The Ink Spot Tattoo Studio of Haslingden

Modelling a 3D Japanese Temple

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feeling a little faint??? eat plenty of sugars!!!

2016-01-05T00:34:00.002-08:00

new videos of how i do fun things :)

2012-12-09T05:23:00.000-08:00

Sculpting a 3D Digital Skull from scratch using photoshop & Zbrush4

Profile pics of skulls

Image Planes aligned to check modelled version against

Texturing the base of the skull using Spotlight to 'paint' depth and detail!

Adding Teeth using Subtool Editor to duplicate & mirror.

Finished Blocked in model, i detailed it a lot after but the video was corrupt but i use this skull a lot instead of the generic one found in a lot of modelling apps.

watch it being made here on YouTube - subscribe if you want to see others like it when i post them :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHWRTK5n9rU

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OX!

"Ox" a design asked for today from a photo, before i can tattoo it with full confidence and without too much double checking on the spot i like to break it down and either trace over or use photoshop and a wacom to revise what shapes and shades will be needed. heres an example. there still a bit of darkness to go in over the bottom right of the hair but not something id waste time refining in the sketchover

you can watch the video progress here on YouTube - subscribe if you want to see others like it when i post them :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPDweX2X9w

In the bath.... Pond'rin

2012-09-25T23:34:00.001-07:00

Theres been quite a lot on my mind recently having me going over and over whether or not running the tattoo studio is how i see my life being in another few years, it doesnt happen that way in reality tho.
By nature we process and refine, whatever it is we do we have that same process. I was just peeping outside the box i reckon, hiding from the real problem.
Ive always had problems collecting deposits for appointments or worst still ill design a whole sleeve for someone to say theyve changed their mind and i havent been paid.. This is NOT a rare case!

It seems like lately when i tell customers i charge £35 per hour to design their tattoo they back off, thats crazZZyyyy!!!!
Now if i can be good enough f a tattooist with enough experience and reputation to get them interested how come im not trusted to come up with a design that customer will be overjoyed to see......providing they give me a good description!!!!!

THAT is where the axe falls and the tinted windows rise, they KNOW theyre not descriptive so assume theyll have one choice that they 'directed'.
The best bet for customers who think im untrustworthy with their design fee is to book in for an hour and actually dirct me as i draw and let me know if i am on the wrong lines ;)

I dont work that way, i use a lot of computer helpers that get me examples to make choosing your design a losd easier.....
......BESIDES i never tell anyone there IS no secondary hrs charge, just that one fee.....the penny pinchers lose out and the serious customers get more quality time ;)

Which brings e back to this yearly thing, i seem to get pissed off with the same/sort of tyrekickers every summer and it costs me, making me believe I AM struggling, year by year theyll get refused service and i get a better load of rabble/customers to fill the chair,

Anyway, just gotta say, same as last yr......."the ink spot will survive, the tyrekickers will perish" ;)

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Location:Me bath....i sez!

Price checking?!

2011-08-03T08:59:00.001-07:00

It's summer madness once again.......and it's back with a vengeance!!!!
Not that it's any more humid or as hot as any other..... More like people get about more and notice they pass at least 1 tattoo studio in very town, something thats never changed since forever when you've been interested in them since....well, forever!
Lately I've noticed a few cheeky lil punters coming in for quotes on tattoos they're showing great interest in and promising to come back "verrrry soon" and coming in a couple of week later with a very similar tattoonto what theyve previously described....even in the same place, just by a VERRRRY different artist.
Makes me wonder if I should give them my time second time round or just concentrate on the good customers who don't like to mess me about rather than someone who thinks my time isn't of any value.

Good news or Bad news?.....hourly rate increase needed!

