Here we go!

This year ended really well with us sorting everything out about the new shop. Some of you readers know that we have gotten us a new shop and some of you also know that there were some complications that made us rethink our decision a couple of times this last month. But on these last days of the year we finally figured it all out and we can now say that the Conspiracy Inc. will be moving in the begining of the new year. We still have a lot of work ahead of us but I hope that it will be fun to make this new Conspiracy Inc.

A great thanks to all our friends around the world, all our customers who have been awesome, to all our families and to our old and new partners in crime, (Nick and Eckel). A great thanks to everybody who have helped and still help us make Conspiracy Inc. what it is (and clean).
A great thanks to all you people I don't know and havn't met but who keep coming back to this here blog to check in on me and my doings. Thanks for the support and kind words.

I'm gonna finish this years last post with some picture from around the world. They are from my last 4 rolls of film that has been to London, California, Copenhagen, Bisserup and Tokyo. Some of you might have seen some of them before on my guestblog post on Youngs blog. For the rest of you... here you go.

We are looking forward to see you all in 2010.

Happy New Year

THE PATH: JASMINE

After Jasmine's first run.

GETTING LACED

Its that time of year again!! Everyone is polishing the chrome, the paint, getting the grills ready, the cameras ready and the family... We are all getting ready for the Biggest Cruise Day of the year hosted by the Majestics Car Club. Here are a couple fliks of last years thanks to JaeBueno for the fliks.

STAY SHARP

We just got in some inventory from Greenspans of the original Pendleton's, Cascade, Carhart Jackets (U.S. made deadstock) and these grey Fedoras..
for those of you that haven't heard of Greenspans they are an original clothing store that have been open since 1928 in the same location.
Come through and get yours at
The Last Laugh
129 e 6th st
L.A. Ca, 90014
213.488.0313

THE PATH: ZACK

After Zack's second session.

REALITY BITES: CAMERAS LIE!

Sometimes, when one is in the flow of the creative river, a moment of alternative perspective forces into focus. Whereupon one must ask itself... Am I really sitting at eye level with and drawing on... this guy's butt?

Our forefathers must be beaming with pride...



"You may ask yourself, my god, what have I done" -David Byrne

FOR THE LADIES

Here is a piece from a while ago.. She wanted a piece to inspire the rest of the ladies.

THE PATH: JIM

Early image of Jim's long road. Outside of my narrow focus, he's got a lot of foothills to climb before we get to a completion plateau. This is one of those tattoos that I am terrified about not being able to complete. I loose too much sleep to these thoughts.

THE PATH: COURTNEY

Courtney is a great client. Now that we've finished her arm and she finds herself at the crossroads, I'm looking forward to seeing which path she chooses next.

GOING ALL OUT

Here is a recent piece.. Our client wanted to start his sleeves for his first tattoo!

Meet my family

...well some of it. This is my grandmother (my mothers mother) Ketty and my extra grandpa Gunnar. He is not my real grandpa but has been with my grandma for as long as I remember so he has always been a bonus grandpa while my real grandpa was alive.
I got the idea of taking their picture for my mother as a birthday present but I never got to do it until a few weeks ago when we were in these parts of the country for a christmas marked at Amalies parents place. My grandparents actually did have other plans that weekend but I maneged to squeeze in between plans for like 45 min. I pretty much rushed in, sat up, shot a quick bunch of pictures, took eveything down, had a cup of quick coffee and was out the door in less than an hour. But I feel I got a few lucky shots of them both.

I got them printed on some really nice paper. I had the 3 colour ones mounted on foamcore so they could be mounted on the wall without a frame, which I think looks really nice. Since I could get a whole bunch printed for the same price I had extra prints to give to my uncles and aunt. My mom also got a set in black and white on top of the ones in colours.

The present was a big hit.









I hope you all had a great xmas and enjoyed the hollidays as much as we did.

SOUL SUNDAY

Here is another rare classic soul record for all loyal listeners.

The Whispers - Great Day

Good Characters, Inc. (oh, the irony) has launched a new application for Apple iPhones called "Chinese Alphabet".


http://goodcharacters.com/blog/blog.php?id=110

The application uses a set of random Chinese characters to correspond with 26 letters in English alphabet. The company claims this will "add mystery to your writing".

At least they are smart enough to put up this disclaimer at bottom of the page:

"The translation provided by Chinese Alphabet is intended for personal use and entertainment only. Not recommended for tattoo artists to use this to tattoo their clients, iPhone app developers to localize Chinese apps, CIA agents to communicate national secrets, or security professionals to encrypt passwords."

TRAILER OF THE WEEK

One of our clients sent us a copy of this documentary after seeing our collection of films in the studio. Since then we have kept it on our top ten list.
Check it out!

EY HOMES

Merry Christmas !

