bedazzle your life.

so here's some random photos from off my mobile that had been forgotten for a while and never posted, to make this easy, i'm posting these in a chronological order starting at "kinda cool" going all the way through to "totally lame". enjoy.

i'm not sure why, but i think this truck is awesome. don't get me wrong, it's totally impractical, and kinda retarded but still kinda cool.



i like t shirts that educate the public...



10 points for effort but i didn't see him get any hugs



"my eyes!"





this guy musta really liked the bedazzled bike and tried it for himself...



totally lame though. i mean c'mon.... loose change, a few random letters and BATTERIES?! REALLY!?!

when coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be...

so today at work turned into an impromptu Merle Haggard appreciation day. Surprisingly, no customers complained or were harmed in the making of this musically extraordinary feat... 10 points all round. Anyways, not much work wise to blog about.... think Tues is the next possible blog worthy piece i got booked in. til then it's lots of dragons (THREE in fact) and tribal extensions (I'm a lucky girl).

So figured I'd post some culinary wizardry I've been up to..... first up is a dish Ross n Richard told me about during their brief trip over..... apparently this is a really popular take away dish in South Africa.... and seeing as i don't plan on going to South Africa anytime soon, I'd figured I'd just make it.....



it's roti stuffed full of chips, cheese and curry gravy. i added some onions for nutritional value (it's vegetable.... it made me feel healthier, kinda). Ross was super dubious but i made it anyways, and it ROCKED. it tasted like a heart attack waiting to happen, but was oh so tasty!

Next up is a gypsy breakfast we had for dinner. So, i made gypsy pancakes (that's french toast to others) and used a cookie cutter to cut a hole and filled it with an egg.



i was kinda dubious about whether the egg would stay in the hole, and cook ok.... but it did! i feel like a super culinary inventor who needs to copyright this shit coz it was awesome too. sorry for the shitty pics, i didn't have a camera and couldn't let this pass, so out came the phone.

lastly, some weird yet wonderful soy milk packaging....




enjoy.

ouch

so tuesday i had an unexpected rescheduling so i had a good few hours free. so what better way to spend it than doing an impromptu rib piece on ross? i can think of a million things i woulda rather have done, but alas, that's what i did. ended up working til the wee hours, but it's all gravy.



It's an old woodblock print from the Kurtsweil Satires which i think is from the 1550's (told ya it was old). here's some info about the man behind the goat.... taken from here

Jörg Wickram (~1505-1562) was a German writer from the Alsace region (now France) who straddled the Renaissance and Early Modern periods of literature development.

Wickram's versatile output ranged from translation work (he translated Ovid without knowing any latin) to poetry, dramatic narratives and collections of humorous anecdotes (Schwank) that drew influence from Sebastian Brandt's 'Ship of Fools' (1494), animal fable satires and the medieval minnesang tradition. Although these collected tales were popular, Wickram is perhaps best known for producing the earliest forms of the novel in German literature.

'Kurtzweil' (1550) is a lesser known work of poetry in the vernacular German by Wickram, featuring crude anthropomorphic woodcut illustrations, reminiscent of (but predating) Le Monde Renversé satires. There is next to nothing by way of commentary around online, but I think it's a fairly safe bet that 'Kurtzweil' belongs to the satirical/moral body of Schwank anthologies, prevalent in 16th century German literature.

the mystery of the vanishing comments....

it's weird, just logged on, had 2 comments unmoderated, clicked publish.... and now i can't find them..... so if any of y'all had left a comment and it's not up, please don't get upset.... it's the computer....not me. EVIL computer.

you look buzzin'

so i got to do a cool piece on monsieur danny today. it's weird, i drew this coz i bought this obscure book on insects recently and wanted to use it, but it turns out he's allergic to bee stings, so all worked out well....swimmingly well if i may say so myself. this piece was kinda top secret experimental wizardry, but it may not work.... so you may never hear anymore of that..... so ignore the fact i even mentioned it. hmmmmmmmmmm?!

it was insanely hard to get a good pic of this, and i'm really hoping i get a healed one soon too when all the grey wash lightens up. to be honest we went for drinks after and even an hour or so later it looked much softer..... grrrr. anyways, here's what we got up to today. 2 pictures, coz legs are far too round for my liking.....

front.....



back....



by the way, anyone looking for a new bar to hang out at, there's a nice little place next to the 711 off of peel street. it has comfy seats shaped like Isuzu bumpers and lots of drunk street folk to talk to about tattoos and stuff. also a nice library next door where you can find photos of pigs in wellington boots. i think it's called "Mike's bar".... or "Kate is not here"... or "This is now Mike's so Kate should leave and never come back"...... look for it. it's awesome.

Mary Mother of Christ!

OK, so here's what i got up to today. super fun 1-shot on a repeat client. he gets cool stuff nowadays. woop woop.



i love doing women's faces.....wait, that sounds dirty. i love tattooing women's faces.... wait that sounds wrong. i like to tattoo pictures of women's faces. anyways, what i was gonna say is it's weird doing Mary's coz i cant tart them up with make up and stuff, ya know?! they gotta look virginy (clearly ignoring spellcheck on that one)

tomorrow there is no awesomeness booked in, but monday i got another sweeeeet one! feeling spoiled this week for sure!

tick tock.....

so remember how i said i had some nice pieces coming up.... well did one yesterday before we headed over to the Wanch. This is on Mira the czech. He has awesome skin to tattoo...... super awesome easy as pie work super fast coz it pretty much tattoos itself skin. He really liked one of my prints (the youth print i did for west east mag) so i changed it up a little and off we went.



apologies for the glare, but all the ones without flash are outta focus. bah.