THINK GREEN

Here is a recent one of a remix.. He already had his name so we hooked it up by adding his company mascot and name.

Remember Kinoki, the detox footpad, turned out to be a ripoff?

Alan and I present you, Osuke nutritional supplement:



For those who are interested, the product's laughable claims are detailed at its website.

However, we would like to point the readers to the five characters below OSUKE:

行迎友先天

The phrase has virtually no meaning in either Chinese or Japanese. But, using our handy-dandy Decoder Card for Gibberish English-Chinese Tattoo font, guess what 行迎友先天 corresponds?

OSUKE

After reading the product's name is complete gibberish, would anyone pay US$37.95 for a bottle of this supplement?

SOUL SUNDAY

Smokey Robinson is a living legend and alot more commercial than the groups we play on Soul Sunday, but he broke color barriers and was the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

TRAILER OF THE WEEK

This is one of the films we keep on rotation here at the shop. Robert DeNiro did his thing for his debut directorial. If you haven't already seen it you need to pick it up.

"The worst thing in life is Wasted Talent"
is the one of the greatest lines in this film.

Last Day In NYC

The last client of the trip was a international client he wanted a half sleeve to take back to Germany with him. I granted his wishes, with a traditional favorite of mine, he also got his brothers names in my script. I have to say a special thanks to all of those who travel from far off places to come and get work done, a few of our top travelers are the Japanese, Germans, British, Thai, and Australian’s to name a few, thanks for making the journeys and I always try and make sure you go back home with the sickest piece of west coast art work.

A special thanks to everyone who came through to get work done out there on the East Coast, and a thanks to my friends on the East Coast your hospitality is second to none and none of this would be possible with out you. I had a great time and I am thankful and happy to be home. Look out for my next East Coast trip in Feb I will be back at the Marcel to kill it once again, and as always its back to business here on the west coast. A final thanks to the Hotel Marcel for keeping a open mind and letting artist have a place to work. Stay up Toon$

ONE DAY AT A TIME

Here is a recent one.. This one was inspired by spiritual progress not spiritual perfection!

ARCHIVES

Here is one from the Archives.. We just got back in to the "City of Angels" the flight was good, ready to spend time with the family kick back.

DAY 6

Two of my loyal customers came in to add to their existing collection out here on the East Coast. Thanks for showing love and thanks for coming in with dope ideas and a open mind.

It was nice to hear from you.

Thanks for all the feedback on my last post. I am happy that so many of you took the time to write me a comment on what you liked about this blog o' mine. Please don't stop dropping by with feedback or to say hi or what ever. It is always nice to hear from you and to see that there is someone on the other side of the blog. I was happy to hear that a lot of you didn't just come here for the tattoos because I wanted to make this blog a place for all my doings. If I just wanted to post tattoos I would have stuck with updating my myspace. So to you who only come for the tattoos: Sorry, there will be a lot of other things coming this way. I always hope to put more photographs up here and soooon there will be a lot from this trip as soon as I have time to edit them. For those of you who come here for different stuff: I will try to post more frequently with different things to look at.

There will still be lots and lots of tattoos to look at since that is what I do most of the time and here is two pictures right now!!

From the Osaka event.

The last part of the Australian invasion.


Today is pretty much the last day for me to go shopping and looking around in Tokyo. Tomorrow will be spend in pain again at Shiges and friday will be spend hanging out with Shige and his family and then it is our last day before going home on Sunday.
I will therefore leave you with another thank you for getting back to me and see you soon.

DAY 5

Double Portrait !! Double Session!!, Today’s client drove from Boston for a unique double portrait of his mother and father, he chose two great photos and I hooked up the center of his back with this great combination. I then hit up 5^th ave and the Upper West Side for a quick evening float in NYC.

DAY 4 BACK PIECE

Day 4 grinding out here on a crazy back piece !! Thanks to the Magnolia bakery delivery to help keep me focused !! ha ha

SOUL SUNDAY

We Love Aretha "The Queen of Soul" Franklin especially her early Ballads..

Day 3

The get up !! check out the NY tattoo shop and the waiting area , we set up shop out here on the east coast and customized our hotel suite. I am always blessed when repeat customers come back in to get more work done and this time two of my favorite clients came through and I got to add on and extend previous work that I had started.

NYC Day 2

I did a press day hitting up the big dogs then i knocked out 2 canvases for for the NY tattoo sutie. I grabbed a bite at bar pitti, headed over to the famous NY artwalk hosted by Alec balwin and Richard Gere. The homie futura was celebrating his birthday so I rolled through to hang out with the man himself, it was good to catch up with stay high 149 and Lee, just another day in the City.