Reputation from kimkong - Page 56

kimkong reacted to irezumi in Old tattoo photos October 21, 2013

Ever since I became aware of what the world of tattooing is, I've also been aware of the closely guarded secrets and the policy of not sharing the gold. And it's a good policy. Not everyone deserves to see the end of the rainbow.
And then there's other times where I see that keeping everything to yourself or the immediate close circle isn't always necessary, or that it's more like brass not gold.
I also scanned the Rudy interview from the same old copy of TA that I scanned and posted the VyVyn article from in that other thread. I tried to make the scans less crooked this time. Seems to be the best place to post this.

kimkong reacted to joakim urma in Latest tattoo lowdown..... October 21, 2013

Back in Sweden. Thank you to @Mark Bee, @cltattooing, @chrisnoluck, @Johannes and all of you others who enjoyed the Rudy Fritsch-piece I got.
Today was one last tattoo and then I am taking a break until spring at least.

By Iain Mullen, the one and only.
Back of the knee, two hours of not so nice feelings. Very happy that it's over and with the result of course!

kimkong reacted to Sean Sinha in Latest tattoo lowdown..... October 21, 2013

Just got this at Clubhouse Tattoo in Oakland from the very cool Carolyn. (CLTattooing on here) A good friend of mine also got an amazing skull and rose tattoo, hopefully Carolyn posts pics soon!

kimkong reacted to hogg in Latest tattoo lowdown..... October 21, 2013

I went to Chicago (first time!) for a very short work trip. However, I did manage to squeeze in an appointment with Nick Colella:

He wedged my wife's name into a little spot below my left knee ditch and right under a girl head I got that looks just like her. I didn't tell her I was going to do it; when I got home last night, I said, "My leg hurts. Can you look at it for me?" Fortunately, she loves it as much as I do.
Nick was awesome. He did the whole thing in about 15 minutes, then I hung out and soaked in his beautiful shop for a while. Nick, Erik, Frank, and Matt were all super gracious and chatted with me for a long time. I can't recommend Great Lakes Tattoo highly enough. And they take walk-ins all day!

kimkong reacted to motsimus in Latest tattoo lowdown..... October 21, 2013

Got the pharoahs horses from Fergus Simms a few weeks back and the dagger and skull from Gore both done at Chapel Tattoo, also my friend got the pair of shoes from Gore.

kimkong reacted to jade1955 in Latest tattoo lowdown..... October 21, 2013

Got this dagger from Lal Hardy at New Wave Tattoo in Muswell Hill, London. Lal has been tattooing for over 30 years and is as absolute diamond.
Had such a great morning there as well.
The dagger goes through a tattoo from Alex Binnie, which is his version of the first tattoo I had done over 40 years ago.

kimkong reacted to ironchef in Latest tattoo lowdown..... October 17, 2013

6+ hours yesterday with Mike Rubendall on my back piece. Check out full report with pics in the "Full Back Piece" thread.

kimkong reacted to joakim urma in Latest tattoo lowdown..... October 17, 2013

This is what happened to me today:

Rudy Fritsch, of course. I encourage anyone who as a chance to get something from this man, very inspiring and unique in every way. Well worth the trip to Trieste (nice town!) where his studio is. I think that's it for me, no more tattoos until spring. Ciao!
edit: not really necassary to comment on how much I love this tattoo. I do. A lot.