BEETLEJUICE

WE HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THE HOWARD STERN SHOW FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES AND BEETLEJUICE IS EMBEDDED IN OUR BRAINS.. ESTEVAN ORIOL WENT TO JOLLYDWARF.COM AND INVESTED IN THE BEETLEJUICE DOCUMENTARY WHICH IS PLAYED AT THE SHOP WEEKLY TO KEEP OUR CLIENTS ON THEIR TOES....

"WHEN IN ROME"

HERE IS A TATTOO I DID A WHILE BACK ON A TATTOOER NAMED JUN.. YOU DON'T SEE THIS EVERYDAY!

OUR LADY

CHECK OUT THE TATTOO I DID A WHILE BACK ON THE HOMIE MACHO FROM THE TERROR SQUAD FAMILY..

L.A. ALL DAY!

CHECK OUT ONE OF MY LATEST TATTOOS. THE HOMIE CAME IN AND WANTED TO GET SOMETHING THING TO REP L.A. AND ONE OF MY CLOWNS...

Domo Arigato Mr Roboto

Yesterday I did my first blog friendly tattoo on this trip. She lasted 7 hours of hurt on her tiny leg but as a true Japanese customer without any complaint or movement or anything. Good job! I love Japanese customers.

After work we went back to the cool Osaka Pizza place where Mattias joined us for dinner. Good times. A good way to finish a hard days work in awesome Tokyo.

Today I am starting one of three American rib pieces. Hope they will do as good as my Japanese friends.

TOP STITCH

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF TOP STITCH CUSTOM MADE LOVE SEATS.... THESE ARE MADE OF 100% SHEEP SKIN AND NOVA SUEDE AND A COUPLE LUIS VUITTON BAGS HAD TO LOSE THEIR LIVES TOO...

GET SOME!

CHECK OUT THE HOMIES SKINHEAD ROB AND PAUL WALL BREAK'N IT DOWN..

Link:

SKID ROW TATTOO, EXPENSIVE TASTE, SA ALL DAY!!

Koenji desu

Still enjoying the good life here in Tokyo. I have only done 2 tattoos so far and even though it was both on necks it has been a nice change from the hectic Denmark workdays that sometimes last from 9 in the morning till 10-11 in the evening. This will soon enough end. It looks like I will have a busy weekend coming up.

The other day I got my first out of three sessions on this trip with Shige. This time he "only" did 5 hours so it was a good change from the last two 8 hours sessions last time. There he is...the only man who will ever get to shave my but. This time he colored in the little statue on my leg, shaded some of the tails and started doing some color in the cherry blossoms on my leg...and but. Yes I have cherry blossoms on my butt. Maybe I will give you guys some juicy nude photos later when I have got some more done. MAYBE.


Today is a day off and the plan is to chill a bit here in Koenji and then meet up with our friend Mattias and go to an art show opening at this place called The Ghetto. It is a show that our friend Crystal puts up. More about that later.
Now picture time. This is still from my new beloved Lomo Lc-a+.

Mata

The street.

The view to the left

The view to the right


The walkpath

Saito

Hata

Rei

NEW S**T!

IF YOU MISSED THE LAST PAIR.. STAY UP CAUSE THEY GO QUICK!

Regardless what one's option about Dan Brown, he is a well known author for his thriller fiction books. However, it seems he did not do a very thorough research before publishing Digital Fortress.





Linguaphiles in Livejournal have already pegged Dan Brown as an idiot.

Alan and I are annoyed with Dan Brown, especially considering he is interested in cryptography.

The excerpt is so painful and moronic quoting about "Mandarin symbols" and "Kanji language", where there is no such thing as "Mandarin symbols" or "Kanji language". Mandarin is a spoken oral dialect, and Kanji is part of Japanese writing system.

Alan also had this to say:

Apparently Dan Brown is just as ignorant as those tattoo yahoos. He thinks you can just "translate symbols" and have it make sense. Any code based on the translation of single characters from Chinese or Japanese to English, and then subjecting this to subsequent processing is bound to fail because of multiple meanings. (Sorry, Dan, but just picking the "Kanji" rather than the "Mandarin" meanings does not solve the problem.) Simply sending a coded message that included plaintext Chinese or Japanese would be such a stupid code because any translator could intercept and read it. And the topper is the assumption that someone could possibly translate something written in Chinese or Japanese out of sequence. Try to read any English text scrambled out of order! If it is to be possibly deciphered, first the message has to be put into proper order.

THE FOOTAGE!

HERE IS A CLIP THAT WAS EDITED BY UNIVERSAL THEY USED FOOTAGE THAT WAS SHOT BY ESTEVAN ORIOL, HUNTER AND UNIVERSAL..

ON THE STRIP!!

TODAY THE BILLBOARD THAT WE MURALED FOR UNIVERSAL PICTURES / THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS WAS PUT UP ON SUNSET AND SHERBOURNE. I CAME THROUGH IN MY 1962 "SOUL KITCHEN" AND THE BATTERIES WERE HOT SO YOU KNOW I HAD TO HIT EM..
THE BILLBOARD LOOKS CRAZY. THERE IS ABOUT 40 HOURS OF WORK INTO IT AND THE CANVAS IS 14' X 48'. I DID A FEW INTERVIEWS SO I'LL KEEP YOU GUYS POSTED WITH THE DETAILS.. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO SUPPORT..

