Summer 2011

For those of you who don't know, I've been busy as fuck with school and art shit.

This is my life right now.
Summer 2011 should bring some exciting posts.

Tattoo generated giggles

Today I met a young asian guy.

I tattooed Woodstock on his ass.

Woodstock giving a peace sign, actually.

Then I tattooed a kid's foot. He lost a bet so he had to get a tattoo of a teacher's face from school that he doesn't like.

That was today.

Thank you for reading and God Bless.

BINGO!

A funny person sent me this photo that was originally found on

isanyoneup.com

(Which I highly recommend)

This photo reminds us of only one thing

GOBBLETRON

Weilding the wand of the Gods

I AM GOD.

Or at least I feel like it at work sometimes.

Rest thy eyes at my magnificent power

For only I can take a warehouse laboring man

and changeth he to royalty.

I present to you:

The Scorpion King

(or; King of the Scorpions)

((also known as))

-Pinchy Back

-Mr. Creepy Crawly

-Poisonous Lowerback Man

Randumb Photos

Whole malk

Mancala, Bro.

Gettin' Termites 

Sauce 4 Weasels

Mimi Balls

Conventions, road rage, and bacon ice cream

Nate Click, Marissa, and myself left for the Needle Art Expo on Thursday

and it only took us an hour to fit all of our stuff in my car.

We left Thursday and wouldn't you know my new banner came in on Friday morning which meant I had to use my old hand painted banner. My timing is for the birdz.

Drove all fucking day long, was screamed by the passenger of a Winnebago who called me a "fucking idiot" in her very intelligent sounding southern accent, ate mexican food, denied Nate a trip to Dino World, and crashed in our hotel around midnight.

This was where I went to work for the weekend.

Nate and myself were worried that this would turn out to be a convention with nothing but shitty sketchball "tattooers" but it was a pleasant surprise to find out that all the artists were very legit and most of them were very good traditional style tattooers.

I was told that the convention center used to be an old Hanes underwear factory. The convention center was a much different setting compared to most convention centers. It had a very "industrial" feel to it which made it a bit more fun just because it was so strange.

The time I was there I was lucky enough to sell completely out of prints and paintings, I filmed an interview for SoTattooed.com (stay tuned), made a lot of new friends, and of course...

did some damn tattoos.

Here are some that I actually got a good photo of:

On Eric from Los Angeles who used to work at TatSoul

On a cool tattooer named Jereme

A tattooer named Max had me tattoo his left foot...

...But he had me tattoo his right foot first. Both done on the same day.

It was fun to load our hotel room with tattooers and weirdos. One hispanic guy is talking about spending the last 10 years in prison, girls are yapping about girl stuff, everyone else talks about the joys of whipshading.

I caught Nate tattooing our friend and fellow tattooer Rich's head. "Mama Tried" in fancy script on his dome. Marissa also got a tattoo of Nate's fancy script. You can't beat it!

This is where I was interviewed. I said "ummm" a whole lot and tried to keep a straight face when I filmed the intro where I had to introduce myself.

I probably sound like i'm autistic.

After Nate and I tattooed the south and made enough cash to choke a small goat (that joke is copywrited by my dad), we spent an extra night so we can actually rest and we took off for home the next morning. On the way home I was lucky enough to see Nate order a milkshake that was topped with bacon and maple syrup.

True Story.

As a reward to myself I bought a new machine which I am impatiently waiting for.

The show was great and this morning I was contacted by a guy wanting to know if I wanted to be part of a new tattoo flash book coming out. The roster already includes the likes of Steve Byrne, Chad Koeplinger, Robert Ryan, Scott Sylvia, and countless others that I consider to be masters of traditional tattooing and still look up to. I have no idea how they picked me to be a part of the team but I am both flattered and honored beyond words.

I hope this isn't a cruel joke.

1 year since exploding skies

Good to see everyone's been lazy since I've been away...

Walked through the door a couple hours ago and I'm tired as all fucking hell.

Of course the trip and convention was documented, I'll post it all up tomorrow when I can actually think straight.

Stay tuned, peeple.

See you later, assholes.

