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Bez

We Hoot Your Blog

We're famous on the internet! Four months ago. Awesome.

Bonus owl:



From Otto, done by Elie Falcon in Worcester Ma at The Tattoo Project. I bet people called Otto don't email We Hate Your Blog. Splitters.

Hooter Island

Awesome tattooist submissions from Christopher Bettley

Ballyhoot

Shauncey Fury

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Hoot Let The Dogs Out

Another reader roundup for Monday...

Well, a tattooist submission starts us off, by Luke Whitmire


Saludos desde Argentina!!! Done by Diego Bert. Thanks Miriam!


Benjamin's owl was done by Kelly Barr at Chameleon tattoo in Cambridge, MA.


And finally, this very blog inspired Letty to get this fella, done by Mike Miazio.

Chinese Astrological Tattoos

One of the most popular tattoos of today is an astrological tattoo that depicts the sign of the month of the year that a person was born. Each month of the year has its own zodiac symbol, and each symbol has its own meaning and attributes, depending on the position of the sun in the zodiac. These astrological tattoos tell other people of the month the person was born, and anyone that knows anything about astrology can tell what the attributes of that month are. Many people seek the love compatibility astrological signs when looking for their future partner.

The origin of the western symbols dates back as far as the 2nd millennium BCE, to the Babylonians and Assyrians, then spread throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The Chinese astrological signs must not be confused with the western symbols and interpretations as they are both very different.

Body tattooing and especially Astrological Tattoos has been practiced all around the world from the beginning of man. They were a symbol of someone's accomplishments and their bravery. In the beginning women were tattooed to show the symbol of their tribe and many other things that the tribe believed in, such as their favorite god, or fertility rites. The Chinese astrological signs are still very popular as astrological tattoos for many cultures, not only the Chinese. The earliest practice of tattooing dates back as far as the Otzi the Iceman, who was frozen in an ice storm in the 4th millennium BC. He had 57 tattoos on his body.

Many Westerners are split between the Western form of Astrological Tattoos and the Eastern form. The westerners that believe in the Chinese Astrological Signs form say that the cycles fit their personnel lives more accurately. However, the other half of the westerners believe in the zodiac signs. Astrological Tattoos are a permanent marking on humans that have a great significance for an individual. They are not only decorative, but usually depicts some aspect of someone's admiration.

No matter which type of Astrological Tattoos you get , if it be the Chinese Astrological Signs or a Western, you want to make sure that you practice good hygiene and keep the new tattoo clean at all times. This will help keep away infections and soreness that follows having a new tattoo.

If you are interested in getting a tattoo but do not know what sort of design you want, then you can't go wrong having Astrological Tattoos.

Hootel California

Cecil Porter

Clash Of The Hootans

Another crop of long overdue but particularly impressive reader submissions...
I love the colours in the above, from Jeremy.


Quality attack pose, on Sebastien.


A Swedish owl, from Zandra.


And finally, a painful looking owl on Benny's stomach.

Hardest Body Parts to Tattoo and Why

Neck tattoo is a very complex, there are several factors to become amateur area. The first one with the tattooed neck problem is that there is no good place to rest, while the tattoo's hand. Awkward position with the tattoo artists often have to pivot has its own wrists, elbows float, which is polar, with the usual location of tattoo just the opposite. The neck skin is very thin, we must seriously work or to ink bleeding the line will not be easy.

To do is the foot can be a real nightmare. Some people on the feet, based on ink well, but some people like feet skin decent fight every step of the ink penetration of the skin. Even if the ideals of the skin of the foot has brought some good places, they do not rest the problem, while the palm and wrist tattoo.

Tattoo pantie line is difficult not because of the skin, but the placement. Pantie line of skin around the tattoo it across well, and retain pantie line with the ideal color well.The problem is that it is an awkward area to tattoo placement as an artist must always be watched with hands, to do professional work.

In terms of design the form of facial tattoo or facial make up may be the most complex parts of the body tattoo. There are some problems with swelling, bleeding, retention and face ink ink penetration.The meat fat, the ink is often easier to spread a very careful and skilled hands of facial tattooing is required.

How to Get a Tattoo off Your Body

There are many tattoo off your skin in several ways, but they are not easy, pleasant or simple ....

