Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Uncle Allan booking info

Just a quick post to let you know that i am closing Uncle Allan's waiting list for (hopefully just) a little while.
There are a lot of people on the list already (and thanks for that!) and i feel like we need to get a few more of those good people off the list, and into the workroom before we accept any more new projects.
So, please don't write to the waiting list email account until further notice.

I will of course let you know as soon as we open it up again!

Anyone who has a piece already in progress can contact us from mid march for appointments starting in may.


Recent in progress

Friday, February 24, 2012

We're back!!

Hello dear blog readers!
We're back from Japan, enjoying our first day back at the shop.
Ok, so enjoying is kind of a big word, cause really, who enjoys being back from an awesome vacation? But at least we're having a nice mellow day, so it could be a lot worse.

As usual i have news, lots of news! Well, maybe not lots, but good news!
As you may already know, if you're the kind of person who likes to check our "News & Events" section from time to time, Adam Hays is coming back to work with us in just a few weeks, from the 12th till the 17th of march, and he still has a couple of spots available.
So, if you wanna get tattooed (and remember, fun stuff only, we want our guests to have a good time), just send an email with your ideas to adamguyhays@gmail.com, and he'll get back to you with a possible date.

Og på dansk: Adam Hays kommer tilbage og arbejder hos os fra den 12. til den 17. marts og han har stadig enkeltre ledige tider.
Så hvis du gerne vi tatoveres af ham (og hvorfor skulle du ikke ville det?) skal du sende en mail med dine ideer til adamguyhays@gmail.com.

Some of Adam's fine work:








What else?
Oh yeah, Uncle Allan's month of black metal madness is coming up, and as the work he'll be doing during that month is all for his upcoming book, there won't be much posted online. No, not even instagram. But it should be an interesting month nonetheless!
And in other related black metal news, Allan will have his first ever solo show, Faces of Black Metal, at the Lionheart Gallery in Germany. It runs from the 24th of march till the 13th of may and you can read more about it here.
We will be going there for the opening, so come by and say hi and buy some damn paintings or something!

I was sure i had other news, but i'm still completely 'lagged out (woke up at 6 again this morning...- NOT my usual style) so i don't remember.
But i'll post more when my brain gets back to normal.

Have a sweet week everyone!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

SEMINARIO - MONTERREY - 16 DE MARZO


SI ERES TATUADOR, ESTE SEMINARIO ES EL SEMINARIO MAS IMPORTANTE DE TU VIDA. INSCRIPCIONES AL: machinesecrets@gmail.com o al: superflytattoo@gmail.com.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Old tattoo

Tattoo-leg

I go to where there is no labour, where there is no law and court.

Friday, February 17, 2012

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Why are so many artists switching to rotaries?

Survey says: Dissatisfaction with their electromagnetic machine purchases. Why? Because many are built by substandard builders who are also substandard artists and in many more cases not artists at all. Yet the bottom line is that an educated artist would HAVE NO PROBLEMS DIAGNOSING, REPAIRING, MODIFYING AND FINE TUNING ANY ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINE

NOW FOR THE HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

One of our suppliers has just notified us that his sales of the NEO TAT rotary product yielded 3 returns with burned out Chinese motors, out of a box of 12... and is pretty sure that more will come back. Have you fallen for the mass marketing campaign? will you? We hope not. The rotary is thought to be a user friendly no brainer for the artists who could not be bothered to learn about their electro magnetic machine but now with statistics like 3 out of 10 coming back with more on the way, is this a real option? This, choice in reality was 500 dollar purchase for a little plastic housing with a toy RC car motor in it. Rotary manufacturers are copying each other and making the rotary product cheaper and cheaper, the same way the duplicators of the standard electro magnetic machine have been doing things. What is standard?


The electro magnetic machine... still after 100 years, the most versatile machine around.

IN OUR UNREGULATED INDUSTRY RUN BY SUPPLY AND DEMAND, WE ARTISTS HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL WHO COMES IN AND WHO DOESN'T SIMPLY BY NOT PURCHASING SUBSTANDARD PRODUCTS. GET IT? COMPANIES WHO DO NOT SELL PRODUCTS, DO NOT STAY IN BUSINESS. IT'S EASY TO COMPLAIN. TAKING ACTION IS ANOTHER THING.

