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JBHoren got a reaction from JAllen in Is dotwork a fad or does it have a place in traditional tattooing?
There's "stippling" (which I've only seen in online photographs, and then, only in "neo-tribal" designs), and then there's the traditional "dots 'n stars" (which -- dammit! -- I still need to get done to complete my chest/shoulders).
I like the stippling-as-shading, but I wonder how -- in the long-run -- it'll hold up; specifically, will closely-spaced dots run together, like closely-spaced lines often do? And, would that, necessarily, be a "Bad Thing"? Makes me think of the moderating effect that Time has on gray-scale work. Dunno.
I do like the stippling as "background" for some women's filigree tattoos -- call me sexist... whatever... but a bracelet like the one the OP linked-to (on a woman) is definitely eye-catching. :o
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JBHoren got a reaction from daveborjes in Pre 1985 tattooers you've been tattooed by
"Tattoo Ted" Nelson -- 1972
Louie Lombi -- 1976, 2001, 2004-2005
Jack Armstrong -- 1977
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JBHoren reacted to Dan S in Pre 1985 tattooers you've been tattooed by
No gloves...it's funny, I was thinking about that the other day, I remember when the big deal at CTC was the autoclave...NO ONE wore gloves. Sitting getting worked on by Dale, both of us smoking. Cigarettes, yeah, that's the ticket, cigarettes...
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JBHoren reacted to GrayCatLove in What's your longest tattoo session?
I had a good conversation about this with a tattoo artist while being tattooed. After four hours, blood sugar drops, the client starts to physically wear down. For the most part, long sessions don't work well.
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JBHoren reacted to deadsp0t in New U.S. Army Regulations on Tattoos
Even when when in formal dress doing memorial services they are basically covered.
Regardless, tattoos, even 'offensive' ones have zero to do with ones ability to use a rifle or machine gun, or even a cash register, lawn mower, any job.
Senseless waste of time and resources IMO
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JBHoren reacted to deadsp0t in New U.S. Army Regulations on Tattoos
Had this topic on a fire arms website a couple weeks ago, this came out then. Really didn't get too much good discussion before the mostly extremist right wing members started getting ridiculous with flaming tattoos and tattooed people and the mods had to close the thread. The only intelligent comment was that this is population control as we don't need nearly as many soldiers right now, but let another war or crisis start and restrictions will become more lax again.
I personally don't care how tattooed someone is, in any profession I'm more concerned with ability.
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JBHoren reacted to David Flores in Is dotwork a fad or does it have a place in traditional tattooing?
It would be like a client coming in and dictating what needle grouping they should use to outline their tattoo with is what I think he is getting at. If you just said a really like all those dots and leave it at that it wouldn't be an issue. Maybe it's just how you pose the idea, suggestion vs demand.
You are right it is their money and their body, and listening to the tattooer is optional, but that is how a lot of bad tattoos happen. Obviously there will be a lot of input needed, but it's up the tattooer to make your idea into a tattoo and if you aren't receptive, than you aren't really getting there best.
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JBHoren reacted to Graeme in Is dotwork a fad or does it have a place in traditional tattooing?
Why? Because in tattooing the customer usually isn't right. Because tattooing isn't the sort of democratic activity where you have an equal say to somebody who has spent years or decades constantly working at his or her craft because you read something on the internet.
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JBHoren reacted to JAllen in Is dotwork a fad or does it have a place in traditional tattooing?
Before it showed up in tattooing, it was always referred to as "stippling".
Also, mentioned him before but cory ferguson has been doing that style for a long time as well and usually gets left off people's lists of who's doing/been doing this style.
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JBHoren reacted to slayer9019 in Is dotwork a fad or does it have a place in traditional tattooing?
Seconded
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JBHoren reacted to tatB in Is dotwork a fad or does it have a place in traditional tattooing?
perfect sentence.
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JBHoren reacted to SStu in What do you think the age of consent should be?
I don't think age should be the criteria. I think any prospective tattooee should have to pass a common sense and maturity test 1st.
