Graeme

What is Morbid Angel's live set like because if they're playing a lot of stuff off that last album, I wouldn't regret that at all. Okay, maybe a little bit.

Tattoos, heavy metal, and beer, I think you'll get along just fine here. Nice looking tattoos, too. Welcome aboard.

Julio Avila.

...aaaaand @Pugilist is quite possibly going to a conference next year in Oklahoma. Guess I need to figure out what I want from Richard Stell.

Greg Christian.

On the other side of it there's "FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR IT FREEDOM IS A THING THE PROTECTED WILL NEVER KNOW" etched into it. A guy I used to work with brought a bunch of them back from Vietnam with him for us guys when he went there on his honeymoon a few years ago, go figure. It just occurred to me that it's probably counterfeit.

Question: is there a way of putting photos directly on my phone from here or do I have to upload them to somewhere first? Some pictures I've taken: Parked near my apartment: I might not know much about wine, but I know a cool wine label when I see one. This wine was actually called SKULLS: Canada: Saw this in a book about dogs and took a picture of it to possibly use as reference for a future tattoo: A lighter I own:

I can't remember where I saw it, but I saw somewhere on the internet (could it even have been the Old Tattoo Photos thread here?) a picture of Sailor Jerry's aftercare card that says the same. I go with what my tattoo artist recommends.

It looked from the TAM video that Rubendall will be guest judging as well? I wasn't planning on watching because I thought that the first season was boring, but I have to admit that I'm tempted by the idea of watching Richard Stell tearing into a bunch of "colour realists".

When you don't think it's weird that your instagram is full of pictures of men's asses.

...and if all else fails, go with an eagle.

I've heard of pavement.

I've seen a couple of these on instagram and yeah, really great stuff. I love those wolves.

I didn't find my collarbones to be super painful as far as tattoos go, though when I was getting my first one done where was a point when he was going right over the bone and I felt vibrations through my entire skeleton and that was really unpleasant. Then of course because I was lopsided I needed to eventually get the second one done and I wasn't looking forward to it. It ended up being okay though. I have five sessions booked for a tiger on my ribs and I am fucking terrified.

@Energy That is great and it sounds like it was a super cool experience as well. I've found a bit about Haida tattooing as well, which is another subject entirely, but there's a bit of decent information out there. Haida Tattoo - The Bill Reid Centre - Simon Fraser University The above, from Simon Fraser University's Bill Reid Centre, provides an overview of Haida tattooing, including some late 19th century photographs of tattoos. Haida Tattoo Gallery - The Bill Reid Centre - Simon Fraser University And this is a collection of photos but mainly drawings of Haida tattoo designs, again from the late 19th and early 20th century. There's also this site about Bill Reid that discusses how the Haida style of formline drawing had nearly been lost due to British colonial rule and Canadian law (which is why it probably isn't right to discuss this stuff in a post about "Canadian" tattooing, though it falls there geographically, so...) and that Reid learned to draw in that style through studying tattoo designs collected in books and in museums. I didn't know the importance and influence of tattoos here, so I just learned something. - - - Updated - - - I hope this works, but here's a 1986 newspaper interview with Keith Stewart, who then owned Point Saint Charles Tattoo, and organised the first tattoo conventions in Montreal: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19861016&id=8FQ0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=grkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1683,3002603

TV producers are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren't they? Jesus wept.

Going to have a little visit with Seth Wood in a couple of weeks.

@Avery Taylor Being in touch with Nick would be awesome! I'm super interested in this stuff, but not being a tattooer myself, I don't spend enough time around this stuff to get the stories, to see old tattoos and flash and photographs and it doesn't seem like much, if anything, has been written about any of this. I could be wrong. Anyway, PM me? @Energy Seriously, photos!

Port Side used to be Sacred Heart's Davie Street location. I was in Vancouver at the end of August and I passed by it after it was closed and it looked from the outside like a pretty nice shop, but when I went to add a link to Nick Wasko from the shop's site it turns out that it just closed down at the end of September and on the Facebook page for the shop they said that they weren't sure what Nick was up to at the moment. He just posted some flash on Instagram today but I don't know if he's working at a shop now or what. He seems to do some pretty solid traditional, would love to chat with him one day and get tattooed by him. I should get that Smiling Buddha book. Any talk of tattoos in Canada should talk about Paul Jeffries for sure. I think that Sailor Jerry Swallow is in Victoria right now and as far as I know, he's still tattooing. A guy I work with went to Halifax to get tattooed by him...I should talk to him about that. For other old guys here, Tony D'Annessa (started tattooing in 1958 in New York) still tattoos at PSC Tattoo in Montreal. Got a little snake and rose from one of his old roll-up flash sheets around Easter time this past year after a consult with Dave Cummings there...definitely a neat experience and I got a solid, really bold tattoo. Going to be spending a lot of time at PSC next year, hopefully I'll get to hear some good stories from Tony. The PSC website has an interview with Tony from Tattoo Artist Magazine that's worth a read. Heard about Dave Shore's passing, don't know much about him but I know a bunch of people who got tattooed by him or at his shop. I should ask around... Thanks for the reply!