THE PATH: RICKY

More progress with Ricky.

STORY TIME

Cheech and Chong, Santa and his old lady from chris clark on Vimeo.

Check out the Santa Clause and his Old Lady story with the classic comedy duo Cheech and Chong. We were trying to see if anyone put together a video for this, but sometimes you just can't replace the original..

POR VIDA

Here is a flik of one of the latest backpieces... Treat yourself, don't cheat yourself!

YOUNG BLOOD

As it goes, Marcus has retired from ATAK. Godspeed. To fill the unforgiving emotional void left upon our golden boy's departure, we've initiated Scott into the ranks. Not a new face by any means, Scott has been around for years. I did a backpiece on him when he was barely legal and have since been steadily working on his bodysuit. He'll be around for awhile.

World meet Scott. Scott meet the World.

THE PATH: THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE

An early shot of the Kraken on Max.

MALICE N WONDERLAND

Here are a couple fliks of the Malice N Wonderland canvas that I painted for the homie Snoop and his tenth solo album.. If you haven't already picked that new record up you need too. Another Banger from the WestCoast Don.

Moving day

Todays Blog post have moved to somewhere else! What? That's right. Todays post can be found at Young's blog (aka Half Girl) where I did a guest blogging here in the busy Christmas days. So go check it out and check out the rest of her blog out as well. Good stuff.

THE PATH: SEAN

This is what its like to tattoo a puzzle. We did several layers of overlapping grey line sessions before we started shading. As a tattooer I dont recommend this approach. Makes your eyes cross from anxiety. But with some effort we might reach an agreeable conclusion.

On th road to peace

Yesterday when I went into our favorite coffee place, "Coffee and Vinyl", to pick up my first coffee of the day, right away my eye met something beautyfull and awesome! Right there on the shelf next to the other vinyl was Tom Waits new live album "Glitter and Doom Live" on nice 180 gram vinyl. "Well, why didn't you just buy it then?" Well, see, I am not really allowed to buy anything before xmas since I am one of those people who never really want anything for xmas because I usually buy it myself so those few things that hasn't been bought yet is off limit until after xmas. So there it is, taunting me. For my next coffee the owner is there and I joked with him telling him that he can't sell it to anyone before after xmas. That is when he breaks the even bigger news. Tom Waits is releasing Orphans on vinyl in a 7 LP box with a book and 6 song that isn't on the cd! SAY WHAT!! I GOTSTA HAVE!! DAMN IT!!! So here I am... just waiting for it to be time where I can buy this box of joy!!

While I was waiting I went to his new website (he never had one until resently) and found (not only new material for my Tom Waits painting) a video for a DJ collective called N.A.S.A where he got to brawl on one of their songs. Read about it HERE. Amalie surgested that I posted it here on my blog since I do have a TomWaits obsession so here it is.

Spacious Thoughts from Anti Records on Vimeo.

SOUL SUNDAY

Here is another Classic Soul record for the rest of your days..

THE PATH: RICKY

Decided that the regular Audits I was doing arent necessary any longer. My other ATAK comrades now have their own blogs and the temporal length it took to put the Audits together subtracts too much from time I could be drawing tattoos. So I am going to try posting a more streamlined and/or raw progress report focusing on works in progress. Hopefully it'll also allow me to put images out into the ether more often.

So without further adieu...

Recently started work on Ricky's backpiece. A motivate client. Anticipate swift progress.

CAAAAAN YOU DIG IT???

After a long time without anything too look at here on this blog I think it is time for a tattoo pic fest!

Here is a sellection of what I have been doing...well since we got back from Japan.

Ok, are you ready? Are you comfortable? Do you have your coffee and blanket? Here we go:

Dr. Erik from Sweeeeden got his turtle. Well actually it is Darwins turtle, Harriet.

The most satanic fox ever!! Sebastian came back from Ireland to add this evil fox to his satanic valkyrie. Evil madness!! This must be the most upside down crosses I have ever seen in a tattoo.

Sascha da nurse got herself a pretty anatomical correct heart.

Sune had his 2nd session on his almost sleeve. This time we added his parents. This is my 2nd and 3rd family member portraits ever. Fun fun fun!!





Greg from the Uk came back to finish his mythical unicorn/pegasus/lion and to add this Majestic creature: the Michael Flatley, feet of fire monster! This is no ordinary monster. Ohh no. This is the white shark headed Hydra with the wing of a bat, body of a dragon and feet of a bird...feet of fire!!!

Magical!!

Friida came from Finland came to get her first tattoo. The bird is freeeee and flying away with the key with the F...F for friendship.



Jesper got his grrr arg skull...well it is more a nice Mexican skull but what ever!


Well that was it for now! Hope you enjoyed the show! More photos soon and also a guest appearance on a different blog!!