Vanish methods:

Disappeared is the latest development in removing tattoos. This method usually involves a series of face cream / is absorbed into the skin friction. The series, used in combination, leading to decomposition of the ink, which in the human body, and then dispose of the components. This procedure is basically speed up the body get rid of foreign bodies of your body's natural processes, in which case it is ink. Over time the tattoo becomes lighter and lighter, so tattoo "fades away."
This is probably the cheapest and most painful removal method. This is the only way there is no risk of scarring. However, it does require some patience. Results do not see overnight

Surgical methods:

Most doctors advise patients, the complete elimination of tattoos is not possible. A small number of doctors to ensure complete removal. If they do not care! This may be your first signs, warning signs.

How to effectively remove the technology depends on the size, location, tattoo, color and ink type of use of the age.

Also aware of possible side effects - scarring and pain

These are:

Laser: Laser technology, infiltration and sabotage of the ink was injected into an article of your skin. Like a lost method, ink particles were taken away by the laser damaged the body's natural systems and as excreta disposal.
This removal method involves laser or intense pulsed light treatment of multiple types of use. Which type of all the tattoo ink colors may be. Laser has increased in the past few years. It has taken two years, the average removal of tattoos, and even the whole process is not fully guaranteed. Although modern lasers and lighting systems can eliminate the time and less tattoos, this process is entirely dependent on the laser type, number of sessions and the patient's body. In the leasing of several treatment is necessary, even today. Perform this procedure under local anesthesia or none at all. It is used today more expensive methods.

Cryosurgery: This method involves freezing area of tattoo prior to cancellation of his removal frequently used technique is dermabrasion (This method involves the elimination of all of the skin and ink of the tattoo. A sanding instrument is designed to close the "surface and" sand middle layer of the skin.'s tattoo is "sanding" with rotating grinding tools to remove all skin. haemorrhage is likely to occur. This procedure is performed under local anesthesia or local and oral / IV sedation carried out. dermabrasion price range from 1000 dollars to thousands of dollars depending on the scope of processed.)

Excision: the tattooed area is cut off your skin and the surrounding skin sutured together. This approach left a scar. Only a small tattoo or a small part of the tattoo can be removed once. Of a larger tattoo may require several treatments and skin graft. If it is from other parts of the body may need a large tattoo of the skin

The Last Hoots On The Left

Brady Wilmott

Peahooters

Quick reader roundup, sorry for the delay in posting...
The above is a tattooist submission from Daniel Herlihy.


Jennifer sent in this painful looking rib piece.


Alicia's owl, still unfinished, but looking good!


Thom's first tattoo.

Hoot Tub Time Machine

Myke Chambers submitted some more awesome owls...

Hoot Dreams

Mark sent in an ace submission done by Michael Rose from Potters Bar.

Bounty Hooter

Sean Herman.

I'm still alive, will be back with regular updates soon!!!

Arm Tattoos

Arm has always been a favorite one of the sites tattoo body. Years ago, before getting so much popularity of tattoos, sailors and bikers will showcase their upper arm, so that they can be easily seen. Such as the needle girls, motorcycles, and old school tattoo tattoo mother proudly wore then and still is. Arm tattoos will never be out of date, it is easier to understand.

Anyone who knows the signing of your arm is still very popular, but the design changed over the years. Old school tattoo still needed, but there are so many designs to choose from, choose from today. Tattoo shop in the design of books and wall coverings, the Internet and online galleries and so many good tattoo artists drowned, the sky is the limit with one arm tattoo. Arm of the more common a number of tribal and Celtic tattoo designs and barbed wire wrapped around the arm is another popular choice.

If you want the ultimate tattoo designs, you may want to consider sleeve tattoos. These wrap around the whole arm, there are three kinds of lengths. All sleeves and start, shoulders and in-depth wrist. Semi-set began to shoulder, but in the end at the elbow. The quarter set the end at the elbow and wrist. These large, detailed and complex design sometimes take several hours to complete, so you will be in the living room of the tattoo several times to find, until it is completed.

Arm tattoo is not only men, because many women choose them. Tattoo placed on your body, which was also the most painful one of the sites up to one. This is because the arm muscles more than other areas of the body, making it the perfect place to tattoo some meat.

