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UPCOMING CONVENTIONS

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:25:46 +0000

i’ll be at the visionary expo in miami florida october 9th-11th.

i’ll also be in richmond november 20th-22nd.

hit me up for appointment info at either convention, i’m pretty down to do some stuff.

A SLIGHT CHANGE IN MY WORK

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:26:06 +0000

well, it seems that i’ve finally started to chill out a little bit. as artists, i think we tend to be extremely harsh self critics. i’ve been beating myself up every day for the past several months. i’m never happy with my work, and constantly strive to do better. it’s really been an incredibly stressful time, and i’ve more or less been on the verge of breaking for awhile now. i guess there’s an upside to it though. it’s been helping me develop my style a bit.

see, up until recently i’ve been sort of a jack of all trades tattoo artist. i’ve been spread thin, and focusing on like 4 different styles of tattooing. while that opens a lot of doors and really expands my clientele, it doesn’t really do too much for my actual abilities. growth has been slow. i’ve recently reached this point where i know what i am best at. i know that i should really be focused on doing more new school work. it comes easiest to me, and i think my best work is in that style. so why would i give my clients anything but my best?

so i’m sort of jumping ship on some people here. while i will still take on occasional black and grey pieces, i’m switching my focus. i’m only doing new school, cover ups, and biomechanical. it’s my strong point. i should focus on my strengths because that is what i am good at, and that is what my clients deserve.

if you’ll notice, i have dumped probably 2/3 of my online portfolio. the work that remains reflects the work i am the most comfortable with. i am happy with this type of work, and that in turn makes my clients happier. what you see is what you get. this is my comfort zone. i hope you like this work too, and i hope to work with everyone out there on some great new creative pieces.

OM MANI PADME HUM

HIATUS

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:45:03 +0000

i’m going on hiatus from the internet for a week while i restructure and reinvent myself.

catch up with me next week. thanks.

TATTOOLAPALOOZA

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:55:36 +0000

so i got back from miami this week after attending the first tattoolapalooza convention.

i could die in miami.

it’s funny, because i hate the humidity so much. and i hate the heat. but for some reason the presence of palm trees makes it okay. we stayed on south beach, partied in south beach, ate in south beach….pretty much chilled for 4 days in south beach. i got to eat at some fantastic places and stay in a great hotel. but my dumb ass didn’t go on the beach once. i mean, i’m not a big fan of the ocean, or sand, or the entire beach experience, but still. miami beach. i should have gone in at least once.

the convention went decent. the first day was slow, but it picked up a lot on day two. i ended up doing 4 tattoos over the weekend, which was pretty cool. there was a great lineup too. i met a lot of artists i really admire and respect, so that was awesome just to be on a bill with that sort of talent.

thanks go out to all the guys who put together tattoolapalooza. they really treated us right and i had a great time.

GET DOWN MAKE LOVE

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:56:45 +0000

my entire website is in the process of being completely overhauled. hence the reason i have not bothered getting my shop section up and running. when it goes back online, it will have prints, both promo and giclee limited editions, flash, sketchbooks, and original artwork.

in the meantime, you can still order my flash and sketchbooks through good ol fashioned snail mail. the order form is on my myspace along with sample shots of the flash sets and sketchbooks pages.

make with the clicky and follow instructions.

AUSTRIAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:53:40 +0000

i don’t consider myself a timid or naive person. i have a strong stomach and a pretty good grasp on the reality of the screwed up world we live in. there’s a lot of sick people out there, and i understand that. but every once in awhile, a case appears that simply disturbs and shocks me. this is the most disturbing criminal case i have ever heard of.

josef fritzl is an austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years in his basement. during that time, he repeatedly raped her, fathering 7 incestuous children. here’s the story from al jazeera.

sick bastard

what boggles my mind is how he managed to do this without his wife knowing. and how he was able to have several of the children living in the house saying they were abandoned by his daughter. it completely astounds me.

hope nobody is reading this as late as i am writing it, it could cause a sleepless night or two.

