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Off to SF to see Grime on the 25th, a couple more sessions on my back and it should be a wrap!
I also got an appt with Owen Williams from Australia (@otatts on IG) who will be guesting at Skull and Sword in Aug. 15, the plan is to get a namakubi and a peony... can't wait! :D

I just booked my first appointment of 2014 (which is hard to believe): I'm getting an uchide no kozuchi (as referenced here) from Horisuzu at Dark Horse in LA on August 2nd. I'm also going to the Perseverance exhibition that day. I can't wait!

I can't like this enough!! Great life choice IMO.
@Mick Weder and @Graeme :
Have you guys seen some of LM Knight's frogs? The coolest...http://lmknighttattoo.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/imageproxy-1.jpeg

Back-piece finished a few weeks ago.
Valerie Vargas, Frith Street Tattoo, London

Couldn't resist booking a little one with El Monga while I'm in Barcelona. I'm getting a frog because I really love frog tattoos, and I really love El Monga's tattoos so it's going to be super cool and fun.

I never got around to posting this Eddy Deutsche tattoo I got at Temple...
What an amazing experience this was!!

Picked this up from Bryan Burk. He was a great guy, and I love the tattoo. My wife got tattooed by Adam Warmerdam, they both are both at Darkhorse in LA, and Adam was super cool as well. Darkhorse is a great place to get tattooed, and I highly recommend it to anyone that is in Los Angeles.

Filler done by Chad Koepinger a couple of months ago:

Rob Mopar is doing a guest spot at FTW through Saturday. Neither of us were doing much yesterday so he made these ladies for me. His instagram is @rwmopar if anyone is wondering.

got tattooed by boxcar the other day. inside of my thigh area

Got this from Eddy Deutsche yesterday, gonna add a body and some more to it in another session, which is gonna be awesome. Very happy with it as it is now though. Sort of a bad pic, but you get the idea

"...6 hour session...i was a bit sad that it was over"
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Went to NYC for the first time and got this from Eli Quinters.
I also got a lady head from Steve Boltz, which I am in love with, but all the pictures I tried to take were shit. Maybe I'll try again when it's healed...or maybe I'll just keep it to myself.

I'm fortunate to only have one bad tattoo to share—a tiny stick and poke I did on my foot. I was 19, had just read Modern Primitives and was enamored with the idea of "reclaiming" the swastika. It's slightly stylized, and completely shitty, but still pretty recognizable as a swastika.

Inevitably I took a bunch of flak from friends when I first did it, but I still spent a while trying to own it, even showing it off at parties if the topic came up and I was sufficiently inebriated. Then I spent a while being absolutely mortified of it and hiding it at all costs, for reasons I probably don't need to explain. Now that I have other, good tattoos around it, however, I've actually started to like the way it looks. That and, since I've gotten into good tattoos, I've seen so many amazing tattoos incorporating the swastika that I've started loving the symbol again and feel much less prickly about it.
That being said, almost no one I'm friends with now knows about it, since it usually goes unnoticed even if I'm in bare feet, and I don't have any desire to bring it up. My girlfriend hasn't even noticed it yet.

I kept on with the legs today, getting a scorpion and a pineapple from Franz Stefanik at The Okey Doke in Toronto. Its a great shop in the west end that is moving shortly (July 1 I think) to a much larger studio closer to the core. Really looking forward to seeing what they do with the space.

My accidental half sleeve by Rodrigo Souto, Black Garden, London, UK :D

Photo nicked from his instagram (Instagram), the blue peony is healed, the pink are fresh.

Weird little gap filler from Adam Shrewsbury, cool dude, had a lot of fun today

I got this lil' dude on my forearm from Mat Welch yesterday. It's really hard to get a solid picture, but you get the idea...

Here's another one by Franz at the Okey Doke.

I signed up just to say Thanks!
I started these a year or so ago after finishing my back piece.
When I get a chance i'll upload some pictures for you to check out the whole thing, its impossible to get good pictures of myself though :/

Raven on my rib from Joey Ortega at Triple Crown, Austin on Thursday. This pic is at three days so it is far from healed.

I spent the weekend in Brooklyn....Queens....and Iselin, NJ!
I was very honored to once again be tattooed by Tony Polito......and equally as honored by what he tattooed on me!

Haven't posted here in awhile, thought I'd pop in and show you guys some of my tattoos from the last year
Battle Royale by Aaron Coleman, Bulldog by Bubba, and Spider by Matt Arriola

I need to amend my earlier post to say that Rich apparently just turned 30. Oh well, still young.

Chad did most of my shin in under two hours which wasn't too bad, though I remember thinking at the time that numbness is a really wonderful thing.
Me and @Pugilist are going to Barcelona and I'm hoping to get tattooed by El Monga or one of the other Aloha guys. If it happens I'll just pick something off the wall and stick it on my legs, but I was wondering if one of those bat heads or something similar on the knee was not a completely idiotic option.

Finally got around to finishing my knee with Koeplinger. It sucked, so I'm kinda dreading the other one. If I were you I'd wait @Graeme. Walking a lot can be a challenge, at least the first couple days after.