WHAT IS STANDARD IN MACHINE TECHNOLOGY? FOR THESE SUBSTANDARD BUILDERS, IT'S THE FACT THAT THE ARMATURE BAR GOES UP AND DOWN. NEVER MIND IMPORTANT FACTORS LIKE INCREMENTAL SENSITIVITY! CORRECT SPRING GAUGE AND TENSION! CAPACITANCE AND POLARITY & MATERIALS.




GET THIS ONE!! HERE'S A POWER SUPPLY WITH A KNOB MARKED SPEED CONTROL!!! WHAT THE F*CK! ANYONE WHO THINKS THE DIAL ON ANY POWER SUPPLY CONTROLS SPEED (WITH REGARD TO THE ELECTROMAGNETIC TATTOO MACHINE), SHOULD RE CONSIDER HIS POSITION AS 'TATTOO ARTIST'!! SEE WHAT WE MEAN??? BLIND LEADING THE BLIND.

There is a science to this & it's relatively simple. Learn it or don't. Suffer with your dissatisfaction or do something about it.

SCRAPPY UNO - INTEVIEW - IN SPANISH...

TCLY DOCS Presenta: Entrevista a Scrappy para #CITYLOVINK from thecitylovesyou on Vimeo.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

HEATHER SINN - USING GODOY MACHINE ON 'INK MASTERS'




The best thing about that show is: OUR FRIEND, HEATHER SINN USING OUR MACHINES ON INK MASTERS!!
To get tattooed by Heather or to see her work go to: http://www.thetattooroom.com/

Monday, February 6, 2012

Green Tara

Given a somewhat awkward space and having to work around a few pre-existing pieces I'm more than happy with how this one turned out. Soon to be followed by a White Tara on the other arm. Thanks Kris.

Friday, February 3, 2012

"SKINNED ALIVE" A FILM BY BART SARIC A "SKATE MADE" FILM

"It was sometime in 2002, I was busy producing art and skateboarding films. I had just finished a unique skateboard lifestyle film, called “DAZE IN THE LIFE“. In that film I edited a part featuring Eric Dressen skateboarding. The segment follows him to a late night tattoo spot in Los Angeles, where he gets a calf piece by Clay Decker. The films chapter was well received. The details of the tattoo process were visually exposed through the artist’s eye without losing the cultural integrity.

One day not too long after, a dvd sales manager named Tom Allen, approached me to create a tattoo-inspired movie with skateboarding. Kind of like what I did in “DAZE IN THE LIFE”, but full-length. He worked for a distributor that carried my film.



It was pretty much a no brainer. I grew up in the era that dawned the birth of this fusion before anything like that was considered cool at school. You were pretty much a fool. It was taboo in the 1970’s -mid 1980’s for surfers or skateboarders to sport big tatt’s. An outlaw’s detail, if you will.

Tough people had tattoos, back then. People kicking the shit out of other people, shooting them with guns, over tattoos. I’d seen a few things “Pop-Off” while growing up in Los Angeles, as an artist that skateboards and surfs. Expressionist perspectives became clear on the streets. These sub-cultures, along with the music, naturally merged and eventually influenced the way of the lifestyles. Art and sport, a hybrid culture bound only by the limits of the individual’s imagination. All it’s own. Filled with rich and colorful characters.

Originally, I wanted to name the project, “Scarred For Life”. But, a skateboard book already had this title. That’s when Tom offered up the title “Skinned Alive”. Now, there was an older B-type horror movie with the same title. But this project was completely different. It was a documentary based on reality. Professional skateboarding and tattooing unveiled !

All I know is, that if I were committed to diving into these 2 highly respected and diverse lifestyles, I did NOT want to BULLSHIT ! That was my job as a filmmaker.

Bring out the grit and the gristle. The love and the passion that came along with those that pioneered it. It had to star those that were at the forefront of this revolution. This project would not be done without Art and Steve Godoy in it, period.

They are the catalyst in the stories and godfathers to it’s bastard style. Fred Smith, a partner in crime, with their disciples Jason Jessee and Bill Danforth. We needed to feature some of the O.G.’s like Mark Mahoney, Danny Romo and Tim Hendricks, who’ve been slinging the ink to these guys. And those Pro’s that were influenced soon after, Eric Dressen, Jesse Martinez, Neil Heddings and Kyle Yanagimoto.

