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What a tragedy. RIP

The only thing I saw wrong with Matt's piece was the skull in the small of her back. That thing was jacked. In my opinion, Cruseman earned that victory against Blinston, and I've been backing Blinston since episode...four, I think. I just thought that his piece, while stellar, was just barely edged out.

As for Tatu Baby, she has demonstrated that she is a great tattoo artist, but she is not an Ink Master. She drew a wolf with no fucking legs. For her Master Work. That is inexcusable.

As for next season's roster, half of the people were 2nd or 3rd place contestants, so they have a serious advantage over the new people. Except for that one guy who puts googly eyes on every fucking thing he does. Fuck that guy. I hate one trick ponies.

Calling it now: St. Marq and Cleen Rock One are going to the finale in Season 7. I'd like to see Sarah Miller make it, but I think St. Marq is going to rattle her cage more than Kay Kutta did.

Okay, so it is just me.

I don't want to sound crass, but am I the only one who finds it weird that these artists are putting strange faces on the backs of the female canvasses? If I'm fucking a chick from the rear and I'm looking at a different woman's face, I think it might throw off my game a little.

Is it just me?

That's what blows my mind. If you make it to the Top 5, definitely advertise that. They start with 18 artists, you make it to the Top 7, that's no mean feat. You get eliminated in the first 3 rounds, you just need to acknowledge it if someone mentions it, but I wouldn't brag about it.

The conditions those men and women are working under are extremely stressful, rattling even the best artists. Miami, for instance, is apparently a Black Belt in tattooing, but look how quickly he got bounced. That loft kicked his ass, much to the surprise of Nunez and Peck.

Fucktards like Mystical Mike, on the other hand, should definitely not advertise that they were on TV because he might be a super nice guy in his own studio, but I don't believe that based solely on what I saw from his repeated TV appearances. But he is definitely the type of dipshit who believes there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Not to interrupt your "keeping it real" moment, but you are missing the principle reason, admitted or not, that most 'artists' sign up for this contest. It is not because they have hopes of winning it; win, lose or get laughed off, I bet you their business goes through the roof (at least in the short term) because every chump with no clue wants a sweet-tatty from "that guy from the TV". They can now forever scrawl those magic words "as seen on season xxxx of...." which all the rubes will eat up from now until forever.

That's the real shame of these shit-shows, IMO.

Yeah, you're right. There's no possible way doing badly on this show could hinder an artist's career. Nope, none at all. Everyone wants to get a tattoo done by someone who was on TV. Even if that person was...how did you say it? Laughed off the show? Yeah, that's definitely a selling point for an artist. "Hey, did you see me get mocked and ridiculed by my peers? How about you pay me to put ink into your skin!"

A fool and his money.

I hate to be That Guy, but it seems to be the role I am destined to play in life.

It's Season 6 of Ink Master, not season 1. There is NO REASON for any artist to enter that House and say "Gee I don't do (insert name of style here)" because they should know by now what is expected of them. Even if you have never seen a single episode of the show, you have Internet access and you can go to the Wikipedia page and learn.

You can't do portraits? Don't sign up.

You can't do Black and Gray? Don't sign up.

You can't do American Traditional? Don't fucking sign up.

It's a competition not your home studio. If you can't handle the pressure, pack your shit and go home. Or better still, DON'T FUCKING SIGN UP. (I'm looking right at YOU, Mystical Mike, you fucking prat.)

Shane O'Neill, Scott Marshall, Steve Teft, Joey Hamilton...these guys didn't crack under the pressure. They consistently turned in solid, good tattoos under the exact same constraints as everyone else. And Scott Marshall then defeated 3 other Ink Masters in a Contest of Champions, so you can call him arrogant, but unless you can out-tattoo him, then you have no choice but to suck it up and drive on.

To quote Sean Connery "Losers whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the Prom Queen."

Yeah, keeping Mustache Pete in the house kept Chris' "Team Florida" strong, which is what he wanted/needed. St. Marq would have crushed that little guy like an insect and Chris is actually a really good tactician as well as a damn fine artist. When I saw his Heart/Grenade that sealed his victory in my mind, although he has stumbled a couple times since then. Now that Tyler is gone he is alone and not well-liked, so the rest of the season is going to be interesting.

And Craig has more lives than a cat. He isn't going to make the Top 3, but he has survived a lot longer than I expected him too. He is probably a fantastic artist in his home studio, but the House seems to rattle him something fierce.

Here's a fun fact: St. Marq taught Chris Blinston how to tattoo. So, due to Chris not wanting to send that twat with the mustache home, St. Marq left WAY sooner than he should have.

It seems obvious to me that, barring an upset, Chris Blinston is going to take the title this season. He has consistently done excellent work including some fairly large pieces.

