Happy old year!!

Since it's not really the new year YET then first happy old year!!

Thanks too everyone who looks at this little blog of mine! Please keep dropping by!!!
I know that there hasn't been too much activity lately but that will change in the new year...that means in a day or two. I got 5 rolls of film that will be developed in 2 days!! 5 rolls of LOMO madness!! This will be the first picture we will have from the brand new Lomo!! Well I have gotten 2 films back already but they were more like pre tests but maybe a few of those will be among the next couple of posts I will put up when I get back to life in 2009. Also new paintings and news and stuff!!! So come back soon!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

FAMILY TREE

PORTRAITS ARE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH AS FAR AS POPULARITY GOES. THE OWNER OF THESE TATTOOS CHOSE TO GET THESE A COUPLE YEARS AGO. PORTRAIT TATTOOS WILL NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE. PORTRAITS WERE MADE FAMOUS BY SUCH ARTIST AS JACK RUDY, MARK MAHONEY AND FREDDY"COYOTE"NEGRETE. NOW THERE ARE UP AND COMING PORTRAIT TATTOO ARTIST SUCH AS JOSE AND CHUY.NOT JUST ANYONE CAN DO PORTRAITS. SEARCHING FOR AN ARTIST LOOK FOR THE SKILLS NOT THE LOWEST PRICE. IF THAT FAILS CALL YOUR LOCAL TRAVEL AGENT AND COME SEE ME.

PROOF - R.I.P

CHECK OUT EMINEMS BROTHER NATE KANE. BLASTED OUT HIS BACK PIECE IN TWO DAYS. TRIP OUT ON THE JOE LOUIS FIST MONUMENT IN DOWNTOWN DETROIT CITY. THIS THE SECOND PIECE HE GOT FROM ME. HE WANTED TO CUT OUT THE BULLSHIT AND GO STRAIGHT FOR A BACK PIECE.

THE LAST LAUGH/ SECRET STASH

WE STASHED A COUPLE OF OUR PERSONAL COLLECTION OF BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITION "LOST ANGEL" TOYS THAT ARE IN STOCK AND FOR SALE AT THE LAST LAUGH STORE LOCATED AT 129 E 6TH ST
LOS ANGELES CA, 90014(BETWEEN MAIN AND LOS ANGELES ST)
YOU HAVE TO SEE THESE TOYS IN PERSON. DON'T MISS OUT AGAIN! GET YOURSELF ONE....

THE CHEST PIECE

THIS IS THE CHEST PIECE THAT GOES WITH THE BACK PIECE I BROUGHT YOU YESTERDAY. RAY IS SICK WITH IT WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING WORK DONE AND SITS THROUGH A SESSION LIKE HE IS GETTING A HAIR CUT.. LOOK OUT FOR HIS RIB CAGE PIECES WHICH I WILL POSTING SOON.

If douchebags like Criss Angel and David Blaine are your type of heros, here is a video for you:


http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1230324928/Use_The_Force

Sensei Mike Capaldi breaks some wood pieces in shopping center's parking lot without touching them. Of all places, including his own studio and dojo; why would he perform this stunt on a sidewalk of some shopping mall?

By the way, even if the character 御 at the bottom right was not upside-down, the text still makes no sense in Japanese.

Alan's best guess is that they took the word Oseibo 御歳暮 (meaning "year-end present"), added a couple other characters for seasoning and mixed and mashed for a Japanese word-soup puree.

Tai-San style mind break, indeed.

I call it bullshit.

CHASING THE DRAGON

THIS IS ONE OF MY LONG TIME CLIENTS WHO HAS BEEN LOYAL IN HIS PURSUIT TO GET A JAPANESE BACK PIECE. SINCE THEN HE HAS BLASTED OUT HIS RIBS AND CHEST.. HE DOES EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND IT SHOWS WHEN YOU SEE HIS COLLECTION.