What “SKINNED ALIVE” did NOT need to be was the saturated and imitated aftermath of mainstream fashion. This was the moment I realized I had to make this film before someone else made it with the wrong people in it. Authenticity is a natural and essential quality in good documentary films. Something that translates with the subject’s in this film. If anyone has the jurisdiction to discuss and educate us about the history and interrelationships of these professional lifestyles, it’s this cast.

They are legend, the footage is classic and the interviews are candid. The editing is colorful and the actions very real. It is a quintessential, first and definitive film of its kind. Check it out ! You won’t be disappointed."

-- Bart Saric 01/11/12

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Client's view

Our shop has come a long way since we moved in here almost two years ago (... really? has it been that long??), but since we're not in the construction phase anymore, thank god, we don't often get around to taking pictures of our progress.
So i was really happy when Luba and Roman from Russia sent me pictures from their visit earlier this month. 
It's nice to see the shop from a visitors perspective, and can i just say, it looks pretty good.
Of course we always see what's missing, and notice all the little things we'd like to improve, but all in all, it's not too bad!

No more talk, see for yourself!

Front room
 

 Front room/office view
 

Pretty Lucifer

Work room

 Uncle Allan

Electric Pick at work

 Hallway instax wall of fame

And Luba's free handed tattoo, stolen from Allan's instagram

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Legend of the Nine Warrior Koi Fish (1)

According to Japanese folklore is an old story of the nine holy Koi, whose quest was to endure the long arduous journey to Dragon Gate magical transformation to become protectors of the Emperor Dragon.
These nine Koi began their journey in a small stream, near the palace of the Emperor, where he played young Koi. At an early age the daughter of Emperor Koi swim with the stream and they would share stories of their children and their travel dreams for the future of Japan.

So convincing were the stories that created the Koi Princess was totally dedicated to her, agreeing among them, to make sure that your childhood dreams come to fruition when it became more. As the Koi became stronger and wiser than they heard about the mystical powers of Dragon Gate and dreamed of one day making the journey along the Yellow River to become a dragon in their quest to protect the empire. Koi elders tell stories of the perilous journey along the Yellow River and the tremendous strength that Koi have to endure the climb to the Dragon Gate swim against the strongest currents known and most powerful jumping any known waterfall.

Nine Warrior Koi Fish began his rigorous training hard without delay so that one day could make the trip to the Dragon Gate.

Native Americana

Are you one of the people who, unlike me, wasn't lucky enough to get tattooed by Nick on this trip?
Well, that's a sad story and we feel bad for you, cause he's all booked up and leaving soon*, but there is still a chance to own some sweet Electric Pick artwork for your wall. That's a small consolation, right?

Nick has two versions of the same print available to buy at the shop, right now and here's the deets:

"First set is of a limited run of 50
pretty sweet matte yet untextured super paper
size: A3 (11" 3/4 x 16" 1/2 for you non-metric folks)
Hand signed and numbered and as usual will never be printed again.

Second set is of a limited run of 10
also pretty sweet yet different matte/fancy smooth paper
size: A2 (16" 1/2 x 23" 1/2)
Also hand signed/numbered"

The big one, A2 is 500 dkr and the small one, A3 is 230 dk.
There are 20 left of the A3 and only 4 of the A2.
And did we mention they're hand signed and numbered?

Og så lige en hurtig gang på Dansk, fordi denne post jo trods alt mest henvender sig til folk i Kbh og omegn:
Nick er fuldt booket og har ikke tid til at tage flere kunder, men tilgengæld har han taget nogle fancy flotte prints med sig fra Hong Kong, som han sælger her i butikken.
Der er to størrelser at vælge imellem, det store print koster 500 kr og det lille 230 kr, og du kan komme forbi butikken indtil Lørdag hvis du vil købe et.

The prints!

I'm just gonna include my new tattoo for your viewing pleasure (in case you haven't seen it on any of the other blogs!), not only cause it's super awesome, but also since it's the first time Nick has gotten to tattoo one of his indian chicks!

Hello gorgeous!

*I can't say how soon, cause that would compromise my ability to stay in complete denial about him leaving us at all.