MK grassroots

So today is my day off. Doesnt feel like one as we are going to Mong Kok to flyer the hell outta the From This Day gig for Saturday. Could prob think of better things to do...

Anyways, yesterday was fully booked and did a few nice pieces.
Heres the first one i did yesterday...



Not sure if u can quite make it out, but i made one of the wings turn into a rose...looked sweet!

And heres one we did at the end of the day pretty off guard...wasn't planning on it, but didnt take long. Ross got "hold fast" on his fingers.



Almost recovered from my cold from the depths of hell, nothing that a whiskey coke cant fix.

Sick as a Dog who... (finish as you see fit)

So have the worst cold ever. Tattooed all day yesterday, and squeezed some of todays bookings in just so i could take today OFF. (apologies for forgetting to put a sign up for anyone who came by today)...

So who in the world....would have thought that Easter Sunday of all days would be so busy? At no point in my life did I ever think to myself "yeah, its a public holiday....lets go get tattooed!" Dude... whatever happened to "the day of rest" ????

Anyways, after going through about 2 boxes of gloves (on......off....sneeze....on......off.....cough....on.......of.....wipe my streaming eyes......) You get the gist?

So anyways, heres some shots I got from Horse the band and support etc...












And here's a nice religious piece I did on Easter Sunday...

Hard boiled

So, did some awesome black nad grey roses today, but unfortunately didnt get a photo as i was adding on to an older tattoo (not by me) that was just in the way if ya know what i mean. So taking liberties and taking tomorrow off. Gonna go watch Horse the Band tomorrow which should be ... interesting!
doop doop bee boop if ya know what i mean.
So gonna try and give photobucket a chance to redeem itself and see if i can get some pics posted this time round.
Gimme a sec....
Ok sweet thundercats are go.
Heres a nice rose i did this week. Its her first tattoo and she sat like a champ, pretty much gave me total free riegn which is always a bonus.



Here are the 2 best pics i got from St Paddie's. Got a few of the band we watched, but these are much better.

Seizure salad

So me being me, I come on here thinkin "i'll just quickly post a blog....it wont take long"....then i realise i dont have any recent photos uploaded, so i'm like "ok this wont be so bad....." then i find out i'm uploading over 600 pictures. so 3.30am will prob turn into 4.40...
hopefully i'll have a few more tattoo pics, and o' course some Irish pics (PICS not PIES).
tick tock tick tock...oooooh only 250 left.....

{short interlude}: so had a good few days, awesome st paddy's nite, great music and some lethal little leprichaun {spelling?) shots they were handin' out.

tick tock.....148 to go.....

ok so iphoto just "unexpecdately quit just before it ended uploading so i gotta start all over again (did i ever mention how much i hate computers?)

So now....no word of a lie, Safari just quit.....oh my god, some sick twisted microchip is playing a prank on me i tell ya.
been waiting a good 40 mins now....and really wanna go to sleep...

ok safari just quit 3 more times, i've got the pics on my computer but i think photobucket it in a really bad mood, cant resize anything.

Right, officially giving up.

So having a quick cigarette whilt watching Cow n Chicken on Cartoon network, then off the bed.....funny how 5 mins turns into over an hour.

If you read this post, I apologise, it was much more interesting but I've had to go back and delete all the "intros" to the pics I was GONNA post.

Since when was it daylight?

So, we had another gig at Pier Pressure yesterday, got some cool photos of the bands among things....will post em as soon as i get them onto my computer.
It's pretty late and I'm half way through watching the "Happiness of the Katakuris" before I get 40 winks.
Should have some more tattoo pics tomorrow, got a few nice ones lined up...

Anyways, as promised ( I know its not as soon as I said but dont trust my deadlines... I think my deadline world has three different moons orbiting it which can throw timescales up in the air)
Heres the 1st canvas I did for the press release of the upcoming Skin & Inks exhibition. I'll put the proper press release for it at some point too so that some of ya might vaguely begin to start understanding what in the bejeezus I'm talkin bout.