Am I allowed to be jealous? Because I am. The freckles are SO GOOD.

I love this thread. My girls: This is Daisy. She's a retired racing greyhound and is the sweetest, laziest dog ever. We adopted her from a greyhound rescue about a year and a half ago and watching her go from being this dog that had never lived in a home before to being this sweet little girl who just wants cuddles from everybody she sees (except for children, she is afraid of them) has been one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced in my life. http://distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws.com/a5b74d08dff811e1a2ce22000a1c86dc_7.jpg And this is Susan (grey one) and Willa (orange one). They're sisters. We adopted them from friends of friends who took in a pregnant stray off the street. She gave birth to four kittens. We couldn't decide which one we wanted so we got two. The guys who took in their mother from the street read somewhere that the best way to socialise kittens is to hold and touch them from birth so they have none of the usual cat aloofness and you can pick them up and cuddle them and rub their bellies and basically do whatever you want with them. Willa regularly shits outside of the litter box because she's an asshole. http://distilleryimage3.s3.amazonaws.com/ee70b336e26911e1bb6a1231381f737d_7.jpg

My setup is nothing special: a Technics receiver and some old but decent Panasonic speakers. I got it cheaply from Craigslist a few years ago and it does the job. When I'm not listening to vinyl I mainly have my ipod plugged into it and good audio gear seems wasted on mp3s. I don't understand those tube ipod docks. My dad has an old Mcintosh system that he's had stored in boxes for years now since he upgraded (?) to a home theatre system and I would love to have that. It would be crazy expensive to ship over here though since the power amp alone (it's a solid state one) weighs something like 50 or 60 pounds. Sounds amazing though.

A while ago I came across this newspaper article about Nick Wasko, who tattoos at Port Side Tattoo in Vancouver (actually, just checked that and it looks like the shop just closed down and it's not clear if/where he's tattooing now), and his attempts to document the history of traditional tattooing in Vancouver. Tattoo Historian Follows Ink Trail of Art It's a cool article about a subject that it seems like not many people know that much about. The most famous old-school tattooer in Vancouver is probably Doc Forbes (the pin-up article at tattooarchive.com claims that Sailor Jerry considered Doc Forbes one of his big influences in his pin-up designs), and there are plenty of pictures of him and his tattoos around. There are some here on the Old Tattoo Photos thread, and I recall seeing a bunch in Hanky Panky's 1001 Tattoos book as well. Wasko has gone a lot deeper than that though and is trying to find as much as he can about tattooers that there is seemingly very scant information on. The article is brief, though it hints at a lot. As far as I can tell from my own research, the designs in "traditional Canadian" tattooing aren't remarkably different than those in traditional American tattooing. The Lucky Supply Tattoo Museum has a dozen sheets of Doc Forbes' flash up for viewing on their site and the designs closely follow the traditional canon of roses, daggers, ships and anchors, eagles, snakes, dragons, ladies, etc. As an aside, this was the root of my interest in the subject...eagle tattoos are awesome, but what did Canadians traditionally get? Moose? Beavers? No, they got eagles. Though in Carol Clerk's Vintage Tattoos book I'm pretty sure that I saw some WWII-era Canadian naval designs that had beavers on them. Thomas Lockhart's West Coast Tattoo in Vancouver also has a tattoo museum and there are a couple of examples of old Canadian flash, one by F.A. Baldwin (described there as one of Canada's first tattooists) dating back to 1910-1920: I've gathered other tiny bits of information about the history of tattoos in Canada--for example, Amund Dietzel ended up in North America after being shipwrecked off the coast of Quebec; Betty Broadbent apparently tattooed in Montreal (I would guess as a travelling carnie thing?)--but nothing systematic. I don't know, I'm a nerd about this kind of stuff. Does anybody have anything else? Most of the information we have seems to be about Vancouver, which isn't surprising since that's probably the Canadian city with the most important tattoo scene both because it's a port and because geographically it's on the West Coast and is connected with West Coast tattooing generally (eg D.E. Hardy tattooed in Vancouver for a while), but what about Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax? These cities must have tattoo histories as well, probably especially Halifax (probably worth looking into Sailor Jerry Swallow here). Is "Canadian traditional tattooing" distinct enough to merit discussion on its own instead of just being part of "American traditional tattooing"?

And Chris Conn seems to have no trouble finding people who will pay his rate so I'd argue that he isn't overpriced. It's more than I would pay for a tattoo from him but if I wanted one badly enough, I would find a way to do it...which is what I imagine plenty of people are doing. I dislike the way this thread has turned into being about pricing.

"Tattoo poor" I call it. Basically all my money beyond essentials gets saved for tattoos.