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The knuckles of Austin, TX tattoo artist Mike Pain. He works out of River City Tattoos, just off of Sixth Street. He has some other ideas that are brewing but he is holding off on them.
Author: Nathan Black
LAST CALL
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Ian works as a bartender at Woodys South in Austin, Texas. Says that he got the tattoo as he wanted to leave his 20s behind. He got them to mark a change in his life. He says that his life is completely different now, except that he is still a bartender. And a damn fine one too.
CULT LIFE
Chase Lisbon is the owner of Supercult.com helping provide great alt.porn for the world. He doesn’t really talk about the meaning behind his knuckles, but you can take what you want from it.
DCLXVI
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Evan McMichael
For those of you who don’t read Roman, that’s six hundred and sixty six. Evan McMichael is a tattoo artist at Atomic Tattoo here in Austin, Texas. He says he got the idea while reading the Earth Chronicles books by Zecharia Sitchin. Now you all know that 666 is the number of the beast. But did it ever occur to you that man might be the beast? The Earth Chronicles are all about this idea: that 666 is the number of man, that man is the beast set on this earth, and that earth is actually Hell itself.
Evan didn’t want to be be totally blatant, so he went with the Roman numerals instead of the straight set of sixes. He says he gets asked what they say all the time.
PAIN LOVE
Mike Ness’s knuckles, over Coffee. You can get prints of this from Deviant Art.
Brought to you by the fine people at Gabrielle/Brazen Photography.
LIVE FAST
HARD CORE
I met this guy in my local video game store. He told me that he had been a full contact fighter for a while and that he had his friend tattoo his hands after his second victory in the ring. After getting his knuckles tattooed he found out that he was a father, and hung up his fighting gloves.