it'll be worth the wait....

So, the pagoda piece that was up for grabs has been grabbed. Won't get to tattoo it for a wee while as said grabber lives in England, but i'm still super stoked about doing it, and on a really nice customer too, so 10 points all round.

In other news, keep an eye out for August's edition of Brouhaha magazine, as it's gonna have interviews with three female Hong Kong tattooers among other goodness, here's a link to said publication ("said" is todays word of the day by the way)

Also, i have some super sweet pieces lined up over the weekend, so hopefully lots of nice tattoo photos for y'all, and until then, to keep yourselves busy, i suggest heading down to the Wanch on Thurs for their all day HANDOVER PARTY! should be a good'un

here's the description of the days said events, taken from their very own Myspazz invite:

"To celebrate the hand over The Wanch is host to an all day festival featuring music performed by The Rock & Roll Swindlers, Bee & Bertha, Shawn Martin, Ben McCarthy, Heroses, Logo, Of Moths & Stars, Milkteeth, 9th State, Fate, Bank Job, The Sleeves, Diving For Air, Hazden, Live Fast Die, & Sweet Revenge. Show starts at 2pm. "

woop woop

i want to see people and i want to see lights

so i recently went to Corey Tam's long overdue CD release party. (star crossed are stocking his CD's so swing on by and grab a copy.... ooh, and bring mountain dew!) anyways, it was at rockschool (yeah....MORE rockschool *sigh*) i'm not keen on the sound there so much, but the lighting makes for awesome photos of whoever is lucky enough to be stood stage right..... so here's some pics.























(anyone who was there and wants more pics, i'll probably upload them onto facebook so just check over the next few days) anyways, it's late and i'm still at the studio. this no laptop thing sucks, i miss my laptop :(
gotta be up early tomorrow for a magazine interview, so til next time...

Holga lotta love

So i totally forgot about the 2nd roll of film from my day out at the meat market. We also ended up down the fish street so here's some pics from then.....on my Holga, or as Ross likes to call it my "piece of shit camera". charming.....

This was with fancy Lomo film so the colours are way brighter than the last roll i posted a few weeks back.....even the few i took without the colour flash look really vibrant which is good to know!











this next one was the inside of a toy shop, i have no idea why it came out like this.... coz i cant remember what i was actually taking the photo for...... but if i didn't know any better i'd be pretty certain these toys are well.... radioactive?!

bittersweetness

so today i had a big ol' chunk o' time put aside from a guy coming from Switzerland. He didn't show, and it was kinda bittersweet coz the piece i designed for him was really nice, and i'm really gutted i didn't get to tattoo it. so anyone interested in birds, peonies and a pagoda piece GET IN TOUCH! i really wanna do it, and i'll give ya a good deal!

the sweet side meant i had like over 3 hours to catch up on some design work, commission paintings that i'm SUPER LATE WITH (apologies) and i got another background layout for my website done. we got a walk in along with an exsisting booking, so i didnt get as much done as i'd hoped, but i sure did do a lot.

so i aint got no pics to post (don't wanna post everything for my website or it won't be exciting when it's up and running, right?!)

so ladies and gentlemen, i give to you an awesome painting Jill left for Ross and myself. i had to crop the image slightly coz it's wider than my scanner, but y'all get the idea. THANKS JILL!



to see more of her work CLICK HERE!

in other news i went on a mad barrette making binge on wednesday at the studio while ross was getting interviewed for Time Out magazine..... behold......



i don't stock them at the shop anymore, but i still make them to order, so anyone want some, lemme know. (half of these have a new home already i'm afraid)

monkey update

for all o' y'all who have been worried about the monkey post from a few days back, i have a quick update.

i've been contacted by MANY animal organisations these past few days, and it looks like the ball has really started rolling in relation to these injured monkeys. it sounds like there are a lot of people interested in going down there and monitoring them, seems like they manage to avoid infection surprisingly well due to the grooming they do on each other, and hopefully this can get resolved. i still have no news on what the injuries are from, so if anyone knows, i'm still very very curious....

below are some links to animal organisations/rescue/charities here in HK for anyone who may need them:

SPCA

AFCD

Kadoorie

HKDR

LAP

PALS

Animals Asia

HK animal rescue

HK alleycats

HKAAC

if i have missed any or you wanna add some, leave the link as a comment and i will edit them into this post.

pimp my hide

so big thanks to jill for her very extended guest spot. it was great having ya, safe travels and all that jazz,

as yesterday was her last day, i tattooed her, and she thugged me up a little too.... (apologies to my parents!)



it's been less than 24 hours and already i barely notice them.... it's weird.

and here's what i did on jill.... sat like a trooper and i'm pretty sure she'd fallen asleep by the end.



gotta go into work today (my supposed day off) to draw tomorrows tattoos, and then we're off to the wanch for a drunken night of Live Fast Die!

hibiscus

so here's a tattoo i did today.... super awesome customer who sat like a rock.



til next time.