had fixed, interested to see how they came out after the fix. I am very happy with the way my turned out. :)

This was when freshly done!

This was my healing skills lol

Fixed 2 days ago :)

I will not be doing my neck and hands although I would love to. My face is something I would never get done :)

I didnt show you guys how I healed it lol I fucked it up. Got cocky and it got infected and removed the ink and has gone all blurry. Remis said he can fix it but I am not sure. Pics below!

From this

to this

to this now

Thanks you everyone, I totally love it!

The sternum was an 8 of 10 pain wise wasn't pleasant the nipple was a 10 on a mans scale of pain lol but it only lasted like 10 mins...

First day we did only 6 hours as we spent like 4 hours perfecting the picture and stencils and by 6 hours of work it was 1am and my Mrs had had enough so we called it. Second day 14 hours!

I am considering lasering y Remis piece as letting carlos do my whole front, we have some great ideas for it and the Remis piece just doesn't fit in

14 more hours today, still nweds more work,

Nipple is gone, 14 hours planned for today:)

what is your secret? valium?

I love a vali lol but I'm afraid they don't do shit for pain lol

I have driven to Paris today. I have 2 days back to back with Carlos again starting tomorrow on continuing ribs. I am hoping for at least 2 x 10 hour+ sessions but may go longer if we can.

@peterpoose

I'm trying to even visualise how you'd do 19 hours... Incredible. Did you start at 10AM and go right through into the night, or how did it go? Breaks for food? Dd you guys have a few drinks? Enquiring minds want to know...

I wasn't trying to break any records lol he is very light handed and I am ok with pain except for my thighs, those seem to be my weak spot.

Did 9 hours few weeks back on thigh and at then end was shaking cold had to get a blanket lol

We did around 13 hours had a couple of hours break and carried on for 6 more:)

Very awesome tattoo, @peterpoose ! I haven't seen a black and grey piece that I have liked in a while.

Thank you mate:)

That's a typo, right? hahahaha. Nicely done.

It's not a typo lol he tapped out before me I would have gone longer lol

A healed shot of my Back piece:)

Just did 19 hours on ribs with Carlos Torres, 1 session:)

Looks nice but what will it look like in twenty years?

Who cares what it will look like that is awesome Peter.

Thanks! I probably wont even be alive in 20 years lol live for today anything can happen :)

While I was in Germany for Carlos not so long ago Dmitriy Samohin was there also so he had the chance to finally take shots he wanted of the whole sleeve healed.

I am guessing he didn't want to touch contrast or anything to show how its healed so they are raw shots with nothing added :)

Here they are for who is interested in professional shots rather than my own shit ones :)

Thank you for that.

My beef with Government regulations, is that they merely charge money for registration and fines for things that were perfectly lawful beforehand. Despite regulations, you can read about how many horror stories come out of so called regulated New York shops, it is frightening.

We have to take responsibility for ourselves and stop relying on the false hope of government security blanked for protection. Mr Frankling once said "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither" and I agree. Take responsibility for yourself.

Besides Health regulation have nothing to do with skill in tattoo application or Artistic merit.

There is another quote which is interesting and relevant “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” When the public is educated on Tattoo basics, ie what to look for in a good Tattoo and Tattooer, you no longer need to tell someone where to get a good clean, solid, artistic tattoo, because they will be able to choose (making an educated choice) the right artist for them and their project, for the rest of their life.

Public education is the cure, not just a bandage stuck over a problem that lingers.

I totally agree with you mate but there is a saying here in the UK " you can't educate a cunt"

I have friends who really do not give a shit about the tattoo art itself just so long as they have a tattoo and it is as cheap as possible.

@Victor, that's my point at least this way the government can keep some sort of tabs on the health and safety part of it, they don't give a shit whether the artist is any good or not. Stricter laws on training perhaps? Try becoming a nurse. you will see governing bodies where you must pass to become one. Try practising as a doctor or a plastic surgeon without the proper governing bodies, you end up in prison. A shit tattoo doesn't harm anyone, a shit tattoo artist hurts people and this is where I say much stricter laws are needed. As I said this would probably drive the underground culture of shitcunts even further away from Health and Safety.

Trying to educate the whole world is a tough thing to do and I will be right behind you on that but it is impossible. I am trying with my map to at least help some people who are trying to research. The tattoo world is exploding and I think researching is becoming easier and easier.

There was nothing online when I was trying to research great artists. I joined a Ukrainian forum and paid taxi drivers from this forum to try and find out Dmitriys contact details before he was as famous as now. So it takes some dedication also on the customer to get the best, sadly there will always be people who will walk in to a shop and ask for a cat paw behind their ear with a shit word underneath it and when they are told £60 minimum, they walk out mumbling under their breath "What for a fucking small tattoo like that" (I watched this happen with my own eyes in a reputable shop and while there at least 4 more girls came in asking for similar crap, one was 16 and with her mum to sign the documents to allow it:)