Koenji desu!

We are back at our second home...Koenji, Tokyo, Japan!! Soooo good to be back. After a nice flight were I had the pleasure of watching the latest action crap that I wouldn't( get to see anywhere else than in a plane...this time GI Joe) we got safely to Ink Rat where I got thrown right into a few customer consultations. Well we have had our coffee from our local cafe, browsed at our seven eleven and now we are unpacking at our flat that this time has it's own internet and everything!!! In a sec we will go back to Ink Rat where we will hook up with our little Cali buddy Jon and Brian for some Freshness burger action...later dinner...

See you soon with some pictures to go with the tales from Japan!

Leaaaaving on a jet plane....

...but my bags are not packed...yet...so this will be a quick post.

Here is what I have spend the last couple of days on.

First up we have a new Super trooper!! That's right folks!! This guy proved that you don't have to come from the other side of the world to toughen up and sit for a looooong time! This here viking sat like the super trooper he is for 8 and a half hours! Good job!!



Today I had a crazy busy day. Went to the bank to order yen. Went to a different bank to pay the deposit for the new shop. Went to the post office to send the lease for the new shop. Then it was time to go to work! This British fellow tat zapper got his bat on.



I was supposed to have my new dirty antler girls prints today but they didn't turn out perfect so I will have to start all over with taking pictures of the painting and look at different paper and shit when we get back from Japan. I do promise that I will keep working on getting the boards to the shop asap and as soon as we are back I will look into shipping the Satanic Antler lady out to the rest of the world. That also goes for the Uncle A/Chriss Dettmer prints.

But now I gotta pack!! See you from Japan!

All that Jazzzzz

Today was second session on this here Jazz age chick. Today we added something for her to listen to. We thought that this here lady were all about the Jazz but it turns out that she is waaaay ahead of her time and totally digs Bruce Springsteen. That's what she is listening to right here on this here arm. Who would have thought? Due to travels and stuff we won't be able to work on this until sometime in January. Sigh!!




...Did I mention that we are going to Japan on Friday?? AWESOMEEEEEEE!!!!

Just a quick one before bedtime...

I have been meaning to do this post all weekend but other things got in the way...like a couch...food...coffee...important stuff! Well here is what I started Friday. I know it has been a while since I posted any in progress picture but here is one. It will be dark. Ohhh yes!! Mostly black and a bit of red...still debating about a putting a bit of green in there as well or just keep it ohh so simple! Any thoughts?



Here is a little thing I spat out tonight. It's kinda a test of some new style of antler girls. I wanna try something more rough sketchy style and also switch the victorian look with a more everyday (but still sexy) kinda thing. We will see where this will end soon enough. Here is a tease to begin with.

Now it is time for bed!

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!

NEWS from the Conspiracy Inc. world. We will be moving to a bigger better place. Go see the teaser here.

I have been working on taking pictures of the dirty antler girls all day so it looks like they will be ready for your xmas shopping. Who doesn't want to open a sexy present on xmas? Sexy you ask? Well too sexy for some apparently. Last night I censored all the dirty stuff with pixels and put them on my myspace. I went for a walk with Lucifer and when I came back all the paintings were deleted and I had gotten a mail from Myspace telling me that they had deleted some picture that were to dirty for myspace. I am guessing that some one saw them and snitched on me since it went so fast. How else would they know 5 min after I uploaded them? Well now they are back up on my profile with Mysoace Toms big head on top of all the dirtyness. You can still enjoy them here but even more if you buy the prints when they get here. More about that as soon as I figure everything out.

Later Bloggers!!

WARNING!!!! This post contains Naked Antler Girls!!

Thaaaaat's right!! I am finally done with all four very sexyfull, nakid antler ladies!! It has taken me long enough but with what little time I have outside of tattooing I guess it wasn't too bad. The plan is still to make a limited batch of fine ass prints of these babies so keep and eye on this here blog for info about this. Since we are going to Japan for 3 weeks soon it might not be until after we are back...BUT in time for ya'll to get it before xmas...wink wink!! When we figure it all out there will also be a way to order the Satanic antler lady who previously only have been for sale at the London Convention and the shop. She is a bit bigger that the other prints so we have had a hard time finding the right transportation for this fine lady with out stuffing her into a gigantic tube of some kind. So the plan is to have them ready for sale in the beginning of December.