Butterfly Rib Tattoos For Women

Butterfly Tattoo recalled a woman's ribs, rib amazing, especially if they are signed, for example, they are symmetrical curve of the body. Up to the theme of this type can be painful, but the potential of the human body amazing art of one of the reasons sufficient, through it.

Butterfly has been considered to be due to its natural beauty and symbolic significance of the women loved the design of tattoos. Women are always involved in what is a butterfly from a tiny cocoon through a colorful life, the majority of people in favor of the freedom of roaming the world. It is like a woman out of her women and ready to face any challenge could come her way. It can also refer them to a new life or regeneration of a new beginning. If they are in difficult times, ready to begin in full swing to face the world again, and butterflies can also be symbolic of this. All of these focus on their meaning, its no wonder that a butterfly has been the choice for tattoo designs for women.

Butterfly tattoo rib tattoo woman in a variety of ways depending on her style and preferences. This is a design with a wide range of colors, size and appearance, they can be executed in different colors and sizes, if they are flying in the groups in the applicability and flexibility. They can also be combined with other elements, can best enhance, such as flowers and grapes design. They can sign or just plain black color with some tribal or Celtic art accent. Possibilities are endless, and it is has reached a person's imagination, the most suited to her personality.

Beauty Love In Body Art Tattoo

* On Thursday, I arrived at the Marriott revival Center -- a labyrinth of circular walkways that advance to GM cars, a suspended Starbucks and conference rooms that would be filled during the weekend with tattooists as substantially as pharmacists. [And during the instruction of this weekend, it was clear who were the take dealers and who weren't.]

* The hotel lobby bar began to brim with the tattooed; lots of hugs, back-slaps and complicated handshakes were shared between friends who largely wager apiece another on the gathering disturbance circuit. Drinks were poured and the next abstract I know, I'm whisked away to a casino in Greek Town (my people!) and taught how to endeavor craps. This was my first warning of the weekend. The second was not to ingest tequila with Mexican tattoo artists. Let this be a cautionary tale for you as well.
Tattoo by Abey of Lowrider Tattoo.jpg* The snow fell hard on Friday, so attendance started slow but there was a steady course of people. Most booths were buzzin as the artist line-up was stellar. What I particularly loved was the diversity of artists from different tattoo families. [I stole \"tattoo families\" from Sean Herman who used it to exposit tattooers who inspire apiece another in a destined style.]

Outside of the fluorescent illumination and the lack of leg-room, the condition ride discover to Massapequa was fairly painless. Ordinarily, I drive discover to my sessions at Kings Ave Tattoo, but given the piteous defy (and the fact that NYC trending topics on Twitter were \"Snowpocalypse\" and \"SnowtoriousBIG\"), I definite that mass transit was the artefact to go. After all, I find dynamical in Long Island to be fairly treacherous in the prototypal place, but the moment the defy turns sour, my van pulls a character and morphs into a giant lunchbox/cinder-block with Lindsay Lohan behindhand the rotate after a daylong period at the club.

I ducked into the cab-stand at the condition station, which was manned by a squat man with hair plugs watching horse racing on a flickering television set. When he asked where I was way and I replied, \"844 Broadway at North Kings,\" he keyed the button on his story sound and growled, \"Someone intend down here - I got digit for the tattoo shop!\" I suppose it's a popular instruction in them there parts...

The cab screeched up outside and as I winking the door behindhand me, my utility - an older man in a satin \"Vietnam Vet\" baseball jacket and presumably a laryngectomy - overturned around, raised a device to his throat and asked in a robotic montone, \"Tattoo shop?\"

I responded in the assentient as casually as I could, thinking to myself, \"Jesus, I've gotta depart smoking...\" But, as he spun the wheels and swerved discover onto Broadway, I was hit with the notion that I'd actually had this very same cab utility in Poughkeepsie, NY, over a decennium ago. After all, both hacks had the same flagrant disregard for traffic laws and the passenger's bill of rights.

While Mike was setting up and choosing colors for the left side of my dresser (I've tried to ready this piece entirely in his hands in terms of color choice, organisation elements, etc), I mentioned my experience with my cyborg cab utility and the long-shot existence that he had driven me to the Poughkeepsie condition station backwards in '98.

Best Design Unique Tattoo

G.W. Bush Smiling at other people's knee

Beautiful Woods in the back of the Human

Neigh Skull chest pain in Men

Fire Cruel Man Depicted on the Body