"you make me childish like a kitten in creamy rainbow"

We are back home in Tokyo, Japan (not to be mistaken by the Tokyo in Denver). The flight was good and it was awesome to fly directly from Copenhagen to Tokyo. That made the trip about 4 hours shorter...niiiice!
When we got here the weather was really nice and spring like. After my 11 day in a row tattooing madness it was nice to get a mood boost like this. Denmark and Danish people can drive me nuts to the point where a short bike ride to the shop can make me angry but sitting in the Narita express looking out the window being surrounded by Japan made it all go away. Even the weather yesterday where it was grey and windy with a bit of rain could bring me down...nooo problem. It is good to be back...


Back to the story...

We got to Inkrat where Hata was too busy to take us to the appartment rental office so we had to hang out at the shop all day while the jetlag (jetrag in native tounge) was catching up on us. Later our friend Izumi joined us for dinner at (for us) a new resturant that makes Osaka Pizza (a Rei given name). The place was awesome, build like old school Osaka (apperently) like a small ally with drainpipes and metal plates on the walls. There were all sort of cool posters and toys everywhere and the food was deliiiish. It will not be our last visit here.
Yesterday was spend hanging out at Inkrat and talking to a few customers about designs and stuff. We also got our tickets to see BAD RELIGION and Nofx....CAN'T WAIT!!!! And also finally we got our tickets to the Ghibli museum. We have been meaning to go there everytime we are here but it can be kinda hard to get tickets! But now we are in!! Catbus here we come.

Today I will do my first tattoo here...my favorite kind...a throat...but it is all good...I am in Japan.
Hopefully our Swedish friend Mattias will drop by. I can't wait to hang out and be a camera nerd with him. He is an awesome photographer and has already tought me a lot so I bet he will teach me a trick or two this time as well.
Now no more talk...here is some shots from my first roll of film taken on the first day of our trip.

We went by our acade to what was new and what was in the ufocatchers this time.
Our good friend Rilakuma.

It didn't take Rei many 5 minuttes before he took one of my machines to finetune the setting..."now maybe number one setting"


The Osaka Pizza place. This is inside a building.

Izu and Ame.

Today the sun is back....mmmm....See you soon.

SHE DONT PLAY

HERE IS ONE OF A JAPANESE INFLUENCED TATTOO WITH AN L.A. TWIST..

ARCHIVES

HERE IS A TATTOO OF A REMIX I DID A WHILE BACK... HE ALREADY HAD THE KANJI AND I ADDED THE ANGEL AND THE SCROLL..

See ya later skater

Dear blog readers.

I am sorry that I haven't been here keeping you updated on all my doings lately. After a 11 days workweek with days as long as 16 hours there has been little time or energy to blog...and now we are going to Japan!!!! There has been a bunch of new pieces and I finished a few as well but not a lot of pictures good enough to show so you will have to wait for some healed picture to come.
I also got a few rolls of film back but I haven't even had time to check it out yet. I might bring them to Japan and post some from there.

Before I go pack my suitcase I will leave you with this AWESOME GOAT FROM HELL!!!
My good friend Jacob came by and hung out for a couple of days. Since I work all the time I never have time to hang out with friends so this was really cool. Hanging WHILE working...great concept!



I gotta run...see you later...next time from Japan...mmmmmm....Japan!

ON THE COURT

THIS IS CARLOS BOOZERS BROTHER THAT CAME IN THE SAME DAY AS CARLOS...

FAMILY FIRST

HERE ARE A COUPLE FLICKS THE LAST TIME CARLOS BOOZER CAME IN FOR A TATTOO... BOOZER IS A BIG FAMILY MAN SO HE WANTED TO GET SOMETHING TO REPRESENT THEM..

from: xxxxxxxx@ucmo.edu
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:09 AM
subject: kanji paranoia

Hi! I got this tattoo a little over a year ago. It's supposed to mean "pure child", as I am a Christian. My tattoo artist is very careful and we even referenced a Japanese children's workbook to make sure that's what it meant.

I stumbled onto your site and now I am a little paranoid. Can you set my mind at ease?

I attached a pic :)it's my boobs, hope you don't mind. it's a little blue Kanji on my left boobie.

Thanks!




First of all, Alan and I welcome boobies!

I have always wanted Cornershop's Brimful of Asha as one of my party anthems, especially the chorus says "everybody needs a bosom for pillow, everybody needs a bosom."

Although 清子 are technically translated as "pure" & "child". A Japanese person would surely first assume that 清子 tattooed on a woman is supposed to be the common Japanese girl's name Kiyoko. But then the cognitive dissonance would set in.

Judging from certain, er, attributes of the tattooed subject, we would have to assume that she is not ethnically Japanese, so the question arises: why does she have a Japanese name?

Anyway, as a name, 清子 can be read several different ways including, in order from most to least common: Kiyoko, Seiko, Sugako, Sayako, Sukako.

Matter of fact, most Japanese would think this is a tattoo paying homage to their former princess 黒田清子, Sayako Kuroda.

HERE IS A FLICK OF A WRECK THAT HAPPENED DOWN THE STREET.. TOOK OUT THE FIRE HYDRANT AND THE CAR WAS BAD.. GOOD THING IS THEY ARE STILL BREATHING AND WALKED AWAY WITH BUMPS AND BRUISES..