2011-06-28T15:21:00.001-07:00

Over the last 4 years I've made a point of not raising my hourly rate with every budget that's gone by although the price of stock increases the same as anything in life.
I've managed by booking my appointments in back to back so when I set up for a customer it's in their time and not in their absence.
Up until recently setting up when a customer arrives has been a necessity as I can never clearly remember exactly where I am with some of the bigger jobs I have going on and never sure what sort of needle setup, amount of machines or colours I need to get out ready.
With the smaller jobs I need to wait till the customer arrives to fill in and go through the declaration form with them and during that time I have to grab 5 minutes of fresh air.
Today I've arranged to have an all in one touchscreen diary/ photo declaration form/ health checker/ text or email reminder installed at the shop so while I'm setting up the customer can fill in the necessary details in my absence which will obviously speed the whole process up as well as keep track of where I am with a particular customers tattoo so I know exactly what I need to setup ready for them, they will have received a reminder through email or text so I will have less 'no shows' due to forgetfulness and I won't be as hesitant in setting up.
The computer is as cheap as chips but has a monthly subscription for the software and server provided to backup the shop details and give sup port which has finally tipped the scales and I'm forced to raids the hourly rate by just £5.
Not only for the subscription for the new 'puter but due to the latest increase in vat as well as recent budget....I can't ignore the obvious forever and must put hourly rates up to keep my head above water.
Them that know what my rates are won't be surprised and will understand they're still paying half the price of anywhere else locally for twice the quality and the increase isn't to line my own pockets but to increase the proficiency of the ink spot and guarantee the best service I can offer.

Evernote has saved my head from melllltinnnng!!!

2011-01-30T18:13:00.001-08:00

Over the last few yrs its been hard work remembering a lot of details and conversational significance that people attach when describing what they want from a design they want drawing up which leads to a pissed off punter as they have to make another visit or two (one to recheck the edited version and another for their actual tattoo).
This slow paced workflow has suited me for the first 4 or 5 yrs in business but over the last few its taken a lot of enjoyment from the job as im letting people down at the first stages or at least taking too long for some peoples patience to endure, they just dont understand how many bits of info i needed to remember so its not a great loss. every for every customer i lose to bad patience is another patient customers gain as i have more time to get it better than they ever hoped ;)

Anyway back to it!!
Evernote is downloadable for Mac, windoze, Ipod, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, android, windows mobile......and free for all formats.
this is what you get with the freebie account, ive tried to max it out over the last 2 months ive been using it, once its synced with the main server it doesnt add to your allowance with each individual sync.....never even been 50% thru my allowance

im in my 3rd month of using it now and never have a problem with the syncing between 3 macs and an ipad, my mobile phone can take photos off bills and invoices....upload them and use osc recognistion (osc is scanning a photo or letter and picking the writing out and turns it into an actual editable text document rather than a jpg you cant change text as if youve typed it..ya get me?? :)
you get a personal email which you can uplaod pics to your a account if your using a pc without evernote or off a mobile on the move and sort them out on a pc later to add any html code or photos.

this is a screenshot of how my main window looks like,

you can share documents publicly or by email and it uploads them to an online space and gives you an url or sends the email to the secure link, (no password needed) which makes it easier to share documents which can be edited by the viewer (as a premium account)

The premium account would be amazin if i ever thought id need it id definately invest in it but at the moment im more than happy with the free account which is why im pumping it.

They even do a range of smartpens as well as reliable software that converts voice notes to editable text!!! (voice2note & dial2Do) 2 ive read good reviews about but too mumblin to make good use of em :D

GET IT HERE!!

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Location:Rossendale,United Kingdom

Small valley? Big mouth needed!!!

2011-01-30T14:10:00.001-08:00

Nope, that's not an advertisement for a job position, sorry but I can manage all by myself ;)
I recently got an inbox message to my facebook account asking me to "leave it out with all the advertising", I can't see why someone would be so bothered by it all, specially when you can click the 'x' next to the post just the once and 'hide' either iWeb application or my blogposts.
If anything I got a rise from it, this girl didn't know me (obviously), I don't even know how she came across me but its a big old world and must have spotted me and added me somehow, which added fuel to my fire and (if anything) proved I was doing something right ;)

See, my way of thinking is that if I have people I don't really know or met adding me to facebook thats great, I'm not going to refuse a friendship cos i dont know them, strangers are just people we haven't gotten to know. I've met lots of good friends all over the world, at least 6 of these friends have travelled as far as london, Milton Keynes, stafford and carlisle to visit the shop and got themselves a tattoo to commemorate the occasion.... Don't get it twisted in thinking that's what they come for, I've been doing this thing for too long (if that's possible) to not know what's in someones heart and mind.

I'm no stranger to talking, walking, eating or even living around 'strangers' I've spent the biggest part of my life living around people I don't know and would probably never meet again. I would never befriend someone to abuse or suppress them in any way, if they're feeling down id applaud them for finding humour in the dark days and encourage them to dig deeper, if they're on top of the world I'd want to be stood right beneath them and try to get where they are.

