marley mission

smoking frogs

your tattoo is alive brotha - its not art hanging on your skin - it is your skin - anything and everything that can and will damage you - like living - can also have the same impact on your tattoo - stop thinking so hard - live your life and enjoy this shit

i mean why are you going through your day being worried about getting hit on the tattoo

Lets go with a few more what the heck:
Becca Gene Bacon at The End is Near in Brooklyn with the fish rose morph. Becca is really nice and hit homeruns daily.
Rob Ryan with the Hand of Glory and Mandala Big Cat at Electric in Asbury NJ. Rob is a super fast and as nice as they come.
Steve Boltz with a flying fish at Smith St. in Brooklyn. What a great shop and Steve was filled with great conversation. I thought it was the coolest thing sitting down and having lunch with Steve after the tattoo. Gotta get back to Smith.
Sheila Marcello with this flying lady head on my collarbone. Sheila rocks. Electric in Asbury.
Rob Ryan again at Electric with some fish mandala knee magic.
Lastly I traveled to Maryland to the Wheaton Tattoo Paradise shop to get this fiery eyed lady from Chad Koeplinger on his 50 state tour. Got to meet a lovely LST member as well. A blast of a day (though way too much of it was spent in a car lol).
Anyway - love these picture heavy threads with cool tattoos so...lets keep going.

so how about these four to start us off
the first two classics were done by Shannon Pagliarini at Crown and Anchor in Pt. Pleasant NJ. Great tattooer and super cool person.
Pharoah's Horses was done by Sheila Marcello at Electric Tattoo in Asbury Park NJ. Sheila is an amazing tattooer and also a real nice person too.
Rock of Ages is my most recent tattoo (until Friday hahaha). Anyway this was done by Robert Ryan at Electric as well. Rob is the man - it's not lost on me how awesome it is that Electric is so close to me. I'm lucky. Anyway - lets see what y'all got.

ladyheads

Lets go with a few more what the heck:
Becca Gene Bacon at The End is Near in Brooklyn with the fish rose morph. Becca is really nice and hit homeruns daily.
Rob Ryan with the Hand of Glory and Mandala Big Cat at Electric in Asbury NJ. Rob is a super fast and as nice as they come.
Steve Boltz with a flying fish at Smith St. in Brooklyn. What a great shop and Steve was filled with great conversation. I thought it was the coolest thing sitting down and having lunch with Steve after the tattoo. Gotta get back to Smith.
Sheila Marcello with this flying lady head on my collarbone. Sheila rocks. Electric in Asbury.
Rob Ryan again at Electric with some fish mandala knee magic.
Lastly I traveled to Maryland to the Wheaton Tattoo Paradise shop to get this fiery eyed lady from Chad Koeplinger on his 50 state tour. Got to meet a lovely LST member as well. A blast of a day (though way too much of it was spent in a car lol).
Anyway - love these picture heavy threads with cool tattoos so...lets keep going.

Lets go with a few more what the heck:
Becca Gene Bacon at The End is Near in Brooklyn with the fish rose morph. Becca is really nice and hit homeruns daily.
Rob Ryan with the Hand of Glory and Mandala Big Cat at Electric in Asbury NJ. Rob is a super fast and as nice as they come.
Steve Boltz with a flying fish at Smith St. in Brooklyn. What a great shop and Steve was filled with great conversation. I thought it was the coolest thing sitting down and having lunch with Steve after the tattoo. Gotta get back to Smith.
Sheila Marcello with this flying lady head on my collarbone. Sheila rocks. Electric in Asbury.
Rob Ryan again at Electric with some fish mandala knee magic.
Lastly I traveled to Maryland to the Wheaton Tattoo Paradise shop to get this fiery eyed lady from Chad Koeplinger on his 50 state tour. Got to meet a lovely LST member as well. A blast of a day (though way too much of it was spent in a car lol).
Anyway - love these picture heavy threads with cool tattoos so...lets keep going.

i mean why are you going through your day being worried about getting hit on the tattoo

your tattoo is alive brotha - its not art hanging on your skin - it is your skin - anything and everything that can and will damage you - like living - can also have the same impact on your tattoo - stop thinking so hard - live your life and enjoy this shit

Finished this just in time! Chad Koeplinger and Jondix.

tatt bros for life!

tatt bros for life!

i usually just bring the body part thats getting tattooed

snakes!!

i usually just bring the body part thats getting tattooed

ladyheads

snakes!!

snakes!!

honestly with all your troubles you have described
i get why you are turned off to internet, social media, etc
but then...why are you here
also - stop with these long winded posts man
keep it short and simple
i think part of the issue here is you say waaaaay too much

my first ever tattoo I got about 7-8 years ago - its covered now - basically i went to a local shop - got a small tattoo of plankton (yes from spongebob) which promptly became infected - skin fell off - scars were established - it was then covered by this Bob Marley tattoo - which was later chewed on by a pitbull (whole nother thread there) - anyway - my tattoo selection process has changed since then - and I dont think i'd ever get another coverup - anyway...

ok - I'm gonna be first to enter with my Robert Ryan Mandala Leopard which resides on my stomach - hopefully the leopard can qualify as its the closest thing to a panther that I have - no hard feelings if it doesnt meet the qualifications - done at Electric Tattoo in Asbury Park NJ - if you havent been tattooed by Robert or been to Electric - well...you're missing out - luckily I live only short drive from the shop - anyway - here you go...btw - this tattoo also made his awesome book - The Inborn Absolute :)
 

@pidjones congrats
wife and i hit 20 years in july
my wife has not tattoos either
i would love for her to get one - even if just to have some understanding of the whole thing
but anyway its cool - she doesnt necessarily encourage me to get more tattoos
but she understands now that its a part of who i am
 

Done at Invisible NYC by Garver

Cool, glad I can actually participate instead of just posting about my oogling like I usually do.  I got it in April of 2014 and that feels like it was an eternity ago, I was even more of a youngin' then.
Lars Lundquist at Inksmith & Rogers  Admittedly I never took a good healed photo, so the one straight off the table will have to do.