PHILLY SHOW RECAP

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:59:00 +0000

so the philly show turned out to be so much fun. i did a lot of cool work, and i got to party it up a little bit.

friday was good. i worked on one piece solid through the day. i got home late as hell, but i was just happy to wake up with my kids. i’ve been working a lot lately.

saturday was a whole different animal. the convention was slammed. shoulder to shoulder all day. i did 3 really fun and diverse pieces. i finished up around 9:30 and started with the party. have you ever partied in an elevator? that’s seemed to be the way they did things there. somebody had set up shop with chairs and lamps and ferns and all that in the elevator. i dunno. around philly, we know how to party, so the fun didn’t stop til the wee hours of morning.

sunday i worked on a sweet sugar skull. it was a lot of fun, and i’m very glad i got to do that piece. i won 2nd place cover up for the new school owl i did. after all was said and done, i packed up and headed back homeward in the snow, which didn’t stop well into monday. but i’m glad it did, because i wanted one day with my family before i headed back to the shop to bust out those 12 hour days i do so well.

all in all, the philly show was fantastic as usual. hope to see you all there next year.

PHILADELPHIA

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:30:09 +0000

i will be working the philadelphia tattoo convention february 27th, 28th, and march 1st. for more information visit tattooed kingpin.

i will have t-shirts, original artwork, prints, my 2008 flash set, and a BRAND NEW 4 sheet flash set of flowers. c’mon. you know you like my flowers. be honest

stop by the booth, we’d be happy to have you. we have a double this year, and it will be me, pastor, mike hill, and jeff paetzold.

MEETING OF THE MARKED

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:41:53 +0000

i love pittsburgh. it’s a fantastic city. yeah, being from the philly area, people may talk some shit, but it’s a damn fine city. it will alway be my home away from home. there’s not a better bar on the planet than the smiling moose, and there’s not a better roll than the OMGT from sushi 3!

but i digress. this halloween weekend, as is every halloween weekend, was the meeting of the marked. this is my first year doing this convention, and i had a blast. it was the exact crowd i would expect from pittsburgh, WONDERFUL. i stayed jumpin busy all weekend, and had to turn away people in the end. i got to do a lot of fun pieces, including a string of little zombie heads, which were on special due to the holiday and the city (how can’t you tattoo cheap zombie heads in pittsburgh, the home of romero?!)

unfortunately they’ve ousted the cover up and flash competitions from MOM due to lack of participation, so my efforts of selecting and framing were for naught. but i was told if there is more of a demand to enter things, it may be brought back. so get your shit together and do some cover ups and draw some flash!!

i may not have been able to enter in those categories, but i was able to enter tattoo of the day every day, and, with much diligence, was able to claim tattoo of the day on sunday for my rather large convoluted aztec quexacoatl tattoo, done on a head. yes, a head. keep an eye out for pics, they’ll be up next week.

i’d love to do this convention next year, but i missed my kids trick or treating this year and i don’t want to miss it again. so keep an eye out for me in 2011!!

OIL APOCALYPSE

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:26:14 +0000

i just got done watching history channel’s mega disasters episode “oil apocalypse.” downright scary.

the episode outlines the history of oil in our society and the consequences of our dependence. the scariest thing about it is that our alternatives are not much better. every single one will dismantle the ecosystem at varying rates, and not one solution will keep us out of a massive recession. the only options that will give clean, reliable fuel are solar and wind power, but both could take decades to be instituted to the degree americans consume.

truth is, oil will one day be used up, and there won’t be anymore. that’s it. our only real choice is a massive alteration of our way of life. conservation of fuel to the point of being stingy and a steady increase on reliance on solar and wind. these things need to be pushed as much as possible. it’s the only way.

in our modern world, every single major power is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, and that need increases every single day. supplies are beginning to dwindle, and we know that. why else are gas prices so high? why all this talk of off shore drilling? alternative energy? we are beginning to scramble. if you remove oil from our culture, you remove cars, buses, trucks, farm equipment, trains, airplanes, and countless plastics, medicines, and other day to day products. if we didn’t have those things it would thrust our entire society into a violent upheaval where people are literally fighting to survive. we would live out the remainder of our lives in a new dark age.

at this point, all we as citizens can do is conserve. try to drive less, walk anywhere when possible, carpool whenever feasible. i’ll do my damndest, i know that much. damn workin 20 miles away from home…

here’s a link to a clip from the show.

A GLIMPSE OF THE END OF SOCIETY.