Some people can't adapt as easily and attack people who're on top of things, and put those feeling under the weather down even further.
Personally I wouldn't put myself in either category, I'm doing fine but decided that sitting on facebook was taking too much of my time and decided to learn how to build and host my own websites from home to save a small fortune. Why pay for what I already have???
iWeb has an option to publish my site and sends a link to facebook if i leave it ticked....and why wouldn't I? Its easier for those who dont want to see them or find them offensive(?) to just click on the 'x' to hide iWeb or the post from my blogsites, its an easy enough option, I do it all the time when new Facebook apps are created, i wake up to a screen full of them as a small percentage of facebook users begin to play away, I don't complain to the person they're playing too much, I'll hide the app and it never bothers me again ;)
What do i care if i see my shop name over and over again, I don't pay an agency or advising agency to so what i can do myself...in a more personal way too! At least my site have my words and thoughts....not snippets and clipped bits from whatever vie given to a web designer every month or two to update my site with.

I have to admit that i was publishing my site 3 or 4 times a day/night but it only takes once to hide it, I needed to get my site seen and checked over by friends before finishing it off or i wouldn't know if it was working ok. Testing it from my own computer doesn't have the same effect as it runs really smoothly and quickly because the files are right here on my own computer.

What i came 'here' to say was thats exactly what was bugging me about facebook to begin with, people assuming I'm going to listen because I'm in their 'friends' list, I will......and I'll think about what they say the same as I do with everyone, if its not to my liking then I'll disregard what they say, if it has constructive criticism I'll take it even more serious because it means not only is 'my problem' being pointed out to me but its got a solution in there too...people who just criticise with a lack of reasoning usually don't have the solution and are puzzling over small problems themselves, getting at others about their so called hangups are a way of distraction from their own problems.
I take criticism well, i don't like it but listen and act on it, if its tearing me down I'll stand as i am and prove the critic wrong, if its constructive my first thoughts are they're words of experience and I begin to pick the bones from whats in front of me.

As things are I live in a small valley in lancashire with one road in and one road out of the small town I live in, the valley itself has 5 tattoo shops locally....maybes more including the 2 towns which are either end of the valley...(Accrington and Rochdale). Why wouldn't i advertise??
If an advertising agent knew how to answer every question regarding tattooing or how I work id gladly leave it all up to them, as it is they leave so much unspoken and unanswered and the unspoken word can lead to misinterpretations which I can't leave to chance, the unanswered leave people who dont know me personally thinking I'm ignorant, where as the people I deal with every day and my friends who see me at work know just how much time and effort i've put in.
Why wouldn't i take pride in every little aspect of how I build my business/hobby? I know i came with nothing and will probably leave with nothing but if anything I teach my kids not to be defeatist and not to be lazy in getting what they want out of life, how much of an example would i be to listen to someone who doesn't know a thing about me, and then stop what I'm doing because they don't agree with the results (on a screen), I am polite though, i will apologise for not being able to take their advice but it wasn't in my best interests.
I really hope this doesn't em like an aggravating post because I'm just living MY life, I don't expect others to live like me or be like me, were all different and we need to be that way to co-exist.

Hope you all have that bit of individuality, or are at least looking for a way to be individual cos we get one life and one body to live in and to emulate another's is a waste of your own.

So as you can probably guess the post title is all 'bout me, no offence to any other big mouths, or valley dwellers ;) I chose this valley to live in 20 yrs ago, i wasn't born here but liked the company when I landed so chose to hang around. Ive had numerous complaints about my big mouth so being told by a stranger isn't anything new to me.... It just makes me proud that im being heard by all sides, friends and strangers alike...cos thats what advertising is about and its not always appreciated by others ;)

Hello my beautiful, living, breathing sketchpads ;)

2011-01-27T18:09:00.001-08:00

Hope you don't mind me calling you a "sketchpad" but if you got skin...and your living and breathing.....you're beautiful!!
I shoulda started with 'goodnite' seeing as it's 1am and I've just finished my quota for the day, not much tattoo work been going on but I always have quiet time around Christmas so manage to get a it more sketching and doodlin done then so the spare time serves me well later on when someone asks for something similar to what I sketched up in winter :)
I've spent a few confusing hours setting the shop security system up, basically a digital camera plugged into the shop 'puter and set to record with a motion detector setting, for an hr I stood in front of the camera wondering HOW to stop getting the emails forwarded to my fone, before realising I was stood in front f the camera setting it off, another solution would hav been to turn around and press "stop recording" on the computer ;)
I've had to go to extreme lengths with it since the police have taken on an "on the fly" decision making policy on whether "a burglar shitting in your shop/home" was criminal enough to follow thru (pardon the pun).
When I was told this by the shopkeeper himself I felt gutted for him and defenceless fr myself so I've set my own up.
I can now view my camera on my iPad at home, this is about 5pm when I'd just got home and decided to check it out on ipad.

