SOUL SUNDAY

This is a little something different than what we usually bring you on Soul Sunday but never the less.. Press play, let it ride and you be the judge.
Led Zeppelin - Since I've been Lovin you

TRAILER OF THE WEEK

Check out this classic look into one of greatest bands of all time.

ALL WEEKEND

Come check us out this weekend in building 8 at the
Grand National Roadster Show
in Pomona Ca at the Fairplex..
The Super Bowl of Car Shows!

ALWAYS PROTECTED

Here is a piece on one of our clients who wanted to get a portrait of his wife and incorporate The Hamsa symbol as a defense from the evil eye.

I love you, but goodbye

I forgot something, or someone in my last post about the playlist... Go see who here on my wifes blog because she remembere...cross cross reference!!

Today I finally got my Tom Waits Glitter and Doom!! AWESOME!!
I also got The XX on vinyl and Marissa Nadler on cd. Don't know it yet but it sounded pretty good at the store so we will see.

FEAR NONE

Here is one from the archives that is on one of our long time and loyal clients..

My Body's A Zombie For You

Joe was one of the unfortunate one that I had to cancel on last years London Convention due to lack of time. Well, I promised him that if he came to Copenhagen to get it done I would make it up to him. I hope I did. Thanks Joe for coming over.

A lot to say and no energy to say it...
Just to change it up a bit here is something else instead.

Here is some of the stuff that has been on my playlist/genius for a while now.

Dead Man's Bones
Grizzly Bear
Sufjan Stevens
Wovenhand
Murder By Death
Old Crow Medicine Show
Bon Iver
M Ward
Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst And the Mystic Valley Band
The Dodos

We did have a few Metal-genius playlists today but this is some of what have been playing a lot for the last week.
Maybe more playlist action some other time.

Mister Cartoon Exclusive NYC Tattoo Tour Feb 2010

Once again we are shooting back to the NYC for yet another tattoo tour hosted by the Marcel. For more detials and info email asst@mistercartoon.com

THE PATH: SIBEL

Sibel after his second session awhile back. Another in a series of aggressive hand and face imagery. This tattoo focuses on the storm of life. Many cascading overlays of positive and negative space But the negative space needed to express violent movements and indicate it was coming from within. Kind of tricky and dont think I could have maintained the necessary heightened period of mental/physical energy input, so the initial sessions were short, loose, and aggressive. Here you can see we blasted in the info on his lower thigh. There are some secondary thoughts sketched in on his other thigh but that's for another day.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HUSTLER

We have been keeping this album on heavy rotation and you should too. If you havent already picked up the new Snoop Dogg album, treat yourself.

Park

After that rant and liftet finger on the internet I feel that I better post something nice. After days of no posts and then all you get is a rant...that's not fair and specially not for those of you who isn't even customers or anything.
So here is some pictures from the last trip to Japan. I already posted pictures from this day. The day at the park with Shige and his family. So this is the 2nd out of 3 planed posts. It is just random shots taken in the park.














The new shop is still a work in progress and we are still waiting for a go to get in there and do stuff. I will drop by there on tuesday and hopefully there will be more news then.

I am trying to do some drawings for a possible sketchbook but my thoughts and concentration seems to be everywhere else than on the paper in front of me. I have even gathered a big pile of inspiration/ideas/reference but it doesn't work as I want it to and everytime I think I got it, it disappears as soon as the pencil hits the paper. I have maneged to doodle a bit and it feels like a good exercise for drawing but not the kind of results I am hoping for. I hope it will get better soon.

Now a bit more drawing and then I think the rest of the sunday will be spend with a good movie.

S.O.S

We have had a bunch of Febuary cancelations which isn't that unusual for Febuary. We have a list of people who are just waiting to get new appointments and usually we can rely on them to fill in any gap there might be or I use it as a day of for drawings or something but since we are in the middle of fixing up a new shop we kinda need to make some greeeeens. So we have been trying to get some of said people from said list to fill the gaps but people are waiting for days before getting back to Amalie about these days which makes planning a calender really hard specielly on the dates that get canceled in the last minute. I don't expect people to drop everything they are doing but please, if you get offered an appointment then PLEASE let Amalie know if you want it, might want it, can't make it or what ever, right away so she knows if she need to find someone else for the date. I will hate to make stupid rules for these kinda things but people are really wasting her time (not all of you) by just not getting back to her. There has been a lot of moving people back and forth for other personal reasons too so all of Febuary is already a mess. We also had to cancel the Milan convention this year which also released 3 dates so there is plenty of holes to be filled. So again I ask you (who are waiting to get an appointment and will be offered one) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get back to Amalie right away when you have gotten offered an appointment. Don't wait 2 or more days before getting back because we don't have time to wait that long so for now we will wait max 1 day (from when the mail has been read) before we give it to someone else. Sorry that it has to be like that but I can't afford to waste more time and Amalie have more important things to worry about so please help us out.
I know there will be some people thinking; why havn't I gotten any dates offered. Well it isn't everyone who will fit into these cancelations and I am affraid that there is also some people who are waiting for touchup sessions that will have to wait till we don't have an expencive shop to fix. Sorry about that.

Sorry for the rant here and I also want to say thanks to those of you who really tries to move things around to come and get tattooed in the last minute! You guys rock.

To soften up this rant, here is what I started last friday.

SOUL SUNDAY

Oh Yeah! Once again.. For all you Lovers out there. This is one from the
Topics

"Choice of a Million Girls"

TRAILER OF THE WEEK

Another Gangster flick for your collection..

REPPIN THE LIVESTRONG

The Homie Lulu just shoot us this video of Dj Khalid going thru his sneaker collection..
If you slept on picking yours up, we might just have your size at
The Last Laugh
129 e 6th st
L.A. Ca 90021
213.488.0313

THE CANDY COATED CLOWN

Another piece from our recent archives. Our client was inspired by a quote from one of our favorite films here in the shop.
Blue Velvet
"The Candy Coated Clown they call the Sandman"

ROUND TWO

One of our clients came through from Texas for Round 2 on his chest piece.

DATE WITH FATE

Unfortunately, thunder and lighting are rare here in San Jose.  But over the last few planetary spins we've experienced a notable showering of fire from the sky.  A lick of which met unfavorably with one of our First St residents.
Yggdrasil it was not but unfortunate none the less.

LOVE ME TWO TIMES

Here is a one of the murals that was painted for Lifestyle C.C. member Oishi back in 92' for his 1959 Impala - Poison. The murals were painted on the cruiser skirts.

LOOKIN AT YOU KID

One of our long time clients came through for some fill in work on one of his sleeves..

SOUL SUNDAY

Its that time of the week and once again we bring you another rare find from
Black Ivory / I'll Find A Way

Black and white Xmas

This is what came out of my xmas present from my brother. He gave me a couple of rolls of film and here is what I used it for.

The regulars might recornice Bisserup from the many previous picture posts... well here it is again!

Copenhagen on Ice!