Horse guts

Greetings 3EU fans! It's always a pleasure to see you!

Wow! You look great! Have you been working out? I can't exactly tell what's different but you look good!

Now that that is out of the way...

I did my guest spot at New Republic and had a lot of fun. It was really good to see everyone again and just hang out for a while. While I was there I tattooed this pharaoh 's horses piece on Pat's guttyworks. Pharaoh's horses has been one of my favorite pieces of tattoo imagery for a long time so I was stoked to finally draw my own and tattoo it. I'm very excited to finish it. I hurt Pat pretty good AND ruined his underwearz!

Marissa and I carved pumpkins a few nights ago. These jack-o-lanterns are now "pumpkin lovers" and live on the porch in pumpkininny bliss. While creating the pumpkin lovers I ate pumpkin guts and cut the fuck out of my finger with a mason jar lid. By the way, candle lighting happens every day until Halloween @ 9:00 sharp.

$3 admission fee per person

(Children under 2 weeks old-free admission)

I've been painting too. I'm working on my "official" flash set for 2011. I finished up the 4th sheet tonight so only one more to go before it's finished. I'll be selling prints of the set after it's completely done. I'll probably only make about $70,000 from it but it's still worth it.

Here's a sneak peek of a piece from the 3rd sheet. I thought it was cool but I don't give a care.

Here's another piece from the set. I still have to paint his hands and a couple of other little things but you get the idea.

"Joel! It's Halloween weekend! What exciting plans do you have?"

Well question asker, the answer is "I have no idea, really." Everyone has fucked up schedules this weekend so it could go a few different ways. I may end up getting haunted in a jail or drinking brews or lying around while reading, or realizing that we are all God imagining ourselves to our fullest potential and that we are all one consciousness. Or maybe I'll just paint butterflies.

I'm not a psychic so I obviously don't know.

You smug bastard.

trippin ballz

Self Portrait

This weekend!

NRT in Fort Wayne, IN

My Saturday you ask?

I go in to work ON MY DAY OFF to be a nice guy and got the morning off to a perfect start when I forgot my gear at home. After slaving away over purty pink ribbons for a few hours I met up with trevor. We got driven around by my dad in his big ol' bronco and after crashing through a few small dirt mountains we shot some guns for a few hours and fucked up some bottles and cans

(just clap your hands)

Afterwards I asked Trevor what he was down to do and I hesitantly agreed to go the bar.

Bad choice on my part.

(This photo was removed by request to protect the innocent)

3 Eye Union occupied Indianapolis

Well, a few of us did.

It was hot as fuck and I was very happy that we brought our Army canteens along.

Drew made some signs encouraging ending the Federal Reserve which of course was right on point with the event.

Here I stand between "sexual chocolate" and Janet.

That looks like a statue of the Washington Monument behind Drew, doesn't it?

FUCKING WRONG!

That's Drew showing off the World's largest fingernail file that he made a few weeks ago.

Sappiest photo ever posted on this site.

Drew found it on the internet.

I have a feeling it will one day be on the cover of Time Magazine.

Just a hunch.

Oh yeah, here are some videos of the event with us making cameos.

Hundreds march in Occupy Indy demonstration: wishtv.com

We occupied the shit outta that place.

Back home

Well, here I am.

I survived my Kentucky guest spot.

Actually,

I THINK I'LL MAKE A BLOG POST ABOUT IT.

I left early Thursday morning and showed up to Lucky Lady tattoo in fabulous Richmond, KY. Lucky Lady was a really nice shop (minus the lack of wifi) and it was fun to see Rob again. This was my station for the next few days. Classy little set up!

This was one of the first tattoos I did while in Kentucky. This one went on a real life lesbian! I had fun with this one but I was still kind of sad knowing that this tattoo could never come close to being nearly as amazing as the peace sign tattoo she had on the top of her arm. All I can do is reach for the stars.

Ok, Kentucky. I have to give you props.

Your liquor stores are awesome.

These places are huge, it's like a K-mart with nothing but booze.

Automatic glass doors, 6 check out lines, drive thru windows, and last but not least; aisles and aisles of the finest corn squeezin's Kentucky has to offer.

I bought a six pack of pumpkin ale and accidentally left it at Rob's house.

Fuck.

What the fuck. I paint a flash set over a year ago and no one has got any of the designs tattooed on them. I take 4 out of my 5 sheets from that very set to Kentucky and I'm tattooing these designs the second day i'm there. This was one of my flash pieces committed to flesh.

We partied pretty hard on Saturday night. We went to a really rad bar called the Paddy Wagon that was filled with hipster nerds and tattooed babes. We met up with a handful of other tattooers to hang out with and have some drinks. We closed that bar down and ended up hanging out in an auto garage somewhere in town (???) The picture above is from a secret room attached to the auto garage. There was a door made of out of a big bookshelf with tons of stuff all over it. I would have never guessed. The secret room was set up like a bar. Weird.

Having a cigarette for breakfast on Rob's porch observing my surroundings. Half way houses, frat houses, and a very obvious drug house a couple of houses down the street. Serene.

The last day I was there I got to do another one of my flash pieces. This was a lot of fun to do (I'm stoked someone finally did this piece!) After that, I got a tattoo of a sweet pyramid with a bunch of eyes on my leg before dropping Rob off at his house and making the nearly 5 hour drive home by myself in the middle of the night.

I learned a lot, I did fun tattoos....it was fun.

Fun Facts:

-Rob's wife is a very good gilded ceramics maker. They sent me home with a cool mixing bowl and 2 coffee mugs that she made.

-I can get to Richmond, KY on only 3/4 tank of gas (what!)

-Rob used to hitch on trains and travel the country when he was younger. I didn't know that.

-I stopped at the creepiest gas station in KY when I was coming home. THE CREEPIEST.