But now...Here they are:

Goatwhore and cupcakes.

Monsieur Joseph, maker of ladies undergarments, came back for his two new pieces, picturing the tools of his trade. He previously got the inside of his upper arms done by me and this time he went for the lower arms.
With him from Paris he brought cakes that he found appropriate for a shop of the Heavy Metals as our own... fairy cakes. And what better way to enjoy a delicious fairy cake than with the soothing sound of satanic metal and a good cup of coffee? Thank you Monsieur J for the treat!

Left, Thursday.

Right, Friday.

Hazardous mutation

Marcus got his sleeve of Radioactive madness finished the other day. We had some background left and some colours in the fishes but that was it... one sleeve done!
I got to warn you all that this tattoo is based on real events.

This tells the story about what can happen if you dump nuclear waste in a pond. This poor fisher man got in serious trouble one fine Sunday morning when he went fishing for the European perch. Little did he know that some big dirty industrial baddy corporation had been dumping their radioactive waste in the little pond and that this had resolved in the mutation of all living in the nice little pond. The flowers had grown huge, the perches were the size of a small whale and there were now a giant monster of an octopus ruling the waters.


Here in this tattoo we see the struggle between the helpless fisherman and the giant pond monster. Will he make it out alive? We don't know but we do know that if he does survive, no one will ever believe him. He simply drinks to much. You can tell by the red wine nose and the red cheeks. I guess there is two morals of this story. Don't throw nuclear waste in your pond...who knows what will come out of that radioactive green water. And don't drink too much...people won't believe you if you see a big bad monster in the pond.

A little something to think about!!

The Black Rider

I got me a new set of wheels...FROM HELL!!!
It's not like I have given in to the cult of fixies (that would be the death of me...no really...I would kill myself on one of those) but I really wanted something that wasn't killing me every time I had to get to the shop in a hurry. My other big bike, that I am keeping for transport purposes, is really heavy to ride which is nice when you are cruising but when you just want to get somewhere fast...well, then it's not really all that awesome.
The thought of a faster bike had been brewing in my head for a while but when I saw a picture of my friend Matthias' new black bike (also check out his crazy Bike crew) I was in love. I had just written him a mail, telling him that I was thinking about getting a faster bike, when I went for a walk with Lucifer and decided to go in and talk to the local bike shop about a bike for Amalie. That went so well that I decided to talk to him about something for me. I turn around and there is a black bike staring at me. It was a sign!! Nice, black, cheap and nothing too fancy but still made well. So without thinking to much about it (or at all) I heard myself say; "I'll take it!!"
So today he had finished it and given it the black handle that I wanted. Now, there still is a few things that could be made black but that might happen later. I would like to get rid of the fenders as well to make it look more simple and nice but since there most likely will be a lot of rain in the next couple of months, I think I will keep them on for now. Now I just have get used to ride on a real bike and I can't wait to take it for a real ride, full speed ahead with Goatwhore blasting in my ears...or maybe Judas Priest, painkiller!

Treasures from below

Amalie went down to the basement to find some winter clothes but with her from the deep she brought these fine jewels. We are not sure if they work but even if they don't they will look awesome on my shelf. Soon they will get cleaned up and dried and taken for some tests. Who knows what these fine machines will bring.

The chances of anything coming from mars is a million to one...

...But still they come!!!

Last night we had our War Of The Worlds geek night...a WOTW marathon!!! Awesome!! Tripod High five!!
Amalie and me started our second day of our extended weekend with some nice coffee and buying what was needed for this night of crazy tripodness.





I have a thing for synthetic tasting stuff and specially sodas so I got us a good selection in case others wanted to join me. Root beer, Funny blue sodas, strawberry and lime and cream soda. Also cheddar cheese chips was needed.


