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Can't go wrong with a Lehi tiger.

Booked up for back piece session number 3 with Marius Meyer on the 19th of May, also managed to snag an appointment with Morten Transeth the day before. Gonna be a good trip!

Just a few weeks now till my appointment with Emiliano at Frith Street! Can't wait!

and squats are bad for my knees, right?

This is my frontpiece by Marius Meyer. We finished it about a year ago. Two sessions and a total of seven hours if I remember correctly.

Picked this up from Steve Boltz on Tuesday.

Lady head on my upper arm by Garret Egles in Calgary.

Who is this "shige"?

Bradley Tomkins has taken over bright_and_bold today and it's great rather than showing his favourite tattooers he is posting the tattoos that he has collected over the years

Booked an appointement with Rich Hadley in August, when he comes to Blue Arms in Oslo. The wait is too long!

Funny. I saw that on Franz's thread and wondered the same thing.

Because it perpetuates misinformation and incorrect perceptions. If you don't understand why that is inappropriate then you are in the wrong place.

@Colored Guy Civ is publishing a book of flash from S&W in February. Could be worth checking out. Here's the Instagram for it:
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I will also add...tattoo shops that SOUND like tattoo shops.
I once walked into a shop and was like "WTF is anybody working", well they all were with rotary machines dialed down. Too friggin quiet for a tattoo shop, let those coil machines roar !
IMO there is only a select few tattoo shops that look/sound/smell tattoo shop in my city. There is an oversaturation of shops however...maybe better to call them "tattoo studios" or "tattoo salons" by the look of these places, the look of the artists, the look of the fresh tattoos that leave. I think of them as boutique studios and are much more accessible, less intimidating to the average customer. Very sterile, fashionable artwork on the walls, each room has a big screen tv...I personally think it's kinda wack, missing out on part of the experience. But hey, everyone has there own reasons for booking appointments at any tattoo shop or studio,,, there is even a couple headshop-tattoostudio places around that popped up...lol...definately would recommend those if you want to get a hatchet man tattoo (jokes)!
I like the open space, barbershop feel of the street shop. Bunch of tables crammed in the space, everyone is hanging in close quarters with shared misery and having a good time, bullshitting, dirty jokes, talking tattoos. Every square inch of the walls is covered in flash and artwork that looks tattoo-able. Tattoo shops that look like tattoo shops!

Somewhat along those lines, I really love the NASA instagram account because they post a lot of really incredible photos and they also explain what's happening in them. They posted a picture a couple of weeks ago from the Hubble of gravitational lensing, which is spacetime being warped around galaxy clusters because of their immense gravitational pull, and if I can massively understate things, it is really fucking cool. There are a bunch of other good space-related instagram accounts too. The International Space Station is worth following, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is cool, and there's a great account of pictures taken by the Hubble though I don't think it's an official account. So much great stuff out there.

Bradley Tomkins has taken over bright_and_bold today and it's great rather than showing his favourite tattooers he is posting the tattoos that he has collected over the years

Bradley Tomkins has taken over bright_and_bold today and it's great rather than showing his favourite tattooers he is posting the tattoos that he has collected over the years

Bradley Tomkins has taken over bright_and_bold today and it's great rather than showing his favourite tattooers he is posting the tattoos that he has collected over the years

Bradley Tomkins has taken over bright_and_bold today and it's great rather than showing his favourite tattooers he is posting the tattoos that he has collected over the years

@Wilhell that's fucking wild

Marius Meyer started this one a couple of weeks ago. Gonna add more dragon next time.

booked in with tony hundahl for Oklahoma convention! thinking tiger head and cobra but could just do big cobra

I looked and couldn't find a thread on this topic, admins feel free to delete or merge this thread with an existing one if there is one.
I love tattoos of frogs and toads. I'm not sure exactly why that is, because they aren't an animal that I think about that much in real life, but I think there are few tattoos that have as much folky charm as frogs and toads. I saw something on Instagram the other day, I can't remember where, but somebody was commenting on how toads, especially Japanese toads, can also have this real sense of menace. I think it's super cool that they work so well as a subject in both kinds of tattooing: Western traditional and Japanese.
I know that a bunch of you here have frog tattoos, so let's see them, and post some of your favorites.
Here's mine, done by El Monga at Aloha Tattoo, Barcelona. Monga does some of my favorite tattoos, they're so fun and playful and have a real magical feel to them. The tattoo is obviously healed.

Went to the Calgary convention today and picked up a piece by Todd Noble and a bulldog by Shaun topper, both really nice guys, my partner got a native girl head by Todd and I can safely say it's one of the best I've ever seen in person, met a few other artists aswell and was good just to have a look around and catch some of the local talent at work

I have a very active job (transmission lineman) so I've been climbing pylons within a couple of days of getting my knees tattooed, it hurts and makes it awkward but at the same time it is manageable, you can right off doing squats or leg press or even any kind of exercising for at least a week