Same goes for having babies or "owning" pets.
Naturally, some people would be plain-skinned, childless and lonely forever.
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JBHoren got a reaction from slayer9019 in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
I got my first tattoo on my 21st birthday -- late-January 1972 -- while on leave after finishing USArmy AIT, before reporting to my first duty station: Fort Richardson, AK. I didn't get any more ink until I'd finished my military service and drifted back to the Ft. Benning, GA area, where I met Louie Lombi, who'd recently opened a branch of his mentor's shop -- "Big Joe" Kaplan, from Mount Vernon, NY. Louie began sleeving me between July 1976 and December 1979; then I emigrated to Israel (!) and fell out of contact with him. We got back in touch in 2001, when I was in South Florida for a computer course (sent from Israel), and found that Louie had relocated to Greenacres/Lake Worth, FL, where my mother lived, and opened a shop of his own: Louie Lombi's Tattoo Paradise. Small world. I finally left Israel summer of 2004, and returned to South Florida. Louie finished my sleeves, and another artist in his employ, "Painless Jimmy" Hankins. Jimmy eventually did my chest, shoulders and "sleeved" my lower legs, ankles-to-knees.
I need a new photo -- this one's missing the bluebirds (PS: the women's heads were done in Columbus, GA by the late Jack Armstrong, in 1977... sponge-in-a-jar)
My shins and calves (missing the wrap-around sides) (Statue of Liberty outline done on July 4th, 2006, and all work on both legs was finished in late 2008)
And feet... (summer of 2009)
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JBHoren got a reaction from KYboy in Rock of Ages Tattoo Design
Yes, I can imagine that... in fact, I have this very one! I found the original design (of course, doh!) on the Internet. Turns-out that the person running the website had apprenticed with Tattoo Ted Nelson (who gave me my first tattoo on my 21st birthday, back in late-January 1972, in Fairfield, IA), and Ted had apprenticed with Bert Grimm. Small world. Anyway, this piece was inked on me by "Painless Jimmy" Hankins (yet another "old timer"), at Louie Lombi's Tattoo Paradise, in 2005/6. I'm pleased with it. Jimmy's still slingin' ink here in South Florida, but Louie Lombi retired and gave the shop to his long-time apprentice and worker, Clark O'Dell... it's now called Tattoo Paradise of West Palm Beach.
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JBHoren got a reaction from slayer9019 in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
Yup... but I only got "mildly" infected.
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JBHoren got a reaction from SStu in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
I got my first tattoo on my 21st birthday -- late-January 1972 -- while on leave after finishing USArmy AIT, before reporting to my first duty station: Fort Richardson, AK. I didn't get any more ink until I'd finished my military service and drifted back to the Ft. Benning, GA area, where I met Louie Lombi, who'd recently opened a branch of his mentor's shop -- "Big Joe" Kaplan, from Mount Vernon, NY. Louie began sleeving me between July 1976 and December 1979; then I emigrated to Israel (!) and fell out of contact with him. We got back in touch in 2001, when I was in South Florida for a computer course (sent from Israel), and found that Louie had relocated to Greenacres/Lake Worth, FL, where my mother lived, and opened a shop of his own: Louie Lombi's Tattoo Paradise. Small world. I finally left Israel summer of 2004, and returned to South Florida. Louie finished my sleeves, and another artist in his employ, "Painless Jimmy" Hankins. Jimmy eventually did my chest, shoulders and "sleeved" my lower legs, ankles-to-knees.
I need a new photo -- this one's missing the bluebirds (PS: the women's heads were done in Columbus, GA by the late Jack Armstrong, in 1977... sponge-in-a-jar)
My shins and calves (missing the wrap-around sides) (Statue of Liberty outline done on July 4th, 2006, and all work on both legs was finished in late 2008)
And feet... (summer of 2009)
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JBHoren got a reaction from irezumi in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
Yup... but I only got "mildly" infected.
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JBHoren got a reaction from Graeme in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
Yup... but I only got "mildly" infected.