Nick had to work so Amalie, young and I started with what had brought us all together for this event: The musical version of War Of The Worlds. Many of you frequent readers and the frequent visitors of our shop knows how we love this musical masterpiece. In fact I grew up with it...hell, my mom was listening to it while in the hospital, waiting to give birth to me...That's how long I have been a fan!!
Well Young made delicious muffins that we enjoyed with some of my crazy sodas while watching the live concert of Jeff Waynes masterpiece.








After that awesomeness Nick was done working and came over in time to make these epic tripod burgers. Here spotted helping their tripod buddies destroying Thunderchild...man's last hope of survival.


After awesome homemade martian burgers we continued our marathon with War Of the worlds movie from 1953. Kinda funny but I think we all kinda dozed off now and then after the meat overdose.
But then it was time for Tom Cruise to take action against the martians. Awesome and yet terrible...but awesome!!







We ended the night with something not from mars but still damn awesome and epic: Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog. More musical madness!! Awesome! Musical high five!!

Jellyfishy

Mads got his little jellyfish finished the other day. I had decided to do all the lines in brown so it looks more softish. Hope it makes as much sense here in the pictures as it does on his arm.



Tonight is geek night!! Nick and Young is coming over for the grande War Of The Worlds marathon!! Now I don't wanna spoil all the blog fun so you will have to wait and see what that inkludes!! Later

Swedish ladies

These two tattoos now belongs to some great Swedish gals. Linda who already have gotten a nice little horse done by me got this peacock on the other arm to go with it. Damn all those feathers... well the picture isn't that clear and a lot of the ink got stuck on top of all the nice small lighter lines I did in the tail feathers so I hope I can bring a better picture later when it is nice and healed.




Felicia came back (and brought some awesome stuffed birds and antlers...thaaaaaank you guys!!!) to finish her snooty opera watching older lady. Also know as Lady Von Schnutenberg among Opera lovers around the world. She is known for her harsh critical comments on worldly matters, opera and ballet. Not to mess with.


The satanic Antler lady with the sacrificial lamb print is now for sale at conspiracy Inc. and is limited to 60 copies (hand signed and numbered). The satanic Dettmer/Unlce A print is also for sale. Prints is limited to 60 sets (hand signed and numbered). The split tshirt set is also for sale. Limited to 50 sets and only Medium left. Take your friend by the hand and drop by and buy a set...or two so you can take turn to be Dettmer or me. Awesome!!

Sneak peak of the shirts and prints here.

The dirty antler girls is coming along fine so hopefully it won't be too long before you dirty people can get your hands on these naughty prints. Update later.

See you soon!

This is from London, i'nit

from the taxi.

There was a lot of taking pictures of people taking pictures this weekend.

Me on the tube

Hata...sooo hot right now, Hata!

Another camera shot

...And a nother...

Model shoot with the faaaamous new model Hata.

Me at the marked sunday morning.

Amalies getting her picture taken by Anki...and me

Here we go again...with the camera shots...Hanna da kapt'n, i'nit

multiple London poses by Kent

Hunter

Amalie and her awesome birdnest hat that she made.

Foggy London Town

Just got back from this years London Convention. A great and busy weekend in good company of friends that we only get to see a few times a year on events like this. That is one of the best things about these conventions, getting to hang with our friends from all over the world. This year we hung with the Uk, Germany, Japan, USA and Sweden. Pretty international if you ask me. Good to see you all again!!

Me and my trusty convention buddy, Chriss Dettmer had prepared a whole bunch of new merch for this convention. It was a big deal for Chriss who the first conventions we did together didn't even have a banner, businesscards or portfolio... not this time!! He had EVERYTHING! Stickers, postcards, many different tshirts, flash, prints and portfolio. Too bad that people wasn't in a big shopping mode as they were the last couple of years. We still sold pretty good but there is still some of our limited prints and shirts and also my new antler lady print left. I will post a blog post about how to buy them and prices and stuff soon.

One thing that really really sucked about this weekend was that we were a lot of artists that was under the impression that the convention was closing late every night...well that was only the bar and the convention closed early like always. This mend that I had to cancel 2 appointments because I wouldn't have been able to finish in time. This really really sucked and I do not like to not be able to keep appointments like this. I hope I do get to do these 2 pieces sometime in Copenhagen and make it up for this.

