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Man, you leave this thread alone for a couple days and come back to almost a full sleeve worth of awesome!

Man, you leave this thread alone for a couple days and come back to almost a full sleeve worth of awesome!

Effective immediately, due to a major ink shortage caused by @else the price of ink will be increasing dramatically on the limited quantity that is left. The now rare tattoo ink will be more expensive per ounce than Rhodium.

Here's my anchor!!
We went a lot bigger and more colorful than I thought we would going in...
Love it! :D

Got this from Tomas Garcia at Sid's in Santa Ana, CA. He has a special book of line drawings that he'd love to do. I had trouble deciding between two designs in particular, so he took both designs and made it into one.
It was definitely a great experience over at Sid's. The entire crew is extremely hospitable. Very down to earth crew. I'm a fan for life. Tomas even drew up some hand made lettering for me too.

A customers guide on how to get tattooed.
More real life down to earth portrayals of tattooers.
25 reasons why people shouldn't become tattooers.

Here's the complete Stoney documentary for those interested. Such a cool video, I love all of his old sideshow flash!
Stoney Knows How

Here's the complete Stoney documentary for those interested. Such a cool video, I love all of his old sideshow flash!
Stoney Knows How

Here's the complete Stoney documentary for those interested. Such a cool video, I love all of his old sideshow flash!
Stoney Knows How

Mike Wilson @ inksmith and Rogers

Man, @Iwar and @living4today bringing some heat. It's not easy following a Kore Flatmo backpiece...

Last session. We're all done. Mike Wilson @ ink smith and Rogers

Jonas Nyberg (or Uggli as some know him by) is doing a guestspot at Blue Arms, and I filled a cancellation he had yesterday. My first tattoo this year.

Got back on Saturday from my last session on my back from Kore Flatmo. Glad to have this done! The back is no joke... Had an awesome time there as usual and will be back for some cover up work after summer.

The cool thing about Gypsy Gentleman and Tattoo Age is that they both have very minimum overlap as far as their guests are concerned (Valerie Vargas and Dan Santoro being the exceptions). I've been exposed to lots of great artists because of both shows, but Gypsy Gentleman especially. This was my first time discovering Laura Satana. Dig her work.
That Tin Tin interview was so good. Seems like such a character. I dig that.

I got an Amazon gift certificate from family over the holidays and picked up a copy of DeVita Unauthorized and a Benchmade Mini Griptilian folding knife as well as some random bits. Two of my better purchases in a long time, I find myself flipping through DeVita's work on an almost daily basis.

Seriously, I just buy books. Like, books I'm never going to read but sound awesome.

Although I haven't been in myself (I'm planning on getting some work done in the near future), my friends have spent a fair amount of time at Fortune Tattoo (Portland) with Olivia Britz. I've started following her work and I'm pretty impressed. Might be worth a stop for you.

^^^Yeah, that's fantastic! Nice traditional spin on Lady Liberty.

Paris is up! Hell of an episode, but I can't wait for the hour long (!) Japan coming next.
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