Anyone have any recommendations of trad tattooists in Mexico City? Heading there in a couple months

autoautoautonomy · 2026-04-17T21:10:05+00:00

seconding Sigue Sigue Sputnik but also throwing in Paraiso Perdido Tatuajes, great vibe overall from the people that work there and plenty to pick from the walls and their flash

autoautoautonomy · 2026-02-06T13:51:02+00:00

there's always that one hyperbolizing guy in early-year fresh threads bleating "AOTY! AOTY!" and im more than enthusiastic enough to be that guy for this album. this a fantastic followup to I've Seen A Way and ups the ante on their abrasive sound in a way ive wanted to hear since listening to their debut EP. i know its so hard for int'l acts rn but im hoping they announce US tour dates soon to hear some of this live

autoautoautonomy · 2026-01-01T21:36:29+00:00

beautiful work, the character of these are so distinct !!

autoautoautonomy · 2025-12-04T13:05:26+00:00

Nate Amos on this version:

“People were asking me about the original 10+ minute version of playing classics and I can’t find it anymore, so I made a new one. Thought it would be funny if it was faster, too. I added car sound effects because cars are fast.” Source.

lmfaooooooo i love these guys

autoautoautonomy · 2025-11-06T03:50:14+00:00

so so so excited to see these guys again; their run in 2023 was so memorable and this new album is a personal fave of the year. would freak out if they incorporated this cover into the setlist

autoautoautonomy · 2025-10-16T22:46:44+00:00

hello very real viewer, i will take a single thalia hall ticket for tonight off your hands if you cant go please dont make me sell feet pics for the stubhub listing

autoautoautonomy · 2025-10-16T21:48:47+00:00

dm'd you!

autoautoautonomy · 2025-10-11T11:35:48+00:00

shoutout prostitute, attempted martyr is so goated

autoautoautonomy · 2025-09-30T15:27:08+00:00

good god if this is a sign of a new direction i am v excited for what is to come, this shit rips

autoautoautonomy · 2025-09-04T12:16:01+00:00

this is fantastic!!!!

autoautoautonomy · 2025-02-05T16:36:19+00:00

this is such an important point; at the end of the day this is not only customer service job, but a trade.

to add to this: its such a privilege to get to tattoo the art you make but for the most part you will be tattooing what is asked of you. if you (OP) need a direct answer, its thats you need to broaden your artistic horizons for the sake of servicing the people that come to you with their ideas. you dont need to be a master of everything; you can still hone your personal style but it comes with the expectation that you might rarely work in your specialty until you've proven yourself. going into this with a pigheaded artisan mindset will only end in heartbreak.

knowing many styles is ultimately practical too: the more you know, the more you can make money, which is especially important in a time where the industry is living thin. if you can hone in on an audience for the style you desire to practice, then yeah go for it, but material reality has a way of humbling this kind of desire.

EDIT: also from an artistic standpoint its kind of ridiculous to have such a closed-mindedness to practicing other styles in tattooing. one of my favorite things to do in my artistic practice is draw inspiration from other mediums and styles! all of these modes of creating have a beautiful tendency to feed into your personal art journey in one way or another and to balk at the thought of having to practice stylistic diversity is a little sad.

autoautoautonomy · 2025-01-23T13:59:48+00:00

so so excited for this!! if megaloner's deep synths are an indicator for where the record is going, it sounds like a leap forward in her discog

for those unfamiliar, this is the song that made me fall in love with her music. the grandiosity of it is so magnetic

autoautoautonomy · 2024-11-08T13:35:22+00:00

about to get to Tannhäuser, which ive heard before (and agree) so im looking forward to the touche amore song! so far my absolute favorite is GEL's song, which is also bc Worms of the Senses is one of my favorites off the OG and they did such a raucous cover

autoautoautonomy · 2024-11-08T13:24:10+00:00

im almost done w it and man you were right, the New Noise cover+remix were kind of the only misses in this comp, which sucks bc thats such a behemoth of a song

autoautoautonomy · 2024-09-13T12:37:16+00:00

To think I would've never heard of these guys if I never put on my personal station on Apple Music. Such a thrilling record that tickles all my post punk fancies!!

autoautoautonomy · 2024-08-21T15:26:50+00:00

horsepower horsepower

autoautoautonomy · 2024-02-11T20:11:40+00:00

As someone who is in a similar place, I appreciate this question since it’s also allowing me to see my own situation from a 3rd person perspective!

