New Tattoo+Seeing old friends=Good day

This past week I had a buddy of mine text me out of the blue that she was coming to LA. I hadn't seen my friend Linh in at least a year. We met years ago when I was living in Santa(Hell)Barbara and she was the coolest chick. We got along almost immediately (She was kinda bitchy when we first met but what women isn't with me?? haha). She's got more heart, drive and compassion most will never know. So she tells me she's taking her little sister to college orientation and she had time to kill. Luckily I had the day off but I was getting my tattoo finish at 10am. (who gets tattooed that early?!) So Linh wakes my ass up at 8am and off we go to my appointment.

I've been very please the artist, Dave Sanchez. I came in with an idea to cement my commitment to photography and together I think we came up with something badass. Originally I thought it would be cool to get a camera shutter/aperture on my wrist and maybe do something fancy with it but Dave thought I would be rad to do some sort of filigree around it. My small wrist tattoo became my whole inner forearm haha. Oh well...Go big or go home right? By this time it was our third and last sitting. Enjoy!

So it begins...

20 seconds into it.

Half way done!

"Hey babe..I can't...talk right now."

"Oh ok. I'll call yo....wait, are you sobbing?"

Linh's a great hand holder. You can almost hear that girl in the back call me a pussy. haha

"Ah shit Vic, I think I fuc-"

"I'm sorry Dave what were you saying?"

"Oh, um, hey it looks great!!"

After my pain session we were both about to pass out from hungrer, so we went to my fav "Thai joint "Thai Patio"

I could have Thai Patio everyday. seriously.

Linh's sister called up and said she was ready to get picked up and zipped over to get her. We walked around Wackos bookstore for a bit and then got the devilishly good Pinkberry. Ugh, Why is it so good :(

Linh is so cute!

The sister.

We pigged out then went back to the house and chilled till traffic died down for them to drive back home. I really miss good people. If you live in Los Angeles you know what I mean. Its so hard to find honest, genuine people. Linh is one of them. Sometimes you forget what its like to talk to someone that doesn't have an agenda or is trying to fish something out of you and it was nice to have a good conversation that didn't include who they knew or what "cool" thing they just did. Ahhhh refreshing! Thank you Linh!

~V

Oh and heres the final product: