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I think the title says it all, really. This is a truly scary guy.

Loosen up, tight ass!

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Straightedge Toast

This guy maybe has my favorite bad tattoos of all time. Ever. Period.
Possibly because I have a real soft spot for straight edge tattoos and punk/hc tattoos, possibly because they are just hilarious.




Description from the horse's mouth below:

All my friends have toast tattoos, because when you're poor and dumpster for your food bread is always readily available - it's this thing that kinda unifies us at this point in our lives. The Earth Crisis theme came about when some silly hardline XVX kids were staying at this punk house and talking about how belittling a band with serious issues is a bad thing, and how EC was cool and really helped push ideas into hardcore, and then they started insulting the people who lived at that house by degrading them and saying they had bad views, even making someone get near the verge of crying because she ate sparingly fish.

I realized that the lyrics for the beginning of Firestorm worked really well with toast (the original lyrics for those who don't know are "Street by street/block by block/taking it all back", referring to cleansing a neighborhood of drug dealers.) I went and got the tattoo done in an hour, showed them, and started drinking and eating cheese for the rest of the night (even though I was vegan at the time.) They stopped talking to me, and left shortly after.

I'm going to be getting a tattoo really soon that is based off of the anarchist atheist saying "No Gods, No Masters", but its gonna say "Dogs, No Masters" and have a kennel on fire and someone holding a leash with his brains blown out, and upside down crosses made of milk bones. I didn't think up that saying, though

SKWIRL!!!

6 Hours worth of Tatt Zappin!!  Sierra sat like a champ!!

Got a touch up session in two weeks.  I think I'm gonna push that Skwirl logo a bit as well as pump some baby blue into the background.  That should cool the palette down a bit.  I'll post some final photos when it's done:)

FOOD CHAIN SKETCH!

'09 Itinerary!!

Below you will find this years Itinerary. I am currently only booking for the Hell City Convention, the Evolved Guest Spot and the guest spot at Dan Hazelton's private studio. If you are interested in getting tattooed by me at any of these locations please contact me via my website (www.jessesmithtattoos.com).  Make sure to include the location at which you would like to get tattooed (ie. Hell City/Evolved/Dan Hazelton's) and a brief description of what it is that you would like to get. I have been receiving a lot of emails inquiring about this trip so I expect it to book up pretty quickly.

COLUMBUS, OHIO 
HELL CITY CONVENTION 
(WWW.HELLCITYTATTOOFEST.COM) May 29, 2009 to May 31, 2009

COLUMBUS, OHIO
EVOLVED BODY ART 
(WWW.EVOLVEDBODYART.COM) June 2, 2009 to June 4, 2009


MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
DAN HAZELTON'S PRIVATE STUDIO June 9, 2009 to June 11, 2009

MIAMI, FLORIDA
TATTOOLAPALOOZA
(WWW.TATTOOLAPALOOZA.COM) July 10, 2009 to July 12, 2009

COCOA, FLORIDA
KING ST. TATTOO July 14, 2009 to July 16, 2009

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 
FIVE TWO TATTOO 
(HTTP://FIVETWOSYNDICATE.COM) July 27, 2009 to July 29, 2009

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
LOCATION TBD August 1, 2009 to August 2, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO 
LOCATION TBD August 5, 2009 to August 6, 2009
August 10, 2009 to August 11, 2009

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
THE BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH LAS VEGAS 
(HTTP://WWW.TATTOOEXPO09.COM) October 2, 2009 to October 4, 2009

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 
MASSIVE TATTOO 
(HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MASSIVETATTOO) October 6, 2009 to October 8, 2009

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
FIVE TWO TATTOO 
(HTTP://FIVETWOSYNDICATE.COM) October 12, 2009 to October 14, 2009

And to those of you who are interested in getting tattooed by me at the Miami/California trip, I'll be booking for those shows and guest spots right right before I leave for Hell City. If you would like to be notified as soon as I start booking, please go to my website (www.jessesmithtattoos.com) and join my mailing list.  Till then, Take it easy,

Jesse

And me the social type! Or is that sociopathic?

Found these cosplay pics on DeviantArt. I think it satisfies on two counts!!

Bat-Fan submissions

Bunch of reader submissions today...

The above Joker was sent in by Rob.


Jie sent in another Joker, done by Winsen from Dark Shadow tattoo, Germany.


Chris P sent in this in progress Batman quarter sleeve, which is looking good so far - hopefully there'll be more pics as the sleeve is completed.



The above pair were both sent in by Chris A.

More amazing back pieces

What happened to this angel's feet? Don't they look just like stumps? Also why is one angel stomping the other one's head? I think I see some horns on the bottom angel there, so maybe it's Lucifer being shown what's up.
Let me show you a wonderful trio of ridiculous back tattoos:


Now I know that this photo was taken mid-scabby-stage so I won't be *too* harsh about the quality of the tattooing here, because it's really hard to tell. HOWEVER, it's impossible to tell what's going on! I do see some flaming dice, and a '3', but what are the weird globby things on each shoulder? They look like rotting lettuce.


Okay, now this one just confuses me. I am under the assumption that it's not finished. The triangle thing on the left is one of the worst tattoos I've seen, but seems like a pretty explainable bad tattoo to get. The Japanese guy on the right is not actually that bad, and obviously isn't done yet. What REALLY baffles me though, is what is on the bottom. It looks like a scratched on sunbathing girl at the beach! IT CAN'T BE SO! sdlkfjslfjs! Amazing.

SKWIRL!!

THEY'VE BEEN BULLIED LONG ENOUGH!!  THEY WILL PREVAIL!!

ZOMBIE JELLYFISH!!

SOON THEY WILL RUN OUT OF FOOD!  ONLY THEN WILL THE OCEANS BE SAFE AGAIN!!

Me Cack!!

Can't seem to get a good picture of this.  I'll post another one later.

You never learned to mind your surroundings!

Matt Stines

88 Hours in!!

Got about 5-10 more hours of tweaking and this one will be done!!

April sweet is coming in, let the feast of fools begin!

Mario Pullano

I hated my father!

Paul Acker, again.

Because you were the best of us! He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall.

Jake Bussie, yet again.

Oh, and by the way, the suit, it wasn't cheap. You oughta know, you bought it.

Jake Bussie, again.

Hello, Vinny. It's your Uncle Bingo. Time to pay the check!

Jake Bussie

HA! HA! HA! HA!

Superb Batman sleeve from Joao Bosco!

SURFACING SERPENT (SKETCH)

So I went down to Fuzion Ink to do a guest spot for their one year anniversary and had all intention of finishing every piece I had started, but just like every other guest spot I do, I ended up getting myself in way over my head on one of the pieces.  Fortunately for me, Fuzion Ink is only about an hour and a half from hear and Tom was more then willing to travel.  Tom had initially asked me for a dragon on his chest, but before I knew it I had filled the page with a drawing that was ridiculously too big.  So I showed Tom the piece and told him that it would look much better on the ribs, but if he wasn't willing to go that route then I'd draw something else up that would fit a little better.  He liked the drawing so much that he offered up his ribs and we started crunchin away.  I honestly didn't think he'd go for it but after we had finished the first session I threw out the idea of bringing it down and showing everything under water.  The first couple of sittings he really didn't say much about it but as we got closer to finishing the upper half he started talking about bringing it down.  Below is the sketch of the lower half that I drew on a photo of the upper half that I took before the last session.  I'm hoping to have this piece knocked out within the next couple of months.  So as soon as I have some good pictures of the completed piece I'll toss them up.