Petri Aspvik

Ed Hardy's TattooTime - Re-release - HM
Tattooing the Invisible Man (DETH) - HM
Tattoo City - HM
Sailor Jerry Collins - American Tattoo Master - HM
In a World of Compromise... I Don't - Bob Roberts (signed 720/1000).
Forever the New Tattoo
Tattooing From Japan to the West
Tattooing New York City: Style and Continuity in a Changing Art Form
Japanese Style Tattoo Art - Revisiting Traditional Themes - R. Melo
I Love Tattoos
Andon 87 - Japan Tattoo - Tattoos in Japanese Prints
Underway is the Only Way - Grime/Taki
Two Year Autopsy - Grime
Iron Will - Grime
Tattoo Artist Magazine 1-5, Volume One.
Tattoo Artist: A Collection of Narratives
Revisited: A Tribute to Flash From the Past
Norske Sjømannstatoveringer / Norwegian Sailors' Tattoos
Dansk Tatovering / Danish Tattooing
These Old Blue Arms - The Life & Work of Amund Dietzel
These Old Blue Arms - The Life & Work of Amund Dietzel, VOL 2.
1000 Tattoos - Hanky Panky
Vintage Tattoos - The Book of Old-School Skin Art
Tatttoos - JK5
HORIYOSHI III - The Art of the Japanese Tattoo/Japansk tatueringskonst
Others:
The Shunga (a japanese book with Shunga prints).
Tattoo Nation (the Movie) - DVD
Have just ordered and waiting for the "MICK" book by Alex Reinke and "Gods and Warriors": Horimana - The Work
of Chris Trevino

I've been meaning to take account of all my books. This was as good an excuse as anytime to figure it out. I think this covers it, but it's likely I have a couple more hiding somewhere. Mostly Japanese stuff (big surprise, right?). Some are quality. Some are academic. A couple are meh. Mostly good though. I think anyways, but I need to fill in some gaps that should be a part of any collection.
Tattoo Related:
-Full Coverage: NSK Collective
-Bloodwork: Bodies (Analog)
-Iron Will (Grime)
-Two Year Autopsy (Grime)
-The Fingerwave Book (Grime)
-Scott Campbell: If You Don't Belong. Don't be Long
-Tattooed By "The Family Business" (that one put out by Mo Cappoletta's shop)
-Bunshin: Tattoo Art By Horihito
-Bunshin II: Japanese Traditional Tattoo, Horitsune II, Dragon & Kannon
-Horitoshi I Storia Dell'Irezumi (Robert Borsi)
-Japanese Tattoo Designs: Ichibay (Luke Atkinson)
-Shige (Hardcover) (pub. State of Grace, Inc)
-Shige (softcover) (pub. State of Grace, Inc)
-Tattooing From Japan To The West (Takahiro Kitamura (Horitaka))
-Bushido: Legacies of The Japanese Tattoo (Takahiro Kitamura (Horitaka))
-Tattoos Of The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Motifs In The Japanese Tattoo (Takahiro Kitamura (Horitaka))
-Studying Horiyoshi III: A Westerner's Journey Into Japanese Tattoo (Jill Mandelbaum (Bonny)(Horiyuki))
-Underway Is the Only Way (Grime & Horitaka)
-Tattoo Artist: A Colletion Of Narratives (Jill Mandelbaum (Bonny) (Horiyuki))
-Fudo Myo-o Tattoo Design by Horitomo
-Monmon Cats (Kazuaki Kitamura (Horitomo))
-I <3 Tattoos (Takahiro Kitamura (Horitaka))
-Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World
-Horiyoshi III (Grime & Horitaka)
-Sketches of Horiyoshi III (pub. State of Grace, Inc)
-Legacy: The Horiyoshi III Tradition (Juan Puente)
-Japan's Tattoo Arts Horiyoshi's World 2
-100 Demons of Horiyoshi III
-58 Musha By Horiyoshi III
-Wanzakure: The Road To Shisei (by Horiyoshi III)
-Denotwaza (on Nakamura Toshikazu) (Alek Reinke/Matti Sedholm)
-Those 3 Japanese Masters Books The Red one. The Black one. The Blue one. (Japanese Pub)
-Backpiece Tattoo II (Japanese Pub)
-Backpiece Tattoo III (Japanese Pub)
-Tattoo In Japan (That thick hardcover one by Edition Reuss)
-Horikazu (Edition Reuss)
-Wabori, Traditional Japanese Tattoo
-Japanese Tattooing Now: Memory & Transition (that tan colored book from around 2001ish)
-A History of Japanese Body Suit Tattooing
-Tokyo Tattoo 1970
-Mau Moko: The world of Maori Tattoo
-Sacred Skin - Thailand 's Spirit Tattoos
-The Mammoth Book of Tattoos (Lal Hardy)
-Tattoo World (Marisa Kokoulas/Michael Kaplan)
Tattoo Reference:
-Of Brigands and Bravery (108 Heroes of the Suikoden) (Kuniyoshi)
-The Faithful Samurai (47 Ronin) (Kuniyoshi)
-Heroes of the Grand Pacification (Kuniyoshi) (come to think of it, I actually gave that one to Jill Bonny as "thank you" one session, so I need to get another copy)
-Kuniyoshi: From The Arthur R. Miller Collection
-Samurai, Stars of the Stage, and Beautiful Women: Kunisada and Kuniyoshi Masters of the Color Woodblock Print
-Art of Armor: Samurai Armor From the Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection
-Memoir: Tattooed Portaits Series (Shawn Barber)
-Time Present & Time Past Images of a Forgotten Master (on Kunichika)
-Hokusai Manga
-The Secret of Noh Masks
-A Japanese publication on, Tsuyoshi Nagano, a contemporary artist who paints a lot of samurai motifs
-A few more Japanese publications. 1 on Kyosai, 2 on Yoshitoshi, and probably 4 more on Kuniyoshi (Can't read Japanese so don't know their names)
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Nice looking collection going on there. I zoomed in for a closer look and thought, "oh I want that one and that one over there too!".
And @ironchef, how's the wenren book? I'm tempted to order it if they are still available.

