Jordan's Lush Tattoo Takes Him Back in Time

I ran into Jordan at the laundromat and we chatted about his tattoo:


He was living working in Champaign, Illinois and, on his lunch break, wandered into New Life Tattoos.

The shop had flash with the Seven Deadly Sins and Lust was easily changed to his nickname "Lush".

The drawing, he said, "looked like me with a shaved head, screaming".

This piece on his left forearm represents a different time and place from his past.

Thanks to Jordan for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

1/2 Done But Complete

It was a Hellraiser Pinhead tattoo that first prompted me to approach Travis, but that was not what I ended up discussing with him.

Rather, he offered up this interesting piece on his left leg:


The design depicts a man trying to break through bars, to force his way out of prison.

If something looks off about this, it is because it does not appear as it was originally envisioned by Travis or the artist.

The artist was Travis' brother-in-law, but something unexpected happened halfway through the process.

Travis' sister got divorced, and the brother-in-law tattoo artist was no longer in their life.

Initially, he wanted to find another artist to finish the piece but, as time passed, he decided that he liked it that way, that the initial tattoo's meaning became charged with additional symbolism.

Thanks to Travis for sharing this cool tattoo with us here at Tattoosday!

Neseblod Records - The Sutton Hoo of black metal

J: bear dollar!
i won these tonight:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260459450204&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

M: neat, not bad for a tenner each :))
http://www.neseblodrecords.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1117529931&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&.php
this is a cool list hardly looked at any of them yet, but it'd be wicked to have a look through some of these for real

J: i'm almost half way thru, this shit is awesome!!!!
hey look;
http://www.neseblodrecords.com/cutenews/data/upimages/IMG_0801.JPG
looks like TH logo :)

M: yeah does a bit, same shape :)
i know how cool are some of those?! i wish there were stores in the uk where we could go and actually look at that kinda of crap. i think i'd just die right there, thats actually better than sweets or anything :D

J: i want them slayer magazines!!!!!! ;O
you see the pantera gold disc?

M: a gift from phil :D that is fucking priceless, i'd actually crawl over dead people to own some of that shit. even just to hold it. those magazines are amazing, it's like the sutton hoo of black metal :D

J: there's all sorts of cool shit there. the tape that got smashed after the killing of euronymous.
this reminds me of a dude on ebay, he was selling all kinds of shit like this, but mainly mayhem stuff. he was selling it on behalf of someone from the scene at the time, like someone from emperor or some shit. he had letters from euronymous, bloodstained stuff from the dead suicide room... mad shit like that.

M: aww it'd be so fucking cool to own some of that. so fucking cool. makes me sound all fanboy like but...its just like in archaeology, when even crappy bits of samian ware are so cool, 'cause its stuff the romans used. this is all the stuff they had when all of these bands were just starting out, plus some of the drawings are unbelievably awesome!