JoshRoss

Interesting research you get yourself in to SeeSea. That thing looks like any other Gillette razor I've ever seen. What a gimmick.
More dragons.
Andre Malcolm

I sat for Dennis at Providence Tattoo for about 4.5 hours on Saturday afternoon. It was a bit shorter of a sitting than I thought it might be, and thank god. I was still miserable the last hour, and I'm pretty sure Dennis wanted to kill me, haha. But I LOVE the result, and of course it was worth it! I have been waiting for this tattoo since January, and really for even longer than that.
There are two shops, and we were at the one on Atwells Ave, which is just a beautiful shop -- I love it. Dennis was fantastic to work with and so kind. We had a really fun chat, and he even drove me back to my AirBnB when we were done! (I was visiting Providence to get the tattoo.)
I posted a photo from my phone as well as the shot Dennis posted on Instagram. It's swelling a lot more than any of my other tattoos ever have, but I'm thinking that's because it's on my thigh. Otherwise, it seems to be healing fine. I'm so stoked on it!

I'll be there. Really hoping Horimitsu gets back to me because I'd love to collect something rad.

Shark slam back of neck this morning. Shithouse picture, and this is not complete. We need to back fill to tie in, dark water, blood pool and a little between the top fins, but anyway, here's the start.

Got this one today from Bastien Jean at The Okey Doke in Toronto:
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Got this one today from Bastien Jean at The Okey Doke in Toronto:

Very astute; this is one of many reasons I don't care for this particular style.

Got this from Britney Goodman at Downtown Tattoo in Las Vegas.

I basically have the eagle off the mexican flag tattooed on me, but I imagine you could do a lot of fun things with golden eagles and even Hawks.
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Ashley has a few of these hawks designs drawn up, this one someone is doing on their rib.

That entire post @bongsau is bang on.
Although this quoted text I very much had to highlight. That's exactly what it means. This is what the GP don't understand. This is what I love about this place, is what I love about hanging with my heavily tattooed brothers and sisters, we're on the same plane.
The other element which ties into this obviously is the pain. As we've mentioned, learn to channel the pain, we can learn to manage any diversity. Channeling that physical pain through that commitment makes me stronger in mind, helps me rationalise and problem solve life's complexities ...if that shit makes sense.
Thanks for a refreshing post. I can feel a good, long ride ahead of me today with my heavily tattooed brother.
3 pints of lager & a packet of crisps please

Some of the LST posters here are bang-on, it is so others can calculate the money you have spent. In my experience it's either because they are genuinely curious and want to see if heavy coverage is a goal attainable for themselves OR to validate their own holier-than-thou opinion that you are a fool for 'wasting' your money on something which they view as silly and frivolous.
What you see, it took me 10 years of steady progress to get covered in tattoos like this. It shocks most - if you think about a 3hr tattoo vs 200hrs coverage - because I think the average person has a misconception about the time/pain we all here invest...time to manifest the ideas, time coordinating appointments, time to travel, time to research and plan, time to make money and time off work, time applying stencils and placement, time actually under the machine (which is what is only really counted), time to heal, time to develop our relationships with our tattooers, time for the tattoo to age and wear (which is frankly when it looks the best), time for the tattoo to take on a life of it's own as we wear it through our lives. And we can't forget the time to wash/rinse/repeat! When the goal becomes heavy coverage we aren't talking about hours invested anymore, we are talking about years committed. Then a tattoo isn't just a tattoo, tattoo becomes life :)
Tattoo coverage doesn't happen over night. Which is why tattoo to me is a visual representation of commitment, loyalty and dedication, which are values that I think are very important.
So I tells em,
"So, like, how long did that take bro"
"A long fucking time man"

I had one of the best tattoo experiences today and officially crossed the line into weird territory with this by Mando Rascon today. Immaculate tattoo is definitely the best shop I've been in so far and Mando is honestly the best dude I've met,
after the tattoo they shouted me lunch and he took me on a tour around Mesa and Tempe and then drove me all the way home to my hostel!!. what a dude.

Once my sleeve started to look like a sleeve, I was so stoked and stopped caring about tracking time/cost.
Although I haven't put in nearly as much time as a lot of you guys/girls!

Once my sleeve started to look like a sleeve, I was so stoked and stopped caring about tracking time/cost.
Although I haven't put in nearly as much time as a lot of you guys/girls!

Just like when folks ask you how many tattoos you have, and when I'm fully complete, I'll just respond "one."

Third session on my back today, with my friend Iain Mullen. Rudy Fritsch does the next one at the London Convention, mid day on the 27:th. Come say hello.

I'll be there. Really hoping Horimitsu gets back to me because I'd love to collect something rad.

I'll be there. Really hoping Horimitsu gets back to me because I'd love to collect something rad.

I'll be there. Really hoping Horimitsu gets back to me because I'd love to collect something rad.

My peony I got from Glennie at the Pearl Harbor Gift Shop yesterday.

It is really fn hard to take a picture of the back of your arm.
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Too excited about how cool this looks to not share it. Please excuse the redness and peeling. This was the progress from my second session with Henning. About 11.5 hours total now. One more short session needed to color the tiger and the last few leaves.

I got this urn from Ron Henry Wells at the Montreal Convention (I can't get these pics to be upright, but you get the idea):

Got this from Rich Hardy. Zeis redo from the 50s.

No it isn't!
I picked up this hoju from Ishmael Johnson at the Montreal convention yesterday. I wasn't intending to get tattooed this weekend, but I've been really into Ishmael's tattoos for a while now, and he had availability, I had a strange spot on my arm, so why not get tattooed by him instead of just liking his pictures on instagram like a chump? It was fun times. I'll post better pictures when healed.

Quick appearance on the beach. Still a lot left to do and layers to add, but it's coming together. Back in the saddle on Friday.
Dude asked me, "Please don't tell me you did that all in one sitting." :rolleyes:

got an old man tattoo from an old dude.