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JBHoren got a reaction from el twe in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
I got my first tattoo on my 21st birthday -- late-January 1972 -- while on leave after finishing USArmy AIT, before reporting to my first duty station: Fort Richardson, AK. I didn't get any more ink until I'd finished my military service and drifted back to the Ft. Benning, GA area, where I met Louie Lombi, who'd recently opened a branch of his mentor's shop -- "Big Joe" Kaplan, from Mount Vernon, NY. Louie began sleeving me between July 1976 and December 1979; then I emigrated to Israel (!) and fell out of contact with him. We got back in touch in 2001, when I was in South Florida for a computer course (sent from Israel), and found that Louie had relocated to Greenacres/Lake Worth, FL, where my mother lived, and opened a shop of his own: Louie Lombi's Tattoo Paradise. Small world. I finally left Israel summer of 2004, and returned to South Florida. Louie finished my sleeves, and another artist in his employ, "Painless Jimmy" Hankins. Jimmy eventually did my chest, shoulders and "sleeved" my lower legs, ankles-to-knees.
I need a new photo -- this one's missing the bluebirds (PS: the women's heads were done in Columbus, GA by the late Jack Armstrong, in 1977... sponge-in-a-jar)
My shins and calves (missing the wrap-around sides) (Statue of Liberty outline done on July 4th, 2006, and all work on both legs was finished in late 2008)
And feet... (summer of 2009)
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JBHoren reacted to NotExpected85 in Shop etiquette question
If i found someone i loved, id stick with them. I dont know that I would switch around.
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JBHoren reacted to irezumi in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
Jack told me that when he was on the pike at Grimm's shop that the stations were set up to have one bucket between 2 stations for shared use.
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JBHoren got a reaction from Graeme in Rock of Ages Tattoo Design
Yes, I can imagine that... in fact, I have this very one! I found the original design (of course, doh!) on the Internet. Turns-out that the person running the website had apprenticed with Tattoo Ted Nelson (who gave me my first tattoo on my 21st birthday, back in late-January 1972, in Fairfield, IA), and Ted had apprenticed with Bert Grimm. Small world. Anyway, this piece was inked on me by "Painless Jimmy" Hankins (yet another "old timer"), at Louie Lombi's Tattoo Paradise, in 2005/6. I'm pleased with it. Jimmy's still slingin' ink here in South Florida, but Louie Lombi retired and gave the shop to his long-time apprentice and worker, Clark O'Dell... it's now called Tattoo Paradise of West Palm Beach.
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JBHoren got a reaction from WideOcean in Old Fart in South Florida Says "Hi!"
I got my first tattoo on my 21st birthday -- late-January 1972 -- while on leave after finishing USArmy AIT, before reporting to my first duty station: Fort Richardson, AK. I didn't get any more ink until I'd finished my military service and drifted back to the Ft. Benning, GA area, where I met Louie Lombi, who'd recently opened a branch of his mentor's shop -- "Big Joe" Kaplan, from Mount Vernon, NY. Louie began sleeving me between July 1976 and December 1979; then I emigrated to Israel (!) and fell out of contact with him. We got back in touch in 2001, when I was in South Florida for a computer course (sent from Israel), and found that Louie had relocated to Greenacres/Lake Worth, FL, where my mother lived, and opened a shop of his own: Louie Lombi's Tattoo Paradise. Small world. I finally left Israel summer of 2004, and returned to South Florida. Louie finished my sleeves, and another artist in his employ, "Painless Jimmy" Hankins. Jimmy eventually did my chest, shoulders and "sleeved" my lower legs, ankles-to-knees.
I need a new photo -- this one's missing the bluebirds (PS: the women's heads were done in Columbus, GA by the late Jack Armstrong, in 1977... sponge-in-a-jar)
My shins and calves (missing the wrap-around sides) (Statue of Liberty outline done on July 4th, 2006, and all work on both legs was finished in late 2008)
And feet... (summer of 2009)