Stop in Arizona (Mesa, which is a suburb of Phoenix) at Immaculate Tattoo. It's an amazing shop.

I just wrote and essay about tattooing ("Turning point of tattoo art in the 1970's". Direct translation from finnish) for my art history studies in University. It is a topic that has been gaining "popularity" in recent years, so I think this type of thing (lectures etc) will be happening more and more in the future.

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I take terrible photos. She looks much nicer in real life ;)

Greg's books is in prefect condition. The prices range from 350-500$ in the internet, but willing to sell a lot cheaper. Make an offer.
Grimes book is read few times over, has little signs of use in the hardcover, in the edges, all the pages are pretty much new. This I can sell for 120$.
I can post pics if needed.

Mister Cartoon, bad ass!

Yeah, the Stuart leg sleeves are amazing. I want to strive to that outlook myself. This one by Scott Harrison is bad ass also. I dont really like Scott's stuff that much personally, but this owns! This tattoo and the one by Stuart look like Lungfish Feral Hymns album sounds. Images to sounds

And btw. About the use of space around tattoos. Check out the Robert Ryan interview in TAM, he talks about that in there.

Because the easiest way to make a tattoo tougher is to put a dagger in it!

This Rory Keating backpiece done by Leo Zulueta. Rory is the one in the right. Its just perfect.

This thread isn't complete with out Kahlil Rintye. Fucking amazing stuff!

Ed Hardy's Tattoo City - Kahlil Rintye

This thread needs more black.

Trust me, no you dont.

This thread needs more black.

