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Title: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: True_Texan on April 30, 2009, 01:40:54 AM
OK, maybe curiosity killed the cat (not Haz of course), but I have to know what is the "ink" MB sports? <--Sad attempt to sound hip.

No good Dish Network not having Outdoor HD broadcasting, I can't get a clear look and I have just become too curious to keep my thoughts to myself anymore.

For that matter, anyone else have any interesting tattoos?

Thought about getting this one:
(http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n33/tripled_k/fail-owned-six-pack.jpg)

I'm joking.... Always tell the wife, "Why would you want a 6 pack, when you can have a keg!!" Then I pat my beer belly to finish the effect.  ;D
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: TAB on April 30, 2009, 03:14:15 AM
Warning   NSFW  NSFW








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwYv56YHTd4


Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: philw on April 30, 2009, 08:50:40 AM
Warning   NSFW  NSFW






hahaha  Dumb Ass 


it should of said "I AM A KNOB"  not Dumb Ass
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: ericire12 on April 30, 2009, 09:36:29 AM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G-EWSfJ1PwE/SV52mzSd7MI/AAAAAAAAAu4/c-Xs9SFF0vw/s400/Flavor.jpg)

"Thug Life"

 ;)
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: red364 on April 30, 2009, 10:53:54 AM


For that matter, anyone else have any interesting tattoos?



Sure... ALL of my tattoos are interesting
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: red364 on April 30, 2009, 11:03:18 AM
To me, anyway!  lol
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: MikeBjerum on April 30, 2009, 11:14:51 AM
No tattoos ... Just scars.

But then again, what is a scar but a tattoo with a better story  ;D
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: blackwolfe on April 30, 2009, 11:18:20 AM
Sure... ALL of my tattoos are interesting
Got any pictures Red or are you just teasing?
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: red364 on April 30, 2009, 01:40:02 PM
Hmmmm,  I might be  :P     At least until I get home and off this infernally filtered work computer   :)
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: shooter32 on April 30, 2009, 02:13:21 PM
Hmmmm,  I might be  :P     At least until I get home and off this infernally filtered work computer   :)

Dare ya ;)
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: blackwolfe on April 30, 2009, 04:22:19 PM
Hmmmm,  I might be  :P     At least until I get home and off this infernally filtered work computer   :)
Dare ya ;)
Let's just skip to the triple dog dare a' la the movie A Christmas Story.
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: Ping on April 30, 2009, 04:33:05 PM
Was curious about his art on his arm myself. I am just glad I made sure all mine are able to be hidden and nothing below the sleeve.
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: red364 on April 30, 2009, 11:01:58 PM
Ok, I keep forgetting how to do this. Here are a few...
(http://)(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x286/red364/cartat.jpg)
This is about an hour old
(http://)(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x286/red364/flowertat.jpg)
Yep, I like flowers
(http://)(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x286/red364/grannytat.jpg)
My most important one..."Granny"
Neener neener on your dares...Ralphie rules!! ;D
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: blackwolfe on May 01, 2009, 12:53:48 AM
Nice ink Red, Thought we scared you away.  Oh come on Ralphie, it's all in the spirit of DRTV fun.
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: True_Texan on May 01, 2009, 03:43:45 AM
Nice! The Granny tat looks fresh... How long ago did you get that one done?
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: shooter32 on May 01, 2009, 08:46:01 AM
Nice ink Red 8)

But was that a......








Cougar ;D
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: red364 on May 01, 2009, 02:46:48 PM
Thanks guys :)
The granny tat is about two years old. It is fresh in that pic 'cause I'd get 'em done, go back to work and have one of the guys take a pic    lol
Yes, yes that is a Cougar.... a 67 to be exact. It was my brothers car about 25 years ago...Man! I miss 'em both!!

Well????  where's everybody elses ink???   :-\
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: PegLeg45 on May 01, 2009, 03:15:41 PM
Thanks guys :)
The granny tat is about two years old. It is fresh in that pic 'cause I'd get 'em done, go back to work and have one of the guys take a pic    lol
Yes, yes that is a Cougar.... a 67 to be exact. It was my brothers car about 25 years ago...Man! I miss 'em both!!

Well????  where's everybody elses ink???   :-\

On my upper body............... ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D


Just no pics.

Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: Michael Bane on May 01, 2009, 10:04:42 PM
Tat on inside of right wrist is one of the many images of Quetzacoatl — Feathered Serpent, Flying Dragon, God of the Morning Star — as rendered by the legendary woman tattoo artist Ruth Marten in the late 1970s in NYC. It's all fine-line work that took many hours and, by intention, hurt like living, breathing hell. Ms. Marten only worked on areas of skin where the tattoo couldn't be covered and where there were lots and lots of nerve endings.

I once ran into a Hopi shaman out in the desert, and he grabbed my wrist n a vise-like grib and said, "You wear the image of a God." That god, I replied, is presently out of work. "No God," the shaman told me, "is ever out of work. You disrespect the God at the risk of your soul." Last time I was on a pyramid in Mexico on a solstice (the great pyramid in Chulula) I dropped a silver dime touched with a bit of blood, although Quetzacoatl wasn't a blood god, into a deep crack in the stones in honor of the Feathered Serpent. On cue, a huge blast of smoke blew out of Popocatepetl volcano about 50 miles away. "Don't ever do that again," hissed my Sweetie, who was not impressed.

The second tat on the top of my left forearm is from Melrose Tattoo in LA. I had a business meeting cancel and was eating at some trendy LA bisto on Melrose reading a tat mag someone left behind. The mag said Melrose Tattoo rocked, and I looked up and the place was practically next door. So I hiked up the step and was, parenthetically, the only guy in the room in a suit. They asked if I had any other ink and I showed them the Feather Serpent...the main guys goes, in a hushed voice, "It's a Ruth Marten, isn't it?" I said yeppers. "Did she work from a design or freehand it?" Freehand, I said. So they shut down the shop to study the tat, take pictures, show me a picture of my tat in an art book, etc. They did a freehand design of a Northwest Indian shaman juju thingie that was "appropriate to the power" of the other tat...spend ages lining it up just right with the nerve lines of my arm. I started going all Jeremiah Johnson..."Some say you're a dead man, cause of this; some say you can never die, cause of this..."

So hey, you didn't think I got drunk in San Diego, passed out, and woke up with ink, didja?

Michael B
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: True_Texan on May 01, 2009, 11:02:06 PM
That's interesting stuff. Way more to the story then I would have thought.


So hey, you didn't think I got drunk in San Diego, passed out, and woke up with ink, didja?

 ;D Maybe not for those two particular pieces, but there is always the chance there are more lurking somewhere else ;D

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity.
Title: Re: Michael Bane's Ink
Post by: fightingquaker13 on May 03, 2009, 12:44:49 AM
On my upper body............... ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D


Just no pics.


And for what we are about to NOT receive, Lord we give thee thanks! ;D
FQ13