That's my son in the doorway coming back from doing my paper recycling while I was at home checking how well it worked, goooood boy!!! :)

And the pic below is just after joes locked the shop up and ready to pull the shutter down.

The law states to have video surveillance I need to advertise it openly or it's not admissible in court!!!...so thieves can find a workaround???? Nahhh I've got it set up so I'm notified by text and email, and if some clever thief decides to steal the computer to hack my email account to delete them, he won't get to my FTPs account where the files are sent every 30 seconds so theyll have to be quicker than your average alarm to disconnect me ;)
I don't want to press charges if anyone steals from me, I want to press paving slabs on pillows!

Luckily it's a handheld digicam rather than a webcam so it's hi resolution and can see a range of shops within range of the motion detector so hopefully a webcast will make a few others feel secure without the worry of their shops being open to burglars ;)

Bill Clinton!!? how the f*ck did he get away!!

2011-01-27T17:48:00.000-08:00

Court is in session!!
Ok, in a sentence!!
Bill Clinton smoked but didnt inhale, what about the glands in out mouths and nasal cavity which can take in as much cannabis to the blood as the lungs, then when he didnt inhale he passed it ON and didnt say who passed it to HIM!!!
THATS SUPPLYING!! DEALING!!! PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE!!.......WORSE THAN THE ORIGINAL ACCUSATION OF BEING A POTHEAD!! :P
this court is out!

so now its LiveJournal???

2011-01-24T12:45:00.000-08:00

so now its LiveJournal???

Whats with all the bloggin ?

2011-01-24T07:15:00.001-08:00

If if i was a twee.....
lol, seriously, if i was a tree id be stuck in my environment and be at the mercy of the owners of the environment to keep conditions as i like them rather than Limit my growth.
Which is what facebook is, its the environment i populate run by 'owners' who want to restrict my actions, this isnt what i signed up for so im now using it permanent link to my other places i roam around in ;)

Last week i made another account in my shop name with a different email address, i used the 'suggest friends' box to suggest 50 of my own friends who i DO know so they could suggest their friends the same, within minutes of adding the suggested friends facebook had given me an 'official warning and restricted me for 4 days from adding any new friend becaus they belieed i was 'spamming' users......with ONE single request, per person? Thats not spam!!!

Other instances in the past have led me to believe they have moderators which have an opinion of their own and freely censor our comments and posts. I have had videos deleted of myself at work which i posted at the request of the customer and put a lot of effort into editing, sadly it had a song in the background and was accused by facebook of Imitating the band so to speak, with a tattoo machine i hardly think so!

I also spent a week with comments being regularly deleted, not only my own but other friends who were commenting on my wall, my photos or my status.....this was after i began to refer to facebook as 'faecesbook', whenever i used the term comments would be played around with, sort of like a warning to behave myself ;D

My main reason of making another account under the shop name was because facebook friends would rather disregard my previous refusals to give quotes online, or take bookings or talk about their tattoo out of shop hours and engage me in conversations at all hours, the internet or telephones are not a good way of translating tattoos......we need to see/show what we have in mind, wae can neer do that over the telephone and internet conversations can be so long winded the time they take sometimes outweigh the price of the tattoo in question.
But how can we say all this day after day with one type of character or another without sounding impolite, stuck up ourslves, uninterested or simply amateurish in the minds of those that dont know what does go into the preparation?

Personally i need the customer in front of me with the time to give me a good description of what, where, size, colour/ or shaded, and a few other details which only apply to one tattoo style or another....none are the same!
If a customer comes in and we both have the time (or a booked consultation is arranged) i can sit with them and sketch an idea out and they can say yayy or nayy and we can start from scratch without too much time wasted. If a customer gives me a description over the phone or internet with a hope to pop in a week later to view it, my idea and theirs maybe totally different and will put them back another week or two while i take it back to the drawing board.....but we would still be no better off unless the customer puts the time in to visit the shop so i can go thru the process and speed things up a little.

Facebook has been undoubtedly great and ive met some great friends but at the moment its taking up way too much of my time, as things were i was in the shop answering queries about tattoos (in paying customers time), when the people in question could have easily popped into the shop to look for themselves....or even take a click on my fabebook albums.
The alternative (in their eyes) was to catch me when i got home, which is time i need to be with my family, where in reality i get back to work designing the upcoming weeks work, or making transfers up from the same designs ive drawn or redrawn in some cases.

