Commercial Ink.

Being that the Nissan Cube unvieling is coming to fruit on the 9th of February at Potter's Field Park I was wondering how many corporate companies used the ideas of tattooing to pitch their products. In the mean time I hope to see you there and will be posting some photos of the big day on here

Here are some kool ones I found enjoy.

Here is one that rings close to home.

Designer's Band Wagon!

I love tattoo's, extremely passionate about them. I am always looking at ways to make my work be more unrecognisable to those who follow my work. Over the last couple of days I have been doing interviews for Kerrang, Red Radio, and London School Of Economics. So my nose has been planted in the press to keep me on top of current events. Like the one of Anya Hindmarch's "Pop Up Tattoo Shop". I say fuck this bullshit. Wow what a novel idea. Especially coming from someone who actually doesn't tattoo. Only known as a boring ass jewellery designer most noted for this boring ass trendy bag.

When fashionista's come in they have specific ideas of tattoos, it's the image. Yet when they deal with dress makers, they're all ears when a dress makes their ass look like a bloated beach ball. Some actually listen to the technical aspects of a design when explaining their theory on paper wont transfer on skin at the size they want it. Last week one @%$^*%&^*(^& with a (*&^^(%^%%&^$ whom I wanted to %^$&^%$@@%$£ till she &^$*&^%^%(*^% , came in and was a (OK HENRY TYPE SLOWLY AND BREATH) C. You Next Tuesday, to the highest order. To her I was just some lowly tattooist, but Chanel had tattoos that were yes breath taking and lovely to look at but just wouldn't work as permanent pieces on skin in the traditional sense. I said calmly, "Madam you're looking at a decal, not an actual tattoo applied by make-up artists. Beautiful yes nevertheless, but just scientifically impossible to age and hold their dimensions in the size she wanted it, virtually miniscule. Witch got a bee sting on her labia and got on her high horse and said she would go elsewhere since I was unwilling to do it. To which I never said is didn't, I simply said we were dealing with a sticker and she was a living organism.


What transfers on paper will not age and hold on your skin unless you go larger to accommodate the age of the tattoo. She started to become argumentative and assume that I just wasn't interested, which was clearly not the case. Her reasoning , because Chanel did it it has to be possible. OH MY FUCKING GOD! Attention people, just cause some dried up old spanish lady looking corpse with a fucking fan throws tattoos down a catwalk, does not mean that they are technically possible to do. You will have to LISTEN TO WHAT THE ARTIST IS TELLING YOU. Don't assume some purse designer knows dick about tattoos, they are simply after your money and your
individual style. Sheep I call them. I love style but detest fashion. Think about it long and hard. Take down the fat picture of yourself and replace it with a tattoo design your thinking of seriously having leave it their for a month or two. See an artist and then listen to their input and suggestions. If you feel comfortable with what they are saying to you with a clear head, chances are you will love your tattoo design forever, not till Anya or Zombie Auntie Karl think it's time to move to the next trend forecast. This is not to say that two noted designer whom I have had the grace of tattooing both Dexter Wong and Alexander McQueen didn't strike me as like thier fashionista groupies. Maybe that's the thing they make clothes out of ideas where other simply want to follow the clothes not the idea.

Like Yves Saint Laurant menswear designer Stefano Pilati's new tattoo cuff, put his money where his mouth his, and committed to the moment. Bad ass, do I believe that fashion and tattoo's can co-exist together? Absolutely yet I leave the fashion to the professional designer, and leave the other to us tattoo artists.

Free Willy!

I will admit that I have been to jail in my feeble and humble 41 years. Yes, I have broken the law for stupid dumb shit and thrown in jail for something so trivial as a bench warrant. However, when I came across this story I just couldn't help myself in saying being arrested sucks. Which brings me to the topic of one well known fashion male model acting a damn fool in the first degree. I'm sure there are loads of gay porn story lines that go a lil something like this.

When in fact it is far from this. Well i am sure for one Nick Snider he went over then line and it just didn't work out in his favour.
Our little Nicky here is a famous male model for such noted brands such as Prada, decided to get his drunk on in all places of places Alabama. Once crazy struck poor nick The Bill was called in for reinforcements when he refused to leave. Upon arresting him and placing him in the back of a squad car, nick came up with a plan. The problem is that really drunk pretty people often don't gain IQ points when under the influence, so this was bound to be a doozy. He offered the arresting officer a trip two second base. Yep! A Blow job. Come On Nick, couldn't you at least offer the guy a free Prada suit, bag, watch whatever? I mean jesus, surely you had something lying around? A half used bottle of cologne perhaps.

I have a friend whom works in porn and she always used to get pulled over. Her ritual was to throw some of her porno promo slicks on the passenger side floor, flash her tits and cry. This would make the cop, both lezzies and straight men ask about her movies, and she offered them a video or slick in hopes of getting out of a ticket. It always seemed to work for her. Nick's hook, " I am a very famous model." That would have lost my attention immediately. So his big finnish to sweeten the pot was to suck his dick and balls if he let him go. Ooh Nick, too much. Shoulda stuck with the free Prada bag. Upon his arrival at the station, Nick proceeded to offer the other officers, janitors, lunch lady Doris and the telephone repairman, ANYONE really a hummer if they released him. Ahh bless. Can't keep a good ho down for trying. But I blame the drunk acting like a sexual pest for his fine and funny mess. What's even funnier is the cop he offered initially isn't even hot!( See pic below of the arresting Officer for a visual.) At least not Cop dick sucking hot! Do I sound like a choosy slut? Good!




