tats on the way

here are some flash. they need few corrections and then will be ready for skin transfer in the next weeks, i'll post pictures of the final result as soon as it gets done.
plus, a black rose i did few weeks ago, the picture doesn't really do it justice, it actually came out pretty cute.
boring post, i am aware, so what?

double slaughter

This was done done in the name of what I called Real and later on still called Real, only to realize no matter how I called it, it was nothing but a One Way Lie.
Never trust an ex vegan by the way.

Pencil + Ink + Emotional Wreckage on paper.

(NO) FUN

Here are some pics of the ispo 2010 in munich. Chiara and I worked as tattooers at the Warriors booth. We were mega busy all the time, lots of people actually agreed to get a free Warriors logo tattoo, including some of the security dudes and a 50 years random woman who was walking by. She said she was trying to give meaning to her life and has been experiencing different things she thought she would never do. She said she went skydiving last month; apparently this month's Life-purpose Jolly was a free bat tattoo.
I got to tattoo some of the best european skateboarders and I managed to stab the cutest one (rob smith, in the pics. he got the tat on the arm joint, so it flaps when he moves the arm) with the tattoo machine, when his friend crashed drunk over the table while i was working. The ispo was giving away tons of free beers so there was a time around 5pm when everyone was absolutely wasted and impossible to deal with. We had to create human barriers around the tattoo table to avoid crashes and heavy cursing from my mouth.
Due to the high level of alcoholic intake, everyone who got tattooed was bleeding like a motherfucker, while everyone else was just bleeding from various skateboarding accidents. Why does everything I do for fun involve cuts and bruises? Is my life wrong?

warriors skateboards

Pics and interview of the Warriors team on Bastard's zine.
I've done 2 deck design for them, check them out. These guys rule AND you will find me teaming up with them in Munich February 7/10 for the ISPO. I will be at their stand, dressed up as a pirate, tattooing their bat logo on random fools. Come get some, or not.
www.warriorsskateboards.com

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illustration

i like suitcases

NEBULA-VERACRASH-LOUDNINE

Semantically quoting Gustave Courbet.

New Painting: A Portrait

Here's my newest work of paint, I was commissioned a portrait. When I told my friend Ashley she said it was a very unusual commission, but apparently in Italy it's pretty common to have paintings/drawings describing you/your family/ancestors.
So anyway, my roommate's mom, after giving her body in my hands for tattoo practices, she also asked me to basically trade 2 months worth of rent for a painting of her. Trade mega rules.
She wanted it "cecilia's style" but without the creepy/skull-like things. She agreed for the weird twist though. I asked topics she liked and/or liked to see painted with her, and we came up with reading books quietly and country flowers. She posed, I made the flowers into her, inspired by the Anatomy Atlas by Taschen Editions that I've been consulting obsessively.
((if any of you out there, ever wants to give me a present, go here http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/00307/facts.atlas_of_anatomy.htm and buy or shoplift it for me))
G. wanted the book to be H.Roth "call it sleep" so i researched the first publication of the novel and echoed the cover's design. I added some tattoo-derived decorations (art nouveau marvels) around the head, crowns of rays and pearls...
Even though you are never supposed to sign a painting, like buddhist artists teach, I signed inside a coffeecup stamp that i bought in portland, OR, just because i tough it was cute and fun.
I also like that i don't have to worry about rent for the next 2 months.