Orangutango

So many awesome tattoos here lately, wish my tapatalk likes would show up!
I got double teamed on my feet today, Jason Walstrom did the pig while Mimi Wunsch did the rooster.

Pics stolen from their IG's.
Wasnt as bad as I'd thought it might be beforehand, but definately stung more in a few places than most other spots so far, a bit worse than collarbone, nowhere near as bad the rib cliff. It's gonna be a fun few healing days coming up I'm sure!

So many awesome tattoos here lately, wish my tapatalk likes would show up!
I got double teamed on my feet today, Jason Walstrom did the pig while Mimi Wunsch did the rooster.

Pics stolen from their IG's.
Wasnt as bad as I'd thought it might be beforehand, but definately stung more in a few places than most other spots so far, a bit worse than collarbone, nowhere near as bad the rib cliff. It's gonna be a fun few healing days coming up I'm sure!

So many awesome tattoos here lately, wish my tapatalk likes would show up!
I got double teamed on my feet today, Jason Walstrom did the pig while Mimi Wunsch did the rooster.

Pics stolen from their IG's.
Wasnt as bad as I'd thought it might be beforehand, but definately stung more in a few places than most other spots so far, a bit worse than collarbone, nowhere near as bad the rib cliff. It's gonna be a fun few healing days coming up I'm sure!

So many awesome tattoos here lately, wish my tapatalk likes would show up!
I got double teamed on my feet today, Jason Walstrom did the pig while Mimi Wunsch did the rooster.

Pics stolen from their IG's.
Wasnt as bad as I'd thought it might be beforehand, but definately stung more in a few places than most other spots so far, a bit worse than collarbone, nowhere near as bad the rib cliff. It's gonna be a fun few healing days coming up I'm sure!

So many awesome tattoos here lately, wish my tapatalk likes would show up!
I got double teamed on my feet today, Jason Walstrom did the pig while Mimi Wunsch did the rooster.

Pics stolen from their IG's.
Wasnt as bad as I'd thought it might be beforehand, but definately stung more in a few places than most other spots so far, a bit worse than collarbone, nowhere near as bad the rib cliff. It's gonna be a fun few healing days coming up I'm sure!

^so good. I'm not a cat person by any stretch but these are really rad.

FIGHT THE POWER

Here's the result of my recent trip to Austin...
Instagram
My hands are currently swollen to the size of boxing gloves, so I had to borrow the above picture from Thomas's instagram.
Super happy with 'em.

who got this? Instagram
Haha forget it, it was @Eilin of course, I knew it!
Sorry Eilin for jumping the gun on posting this, I'm just really happy for you & your awesome tattoo and all the more psyched for mine now..............
Can you tell me approx how many hours it took?

Me neither but not everything needs to be a secret that only I have in a box that nobody else will ever be able to appreciate. I don't give out ALL the gold though hah.

Same thing happened to me today. Was wandering around SF and found Iggy Vans's new shop. Talked with him for a while then got tacos on his recommendation to some Yucatan taqueria. Might go back to get tattooed.

Wandered around my new neighborhood today, saw a tattoo shop, went in and got quite a surprise, walls are covered (must be 50+ sheets) in 1960's Eddie Peace flash. Chatted to his grandson Daniel for a while, he said there are tons more, we are gonna pour through them for some gap fillers once I get some time free, he also had some Polito acetates and some 80's flash (incl. some wizards!!!) from his parents. Was pretty psyched to find it so unexpectedly.

Wandered around my new neighborhood today, saw a tattoo shop, went in and got quite a surprise, walls are covered (must be 50+ sheets) in 1960's Eddie Peace flash. Chatted to his grandson Daniel for a while, he said there are tons more, we are gonna pour through them for some gap fillers once I get some time free, he also had some Polito acetates and some 80's flash (incl. some wizards!!!) from his parents. Was pretty psyched to find it so unexpectedly.

Wandered around my new neighborhood today, saw a tattoo shop, went in and got quite a surprise, walls are covered (must be 50+ sheets) in 1960's Eddie Peace flash. Chatted to his grandson Daniel for a while, he said there are tons more, we are gonna pour through them for some gap fillers once I get some time free, he also had some Polito acetates and some 80's flash (incl. some wizards!!!) from his parents. Was pretty psyched to find it so unexpectedly.

I'm sure everyone with Instagram has seen this, but Chris Cautillo and Ron Wells just opened The Torchbearer in Pawtucket, RI. Instagram Looks like it's in a beautiful old converted factory.
Pretty excited that this is close to me.

I mean, if you wanna just rock one Lehi tiger, then sure.

