Vintage tattoo comics

A couple of mid century tattoo comic strips via vintagescans.blogspot.com/

and a few more from vintagesleaze

If anyone knows where i can find more tattoo related vintage comics post links in the comments.

Reason # 999 "why you need a 3d printer"

A DIY digital camera using a 3D printer for the case, Arduino and some other crap you can get at radioshack.
How to: www.instructables.com

3D PRINTING YEAY!

I am now obsessed with 3D printing. Heres a few random things iv'e printed on my Series1 3d printer.

Thomas Middleditch's Disgusting Dub Step Drop (dubstep impression)

Making Skateboards

The Science channel's show how its made is the best show ever and skateboarding is the most awesome sport ever so heres some videos i found on how skateboards are made:

Tattooing in Scollay Square

During the early to mid 1900's a father and his 3 sons had a monopoly in the tattoo business around Boston. Known as "The Liberty Boys of Scollay Square", Edward "Dad Liberty" who started tattooing in 1909 and his sons ted(later known as Captain Ted), Frank and Harry"lefty" Liberty ran 3 separate tattoo shops within close proximity to each other (side by side and across the street) in Scollay Square near Boston's west end.

here Edward Dad Liberty is shown working in his shop on a sailor from Walpole Ma.

Teds 2nd Floor 14 Scollay Square from "Walk East on Beacon!”

Carles Wagner Display with Harry“Lefty”Liberty business card 

Francis Dahl cartoons for the Boston Herald from the 1940s.

Newspaper article from 1942

Newspaper article from 1948

However in Massachusetts there is a large gap in our tattoo history due to a nearly 40 year long ban on tattooing. Tattooing was deemed a "crime against the person" by Massachusetts legislature in 1962 and was punishable by fines and or imprisonment. This legislation was because of a hepatitis outbreak in New York that was thought to be caused by tattoo artists on Coney Island.However hepatitis was never actually linked to tattooing. It is rumored that this law was passed not from the fear of disease but mainly driven by negative stereotypes and an urban renewal effort by the city of boston to build a new government-office complex in Scollay Square. In 1962 the business owners were evicted and the buildings demolished The ban on tattooing remained in effect until the On October 20, 2000 when Massachusetts Superior Court judge Barbra Rouse found the ban to violate our First Amendment right to freedom of expression. 

Bird silhouette

If your looking for the very popular silhouette tattoo of all the birds flying from a feather here is an alternate version. Feel free to print this out and bring it to your local tattoo artist. It will look amazing on a rib cage.

boobies

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http://www.gramfeed.com/turnrock

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Rotary tattoo machines

Mailman arrived today with 2 tattoo machines! One is a brass Mike Adams direct drive one-off and the other is a Nick's Rotary from Spain.Both machines are super fucking RAD! and no the rca on the Nick’s is not on the wrong side im a lefty.
I need to add a RCA jack to the direct drive but Im afraid it will compromise its rawness haha.

Trendy cracked skull

Stupid Doodle that got watercolored

Prototype Parts party

Got some motors and cam bearings in the mail. I really need a workshop.

Script on ribs

Girl profile face

Girls face and lots of hair to be watercolored soon...

Location:Boston

Newer tattoos

Dumping some random tattoos I've done lately at stingray bodyart.most of these tattoo pictures were taken with the iPhone camera so the quality is low but I just got a new camera so better pictures are coming

Location:Boston

massachusetts tattoo

http://fyeahtattoos.com

got them Rap Letters Yo!

Took about 15 shots of this tattoo and this is the only one that didnt come out blurry. Deff need to step my photo game up.

grim-reap

more watercoloring,I cant stop. now i bought some Dr. Martins concentrated watercolors and im using a drawing ink for the blacks. still having so much fun! want to paint moaaarrr!!!

Yo! I'm a Shark

2nd try at watercolor since i was 5 but still rockin the crayola watercolors. I think I'm over the prismacolor marker and pencil thing that I've been doing for years.. This shit was super fun!

Joy Division tattoo

Did this at the end of my shift and holy shit my hand hurts now. I think it's time to invest in some rotarys & disposable grips. Half a K for a Walkman motor though... Ehhhh .