Hmmm. Well, less is more. I much rather would want to see a portfolio where there is like 20 tattoos with maybe even a brief description about what they really want to do. I mean, why not? If there is a eagle and the artist wants to do eagles that are more like flash from the 1930, as the one he maybe has in his portfolio, and not so much from the 1970's, then write it there. I dont know if artists do this, but there are no rules. Put photographs in your portfolio of stuff you are drawn to. Fucking poems or shit.
And what RockelMan said is a great advice. Its boring to see 300 pics of tattoo work and have no sense of reason in them

I didn't really work with him as an artist or front desk; He let me tattoo myself there a few times and let me hang around whenever I wanted and answered any question I had. I was at his shop as much as possible between the years of 1990 to 2000. I feel lucky to have been in that situation because he was extremely gruff to just about everybody, especially other tattooers. Had a big opportunity not fallen into my lap halfway across the country I believe that would've been my first 'job'. There were only 2 people in that whole time that he set up machines for and the other person was my roommate at the time.
There's no right/wrong 'what I should've done/chosen to do' at that time just decisions made and where they take you. I don't regret moving away from Baltimore at a turning point like that but sometimes I do wish I had been able to spend more time there at his shop at a crucial time like that before he passed away. I still talk to his widow fairly frequently and she tells me that she knows he would be proud of me now. I plan to see her again when I go to Bmore for a guest spot this summer, and have set up a visit with Nick and Thom as well during that same trip.
Nick also had a big hand in showing Tux the ropes as did Thom and Elio. I recommend getting some artwork from Nick; he's a super rad guy and an amazing artist.
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There's a certain not-to-be-named somebody here that has some great photos of Tux & Thom recently purchased that I've never seen before; I'll let them post them if he/she wants to after that person sees this thread.
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One of the somewhat little-known people in Bmore worth knowing about is Tattoo Charlie Geizer
Charlie Geizer
Although his shop has changed hands and is no longer part of the Geizer family the shop is still there (in the red light district, of course)and worth a visit if the old flash is still up. My favorite part of Charlie's shop is the painted screens he had done. Screen painting, an old Baltimore folk art tradition, has themes that are usually quaint country scenes and whatnot but Charlie's screens are HUGE and are Bmore landmarks including 2 (3?) huge clipper ships. They're on the second floor so it's really difficult to get pictures of them.
Bunny, you need to get someone to let you go into the offices across the way from them and explain how unique, special and part of Baltimore history they are so you can photograph them.
edit; for the sake of a rough idea of what I'm talking about I used google street view. Not as good as actual photos but you get the idea. I also feel compelled to give context of where it's located.


For a short period of time as a young lad I worked at what used to be a carry-out greasy spoon where that Subway is now. Memories.

Colin Dale, that man fucking owns! I wish this was on me

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Colin Dale, that man fucking owns! I wish this was on me

This thread isn't complete with out Kahlil Rintye. Fucking amazing stuff!

Ed Hardy's Tattoo City - Kahlil Rintye

Polish Prison Tattoos
Look what I found! These tattoos outlasted their owners. There's a cool skull and snake, a random guy on a bike (no mustache), some very interesting couplings...pretty cool tattoos. :)

Shit, talking more about Gaiman. The Sandman. Fucking amazing... Wow. How...

Yeah, it wasn't me man :P. I'm big on biographies and shit like that. Currently Im reading Blood in the Cage: Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich, and the Furious Rise of the UFC, because I love stuff like this!
Talking about Biographies, I have read Education of a Felon: A Memoir by Edward Bunker like six times. Its fucking amazing.
My all time favorite books are (besides Education) perhaps
Neil Gaiman - American Gods (It is just magical, in all sense of the word, magic.)
Noah Levine - Dharma Punx (It helped me)
Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark (cleared the cobwebs)
Richard Matheson - I am legend and Cormac McCarthy - The Road (both dense, close as skin)
Hmmmm. Shit, cant remember more. Oh! Marilyn Manson - The Long hard road out of Hell. Hail Satan.
I really havent read any real classic classics. They bore me. For example, Jack Kerouac On the Road. Well, Ithink Henry Rollins said it best.
“Kerouac, what a pussy,”
:D

Don't know who the Cheyenne Randall guy is who runs it, but nice stuff.
☜Shopped Tattoos☞

Don't know who the Cheyenne Randall guy is who runs it, but nice stuff.
☜Shopped Tattoos☞

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