THE PASSION

THIS IS ONE OF THE HOMIES WHO WANTED TO DEDICATE HIS BACK TO THE PASSION AND CENTER IT WITH THE SACRIFICIAL CROSS TOPPED WITH A CROWN OF THORNS AND FRAMED WITH ANGELIC CLOUDS TO ENHANCE ITS SIGNIFICANCE. YOU CAN NEVER GO WRONG WITH DOING A PIECE THAT CAPTURES YOUR BELIEFS.

Life sign!

Xmas is kinda over but we are still in the countryside. Xmas was great with lots of lots of good food, family and amazing presents. One of them will be used here on the blog hopefully within too long. I good my granddads old camera that my mom got when he died. She knows how much I love to take pictures so she thought that I would use it well. It needs a quick visit at a camera shop since it hasn't been used for like 30 years or something so we couldn't get it opened. Everything is still working and the camera is in a really nice condition so after a quick clean-up it should be ready to hit the streets with me and the new black and white films I got from my brother.

My amazing wife got me a bunch of really cool things like a new bag and fancy shaving stuff and something that is beeing held hostage by the postoffice so that will have to wait till we are back in Copenhagen.

While unpacking all the stuff from Amalies parents (they moved down here permanently on the 21th.) I found the spots that I had been looking for among some of their things. Turns out that the spot that I wanted is actually a copy of the ones that Hans, Amalies dad, has and that they came from a factury that he worked on so he had a few lying around. I got myself two!! AWESOME!!! Can't wait to play with them. They give the best light for photos!

I also got 6 James Bond Dvds. One of the few things on my actual wishlist. We have already seen Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever. Gooooood stuff!!!

Ok that is it! More updates later...what's that? Why there isn't any pictures? Well that is a good question. Although I have brought my Digital Canon and several lenses I have only shoot Analog while we have been down here. Felt more like it. So there is already 4 rolls of film ready for development...too bad it will take a week to get them back as soon as I turn them in!!! ARRRGGGGGGG!!!! CRAPPY COUNTRY!!!!!!

Anyway...maybe I will pick up the Canon and shoot some things! I kinda need to see some results.

Hope you all had a nice xmas too!!
See you all soon!

PROFILE: DANNY D & BUGS GONZALES

WE BROUGHT YOU FLICKS OF BUGS AND DANNY D'S TOOLS OF THEIR TRADE.. HERE IS A PROFILE SHOT OF THEM AND A COUPLE OF ONE OF "THE MANY" THEY HAVE COLLABORATED ON. THEY HAVE ALSO COLLABORATED ON STORE FRONT PIECES FOR UNDEFEATED, SUPREME, STUSSY AND THE "LAST LAUGH" WHICH I HAVE FEATURED ON MY BLOG BEFORE...

MERRY CHRISTMAS...

I JUST WANT TO WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING THE TIME WITH YOUR LOVED ONES. AS YOU KNOW "THE LAST LAUGH" WAS OPEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE "FINELINE" T-SHIRT HIT THE SHELVES. I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU WHO CAME OUT TO PICK IT UP, IF YOU HAVEN'T PICKED UP DON'T SLEEP CAUSE THEY ARE GOING FAST. I HAVE ALSO BEEN WORKING ON A FEW "TOP SECRET" ITEMS FOR YOU LOYAL ONES, SO STAY ToONd FOR THE UPDATES..

AUDIT: 1208

December is generally an easy month for us (other than the benefit thing) as our clients often have family obligations to tend to. So we try not to push them to hard and instead focus on gearing up for the coming year, which is likely to be a busy one.

Regardless we still do tatts, and out of everyone this month Matt stayed consistently busy, working on several backpieces including Tony. The Mason Family came out, Aaron did some tattoos and got tattooed himself. Ron started some more “mechanical” leaning biomechanics and Jim’s been working on some interesting sleeves himself.

I told myself that I’d never do a sent of wings on a back. In my delusions on grander, I dont like to risk having to tie a floating image into a lager complete backpiece down the road, which almost always what happens. But Idi had compelling argument and I’m glad we undertook the project after all.

Okay times up. Get ready for the new year!