I love a good mug shot though. Especially when they looked fucked up in the photo ala Mel Gibson. It is not known if any anti semitic remarks were made during our poor Nicks arrest. But I would like to think there might have been. How dare they trun down Runway throat. I mean the power was in the cops hands. You do the gay math. Maybe I watch to much gay porn Me personally I am not a fan of Prada or Cologne, watches, bags, or pretty runway models. I hope Nick here can pull a Kate Moss and make this scandal a more profitable one like she has done. Fashion loves to forgive especialling when a model is willing to suck dick for it.

STEAMPUNK FUNK!

There are two guys around Shoreditch that walk around like old crusty ass Victorian dandy dudes, only problem is they never really look pulled together. Not like real Victorians whom were down with the puritan pose on traditional social and economic and political advancement of Great British Empire and all the industry of steam power. Yet I have to say that I don't get these "steampunks". I just think it well kinda silly. Sure some of the gadgets look ala Terry Gilliam and I'm all for that, but posing as a crusty ol' broke ass victorian in need of a serious wash and ironing is in my book, dumb. It's 2009 not 1879. The shit reeks of designer impostor perfume or needs some placed on it. Why not just go for the whole hog and call yourselves, Vic-Dorkess's Von Behind The Times. Stuck in the past, and locked into an outfit that is something crossed between a hooloween costume and a get up. Never returned to the fancy dress shop and deeply in need of pressing. I can understand when you strip away a runway look from a fashion show and see the clothes as separates and work them into your wardrobe.


Ok at 41 I'm to old for this shit cause it's just goth's in even more drab colours without the pancake makeup. I have a real appreciation for victorian things, but I am not going to act as if I live in a time when it was quite repressive and somewhat, well boring. There is a tattoo artist I know of whom dresses this way, and all I ever want to do is hose the dude down with a fire hose and scrub his ass with Ajax prison style. Don't even get me started in his tattoos. What's the point? That's like saying you're a hippy in todays modern society. Stuck in the past when there is already advancement on most social and technical standpoints. I would hate to live in a time warp. As I get older and look at more subcultures like some Rock-a-billies whom wear fifties clothes and are covered in tattoos, they kinda look like groovy ghoulies and a science project. Not like the Drapes or Rockers from the past in the actual era. I mean even the Japanese with their meticulous attention to detail always get it right. Almost better than the American & English counterparts whom invented Rock n Roll.


Killer Clothes over At Child Of The Jago.

I love the clothes from the 50's cause they're actually made better than the shit that is churned out today. Some rock-a-billy guys and girls wear knock offs that look cheaply made and for some reason seem better suited for a child or teenager under 16 years of age. Some killer Brogues never go out of style and last a long ass time. Yet I am not about to look like a reject from a Comic con convention. I feel individuality starts with the mind, bang your own drum. That being said, I too used to be with it, then they changed what "it" was. Now I find it weird and scary and just a little bit stupid. Something goes horribly wrong when you try and emulate a trend that has been long gone, it's called taste. That;s not to say that some don't get it right, cause I think that is where personal style come's through, and you make it your own.

My client Michael's Fashion Line Licentious

Henry Pie Hands.

I woke up a few days ago and for a brief second, I had to ask myself, just what the hell I got myself into. It was strange cause you would think that I would know better by now. But then old habits die hard. I'm not complaining, but I have been a drawing fool. Drawing stuff for clients, doing interviews and trying to gear up for the Ice Sculpture for the Cube on the Southbank for Feb 9th. If I am honest I am nervous, cause with the London weather being a unpredictable bitch, it could be a disaster. This is mostly in my head, so I am trying to place a positive spin on all this. Not to mention I am going on a road trip to Dublin with Bren to finally meet the rest of his family. Bren's parents have a house a block from the beach in Sandymount part of Dublin. STOKED! And I have never been to Ireland. so coolness. Yet meeting a party of like 28 people and their children, well thats like a clan or a small gang. Wish me luck. Pooch doesn't care she will be in new surroundings and run her little legs off till she passes out from exhaustion. Ahh, bless.


Yes folks, I am going to meet the in-laws. I am always nervous about stuff like this cause I feel like the bad kid whose friends parents never really approve of you, cause you're a bad influence. Bren is a big guy and is lovely. So I will have to channel my Thelma and Louise and hit the road with my life partner and dog. Next week is the unveiling and trying my hand at etching Ice was really cool. Really cool and fucking COLD, COLD BEYOND ANYTHING. It was a strange feeling at first but I got the hang of it and actually enjoyed myself. Ice Flaking like a mother fucker, it is done job to wear a wetsuit with and have a steady hand. I mean I was practicing on a sliver yet the block that will hold the car will be frozen for 280 days, is no small task. Hello thats like a Glacier from the Arctic.

I am excited about going to Dublin in the Cube and have been trying to keep my head clear and just focus on my work. Luckily things are in the pipe line and feel that it's all going the way it should. Fingers crossed. Rounding out interviews and doing a pre-recorded one for Kerrang Magazine was kool as they focused on art and tattoos as well as the unveiling on the 9th. So you will have to keep coming back and see what happens while me and Bren and Pooch are on the road.
I may drive him made with my Sonic Youth Playlist. Thank god the car
has a usb cable to plug in my iphone and Ipod, so getting lost will be next to impossible.. That rules. Woo hoo! Press is starting to buzz and that is cool and very happy about that. I thought about putting some sketches up but you will just have to wait. Always leave the crowd wanting more.

Hawt Bitch!

Classic Scene I swear this movie to me never gets old.. Here's a classic scene. Of course when I used to re-inact this in the school yards the teachers would always look at me funny. Enjoy. Zane Buzby was a great comedy character actress who just didn't do enough movies.

My Current MOOD!

Looks like someone's gots their bitch on! SO step to me cause I might cut a bitch! Sleep has escaped me and my clock is all out of whack and I am not the one to be "*&^*%*$£*" with. My kingdom to turn the sprinklers on some noisy bratty kids.