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thank you very much. That guy ended up catching a bunch of shit from his family for it, but he really doesnt care because thats who he is ya know.
guess we all catch a bit of flak from our tattoo choices at some point.
Thanks, i appreciate it. Ive been working really hard lately.
one thing that cant be forgotten is background work…
an art teacher told me one time, and this stuck (unlike most anything else from school seeing as id already taught myself everything) is the background is just as important as the foreground…
this holds true ESPECIALLY in tattoo…
Ahh…that might be because I have my photo pref’s set so that no one can steal my pictures…flckr isnt a bad idea though…
look for a world wide tattoo supplier…
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Clean your bathroom mirror while your at it 🙂
Why on the green grass buddha sat on would you get that?
NOT THAT ITS A BAD TATTOO…..because for as simple it is, its not that bad….and if you are into the whole sailor tattoo style of tattoo, then you have NO reason to hate it or get rid of it…
but I mean, really…
its a Sailor Style Cowboy Girl Pinup…Thing….really…
with all the amazing shit going into skin these days…and you get…that?
think before you speak. think before you ink!
And yes, spend thousands of dollars remembering your mistake so an artist can have a relatively clean canvas to rework and put something amazing on your body.
Tapping, from what I hear, is insanely painful, as well as insanely expensive…and only a few people practice it.
It the tattoo is a modern “traditional” tattoo in the sense that it isn’t a Polynesian tribal and was done with a coil machine, then it should be finished with a modern traditional feel…not a indigenous tribal feel.
Pneumatics…Mike DeVries, Jeff Johnson, Nikko Hurtado, and many many other people are using pneumatics…the three aforementioned individuals are in California…if you type Mike DeVries in google.com, you will find a link to his shop, as well as a link to neuma’s website, and through them you should be able to find an artist that uses pneumatics.
Hmm…
Everlasting Job Stoppers…well, depends on what you do for a living.
As far as American Punks tattooing black crosses on their faces, ive never seen one, and im close enough to Los Angeles to see some crazy shit.
In fact, I know and associate with many, many people who are against the grain if you will, and they have the “everlasting job stopper” tattoos…not as an “anti-establishment” statement, but as a statement of their own love for the art of tattoo and their personal choice to be tattooed, as well as to be tattooed in places that “society” may or may not deem as acceptable…
but really, where is an acceptable place for a tattoo? Honestly? Do you own yourself, are you self aware, is your body your temple? If not, where do you worship, where is your mind, and who owns you…? Are you a slave to the system, are you a slave to a paycheck? If you answered yes to the first set of questions, you’ll be alright, I promise.
Thing is…what we do to ourselves does not by any means dictate who we are, these are merely preconcieved notions put in place by what a greater sense of society deems decent and moral. These notions are bull shit. In the 1800’s, People living in the upper classes of society were tattooing their faces as a fashion trend, in the same manner as the Polynesian peoples. They weren’t worried about jobs or their livlihoods, they were more concerned with looking good. So, after that example, if a major celebrity or political superstar were to tattoo their knuckles or their hands or their faces (other than musicians, its expected of them), it would become immediately acceptable in society as a whole and entire groups of people who once deemed it unacceptable would then turn tail and deem it acceptable. There is a double standard here that no one seems to recognize about what we do and are into. On one hand there are the hip people who are tattooed, then there is everyone else. Today, right now, people pay more attention to the “hip” tattooed individual rather than the grimey gritty tattooed individual.
And here we come to the split…
there was no right of passage for the “hip” tattoed individual, only sitting in a chair, getting tattooed so he can have more friends who, supposedly, are just like him.
the street kid/punk/thug/con/et al, wears his tattoos as a badge of pride…he got them, earned them, and will stand up for whatever he believes in…
then there is the combination of the two. the inbetweens. a combo of both artistic appreciation and deep deep roots.
What im saying is this…if you love who you are, what you are, what you have CHOSEN to mark your body with, then you will let absolutely nothing hold back from becomming what you want to become.
Oh…and just for the record, after my wedding in may im planning on tattooing my chin. Not a giant black cross…This is an urban myth.
No, it really sucks.
Another thing I forgot about (as ive only had one cup of coffee) is that your body begins to heal wounds almost immediately. up down up down is absolute torture on your cells.
Im right there with you, I can mentally take getting a tattoo, but as far as pumping out endorphines, that doesnt really happen for me. I can meditate and push out the pain to nothing, but after a sitting im a zombie from having to put out so much mental energy to block out whats happening to my body, so in the end, im double drained.
Breaks are fine, just not too long.
mmmmm…tattoo therapy….
you want to find a tattoo supply company that ships worldwide…
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AWESOME!!! Ill call my family in Liverpool and have tea.
That would be fantastic.
the shitty thing about taking smoke breaks is your body has time to absorb the endorphins fresh from your last session, basically dissipating after so long…why is this bad? well, your body gets rid of your natural pain killers in one spot in particularand when you start on a fresh spot or you go back into a spot that you just had worked on, its going to hurt a hell of a lot more than if you were to just bang out as much as possible, take a couple breaks and just grind it out…
oh, yah, some artists use the ‘smoking’ thing as an excuse to be lazy.
my favorite thing is to have my lady go get me mexican food when we are like 3/4 the way done. Taco’s rule after getting tatttoed!