LOST ART

I JUST VISITED MY CLUB BROTHERS AND LONG TIME FRIENDS DANNY D AND BUGS GONZALES. NOT ONLY ARE THEY CUSTOM CAR PAINTERS THEY BOTH HAVE BEEN STRIPING FOR 20 PLUS YEARS. ITS ALWAYS GOOD TO BE ABLE TO MEET UP AND DISCUSS THE SCIENCE OF LOWRIDING. I WAS ABLE TO GET A FEW GOOD FLIKS OF THEM AT WORK AND SOME DETAIL SHOTS OF SOME OF THE TOOLS. WE ARE CURRENTLY COLLABORATING ON A COUPLE TOP SECRET PROJECTS AND I WILL BE BRINGING YOU SOME FLIKS AS WE MOVE FORWARD...

JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!!

HERE IS A THE NEW DESIGN I DROPPED JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. YOU CAN COME PICK IT UP OVER AT THE LAST LAUGH. WE ARE OPEN ON TUESDAY 12/23 AND ON CHRISTMAS EVE 12/24. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL THE STORE AT
213.488.0313
THE LAST LAUGH
129 E 6TH ST
LOS ANGELES, CA 90014

PEARL HORSE DOC

Analog client/contributor Justin Numbers put together this doc about the Remember the Pearl Horse benefit. Sums it up pretty good.

MOVING PICTURES

We just found out about this vid from the Year 1 celebration. Is mostly of Panthelion performing. Really cool musical collaboration. Hopefully we’ll be able to have them working in the space again in the future.

NO BLUES

CHECK OUT THIS PIECE I DID ON SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER ATIBA. HIS TATTOOS REFLECT SOME OF HIS INFLUENCES AND HIS LOYALTY. THE LATEST PIECE WAS OF THE LATE GREAT MILES DAVIS.

THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME

THIS IS THE LATEST FROM OUR GOOD FRIEND RAY.. HE IS ALSO THE PROUD COLLECTOR OF THE "HEAVEN OR HELL" BACK PIECE I DID. RAY IS A REAL LAID BACK AND SERIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO SITTING THROUGH A SESSION. I JUST FINISHED WORKING ON HIS LOWER SLEEVE AND WILL BE STARTING HIS CHEST PLATE.

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS

WE'RE NOT AS HARDCORE AS YOU THINK WE DONT JUST TATTOO ALL DAY EVERYDAY.. HERE IS A NIGHT OUT AT COSMIC BOWLING CELEBRATING FOR MY SON JULIANS BDAY. I HAVEN'T BEEN BOWLING SINCE J.R. HIGH BUT AS YOU CAN SEE THE KID HASN'T LOST HIS TOUCH. I'M PREPARING FOR MY NEW REALITY SHOW BOWLING WITH THE STARS. NAH! I'M JUST KIDDING WE PASSED ON THIS SHOW...

HIS AND HERS..

ITS BEEN THAT TIME OF YEAR FOR HIS AND HERS MATCHING TATTOOS. COMMITMENT IS BECOMING A RARE THING HA! HA! WE ARE GLAD TO SEE COUPLES LOCKING IT UP AND TACKIN IT DOWN. IF YOU GET A MATCHING TATTOO WITH YOUR LADY YOU SHOULD BE GAURANTEED TO GET SOME THAT NIGHT. IF YOU DON'T ITS NOT OUR FAULT.... HA! HA! HA!

CALI ROOTED

I DONT JUST TATTOO CLOWNS AND NAKED BITCHES ALL DAY, SOMETIMES I GET TO FLIP IT AND DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. DON'T GET IT FUCKED UP I LOVE TATTOOING L.A. STREET ICONS BUT I LOVE TO DO TATTOOS THAT PEOPLE WONT EXPECT.

SUCKA FREE!

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST RECENT SLEEVES I JUST DID. THIS ONE WAS FOR STEVE KANG OUT OF S.F. I POSTED FLIKS OF HIS LAST SESSIONS A WHILE BACK. HE HAS BEEN COMING ON THE REGULAR AND COMING CORRECT WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING INKED. HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY PLANS OF LETTING OFF EITHER SO LOOK OF FOR WHAT WE COOK UP NEXT...

