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Mr. Cleen, If You Please

So we're all back from a successful trip to Austin. We all got to do some cool, fun tattoos and I'll post those later this week. Our next phase of construction in the shop was started today. Mr. Adam Hatch was in the house all day with his crew tearing down a wall, extending a window. For some reason I'm super excited about the window. I reeeeally like it. A lot. Sometimes I wonder who the hell I've become when something like a hole in a wall really makes me happy.

Anyway I've got no photos for you today but what I do have is a link to a sweet interview of Cris Cleen over at Rambling Forever. So put on your fancy shoes and hat, head on over there and read it.

Tell your friends.

Happy New Year people!
So I spent the holidays in New York, been busy since I got back tattooing, and getting ready for Austin (see you this weekend!!), drawing, makin' t-shirts, business cards, making a new portfolio (my current portfolio is held together with ducktape and has no back so I guess it's time), unpacking, repacking...yeehaw! We had an awesome shop party for X-MAS and I really want to share some photos with everyone but that'll have to wait until I have more time for editing, etc.

Everyone else at the shop has been busy with tattooing and life so this is going to be a short post with a few pictures but I just wanted to let everyone know this blog is still in action and look forward to some good pictures from Austin in the next post ( see the October 27 post for pictures from last year's Austin convention).

Oh! And? The shop is going to be closed on Jan. 24, 25th because we're doing more construction. Yes. More. Construction. But this time I didn't let Adam talk me into starting it 5 days before I leave for a trip (he tried again, believe me).

So, J. Don, Cris, and I will all be in Austin tattooing our little asses off. Tell your friends.

holly

jason

jason (on jerry!)

cris

xoxo

Less Chat, More Tat

In alphabetical order:

Jason Donahue

Cris Cleen, the little one on the right

Erik

Jason

Holly

Iggy

Cris

Erik

Aaron

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Merry Happy Winter Solstice and Kwanzaa, Happy Birthday Rod Sirling and Huphrey Bogart and Sir Isaac Newton and Jimmy Buffett and Barbara Mandrell and Sissy Sapek and Shane MacGowan and Annie Lennox and most importantly of all, Happy Birthday Miss Charlotte Hanel, prettiest girl in the whole world.

Lower Haight Art Walk

As I sit in the shop writing this, the street outside has erupted into a Christmas freak show of wasted Santa Clauses and elves. I walked into Molotov's, the bar across the street, at 4pm and was surrounded by them, and their sweaty costumed bodies. A few drunken verses of Jingle Bell's later and a quick photo or two of the angry punks behind the bar and I was out of there! What the hell! I love this neighborhood! I loved this neighborhood last Friday night when we had the Lower Haight Art Walk. There were hundreds, I mean HUNDREDS of people walking around this neighborhood. It was incredible. I think we did 21 "Get What You Get" tattoos. Justing Shaw was here, Dave Moore was here, Bart came by and did a few, Cecelia had an awesome welcome to the shop. Lots of art was sold at the Lower Haters art show and, my personal favorite (and I think quite a lot of other's favorite also) was Hightower playing on the roof of the shop! We had no idea what madness we were about to embark upon when the evening began, and I think the last tattoo was finished at 2am. Everyone agreed the evening was a huge success and we are all looking forward to the next one.

So without further ado, less talky, more...um... yeah...

Here are some tattoos done during the week: