Monday, August 22, 2011

Young Baller





Some work on Isaac Fotu, new Tall Black at the age of 17...this was done a while back and I posted up some images but nowhere near this quality...these were sent to me via mail...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Steve Caires of Engrish.com sent me this today:





http://www.kirainet.com/english/hemorrhoids-%E7%97%94/



From Hector Garcia's A Geek in Japan:



"At first glance, it seems like a kid with a supercool sweater with a Japanese character. The problem is that the character η—” means “hemorrhoid” in Japanese. Probably the designer confused the character 侍, which means “samurai” and is pronounced “ji”, with the character η—” that means “hemorrhoid” and is also pronounced “ji”… Both characters are graphically very similar but the meaning is totally different!"



Wednesday, August 17, 2011

hinga







hinga = breathe = hinga = breathe





Totoy's Inks and Needles





shorthorn's finest



Ink to paper is thoughtful

Ink to flesh, hard-core.

If Shakespeare were a tattooist

We'd appreciate body art more.





Miah's Inks and Needles



2 of 2



I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. hahaha.





Totoy's Inks and Needles



one of two



Kausap ni Erap ang Abu sayyaf at nag nenegoiate pra mapalaya ang red cross.



Abu sayyaf: papalayain ko ang aming biktima kung maiispell mo ang mississippi

Erap: pwede manila bay nalang hehe.

hahaha





Miah's Inks and Needles



twice the fun







eric pretty much started everything and then totoy added a few windbars and colored it up when he was away.





Eric and Totoy's Inks and Needles

Melbourne...Photography skills

 




nice scene just outside where we posted...sunset...



 




On our way to watch the Melbourne Storms play the Penrith Panthers...nice shot of the city



 






 




Me working on my photography skills...
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Selfmade & Lion piece

 


 


 


 




another of our kind clients in Melbourne came through for a hair cut and a self defining saying inked on his forearm...my most keen client Allen started his journey with a Lion on his forearm...

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Grillz...forearm band

 


 


 


 


 




Some freehand stuff



One of the boys (Grillz) who works for our host was my first client over in Melbourne...came through for a Polynseian armband...and another client came through for his daughters' names...
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Melbourne Set up

 


 


 




here's a few images of my little set up at our host's place in Melbourne...
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Barbers

 


 


 


 




We're not called Quality Barbers for some random reasons, with each cut, our barbers strive to live up to that name....here's one of our barbers' tape up work...

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German Connection...

 




In the late 19th to early 20th century, alot of European businessmen migrated to the Pacific in search of a more exotic lifestyle and later on settled and mixed with the local people...my client here is a Tongan/German and the Wolfgramms were succcesful business people in Tonga...

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