Brock Varty

I would help out. Skype or email works.

[MENTION=5496]Pleadco[/MENTION] Thanks! I always greatly appreciate the well wishes and kind words from everyone here.

[MENTION=873]Boodah[/MENTION] Thanks man! I am just working hard to do the best tattoo I can and learn more at the same time. I appreciate the compliment.

What's the url for your site?

Hope the FTW move goes well for ya. I like your tattooing, so I can't wait to see some cool stuff...

I currently play BLOPS 2 on Xbox and feel like it is the closest to CoD heaven as possible since CoD4. CoD4 was and is still, the best FPS on XBox 360. I actually played the Halo series for years. All the way back since the very first one. As sso as Halo 3 came out I knew it was doomed and I astopped playing after that. Halo 2 was tons and tons of great times and good, hard gaming.

Welcome again Mark!

I too had been very active on a gaming forum in the past, new games came out and most of thecommunity I loved got nasty and immature. LST is a great place to be...everyone here will treat you right. We all want the best for eachother and we love to see people get the tattoos they deserve. I think I speak for everyone when I say that we have a common bond in tattoos. They are painful, they are messy, they are never perfect...but they are experiences, they are what brings all of us together and they are fucking sweet to look at!

I never got into the PC gaming much other than a small amount of WoW and a little Team Fortress 2. I am mainly a console gamer, and although I have much less time now, I still play. I used to be very competitive and compete at a fairly high level in the early CoD series on Xbox 360. The fun part of being competitive is almost gone now....

[MENTION=969]ShawnPorter[/MENTION] don't be discouraged. i check your blog out on the regular. keep it up, man. thanks for the kind words, [MENTION=1877]eisen777[/MENTION]. i have thought about having other write some stuff for my blog, but have been somewhat hesitant by it. if either [MENTION=1877]eisen777[/MENTION] or [MENTION=3970]Brock Varty[/MENTION'] want to hit me up with some ideas, feel free.

Thanks man!

[MENTION=1877]eisen777[/MENTION] No disrespect taken. Your points are an angle that I am considering...

[MENTION=969]ShawnPorter[/MENTION]

I should have thought about doing that. I will turn some ideas over about that before I do anything. Seems like a solid idea.

[MENTION=212]Stewart Robson[/MENTION] I appreciate the advice. My intent at this point is to make a blog regarding my daily interactions in the shop I work at and with people I get tattooed by. I have the good fortune of being a customer to some cool tattooers and being around some really cool people daily. I think, at this point, my intent is to deal with my personal experiences. I feel like I can make a strongly written blog based on my own experience. I don't know that anyone would really care to read what I have to say, but, I do want to say some things regardless. I feel like I am in a fairly unique situation with my life and tattooing, and that people may like to read about my perspective.

Being a younger person, who currently is wading into the "good tattooing" waters, I feel like I can help other people make good tattoo decisions and think about how they act. It may sound rather pretentious to think that I know better than someone else, but I believe due to my exposure to quality people and tattooers that my experiences are worth documenting.

I realize the importance of providing proper credit for any others work I use. It is important to me on a personal level, that I strive to be an honest and direct person. The result of which would be my diligent citing of anything used and proper credit where it is due.

I have not decided to go ahead with this yet. I keep a "regular" job and then go work at the shop I am at, so my schedule is packed really tight. Through thinking about what may be involved in keeping an active blog worth reading, I worry that I may not have the time. I think that it would be better to not blog than make a shitty one that only gets updated every now and then. If I am going to do this, I need to make sure I have the time to devote to this to make a quality read for others. I need to evaluate whether or not I can make an honest effort into a blog before I go much further.

@ Everyone

I appreciate the advice and tips. I have talked with a few close tattooer friends about this and they feel the same way I do. ie. If you can't make a quality documentation of your experience, then don't do it. I value all of your opinions and words. I am very thankful to be involved in tattooing in some way and very thankful to be exposed to the quality people on this site. I would like to think I can carry the positive side of this community out into the world.

For anyone who read this far:

I use the blog function on LST to just voice some of my thoughts; please don't take what I post here as complete, polished writings. Instead, view what I post as personal musings and "open air" thoughts put out into the world for some feedback. Aslso, reading back through my post, I feel it important to say that I do not tattoo. I am currently working towards an apprenticeship and will not be doing anything regarding actually tattooing for quite some time, if ever. It is important to me that I earn anything I get, and that I always conduct myself in a manner that would be approved by you guys. Tattooing is something that I hold a very high regard for, and I am not above keeping myself out if I do not belong

i read through a bunch of your blog posts. I really enjoyed it!

Respect. Much respect to you and your family Deb.

The next one could be titled "Shop Prank Chronicles".

Really awesome man. That must have been a heck of an experience.