So here is a the tattoos that I did...eccept for one that didn't turn out so well on the picture...an awesome ape it was...sad...but here is the rest.

The booth from HELL

Satanic teapot from hell.

Amy's typewriter.

Sarah Louise's Cage.

April's Mingo

Sad sad xmas.

This years London Convention was supposed to be the big xmas party when it came to merch...and it still will be BUT one of the bigger "presents" will be missing. We were supposed to have the skateboards that Chriss Dettmer and I did for Substance Abuse for sale at the convention but things got screwed up and it was too late. There will still be prints with the awesome designs and tshirts (buddy shirts that will form the skull when you guys stand next to each other) and my new satanic antler lady plus free stickers and new cards and shit so there will be stuff to spend money on.

For those of you, who are within travel distance of the shop, there will boards for sale at the shop later on when we figure out how many to get. If any of you want to reserve a board to make sure to get one then please let me know. Same goes if you want both boards, let me know because I won't get as many Chriss boards as my own so it would be nice to have an idea. So until further notice please let me know if you wanna reserve one. You can leave a comment or write to my mail at onkelallan@gmail.com.

For those of you, who can't drop by the shop and buy one you can order it through this page.

More merch news and stuff soon. I am a bit busy working on getting everything ready for London and have also been trying to get as much done on my dirty antler ladies...2 almost done! Keep swinging by!!

About time

It surely was about time that we finished this piece started almost a year ago. Well that's what happens when both the customer and the tattooer is busy all the time. We might come back and add a bit here and there when he decides what to get on the inside, above and next to it.


A big congratulation (in advance) and good luck with the baby!! When ever it happens. All the best from us!!


This next piece took a bit longer than we had expected. The first two sessions were really tough and frustrating because he bled a lot...really!! The session where we did all the black shading was a battle against the blood. In the end I had to throw in the towel after a way to short session and leave it with only black shading. That was why I was a bit concerned before this last session. For reason not clear to me we managed to put in all the rest of the colours...almost 7 hours and therefore a new trooper is added to the HALL OF FAME. Good job!!

Skate boards from HELL!!!

They are here!! They are finally here!!! The skate boards from hell...or from me and Chriss Dettmers desks. The boards that we have designed for Substance Abuse is ready to buy HERE. This is actually the design that we made for our split banner for the London convention this year...ok ok I will post my original design later in the post!

The decks from hell!! And you don't even have to pay with your soul!!

Well this will also be made as tshirts and prints. Both only available in pairs so you will get the full Uncle A/Dettmer effect!

The new and evil Uncle A logo that will be found on the back of the new tshirt.

If everything goes as planned we will have a few decks for sale at the London Convention, signed and everything. The prints and shirt should hopefully also make it there in time!! Fingers crossed. So save your money and come and spend them on our crap at the convention.

My painting and half of the banner for London.

To end this evil post of goodies...here is Youngs birthday rockin' Unicorn.

Sex and Satan

As promised I bring you a little taste of what I am working on. Now this isn't for kids.
If everything goes as planed these young ladies will be made into a set of prints and hopefully sooner than later. I realize that I might have set this goal a bit to high to follow through...BUT...I would love to have them ready for the upcoming London convention. Well the drawings are done and hopefully tonight at least one will be inked onto paper, ready to get coloured.

I will keep you posted on the progress of these horned ladies.
Now go listen to Slayer or something.

SKATE OR DIE

Friday and Monday both were skate tattoos. Turns out the guys were friends too.

The light turquoise got a little dirty looking in the end. Hope I will get a better picture later.