So someone with a Jigoku Dayu tattoo now sybolizes that they have yellow fever? Okay there. That's about as ridiculous as that thing about koi fish and being gay. Where do people get this stuff?
So in regards to appropriating, my 2 cents. I can get what the nay sayers are trying to get at. Especially if the thing is a bastardization of their culture. I get that they may feel insulted. I may agree with them. Or I may not agree with everything somone may say but I have to respect their feelings to a degree so I can see where they're potentially coming from. Kind of like, say Japanese tattoos. "Hey you f'ed up by mixing seasons, and coloring water blue, and the subject doesn't follow the story properly. You have no respect for tradition. You can't be bothered to learn and depict a culture's myth accurately. Thus you're spitting on my culture. You're spitting on me.". People can have strong feelings about things. Then again appropriation and modification can lead to a potentially positive thing depending on how you look at it. Say when the Japanese "appropriated" the Chinese stories of the Suikoden, added elaborate tattoos onto the subject imagery, and started popularizing it among the people and getting it tattooed on themselves. If I understand correctly (correct me if I'm wrong too) I thought I read somewhere that the Japanese translation makes no sense from the original material. "Appropriation" was also positive when Caucasian foreigners had a desire to be tattooed with Japanese and other Asian motifs when Japan had banned its own citizens from being tattooed. Something to think about. What would have happened if appropriation hadn't occurred in these cases?
Whatever your opinion, can we all just agree we're happy Chris Brand is "appropriating" from the Japanese, what they "appropriated" from the Chinese, and putting his western spin on the tales?

I think it's pretty simple and I'll use myself as an example.
Do you have a personal relationship with the imagery that you are getting tattooed?
I have three japanese tattoos that I got during my apprenticeship. One is a daruma on my inner bicep, and it has the kanji for "ginou" which means "technical skill." I got the daruma with the intention of one day becoming a technically skilled craftsman and I will probably never fill in the other eye because there is always room to grow.
The other two are designs that I picked from a book called "Japanese Design Motifs." and they are circular designs that sit on my inner forearms. They're floral, black only, and they're very beautiful; I get compliments on them all the time. Maybe a year later I learned that these motifs are actually Mon, which are the equivalent to family crests in Japan. I am not Japanese. I feel like shit about it and I want to get them covered up. I have even asked Jill Bonny about them and if I would offend anyone going to Japan with these on my arms. She said that it doesn't matter because the rules don't apply to westerners, but I'm probably going to get them covered anyway.
The daruma isn't cultural appropriation because I have a personal relationship with daruma as a symbol and a means of accomplishment within my own life. The Mon are appropriative because I took one look at the designs, thought "oh that looks cool, I'll get that tattooed" without any further thought or investigation into what they actually represent.

Everything is borrowed.
The idea of restricting symbols, art, style, food, music, religion, etc. to the original blood lines of the culture feels more racist than "cultural appropriation".
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Kinda off topic (is there a "so I had to soundclash my neighbours" thread?)....
Today my downstairs neighbours decided to play window rattling dubstep from 11am. At 6pm, admittedly out of character , I got super passive aggressive lay the speakers face down on the floor and turned just one song up to eleven, just to convey the proximity of our lives and the inconsiderate nature of their music selection/volume/duration.
This was my song of choice: (worked amazingly well)

That would be @HaydenRose and her 'large cohesive upper arm' tattoo ;)

I was plainskinned when I first met my now wife, but we didn't start dating for a few years after that. She had one small and simple tattoo on her ribs, now has three, all simple outlines, which she loves. I've now got half squidpants (did we agree squidshorts was a thing?), one side of my ribs and both upper arms nearly filled. I feel really lucky to have someone in my life who appreciates them. We have always been supportive of each other's desire for more tattoos, as well as the divergent styles they often take.
Today she was talking about a coherent upper arm (thanks @HaydenRose , best term IMO since squidpants) and I would love to go through that process with her. Hopefully one day she will be helping me cream my backpiece! Forget painting a house together, this is the stuff memories are made of 

Too much rain to go out much today, this was his response.

This guy, only been a week since we adopted him but he's such a great tempered dog. It's been over 15 years since I last had a companion. He is also like a service dog for people that haven't experienced icy footpaths/sidewalk before (ie. me!)


Anybody ever DNA test a mixed rescue to see what it is? I'm really curious based on him displaying a number of different behaviors I would normal associate with a particular breed. He points like a retriever but walks like a beagle, nose to the ground. It doesn't really matter to me but I am interested. At the moment I just say he's half lab, all awesome.

I was imagining something a little more subtle. Classy even. The type of dick you wouldn't mind showing your mother.