Nate, Marissa, and myself leave in the morning for the convention in Tennessee.

I ordered a printed vinyl banner for the show and it looks like it's not going to arrive in time.

Fuck.

Besides scrambling around trying to get everything done and making sure I have everything I'll need, I also made some paintings to take to the show to sell and make cheddarz.

1 of 4 mini paintings I did for the convention.

But this one already sold to a lad in Los Angeles, so to quote Glen Tennis:

"This is NOT for sale"

I'll try to keep everyone updated on the convention.

Wish me luck! Oh yeah,

See you later, assholes.

Wasn't even a salvia night

(Funny caption)

Photo submission by Megan

Prints and weirdos pretty much

We've been everywhere today. We had a lot to do and get done and some how accomplished everything on the (list) [for fucking once]

Wake up at a decent hour and take off for foart waine.

Got plenty of really nice prints made (an arm and a legs worth) to sell at the convention (and hawk all the leftovers on the world wide web)

Save yo lunch money.

Went to New Republic and hung out with some weirdos for a while

Had pizza and went to the Saint Francis student art show. This was C-purv's new poster series which must have been well received seeing as how they sold before the show even opened. C-purv also won an award at the award ceremony which I'm stoked on.

Get home and then drive down south a ways to hang out with some more weirdos and discuss "dog logic" and gumball machines.

Nearly 3am and time to hit the hay.

Fun Fact: Had a dream last night where Marissa was heavily tattooed.

She looks good with her throat and hands tattooed.

Corndawgzzz(zzz)

She took her sleeping medicine and tried to eat corndawgz before she fell asleep.

She fell asleep halfway through and when I found her she had a jaw full of chewed up corndawg that I had to dig out of her mouth so she wouldn't choke to death while she slept.

true story.

A quick look at the last few days

I've been running around like crazy lately trying to get everything in order and ready to go. I leave for the Tennessee convention next Thursday and there are still way too many things to get done. During my journey into racing against the clock, the following has occured:

Worked on art with c-purv with a dead girl on the floor. I worked on a painting to trade with another tattooer from Toledo and C-purv worked on an oil paint project for class.

I finished up this painting a little while ago. Drew said that he and Tony wanted a painting for a house warming gift and this is what they got. "HOUSE WARMING", get it!?

I seen these two knuckleheads take a safe from the bank across the street and load it into their truck. Could I have just witnessed the slowest and laziest bank robbery in history? Maybe it just says something about the Marion police force? "Maybe they just bought it fair and square you dick"

The sign at Moe's caught my attention with the announcement of a new menu item. Moe's is always on the cutting edge of great new food and advertising it in shocking and edgy ways.

Last night on the way to paint with my long lost friend Beau Guenin, I made a pit stop and shot up a soccer ball with one of these^

Good golly, there is still plenty to do. Finish up everything for the convention, attend the Saint Francis Student Art Show on Saturday, send out some paintings and drawings to kids from Ohio to California, get some prints made, send all my money to the IRS, and pray that the supplies I ordered get here before I leave.

Plan for tonight:

Jam coconutz. Sleep.

Story Surfin

The State of Indiana VS. Charles Slagal. I attended.

Always have a photo like this handily saved on your cellular device to send to anyone that sends you a damn chain mail. 

My garage is ghetto as shit. Check out that broken door. 

Well life on the outside aint what it used to be

Tonight will be good!

Tonight is the premier of the new season of one of our all time favorites:

SUPERJAIL.

Be sure to do the following tonight:

-Jam massive coconuts (purple)

-Tune into Adult Swim tonight at Midnight

-Buckle up

We've been waiting for about 2 years now.

About fucking time.

Diaper Energy

This is an installation piece I've been working on at my favorite Marathon Gas Station.
It's all about expressing my inner-love for baby shit, energy drinks and gasoline.
It's a think-piece.

Oh yeah, one more thing

Views

thanks, sweetie pies.

Newly discovered mystery artifact

This mystery drawing carbon-dates to be about 2-3 months old.

What message was this inebriated artist trying to get across?

A true puzzler.

Don't smoke with the pizza boy.

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