Happy St Patricks day everyone, dont do anything I wouldnt do.

necking with my husband

So today was fully booked. I have a lot of designs i'm working on for custom work, and trying to get stuff done asap, which can be hard when u tattoo from the minute u arrive at work til the time u finish! i've stopped (or tried to!) designing stuff at home, coz i cant take work home with me if ya know what i mean! i spend more time at the studio than at home anyways, so i cant be doing with that.

My new canvas' arrived today... got a pretty short leash as far as time scale goes, so a little worried as to what in God's name I can manage... On a lighter note, I got to see the press release for the one I did already, and I'll post it 2morrow.

So did 3 pieces today.... well, 4 pieces but one was on Ross. He's been nagging me for a while to tattoo his throat, and I finally got round to it today. Heres's a pic of a tat I did today....he's an old customer.... well old as u can be for a shop thats been open 2 years! haha, this is his 3rd piece by me.



And here's the end to my evening.









P.S the well missed Beer Bay in DB has reappeared (albeit in a new incarnation....of sorts!), so nice to have the guys back. Cheap Beer, Good company, Great times !

No shows should die

So had today totally booked up for one person, who decided not to show, and of course, as difficult as modern technology is to handle, dialing numbers and such, decided not to tell me either. so a couple of hours of design work, 4/5 hours put aside to work on them, and nothing to show for it but a pathetic deposit. I'm gonna start taking deposits according to size of piece now and time scale estimated. There is no excuse for customers to be so rude and irresponsible, but at the same time there is no reason why someone who actually plans on getting a tattoo will have a problem with parting with some money in advance to guarantee them an alocated spot.
anyways, heres a tattoo i did yesterday on a customer who actually wanted a nice piece of work, and wasnt a complete cretin.
enjoy

Eyes the colour of soup

So had a manic day. One of those days where you think to yourself "ahh it wont be too bad, I aint got much on" and then all of a sudden the gates of sod's law open before you and you have a lot of shit to do (A LOT).
So got 4 tattoos done and 2 designs finished, and I notice as I'm going through my list of pieces waiting to be done, that it is NEVERENDING! I cant remember the last time I had nothing to do. I miss that time, even though I cant remember it!
Dont get me wrong, I love my job, and I would be devistated if I came to work everyday and twiddled my thumbs, but it reminded me of this weird (or genius) theory I had as a kid.

So I'd be eating (or do you say drinking?) soup, and I never used to like the soup...I cant remember why, probably because as a kid I was even fussier than now, which is quite a feat, but digressing.....so soup.
And I'd be convinced that somehow someway it would reconstruct its molecular being and therefore never be finished, no matter how much I ate/drank....my parents used to be so pissed I never finished my soup, and I thought the world was against me!
Anyway, this reminded me of work....now I just sound like I'm drunk on soup. Nevermind!

Heres a shot of me workin on a nice piece recently



And here's a nice little one shot I did! Been looking forward to doing this one and now its done.
Got a couple pieces in tomorrow, one could be either interesting or a chore...havent decided yet! haha
Until then.....farewell

shoot me into sleep

Done some nice pieces, and finally got to tattoo the pirate monkey!






And heres another nice one shot




so.... been busy busy busy. really trying to keep on top of this blog, and work, and everything...
been going on some great nights out recently, seen el destroyo, hungry ghosts, some gig at the warehouse,
david bowie knives, and of course the house band at amazonia-ice box,(here's one of my masterpiece photos from the night).



Got a pretty sweet pic at the KingLyChee gig too...



Been working on Hardpacks new T shirt design, but lost Kevins number so cant call him to tell him its ready! Organized as ever.
Ok my next appoinment just showed, so better go.
C yall.

So its later the same evenig and i'm trying to get this blog finished so i can finally get some sleep







I feel like this guy right now.