In other news:

For those of you who will be attending this years London Tattoo Convention there will be good reason to save up those hard earned money because there will be plenty of new merch delights from myself and my convention partner Chriss Dettmer. We have made a split banner (two banners where we have made half of a design each) that we will have as a limited edition print of 50 sets, hand numbered and signed. You will have to by the set so you get the whole deal as it is supposed to be seen but it will be worth it. These gems will be printed on nice heavy watercolour-like paper to make it all fancy and delish.
We will also have these designs as tshirts. This too will be sold in sets so you and your friend can stand together and make the design come together as it was supposed to be seen...and it will bring you and your buddy closer together!!
As if that wasn't enough then we have gotten a skate board company, Substance Abuse, to print them as skate boards! They look freaking raaad!!!
As mentioned before then I will have the first antler lady print ready for London as well. The little Satanic antler lady and her lamb will be printed on nice thick heavy paper as well and there will only be printed 60 of her. All hand signed and numbered. My plan so far is to bring 20 to London and the last 40 will be sold from the following week at the shop and through this blog. So fear not bloggers from around the globe, you will get your chance too. More Info about how it will go down later.

I will post pictures and prices later when I know more so no reason to write about it yet.

Also... I am working on some more new paintings. I have a bunch lined out but am still trying to figure out how dirty to go on these antler ladies. Let's just say that they don't have that much clothes on and they like to explore their bodies...hmmrr hmrrr... I might post a few sketches tomorrow since it is my drawing day off. Anyway...if everything goes well they might get in the mix of prints as well while I am at it.

Well later then!!

Love Love

Last Thursday Amalie and I could celebrate our 8 year wedding anniversary. We had the best day at home just hanging out and doing stuff...tried to keep the work stuff to a minimum. Later Amalie had prepared a surprise entertainment of the evening. We are both a bid whale crazy these days so when it turned out that we were gonna see a movie about whales and dolphins...in 3d then that was just perfect for a geek couple like us. After the movie we went out to eat at an Italian restaurant where there is only one menu a day. A whole bunch of starters of all sorts, original Italian tomato soup, pasta, main dish and desert... delish. After all that food we ended up on the couch for some more hanging out...Perfect day!

Jeg elsker dig baby!

Tattooings

Due to more busy days without any time to blog, here is a sum up of the last couple of days tattoos.

We went to work on Sunday since our good friend Kapten Hanna was in town. She were kind enough to make the most majestic Swedish unicorn on Amalie. Go check that awesome thing out here.
After she was done tattooing Amalie it was my turn to return the favour and I do so by putting her two dogs Bela and Wednesday on her arm...I know it is really crazy how much it looks like photographs but I promise you that it is tattoos. I get confused myself by how realistic they look!!

Wednesday

Bela.

Monday was also super realistis animal day. Just look at them!! It is like she has real birds on her thigh!! Crazy.

Today I got to finish this little Dali inspired piece. Well I know there isn't that much Dali left but that was the main idea to begin with.

Tomorrow I might be able to post some more news about merch and stuff!! Interesting news!!!

Holy Mother Of....

I the middle of doing all my pure evil paintings I maneged to finally finish this holy mother.
I don't do that much black and grey stuf but I usually really enjoy it. Specially if it is something to do with roses and people. Well here it is...


Now back to doing evilness and satanic skateboards... more about that soon enough.

More Than Meets The Eye

This is yesterdays doing. Another Pet tribute! One of my favourite things to tattoo.
This is actually my second guinea pig tattoo...funny!!




Soon...Paintings and stuff.

A dog in the sun

Here is a little tribute to our little Lucifer who got both his knees operated on last week. The means that he can't walk that much and he is not allowed to jump up or down from stuff or run. Hard for a small dog who used to do that all the time but for the next loooong time he will not be allowed to do any of that. We can see that he is getting better and better but that also means that he wants to jump down from stuff again and run...but he can't so we have to watch him all the time.

Here is a few pictures of him enjoying the sun in Bisserup.

Twilight

I always love geeky tattoos. This one is a tribute to the Twilight books. I havn't read them myself or seen the movie but she had laid out all the info for me so it worked out.
I should also mention that with her lasting 7 and a half hours she gained the prestigious title of trooper! Good job (also to Sara who lasted 6 and a half the day before. The tattoo was just too red to take a picture of...Still good job!!)


And thanks for alllllll the chocolate and the cake!! I am still saving the chocolate for the perfect movie night.

Going for a walk

Once again I am lacking behind on my blog posts! Sorry!! I really wanna get back into posting almost every day. Everything has just been crazy lately with us beeing sick from some food we ate. It took more than 2 weeks before we were all back to normal again...for me that was a couple of days ago.
Well enough excuses.

