Everything is Super Man

 I just watched a video I posted over a year ago and I was shocked by the difference I see in the shop just from that short video. Iggy and Aaron are both now fathers, we've had artists come and go, shop guys/gals come and go, more walls got knocked down. We've had arguments, lots of meetings, travels, field trips, many many MANY bottles of Fernet. And at the core, we're still Idle Hand, a group of underdogs that no one else wanted who have found ways to build a name for ourselves, get along and (dare I say????!!) love each other. That's right you jerks! I love you! Shut up.

You know what else I love?? ART WALK! That's right...tomorrow Friday, Dec. 2, from 6pm - 9pm Lower Haight is having its quarterly art walk. We are having Hightower play at 8PM and we'll being doing Get What You Get tattoos again. This time we'll be doing Get What You Gets all day starting from 1pm until Whenever-the-Hell-we-Get Sick-of-Your-Face (which could be anywhere from 9pm - 2am). So spread the word.

 

Cris

 

Cris

 

Cris

 

Cris

 

Cris

 

Cris and Isaac?

 

Painting by Cris Cleen

 

Cris

 

Cris

 

While I'm not sure where the boundaries lie in posting photos of the babies in the shop, I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to post photos of their puke. This one, courtesy of Miss Maddy Hodges

 

Holly pasting together her stencil

 

Holly (in progress)

 

Holly (in progress Brinkley girl/SF sleeve)

 

Holly (in progress)

 

Holly (in progress)

 

Iggy

 

Iggy

 

Iggy

 

Iggy

 

Isaac molesting Jason

 

Jason

 

Jason

 

Jason

 

Jason (in progress)

 

Jason

 

Cris

 

Cris tattooing Jason. Without his shirt on.

See you Friday!!!

i'm baaaaaackkkkkkk

Hello Everybody! Jason and I got back from our European adventure fully intact and inspired! What an amazing trip! I can't wait to share our stories and pictures with you. Problem is, I really suck at getting my pictures together. So I'll be working on that and by the time I'm finished it'll be next year but whatever! It'll be worth it! We travelled between France and Spain, did 2 tattoo conventions, made tons of new friends and ate lots and lots and lots of baguettes.

When we got back we had a few days to rest and then went on to the State of Grace Tattoo Convention which usually takes place in San Jose but this year they moved it to The San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency. I must say I really liked this location a lot more than any of their previous spots. The State of Grace convention has an amazing roster of artists and the location always seemed to detract a bit from that. They had to scale down this year because of room and I think that made for a nicer, more intimate convention. You could probably hit a convention every weekend of the year if you really wanted to but seriously the quality of most conventions isn't so good. If you live in the Bay Area or near this will be the convention you want to go to. If you want to look at cars and wet t-shirt contests, you'll want to go to a different convention. A few highlights of the convention were the release and signing of Grime's new book Iron Will and the Chris Conn Seminar. All in all it was an unbelievably inspiring weekend. Jason and Iggy worked the booth and did some fun tattoos and everyone basically had a really good time visiting old friends and making new ones.

Apparently the only pictures I took the whole weekend were this one showing the boys and the banner...

the boys and the table...

and this dude being amazed by JDon's portfolio...

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Also, before I left the new issue of Tattoo Energy (no.67) came out with a stellar article on our very own Cris Cleen. Here are some crappy pictures he took with his phone but you should really just go out and buy a copy: 

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Guess what??!! It's that time of year again. The Lower Haight Art Walk will be Friday, Dec. 3. We will of course be doing more Get What You Gets and Hightower will be playing the roof again!! Don't miss it! I'll write another reminder post in a week or 2 but mark your calendar's now!!!

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And now for some pictures.

Trip out on this:

Holly

Holly

Jason (aka JDon)

Jason

Jason

Jason

Jason (in progress)

Jason

Jason

Jason

Jason (in progess)

Jason

Jason

Jason

Jason

Erik

Erik

Cris

Cris

Cris

Cris

Cris

Cris

Cris

Cris

Cris

Cris

My awesome client brought in all of these goodies for us! The boys proceeded to get cracked out on sugar...

Jason!!

Aaron!!

eye-ma'am!

Swim With The Wolfpack!!

Jason Tyler Grace is coming back to SF and back to Idle Hand Tattoo!!  For a very short visit though! Jason will be here January 2nd-15th.  If u wish to book an appointment, contact Isaac at Idle Hand Mon-Fri.  His calendar is booking up quick, so get in touch as soon as possible. If you live in SF you can make appointments in person at Idle Hand Tattoo. A $100 Deposit is required, so come prepared with the artwork reference and a cash deposit.  For customers from out of town please feel free to call the shop and Isaac can give instructions on how to email reference material and a paypal depost.