Tifffany

Just saw the episode where they tattooed over scars.
Why did the Japanese dragon have a wrinkly penis for a snout?

I had to wait almost twenty minutes for Nick to get set-up last week...

(It's been a while since I've posted, so let me quickly reintroduce myself: I'm @hogg 's significant other. A tattoo collector, not an artist. Also, I'm an American historian -- a.k.a. an academic.)
Perhaps we're all being a little hard on @SailorClaire because she is a self-identified academic. But those of us in that world are not all the same; we've all had different training, and we approach our research, our subjects, our writing, and our instruction from various perspectives and with various levels of discipline and care.
With that said, @SailorClaire, you may have exposed yourself as the academic equivalent of a scratcher.
Your heart seems to be in the right place, and you offered some evidence of background research (albiet too little, too late). But I'd agree with others who have questioned the time constraints on the project and asked whether it isn't ultimately "lazy" to mine internet forums for a sociological study like this. It's an amateur approach rather than a forward-thinking one. As you continue with your graduate work, read more, practice more, you'll certainly be able to better recognize the difference.
Interviewing people as research subjects is a delicate undertaking, which should be obvious considering all the legalese in the paperwork you'll need to submit with your thesis. But paperwork aside, engaging in this kind of first-person research requires better training, a greater sensitivity to your subject matter, an awareness of how you will be perceived by your interviewees, far more reading, and a great deal of practice honing your methodology -- especially your skills as an interviewer, a writer, and a student of your "topic of choice."
If you really do want to make an impact in your field, the research process (and ultimately your writing) can't be rushed. Cutting corners may get you your master's degree, but it won't make you a respected scholar in the field and certainly not within the tattoo world.
I'm sure the tattoo artists on the board can appreciate the value of these kinds of missteps along the way. Best lessons.

On my way to Frith Street to get tattooed by the epic Stewart Robson, a ship on the back of my calf :-)

What is Egyptian lettering????? Rock/fish/fish/fox/sun/planet/ibis...

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My first session on this arm.
Done. January 3rd 2013
By. Ryan Dearringer
At. Fallen Empire

Maybe I'm just sensitive to stuff, but it seems a bit presumptuous... shouldn't it be phrased in the form of a question? Something like "Hi, blah, blah, blah... I would like to use this forum to interview you guys on your opinions of your tattoos. Is that ok?"

2 sessions, 4 hrs in w/ my homeboy OllieXXX (Lucky Strike, Edmonton, AB) and Three 6 Mafia banging on the shop stereo.
(edit: yikes must have put the 'make-it-shitty' filter on my instagram)

Yea for sure. thanks for the advice. I'm really enjoying this site because of the great community, i've been on a few other sites and none of them have the helpfulness and kindess that lastsparrow does.

SOA licks sack, I'd say go with the walk-in.

LOL I have 2 sugar skulls... so do they cancel each other out or am I doubly racist? I love when people look for things to be upset about.

I seriously covet this women's chest piece, by Michael Bennett.

Thank you everyone :) I wouldn't have gotten those amazing tattoos if it wasn't for Scott, this forum, and all if its wonderful members. And all of the other entries were just as worthy as mine, every month gets better and better.
Again, thanks LST mods and all it's members. Looking forward to another year of amazing tattoos!

By the lovely and talented Kim Saigh at world-famous Memoir Tattoo in Los Angeles, California.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
There are shops I don't care for, but what I see as one thing, someone else sees differently.
Guess I'd rather talk about shops I think are outstanding than name the ones I don't care for.

I don't think that naming names helps and I'd rather use this forum to talk about people putting on great tattoos and to try to educate people about what is a good tattoo and how to get one.

I just got this Tiki man this past Saturday at the original Atomic

No idea how you guys do that cool thumbnail linky thing.

@Delicious I've got some stuff lined up ;)
I'm feeling a little bit superstitious about putting it out in the world though - I'm afraid I might jinx it!
You'll ALL know soon enough! (Like 1/18!).

Aaron Coleman, three sessions.

Bam

I just got this Tiki man this past Saturday at the original Atomic

No idea how you guys do that cool thumbnail linky thing.

Spider in web, ARMPIT from @Lindsey Carmichael of Gold Rush Tattoo.

Getting the rest of my leg dawn up tonight!! Dragon, background, and who knows what else might get popped in there. Very excited to start the end of my first truly massive tattoo.

Ughhhh just got my foot done. Taking advantage of the holidays off from work but it is swollen and still hurts like hell