Here is some pictures from our extra trip to Bisserup. We went there a little while ago for vacation but that was where we got sick so we didn't really get to enjoy it too much so we went back for an extra weekend.

More antler action!

This is what I finished today. We had done all the lines before so that is why some of the details like the eye looks a bit strange. It might take some time before I can get a real picture of this Swedish antler girl so this will have to do for now!




All lot to report and tell but now I got to attend to my self and relax after a loong but good day.

Lamb of "god"?

Back from 2 weeks of vacation where we spend a lot of the last week being sick. Of well! We are back!

This is what I was working on while being in a nice sunny summer vacation house near forrest and beach! This will be mad as a print on some niiiiiice paper!! It will be awesome and also very limited!! So far I am thinking 50 hand numbered and hand signed. This will be sold for the first time on the London convention in September and the rest will be sold at the shop or here through Paypal. More info when I get to it! But here she is! In all her evilness!!!

WHAT THE FUCK???

This clip is not from some police state or some strange republic where the people don't have any rights... this is from last night in Copenhagen, Denmark...where I live.

It will take to long to get into the details of the demonstration and the way I see it, then it doesn't even matter what the course was either (well it did but not for the point here...But that is really really insane so I can't get into that). What scares me here is how brutal and aggressive these militant cops (this is the regular Danish police) are. There is NO excuse for this kind of brutality. NO reason at all.

I have seen many cases of police brutality in person but usually it has been in riot like scenarios or at least demonstrations where there has been something going on where they can hide this kind of behaviour behind the excuse of getting attacked but what is the excuse here. "Well I had to hit that young girl 8 times because she just kept sitting there. I was scared! What could I do?"

I am shocked and ashamed that this is what the Danish Police force is like. This is who they are now. What happened to the nice police officer who is there to protect and serve? Who let the police become a bunch of brutal hooligans who beats up defenceless young people who sits down on the ground just to spray them with pepperspay right in their faces?

There is supposed to be a complaint made out to the police after this but that shouldn't even be necessary...the evidence is right here!! They went too far!! End of story! But as always nothing will happen. It is the police we are talking about...the "law"...if they still remember that there is such a thing.

I know that there is some many worse things going on in the world but these people are the ones who are supposed to protect us and not be our enemy!

Here is another "best of" of our finest!

Angry Uncle!!

Up next...pretty pictures of tattoos and stuff!!

Hit The Lights

This last week has been busy but good and eventful. We had our German friend Eckel working with us. Great guy and I hope he will come back to us soon. He was one of these really easy guests who took care of himself and didn't need any big help or anything.
This week I also went to Metallica who were playing not one but five shows in Copenhagen. With them they had Lamb Of God and Mastodon who I was most excited about seeing. Unfortunately they were given the first spot of 25 minutes and with the smallest setup on stage and with the worst sound ever. I really hope they are coming back on a headliner tour soon! After that Lamb Of God played for about 50 min. It was like the sound guy were starting to wake up a bit but the sound still wasn't the best. Metallica played for 2 hours and if it hadn't been for Lars' lack of rythmic skills it would have been an awesome show...well that and the way to many new songs. But other than that it was fun! Laser, fire big floating coffins that held the many lamps that made a crazy lightshow. Good stuff.



This week was another international week. One day we had Denmark, Germany, Finland, Australia, The UK and Austria represented. Crazy. Well my new Finnish friend got a really nice Olympus camera tattooed. As a Photo geek I was very excited to do this.



Friday I tattooed Eric who works on and off in Helsingør. Great guy. It was a very relaxed day where we just hung out while I tried to do my design. Wehad planed the day so I only had him so we had time to hang out and not just tattoo him and rush him out the door. More good times.



Well a bunch of other things happened and it has been a fun but busy week but now it is vacation time!!! Hopefully this will mean a lot of drawing and painting and photographing.
Today I hope to get on with my Death Metal banner for London where Chiss D and I will share booth and make two banners that fits together. Hopefully this will also become skateboards, tshirts and prints but more about this later!

