MadeIndelible

I have the Wu-Tang logo, back when I was 15 :P Some kinda needle/s was melted in a piece of plastic and the ink was the ink from a ballpoint pen. I got it in a group home, sitting in my bed while other boy tapped it in. Cant remember how long it took. 1 hour?
I just realised its almost all worn out. Cant even see it. Had to look for it. Its "covered" with a bad cover up that didn't even cover it. Hate that fucking tattoo.
Funny, the tattoo artist asked me "what the fuck is this? A puzzle piece?" I said yeah, yeah... I was too nervous to explain him that is a Wu-Tang logo, and what the fuck the Wu-Tang even is while Jimi Hendrix was blasting from the speakers :D

i have a shitty one from when i was 15, my gf was trying to poke her initials in me with a sewing needle and india ink, but she went too deep and got queasy when i started bleeding. haha. it's 3/4 of a K. Sooooooo lame. hahhaha

I got tattooed by Chris Trevino in 1997, right before I left Austin for SF. He said he had just done a guest spot in SF, so I asked him what the coolest tattoo he did on the trip was. Now, for those of you who are familiar with Pre-100% Japanese Style Chris Trevino, you know that "coolest tattoo" also meant "craziest tattoo." He went on to describe an insane armpit-to-waistline rib piece that involved, among other other things, a jackelope wearing a fez, a waterfall of blood, and a lady with a beehive hairdo making the devil horns with her ring and middle fingers tucked away in her special pocket. I couldn't really get my head around it, but that was the case with many of the tattoos Chris described to me.
Fast forward to 1999, when I finally had enough money to get tattooed by Eddy Deutsche. I went to 222 on my lunch break and booked the appointment with some guy at the counter. We got to talking about my tattoos and I mentioned that I had work from Chris. He said, "Oh yeah, he did my ribs" and lifted up his shirt. It was that piece! And the guy was Jeff Rassier, who is in a league of his own when it comes to putting weird (and awesome) tattoos on people.

A little swollen and oozy but you get the idea...

From my recent trip to New York
Tattooed by Bailey Hunter Robinson on Saturday.

And this one on my titty. Done on Sunday. Tattooed by Eli Quinters at Smith Street Tattoo Parlour, Brooklyn, NY.

I've been lurking here for a solid 8-9 months now, not heavily tattooed, just getting started. I'm working my way down one arm right now, but due to being a grad student, it will be a while before I'm finished.
Started with this by your own Mario Desa back in November:

Got this Dietzel flash from Nick Colella in March:

Also have a little Sailor Jerry butterfly that I got from Mario on the same day as the gypsy, but I don't have a picture of it.
Sorry if these aren't as recent as stuff people normally post, but I wanted to contribute.

Protector Nagas. Chiang Mai, Thailand.






Soltaniyeh, Persia (Map by Matrakçı Nasuh):

Tony Hundahl:

Mike Moses, Thicker Than Water NYC:

Richard Smith:

Tony Hundahl:

Mike Moses, Thicker Than Water NYC:

Richard Smith:

Searched, and didn't find a thread on wolf tattoos, so I decided to make one.
Daryl Rodriguez, Hold It Down Tattoo:

John Reardon:

Chad Koeplinger:

Jelle:

Daniel Trocchio:

Kim-Anh Nguyen-Dinh:

Stefano Cera:

Clay McCay:

Erick Lynch:

Ron Henry Wells:

Steve Byrne:

Jef Whitehead:

Mike Moses, Thicker Than Water NYC:

Tony Hundahl:

Mike Moses, Thicker Than Water NYC:

Tony Hundahl:

I couldn't find the back piece thread, so here's one from Thomas Hooper.

Henry Lewis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/health/07real.html

I'm kind of collecting lady heads from different artists. As it's been mentioned by others, I love the fact that such a classic design can be interpreted so differently person to person. I have 4 so far. Here are 2, one of them is the classic Bob Wicks flash - both by Matty D'Arienzo (both taken right after). The other 2 are a girl from valerie vargas and a girl head/butterfly from El Bara. On my list for others are steve boltz, jordan teear, virginia elwood, nick collela, pretty much anyone at spider murphys (that's a hell of a lot of travelling though so it'll take a while!)

no more virgin skin for you! you'll be cursed with the mark of cain from here on out.

My first tattoo was put on by Stano in Daytona. I was 17 and drove down with a couple of scary older skinhead dudes who barely tolerated me. Got the comic character Judge Dredd on my shoulder, because this sort of thing happens when a dyed-in-the-wool nerd tries to be a tough guy - "I know, I'll get a tattoo of the biggest badass in my *pushes up glasses* comic book collection!" Anyway, like 10 years later that goddamn Stallone movie came out and I walked around groaning every time anybody saw the damn tattoo until a couple years back, when I buried it under this:

Henry Lewis: