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ok so what better time to blog than 3 am, after getting back from a retardedly long day at work? ok so i was gonna blog yesterday, but i ran outta hours in the day, so i'm doing yesterdays work today....well technically now it's tomorrow but lets not nit pick eh?

so long story short, i owed a favour to a mate who walked my dogs while i was away at the singapore convention in jan. (yeah, i know i know....january was like 10 years ago, but better late than never right? i always keep my promises, i just never keep the time)

so he is like Mr Metalhead, and has been wanting a dimebag daryl tattoo for forever. he didnt really want a portrait as such, i call it more of a poor-trait..... and so he e mailed a pic he liked, and e mailed a pic of the guitar he wanted, and this is what i threw together. i think if i knew how to use the ever mystical photoshop, this would have taken me half the time it took to design it, but whatever.



finally something to blog about!

so i've been getting into the habit of not even getting sleepy til 5am, and it's starting to kill me. tomorrow i gotta go get my new passport sorted for when i fly to the UK in aug, and i'm meant to be getting up at like 10am so wish me luck crawling outta bed early on none other than my day off.

walkin' down the street just draggin' my feet

ok, so very busy work. too busy if that's possible, and coz i'm fully booked, i'm ending up squeezing little bits n bobs into places that shouldnt be squeezed into....that's not meant to sound as odd as it does.... anyways....
i've been getting pretty sick to death of Hong Kong recently, and the few FEW good gigs that i've had the pleasure of going to recently have almost ALMOST been keeping me sane.

Anyways, I cant wait to go back to the UK in Aug. Its gonna be awesome AWESOME! 4 days of sweet bands @ Rebellion Fest, then a tattoo convention, then a week or so more in London working half the time at Flamin Eight, and half the time at Haunted. Needless to say, I'll be coming back with some new tattoo! woo hoo WOO HOO! i havent been tattooed since january, so i'm well due.

Got to do a nice little snug piece up in the armpit region of a guy with a beautiful BEAUTIFUL (i dunno why i'm typing like this, dont ask) sleeve by Dana Helmuth from New York Adorned. It's always nice to see sweet work up n close in person. When I went to Beijing for MxPx, Mike (the bass/singer) had some awesome work by Oliver Peck, and that too was great to see in person. I dont think I've posted any recent work for a while, but to be honest, i've either been starting big stuff, or doing stuff that's not my kinda blog post stuff (script, tribal, bio mech, etc etc....)

so i figured i'd just post something, anything recent, so here's a teeny tiny flower on a wrist i did the other day. enjoy!

We're all dead on our feet by the time we meet.

So yesterday I tattooed a BMX'r from the U.S of A called Andrew Alvarez who was here doing demo's.
Nice little piece I squeezed in between 2 others, ended up right in the ditch, which sucks! I remember when i got my ditch tattooed, I woke up the next morning with the inside of my elbow completely stuck together. Took a bit of effort to prize it apart I tell ya! Anyways, here's the pic...



Doing a second session on the BioMec sleeve tomorrow, getting all the black shading in which will really pull it all together. For some reason, the past 2 weeks or so sem to have been declared "get a bio mec tattoo" week, coz in the 2 and a bit years we've been open here, i've had nobody ask for it, and now i got a sock, sleeve and maybe another sleeve lined up! Weird.

Anyways, just did the last piece of the day, so looks like I'll be able to get back in time to meet up with all my friends who will no doubt be drunk by the time i get back to my neck of the woods. Looks like I got some catching up to do......