PEARL HORSE OVERVIEW

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SOUTH CHICAGO

THIS IS A TATTOO THAT I DID FOR THE HOMIE ROB A. HE WANTED TO PAY HOMAGE TO HIS CITY. ROB IS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER WHO HAS WORKED FOR NIKE, STUSSY TO NAME A FEW AND IS A DOPE ARTIST. YOU CAN CATCH MORE OF HIS WORK AT www.robabeyta.com

A few years back there was a sitcom on NBC called Committed. In one episode, one of the lead character had some tattoo work done at New Orleans and it turned out to be something along the line of "of two men who love each other, you are the one plays the woman." Eventually he got the tattoo fixed to "Lemon Chicken."

www.hanzismatter.com/lemonchicken.mov (10.4MB)

Of course, that was only in a comedy sitcom.

No so!

Someone actually got Sesame Chicken 芝麻雞 tattooed on him and proud of it:


http://bmeink.com/A81211/high/owl8-ink-update.jpg

Java devil! You are now my bitch!

Todays sunday present was one very important tool for me. It's function is important for me and can determine the outcome of the rest of my day!

A cup for my coffee!!!

...and a pretty one too!

Mr. and Mrs. Frankie!

Yesterdays work was a lot of fun. I have decided that it is time to change style so from now on I will be like the great masters of realism, Bob Tyrell, and Robert Hernandeeeeez (prince of tattoo). Mr and Mrs Ugle aka Thomas and Sussie came by for their boyfriend/girlfriend tattoos. As the horror movie fans they are they decided that their tattoos should be the Monster of Frankenstein (really not a monster...just a misunderstood shmuck) and his bride. Him on him and her on her

...that sounds silly

...but it looked great!

See how realistic it is!!! It's almost as looking at a picture!!! ..almost.


Ok...maybe I wont go all Bobby T from now on but I do like making these simple, traditional looking "portraits".

"...2 Shriners in go-carts...they're going down"

Last night I saw the scariest band in the world, DEADBOLT!! In a rain of sparks from the metal grinder (sorry I don't know the correct term for this kind of tool) followed by a mist of hairspray they started the show that hasn't changed a bit, and hopefully never will. Never have I seen a band smoke so many cigarettes on stage...they actually stopped a song to have a cigarette break!!
The air was filled with hairspray, smoke and flying cigarette buds. When ever the drummer (who played the entire show standing) were finished with his smoke he flicked it at Harley (the singer), who would return the favour after his next smoke. Shots were had and poison from a very dangerous rubber snake was flushed down like soda...crazy I tell you!! Kids... Don't try this at home!!
One of my favourite parts was when a bunch of crusty looking hippy types were standing in front of the stage yelling for them to play Watongo, a song about a god who kills dirty smelly hippies. One of Deadbolts trademarks is their hate of hippies and clowns so it's also a bit ironic that they play in the Hippy capital of Scandinavia, Christiania. Maybe they have made their peace.

Iphone picture of the madness that is Deadbolt

It was a great show! The walk home for one and a half hour with my heavy, locked bike was not so much fun!! I lost my bike key somewhere so I had to carry it all the way home by lifting the back tire. Not what I had planed for my Friday night.

Today...painting action!

ATOMIC DOG

CHECK OUT THE HOMIE ATIBA FROM SKATEBOARDING MAG AND THE PORTRAIT OF HIS DOG CARMELO.

More J-pop madness!!

Amalie just showed me this video from one of our favorite J-pop stars...That's right, she is a Star!!
I have noooooo clue what this video is all about but words like insane comes to mind.

Enjoy...Otsuka Ai, Chu-lip

If you want more then go Here

HOMER THE HOMEBOY!

CHECK OUT THE CUSTOM BAG I PAINTED FOR THE SIMPSONS VANS I DESIGNED. THIS BAG WENT ON THE SNEAKER PIMPS TOUR LAST YEAR ALONG WITH A PAIR OF THE SIMPSONS VANS HOMER THE HOMEBOY EXCLUSIVES. I AIRBRUSHED THIS BAG USING MY OLD SCHOOL PAASCHE AIRBRUSH.