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Tsim Sha Tsui
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Christmas come early!
Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 8:56PM / Members only
So, managed to get lots of goodies recently, all very exciting.1stly, new shoes! Me n Ross found a shop in TST stocking TUK, Anarchic and other goodies, so we both placed an order, which should be arriving in the next few weeks. We also just placed a huge order from Lucky 13, as we have some friends over here opening as rockabilly inspired clothing store, so new threads, new shoes....what else? Oh, yeah, i managed to get a friend to grab me a signed copy of Joe Capobianco's new book, coz he's in London this week doing a signing at Lal Hardy's New Wave Tattoo Studio. Exciting! Check out Joe's work HERE and Lal's shop HERE!Hmmmm....what else is new? Oh, that skull book i mentioned has gone to press, and will be featuring the skull from the t shirt design i did. (can't remember....check it out here)I will post a link to the book once it's released, which should be in about 2 weeks.WOW, how many links can i fit into one blog, right?!Oh, and last but not least, i just got the 2008 Snakepit book. I've kinda gotten obsessed with Snakepit, managed to read 3 years worth of his life in a few weeks. check out his books here!He does a 3 part comic strip for each day, it's awesome. You'll either love it or hate it.... i definately love it, and am super excited to have the next installment!i've left the camera at home, so i'm desperately trying to think of a pic i can post..... so this will have to do!
We found out Roni Size doesn't start playing til 2am.....bah. I have a super long day tomorrow too. Here starts a downward spiral folks....right here.
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I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so....
Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 2:07AM / Members only
Long day at work today. Long story behind it too.... i'll give y'all the short version! Basically, i had a customer come to me with an unfinished (outlines only) 1/2 sleeve. I told him i didn't wanna finish it, but he was very persuasive, and as he's relocated to Hong Kong, he cannot go back to the original artist for a very very long time. I was still kinda umming and ahhing, and "i don't touch other people's work"..... etc etc. initially, i figured the only way i would be ok finishing it, is if i got in contact with the guy/girl who started it, and asked if they'd mind. So i did.So I'm like "who started it for ya?" and he's like, "Chris O Donnell." and in my head I'm going "oh for god's sake, you can't be serious, is this a joke?! there's no way..... BAH!" Chris O Donnell is a little bit of a tattoo god, and i was even more uncomfortable bout finishing it! But I messaged Chris, and he was a super sweet, super nice, awesome guy! So i reluctantly booked the guy in. Today was the day. We only got the background done, and that was 4 hours alone, he's booked in again for the 2nd session 3 weeks from now. If all goes well we'll get it finished then, and maybe one quick touch up afterwards. We'll see. Anyways, here's a very small sneak peak at the piece,
terrible pic, but i didn't try too hard after all I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR THE DESIGN WHATSOEVER....NOTHING TO DO WITH ME! (i'm just the monkey colouring it in) CHECK OUT CHRIS O DONNELL'S BLOG HERE! AND HIS WEBSITE HERE!Finished up about 11pm and went out to dinner with Ross. We found this pretty awesome new Chinese restaurant (a chinese restaurant, in china.... yeah really). Food was good, which for me, means it was awesome coz i'm so fussy. It's up on Knutsford Terrace, TST. Go check it out! (it's in between like, 4 Italian restaurants, you can't miss it!
The only downer about diner was the crazy old German couple who seemed tpo be trying to smoke us out...... God knows how they are still alive. I mean i smoke, but they were.... maybe embalmed. i dunno.
I also totally forgot to blog about a little gem i found in Inn's Point (toy mall) in Mong Kok. I found the cutest little shop that sells handmade bags. Really awesome handmade bags at very reasonable prices. (the bag above is my latest buy, it's Alice in Wonderland material. Really cute!) check their website out HERE!OK, so seeing as i can't really blog about the tattoo i did today (the other 2 i did was a touch up and an add-on, so ....) Unfortunately (for anyone who is already sick to death of me talkin bout Morrissey, i sketched out another piece to go into the mix. Haven't coloured it, and it's in my watercolour hater sketchbook, so..... maybe i'll prismacolour this one!