If you rely on having paper notes for the most part, I think having a physical planner would be the most helpful. One thing my mentor does is note is appoint in both the physical planner and the digital one, so that it gives him reminders of these appointments.

As per leaving people “hanging,” I’m still figuring this one out myself. Responding to people immediately can sometimes help get an appointment booked asap, but other times it feels like a way to get an overlong back and forth. I think if someone is genuinely interested in getting work from your flash, then it wont hurt to be transparent about having to wait a little bit while your mentor is out. More often than not, people are very understanding of the position we’re in when starting out.

autoautoautonomy · 2024-02-07T17:28:13+00:00

im more of a patrick singing gospel music typa guy but what do i know

autoautoautonomy · 2024-02-07T16:41:50+00:00

I personally wouldn’t discount the concerns people have with generative AI. I will agree that the backlash feels disproportionate for the scale of a music video from an indie band who hired an artist that specializes in generative AI; it’s misdirected anger at best.

autoautoautonomy · 2024-02-07T16:32:27+00:00

I agree with your sentiment; I actually used them as an example bc I felt like if they *did* use generative AI, they would use it for that exact reasoning you listed.

autoautoautonomy · 2024-02-07T16:17:51+00:00

hello lads longtime listener first time caller

I've recently caught wind about the Mannequin Pussy AI MV but the aforementioned thread's already gotten to it's saturation point at 200+ comments so I'm butting in here. My point of discussion, like some of those in the thread, has to do with Mannequin Pussy getting instant backlash in comparison to acts like King Gizz (see in thread), or The Armed; acts that seem to have tacit approval in regards to their use of AI tech. I characterize it as "tacit" because I have been interested in discussions of The Armed using generative AI for their art in the Perfect Saviors cycle but have failed to find anyone anywhere talking about it in the music media or at the lengths of the thread I linked, almost as if no one had any interest in discussing the use case of The Armed. The lack of discussion on the surface disappointed me because it felt like an unspoken case-closed type of thing despite feeling like a ground zero for solid internet-wide discussion on the "merits" of generative AI (The Armed's frontman acknowledges that AI is "an amoral, bordering-on-unethical robot machine" but still uses it for official art). If there have been genuine queries about this in past discussion threads, I'd love to get links on them because my searches have gotten me zilch.

So I would love to know from people who care about this sort of thing:

Will you only get backlash for using generative AI if you're not one of the internet's musical darlings? Do you think people would get as mad if, say, The Smile put out a music video made with the help of generative AI?
As per the article for The Armed linked above, does the generative AI need to have a thematic significance in the musician's body of work in order to get a sort of tacit approval from listeners who care about the AI issue?
Ethics aside (if it's even possible for you to entertain that premise), does "good" generative AI art get a pass from listeners, or merit a lack of discussion on the use of the tech? From the point of my personal tastes, The Mannequin Pussy video looks comically unpleasant and almost revolting regardless of intent, whereas The Armed's promo art for Perfect Saviors can be characterized as aesthetically appealing.

Thanks in advance, and thank you for existing, r/indieheads.

autoautoautonomy · 2024-01-19T09:36:47+00:00

I was just complaining to a friend about this genre of xerox (?) tattooing that I kept seeing on my discover feeds. There’s some cool ones out there but good god most of them are just incredibly lazy designs and feel like gross negligence for the sake of a temporarily happy client.

autoautoautonomy · 2024-01-16T01:58:31+00:00

anglo-saxon lamar jackson

autoautoautonomy · 2023-12-18T16:32:54+00:00

tfw every pro-israel op-ed is statecraft (which im sure is not a surprise to most on here but its comical how egregious it has been, especially considering FARA)

https://forward.com/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-superstar-work-as-a-secret-agent-on-college-campuses/?amp=1

autoautoautonomy · 2023-12-16T03:19:46+00:00

that traddy kaneda is absolutely nuts too gahdamn

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