jade1955

This is from Henning Jorgensen.
done at Royal Tattoo.
enjoy!

okay sorry.. maybe i'll have something new in a couple of months..
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Okay here is one of my older tattoos. Not finished..
By Phil Szlosek at Kingsave NYC

Haters, why? We want to see some new stuff!

This happened today. Tattooed by Adam Warmerdam Totally unplanned. Got a heads up on Friday night that he is in London.
Super nice guy and a great tattooer. I absolutely love this.

That's cool.....I just wondered if for some people they saw 1985 as some pivotal time in tattooing or something and my first professional tattoo was done in 1984 by Juli Moon.....
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I don't really know why or what got into my head one evening BUT.....I just decided that I wanted to seek out some of the people who had been tattooing 30-40 years and begin to add their work to my body! At the time I was not even thinking I would ever pick up a machine and tattoo but to me it truly was my way of being able to honor those people who had put their time in to the craft and community I loved since I did not tattoo!
It really hit home to me that this is what I felt I should do once I was tattooed by Dennis Watkins....the hubby of my now mentor Gale Watkins! Dennis apparently was dying at the time unknown to anyone but himself and had really stopped tattooing totally. I asked a friend to see if he could convince him to do something small on me....and he agreed to do something!
That one tattoo turned into three.....Myself...my hubby....and my son have his last three tattoos!
After his death I asked a few well known tattoo artists who I was fortunate to be friends with who were others who had this kind of time in and got back a wonderful list I have been chipping away at for some time now!
I try not to really draw a lot of attention to myself because I am really no one special.....I have just taken the time to have been tattooed by a lot of really wonderful people who love/loved what they do.....
I really would urge others to do this as well if you are just going for smaller pieces here and there on your body rather than larger mural style pieces!

This happened today. Tattooed by Adam Warmerdam Totally unplanned. Got a heads up on Friday night that he is in London.
Super nice guy and a great tattooer. I absolutely love this.

I'm finding that it's easier to walk the day after a knee cap tattoo than the day after a knee ditch tattoo. Horitaka once told me not to do both of my knee ditches the same day, because then I wouldn't be able to limp. He is a wise man.

Or you could get real fucking old school and get a cross like Otzi the Iceman

@Jade1959 Hang on a minute you were on your own for most of Sunday. ;)

This happened today. Tattooed by Adam Warmerdam Totally unplanned. Got a heads up on Friday night that he is in London.
Super nice guy and a great tattooer. I absolutely love this.

This happened today. Tattooed by Adam Warmerdam Totally unplanned. Got a heads up on Friday night that he is in London.
Super nice guy and a great tattooer. I absolutely love this.

This happened today. Tattooed by Adam Warmerdam Totally unplanned. Got a heads up on Friday night that he is in London.
Super nice guy and a great tattooer. I absolutely love this.

I can't wait to see the pictures, all of you are going to get exceptional tattoos.

This happened today. Tattooed by Adam Warmerdam Totally unplanned. Got a heads up on Friday night that he is in London.
Super nice guy and a great tattooer. I absolutely love this.

This happened today. Tattooed by Adam Warmerdam Totally unplanned. Got a heads up on Friday night that he is in London.
Super nice guy and a great tattooer. I absolutely love this.

Booked in with Henning on the Saturday. Namakubi back of the leg.
I'm really looking forward to this one.

Booked in with Henning on the Saturday. Namakubi back of the leg.
I'm really looking forward to this one.

Don't worry about it. We work on people's skin every single day. We're used to it. Yes, even people who've never been tattooed before. Even people who "respect" tattooing and want something special. We tattoo 'em all.
To use my swimming/water analogy: You're not even dipping your toe in the water. You're asking for swimmers to let you know where the front crawl came from. Stop reading, start getting tattooed.
Until then, you don't get to be part of tattooing. You're a tourist and don't get to demand squat from any of us. A conversation based on first-hand experience is always more rewarding than one with a curious onlooker.

Many thanks Ross.
Can't wait!
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Yeah see you there :-)

Stoked for you!

There was a thread about "dotwork" a while ago and I got fairly involved and possibly upset a few people. Check it out, I think I already answered the question posed by your thread title.
Also, the word "fad" is inherently insulting in modern usage - but you knew that already.
While researching tattoos, tattooing, tattoo styles, tattoo history and tattooers is interesting and probably fun. It's still kinda like researching swimming. Most of it's value comes from being involved, taking part, doing it, getting it done and having it be part of your life.
Then again... On a long enough time scale, ALL tattooing since Ed Hardy opened the first appointment-only studio is a fad. Sailors going to war, getting tattooed in Honolulu was a fad. High-Society Europeans shipping esteemed Japanese irezumi artists over to tattoo dragons on them in the 1800's was a fad. Internet forums will be seen to be a fad. Finally, tattoo customers stressing about being period-correct like vintage clothing aficionados will be seen to be a fad of the early 21st century.

@HettyKet If you look at tattoos on a long enough scale, everything is going to look dated eventually. Good tattoos are still good tattoos though.

Getting good tattoos is a current fad, but I'm buying into it for the long haul.

Not getting something because it is a trend is just as bad as getting something because it is a trend.

Guess I will see you there then. Henning normally shares a booth with Mike Rubendall. Can't fricking wait!!