Tomorrow we got guest list to Roni Size, so Ross will be having fun, and i'll be lost til i find the bar!
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Anarchy
Friday, Nov 20, 2009 3:29AM / Members only
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne
OK, so this..... this "punk rock" half sleeve got started the other other day. Bless him, you shoulda seen his reference pics, they looked like the satanic spawn of avril lavigne and johnny rotten got holda some crayons. After i dwindled about 150 things into a few manageable select few, we got started.
I figured we'd do it nice n bold, so out came the 14RL (a few little bits n bobs with a 5), but mostly 14 through n through. ended up kinda being fun, like the satanic spawn of me and Sloth from the Goonies got holda some crayons.I have to say, i really don't enjoy session work that much. Obviously i'll take it any day over tribal or a bunch of stars, but i find i almost forget about them, then i'll be flicking through the appointment book and it's like "oh, god..... i remember that...." then it's like, once i remember the piece, i'm all like "wow, has it really been that long? can it be healed and ready to go?" then i get all "where did we leave it.... what colours was i gonna .....oh whatever, i'll figure it out on the day!"I much prefer when i'm all "right, we're gonna do this, this, and oooh, maybe some of this will look good next to this and then .....we're done! sweet! photo!....blog! phew and finished."does that make any sense..... at all?!oh i don't think i ever mentioned the back piece that i "have" to finish by christmas, coz he wants to reveal it at his office christmas party! i feel like i should start some new ad campaign,"TATTOOS ARE FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS!"anyways, i hope he's not reading this, coz i aint sure it's psysically possible to finish in time, we'll see. maybe he'll start to heal like wolverine, and we can just go at it for like, 2 weeks day in day out!Anyways, just watched "500 days of Summer", and it was really good. Go watch it! It's cute!It's been a while since i've seen a good romantic comedy, i think the last one was "The Wristcutters", which is probably one of my all time favorite films now (plus it has Tom Waits in it which is always a bonus! ).
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Who does your hair?!
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 5:11PM / Members only
So this is the painting i finished yesterday... couldn't get it scanned, so a photo of my sketchbook will have to do! It's a new sketchbook, was on sale and packaged so i couldn't feel the paper before buying it. I now know it is quite possibly the worst paper for watercolour ever... my god did i have a hard time with this stuff! definitely no more paintings in this sketchbook!anyways, here she is.....Pantheresa!
In other news, i will be working the Singapore Tattoo Convention 2010, and am taking bookings. pls e mail me @ info@starcrossedtattoo.com with your idea, size, and placement and i will get back to ya asap!
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the walk in's on the bus go round and round....
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 4:36AM / Members only
Today, i had the entire day put aside for a mammoth piece (not like wooly mammoth, like humungazoid gigantic ) but, alas, she had a family emergency and didn't come. So, i was not best pleased about the fact i had absolutely nothing booked in.....all day. But i did get to do 2 lil' fun n easy walk in's, so that's what u'r getting today! i did also managed to finish a painting, but i aint got the photo uploaded yet, so that'll have to wait til tomorrow (which happens to be my day off, and even though i have managed to catch the 1st cold of the winter *a rare and illustrious little thing that looks like a fairy on crack under a microscope i've been told* i am determined not to waste my day off tomorrow....if i make it outta bed.)ok, so 1st little walk in was these teeny weeny swallows....
seeing as i still can't figure out why none of my pics come up big when clicked on....here's a close up, of quite possibly one of the smallest birds i ever did tattoo!
(oh the irony, this pic comes up larger...... but the other 2 don't ........ BAH!)and next was this ... love pieces like this, 5 mins doodling with a sharpie and ur good to go! nice n easy...
oh, and in other news, ross got to do some hand picking this week, check it out on his blog (which he never updates) HERE!alrighty then, til tomorrow y'all!
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