All i can say in my defense is i work 6 days a week, one of them being sunday, i have 4 kids and a wife who are here. I cant take time away from hem for a customer who cant 'be here', simply because if you cant get into the shop to plan or own tattoo then you cant have time to GET a tattoo!

i hope this doesnt come across in the wrong way, facebooks had it uses and ive made some great friends (and theyve seen my frustrations) but if im going to get the time i need to push the shop forward this year i need to leave faecesbook alone ;)
Youll see me on there but usually posting a link aposted from another blog, i have them all interlinked so when i post on one you all hear about it :)

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Location:The Ink Spot, 20 Deardengate, BB45TQ

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Huuuuge discounts on portrait style tattoos, limited time only so be quick ;)

2011-01-24T03:16:00.000-08:00

Im Doing HuuuUUUUuuge discounts on portrait style tattoos……kids, grannies, wolves, cats, dogs, sheep…nah bad that idea!! erm, horror scenes, charicatures!!!! anything with character and attitude that looks like its about to say somethin’!!!! send me your ideas and sizes and ill see whats possible ;D

The aim is not to fill my pockets and get rich cos thats never gonna happen, 7 years on and i still walk to work with my plastic bag and butties ;D
I just want more portraiture in my portfolio, i was a portrait artist well before i began to tattoo and think they have an extreme look to them compared to a lot of tattoo styles.

2011......were almost up to our necks in it and its gonna be a pleasure ;)

2010-12-30T15:14:00.001-08:00

I'll start by wishing anyone reading a belter of a new year, if your the sort to depend on 'luck' then i wish you as much as you can fit in your pockets, the go-getters and realists are 'grabbers' so to get anywhere ill advise to get with the g's (go-getter & grabbers) and dump the lucky wishes cos we grabbers are getting it all and feeling guilty for ya ;)

Ha, back to the real reason for this blog post and thats to put a few people to right on a few things, ive been an artist over 25 yrs and most of its been soaking in criticism like a sponge, to do this you have to take criticism in a constructive manner, basically an artist will not criticise without thinking first as he know miswording can lead to misinterpretation. Someone who appreciates art but is not an artist themselves does not know the techniques of the work theyre commennting on so their remarks have to be taken lightly but STILL taken as serious as the artists, they just need sifting thru for the true meaning ;)
But to recieve criticism from another artist, who is in my eyes better than me but as all artist do.....was shitty!! I linked 2 users of facebook and myspace together tho as ive recieved the same worded mail over myspace as well as facebook inbox as well as in chat.
A common problem artists have is we beat ourselves up over imperfections cos we work too close to our own work and see the faults in micro vision cos were inches away from the paper or skin.
Myself, ive seen this been used to all sorts of advantages and disadvantages for artists in all trades, music, painting/drawing, tattooing, printing, computer graphic design.....
I'll ask for an opinion and value it for what it is, sit and dwell on it till ive read between the lines, watched it break down into other ways of thinking of it read it back morning, noon and night to get all sorts or ways and perceptions of how to take it, when ive taken the positive parts from it ill pick the bones from it and see how to rebuild it in my own way.

Lately ive had critism of the negative sort, ive ignored it but when i spotted the spelling mistakes between myspace and facebook and the regularity this user ('prick...is what we'll call him till i hear a change).
To pull or pick at someones work and NOT tell them the remedy or even have a comparison to show how you mean is negative cos its just putting the artists capability down, i just take that as a problem THEY have and want me to show em how its done so they can learn how another approaches it, its not the sorta person i waste my breath on so have given up rising to their comments in reply or even practise, simply thank them for any advise given without telling what id learnt, just asking if they can see any change.......if i havent used their advice i can usually tell by the reply IF THEY know WHY theyre even criticising me ;)

Please dont stop criticising tho cos whether you think its all good or all bad ill always work my way thru it and pick out the best, i can pick the bones from a fart so finding a needle in a haystack isnt as hard as it sounds ;)
The helpful sort have helped me more than i can ever put into words so neeeeed that criticism, the hating sort help me keep my feet on the ground and make my wording a bit more single tracked as possible, they help me keep any criticle comments i make followed up with something positive to help with the problem i 'see' as being apparent!
Without all angles i might start believing my work doesnt need looking at, when im the best ill sit back and disregard my critics, till then i got a lifetime of learning to catch up with the greats, they wouldnt be so great if they didnt improve with every year that passes.