I think this is the correct place to post this:

This morning I saw some pictures of cryptocurrency tattoos and it made me wonder: does anyone on this forum have any? Or have any of the artists been commissioned to do any? If you can say "Yes" to either of those questions and would like to share your story and some photos with me, I would love to chat with you. I have been reporting on various aspects of cryptocurrency for several weeks now on CoinBrief | Daily Coverage of Crypto Currency and Follow The Coin - The Home Page of Digital Currency and I am always seeking new stories.

Please contact me by PM and we can go from there. Thank you for your time.

So, here we are in May 2014. Are any artists accepting Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrencies)? And if so, would you like to talk to me about?

I write for one of the bitcoin news websites and I'm always looking for new stuff.

One of my buddies want to get a small neon sign with a simple pull chain to turn it on and hang it above the station, so that anytime someone asks "Can I get a tattoo of a word in white ink?" ... stop tattooing, reach over & pull the chain - 'FUCK YOU POSER' pull the chain to turn it back off and return to tattooing. No words or even eye contact need be said or done.

I think this begs the question "Why aren't those neon signs for sale everywhere tattoo supplies are sold?" I think they would be a HUGE seller.

Yeah, this can't possibly go wrong.

I am totally going to team up with Brainiac as soon as he escapes from the lab.

*shrug* Like I said, everything starts out weak and clumsy. However, if you examine the history of technology you start to see how existing tech gets folded in with emerging tech to create new and unexpected things.

Robot surgery currently needs a human doctor. That may not be the case in 5 years, much less 20. Only time will tell.

Robotic tattooing currently needs a human being to create the design, and to stand by and watch the machinery. Again, that is just the way things are NOW. The future is always in motion, and people are constantly trying to let robots do things better than humans. And creating art is not excepted from this rule. And before someone points out that those are forgeries, I am aware of that. I am also aware that it won't end there.

Did you just seriously compare writing a new computer program with doing a physically invasive procedure like getting a tattoo? Are you fucking serious?

You're right, I must be some kind of fucking madman.

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Also, about the episode itself...damn, that was well done. I am conflicted about how I feel about the liberties the writers (including GRR Martin himself) have taken with the source material to create the show. Sometimes it works really, really well. And other times you get season 2.

Yeah, I generally prefer it when they get tattoo legends like Seth Ciferri on the show, but since it's Spike you can pretty much bank on any tattooed celebrity with a project, newly released or in the works, to stop by.

A well-functioning automatic tattoo machine (which I doubt the one described here is) might have the potential to produce

much more "even" lines and shading, and perhaps do some things that can't be done by hand.

Then wouldn't it just be more one tool that a good tattooer could use?

i.e. similar to the way a contemporary musician can choose between computer sequenced and

produced sounds to music made on acoustic instruments. And a good artist can pick and choose anything on this "spectrum"

of tools that can help them achieve what they're aiming for...

What worries me is that as the technology advances software will become increasingly user-friendly to the point that even a child will be able to operate it. Not all tattoo artists need a Fine Arts background, but I think we can all agree that some knowledge of a Color Wheel sure does come in handy when designing a tattoo; especially if it has color. For the ones that don't contain color, what about things like composition and placement? Technology will allow you to apply really well-drawn (not necessarily GOOD) tattoos in bad areas using shitty color palettes. The upside being you will be able to do it in the privacy of your own home.

Hahahahahahahaha, holy fuck this is such blarney. I dunno if any of you noticed how they cut out the video right before the circle was joined but if anyone did notice, it was because the line trajectory didn't come to the origin point. I honestly don't think that anything like this will ever take off. Tattooing involves such an immense amount of critical thinking and on-the-spot decision making. Not to mention adjusting technique for various skin types, stretching the skin, adjusting needle depth per area of the body, and any other number of important variables.

Waste of money.

The technology is in it's infancy, but that doesn't mean it will never mature.

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One thing I don't like is people buying them strictly to resell, for example after a release like this or a Dark Tower release, eBay will be littered with people trying to double and triple their money.

I don't know if I can say that is, in and of itself, a bad thing. If it isn't interfering with other people buying the shirts, I don't see the problem. Now, I do understand that the artist doesn't receive a cut of the after-market sale, but when have they ever?

Hell, it might actually drive more traffic to the site as people try and get the merch at the original price instead of paying extra.

If you guys like one off T-Shirts you should sign up for their email list, they send emails daily with that days t's. Their artists make designs you can't get anywhere else.

That is a pretty sweet design. Also, a clever business model to have a design available for one day only.

I just realized that I made a big mistake there. I meant Scott, not Jim. Jim is really good, but I agree with you that Scott and Sausage are very likely contenders for the finale, with Matti and Halo duking it out for the 3rd slot.

That's what I meant.

I'm not really thrilled with this show myself. The jokes are lame, the tattoos are less-than-impressive...I just found the show very difficult to watch. Especially after seeing Tommy Helm over at Tattoo Nightmares. The skits on that show aren't SNL quality, but the art is pretty damn good.