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Got this dagger from Steve Byrne this past Friday at the Pagoda convention. Super stoked on how it came out and the convention was great! It was very cool to see such great tattoo artists and people all in one place. If I didn't leave when I did I probably would of walked out of the convention broke and with a few more tattoos.

short trip to portland with the lady
got this from whthd
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Second session today with my buddy Iain Mullen on his collaboration with Rudy Fritsch. Beyond happy with how this is progressing. We did the lines with two machines almost 2 months ago and I had gotten used to seeing it that way. Now with some of the black in I am amazed by seeing it come to new life again.

To momentarily drag things off-topic, that's a beautiful Pharaoh's Horses that keeps showing up in the snapwidget thingy.

Getting this thread back on track.

I have the fronts of both thighs done, saving the back of my thighs for a back piece. I'd say go with the front of thighs and do little fillers on the sides.

It's 2014 and tattooing has come along way. What images have been the most tattooed? Where do you see the rest of the year going? What trends are you hating? Which are you loving, however reluctantly?

Lyle Tuttle and his spider web elbows and stomach/ribs.

Tough competition this month, but I guess I'll throw my hat in the ring. Panther from Aaron Coleman.
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haven't posted in a while. my bad, dudes! hope you are all doing well.
I recently got this guy from jason ochoa:

and here's a healed photo of a higgs design I got from mark cross not too long ago:

I have the fronts of both thighs done, saving the back of my thighs for a back piece. I'd say go with the front of thighs and do little fillers on the sides.

loads of this, was just mentioning it to someone at the shop a few weeks back.
also it seems like everything is becoming a hybrid....crabs with oni faces, shark eagles, geisha snakes, etc....and everything is "sick" "soooo sick". looking for someone to start doing "healthy" tattoos.

Yes, people would. I think he more meant that I can't get face tattoos, but still, I'm going to get the tattoos that I want. Probably no face tattoos, but probably a skull tattoo. That is WAY down the road, though, so it's all speculation on my part.

I found out I have the same t-shirt as Paul Rogers.

@Faolan I think, if anything, it would be like the rule that tattoos are placed so the viewer sees them best. For example, faces are placed so that the tattoo is looking forward on the arms, or inward on the chest.

Chromed out panther.

@cltattooing 's work on the back of my thigh. Done last week at Clubhouse Tattoo in Oakland.

@cltattooing 's work on the back of my thigh. Done last week at Clubhouse Tattoo in Oakland.

Had a nice little walk in not knowing what the fuck we were gonna do until after a couple of ales again.
I'm enjoying these little pieces ATM. Keeping us interested before we get back to slamming fields of colour on my right thigh/ arse cheek.
Anyway, eagles..skulls..daggers? fuck it, throw em all together mate! :)

@sighthound Super rad! One of the coolest I've seen.

Chromed out panther.

This conversation about taste and whether 'traditional' American tattooing really can be described as timeless is so interesting. It also ties in a way to a conversation I was having with my grandfather a couple of weeks ago after I showed him my tattoos for the first time.
He's 89 years old in November and got all of his 4 tattoos during the 2nd World War whilst stationed in Germany. He has a crawling panther, an anchor, a swallow and his favorite, an eagle on his bicep. He got all of his tattoos in 1944 and he still loves all of them to this day, he says that getting the eagle was one of the best decisions he ever made 'its given me so much joy over the years'. Interestingly though I asked him if he ever wished that he had got more and he said no, he got just the number he wanted and stopped there.
Now this is a guy who has lived with his tattoos for 70 years now, tastes have changed, fashions have come and gone and through it all he's remained stoked with those four tattoos he got in the 1940's! This got me to thinking about my own approach to tattoos and how different it is to his, like most people on this forum I'm always planning who I'd like to get tattooed by and have pretty much mapped out my arms and torso in my mind. But its easy to forget that those images of heavily tattooed sailor from the 1940's actually made up a tiny minority, my grandad was considered pretty heavily tattooed at that time.
I wonder with the whole traditional thing whether we are chasing something that didn't really exist in the way we think it did, and whether he might be onto something when he said to me that if you want to continue to love the tattoos you have through your life then sometimes less is more...
That being said its not advice I'm going to take, I cannot imagine a time when I won't want to get tattooed.
Sorry if that was a bit of a rant and off topic, I just thought it tied in with the flavor of the thread.

Derick Montez at Everlasting in SF is doing some pretty cool stuff.

Ricky Williams is doing some really rad tattoos and at only 24!

I wrote as much in the upcoming tattoos thread, but thought it'd make sense to report that I had a consultation yesterday with Horitoshi 1 here. Stoked to get work from a master!