To believe im anywhere close to being in the best 1% of tattooists is beyond crazy, im a bit of dew on the laf that fkats in the big pond they call the art industry, but glad you found me. Means a lot to me but think....... How do you notice me among so many......and HOW do you find time to find such faults?? Lol, enjoy either way.
On a personal note to the ritic id like to say.......
Took me 20 mins to put my opinion across, must take hrs of hating to bother with me tho, use that energy to look thru your sketches see if you can make something good out of one or two, mine are always half done cos i can see so much from an unfinished sketch than a final, makes sense to me, yours look like you lost our way and gave in, which id never do without having a 'new and improved' view beside it ;)
Some of my sketches look raw and 'sketchy' but i like em like that, look thru and you may see a newer scan which shows the changes, hehe....you dont SEE that far tho do ya, your too angry hehe, love THAT, it gives me energy....energy you should be craving ;)

Also the reason ive taken to usin blogspots to post my opinions is so i can get my words out in over '256 characters' before the convo gets diluted or changes track......;)

Gmail accounts, are the way forward!!!!

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Location:The ink spot, 20 deardengate, Rossendale, United Kingdom

Christmas break

2010-12-25T17:50:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas to everyone I know and all the best for the year ahead.

Its gotta be said the end of this years marked some changes which are going to make the running of the shop a breeze compared to previous years, new ways of thinking have taken a load of pressure from my work and made it as enjoyable as I could ever have hoped. Up until recently ive lacked the self confidence as well as my customers confidence to do walk ins or impulsive tattoos which has turned my love of tattooing into a 'job'.

This is something ive always avoided cos art is my release and when it becomes a 'job' or chore it loses its worth. I don't paint, draw or tattoo for monetary value but because i have to or i feel trapped inside of my own thoughts. Tattooing is sharing my thoughts in a more personal and permanent manner than any other art form ive ever gotten involved in.

Recently ive been doing quite a lot of freehand tattoos and mixing techniques id normally use in painting/drawing in with techniques used in tattooing to find they work better than I could have hoped for, i feel more comfortable tattooing this way than I have done in years and it shows.

Meeting other likeminded artists is something else i need to concentrate in 2011 too and cut the ties i have with the shop, start getting out a bit more when I have the time rather than sitting in hope that the next customer with an exciting idea is about to walk in, I need to be out there mingling with people who can show me how to improve my artwork so i can bring that into my tattooing too :)

Hope to be seeing you soon, maybe even pop in for a brew if you fancy showing me how you do things :D

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Location:Park St,,United Kingdom

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2011

2010-12-24T16:11:00.001-08:00

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Ok....so who else noticed??

2010-11-24T16:25:00.000-08:00

Can anyone else spot the remarkarble resemblence?? sure, yrs or peanut butter cheeseburgers have taken its toll on Mr E.Presleys skin but....i got close enough to look deep.....deep into those eyes!! its him i tell thee :P

WhooooHooooo!!! Christmas next month :D

2010-11-24T16:16:00.000-08:00

Sooooo.............. to celebrate ive got a full set of zombie colours in stock :D

well even zombies celebrate christmas dont they ? :)

Sorry its been a while

2010-08-15T17:52:00.000-07:00

With the rush of the shop over the last year ive neglected to keep my blogs & sites updated with recent work or goings-on. hopefully i should have it all in order and the most important of the few updated on a regular basis :)

2010-08-08T16:41:00.000-07:00

2009-05-20T15:24:00.001-07:00

Ronnie Starr Rotary Tattoo Mans-chine on the way :D

2009-05-11T15:08:00.000-07:00

As a treat to my customers & myself and the more nervous customers ive just ordered this little beauty :D

it is.....A......Ronnie Starr Twin arm Brass Rotary tattoooooo mans-chine ;)

all in all it means its made by Ronnie Starr, one of the Worlds greatest tattoo machine manufacturers......but it has 2 arms like me, its brass so solid & shinyyyyyyy, and its a Rotary motion so it has less noise & less impact on the skin which means its gonna be an improvement for the quieter sort ;D

Micks leg back

2009-05-06T14:56:00.000-07:00

Micks leg back & Side

Micks leg

2009-05-06T13:58:00.000-07:00

Phils Dragons Head shading

2009-05-01T15:31:00.000-07:00