Shake it like a polarized picture

These pictures is all just random Iphone pictures taken with the Polarize app. Pretty nifty. It might not be the best phone camera but with a little help from some applications, it ain't too bad. You take a picture and it turns it into what you see here. Then you can choose to tag it with a "hand writing".

First some more recent pictures from this years Roskilde Festival and hanging with our new friends in Cancer Bats and Co.

My Birthday this year with our friends in Hamburg.

Some shots from California this year.

Coffee on Vesterbro

Our last trip to Japan this spring

Just a little random post. Hope you liked it anyway.

Here comes the rooster.

Björns Rooster was done in 2 sessions so the lines looks a bit pale next to all the fresh colours but it will have to do for now.

Rats and whales!!

I'm sorry but I am way too busy watching Whale Wars to come up with a good text for this post...although it deserves it!! I'm just here waiting for Ninjavideo to stream some more of the episode that we are watching right now.
Well both these guys did well!!! Good people and good pieces. Now enjoy while I Watch some more whale show!!

Scott's Roman Lady.

Martin's Rats.

Also check this trailer out!! The Cove

It's a loooong road

Today I did my flash sheet for Tattoo Artist Magazine.
I had decided to do a Rambo flash sheet...don't ask why because I don't know how that happened! Well here it is..well the shitty scanned version of it that is. BUT This is not for grabs anyway! If you wanna use this then please buy the flash through the magazine.

Warning! Rant ahead:

This was brought to my attention the other day:

Apparently sleazy rock party promoters are the only ones doing anything for the Danish tattoo scene!
Before i was informed of this, i had no idea that making parties at nightclubs, with strippers, a way too young audience, loads of drunk people, tattooing in a backroom of the club, offering the logo of the event tattooed for free, was considered doing something for the "scene"!
No idea... I would not have guessed it!
Silly me, here I was, thinking that the people making a difference for the Danish tattoo scene were the tattooers, who tried to show people what is going on it the wide world of tattooing, travelling and educating themselves, and raising the standard of tattooing.
The ones who are trying to educate customers about what to look for when getting a tattoo.
The people who are promoting great tattooers by showing their work and telling the people what is actually possible these days.
But I was wrong. I was thinking about sooo many different people but no... Party promoters!! That's who!!
Now that i think about it, I bet that's how it is all over the world.
And come to think of it... how about the people who create clothing lines with tattoo designs on them? They got it right too I guess!! Awesome people!!
Good job assholes!! Don't expect a thank you basket from me any time soon!!

Hail Destroyer

2004 was the last time Amalie and me went to the Roskilde Festival but this year ouf friend Stan hooked us up with free tickets incl. fancy Media tickets which gives you free pass to better toilets, shortcuts, shorter lines for bars and food and a bunch of asskissers. Stan was on tour with Cancer Bats who I really like so that was perfect!

Stan our Roskilde dealer

We didn't want to do the whole camping thing so we decided to go back and forth every day with Wookie as our driver. The band ended up doing the same. Half of them stayed with Wookie and the rest with us. It was fun having new friends as house guests.



Friday was maaaad busy but fun...and hotter than hell. We got to see Isis, Faith No More, Down 2 songs of Satyricon, and I ended the day with Nine Inch Nails. Sooooooo goood!!!
Amalie has a better report of the day and more pictures HERE.




Saturday started a bit late. Wookie had to fix something with his car so I missed Dawn Of Demise where my buddy Jacob was gonna sing along on the last song. BUT we made it there in time to see our new friends Cancer Bats play a really awesome show!!








Since we had the fancy passes we could see the show from the stage but we quickly decided to go in front of the stage so we could see and hear them better.

Uuuhhh...Fancy Pass!!

After kicking ass for an hour in the summer heat we all chilled in the promised land called backstage where the drinks are cold and free and there is food and cake for free as well. There wasn't anything any of us wanted to see that day anyway so we hung out there for a few hours. Later I some how got talked into going to see Slipknot. I hate them and wasn't planing on going anywhere near the stage where they were playing but everyone was going and after hearing rumours about their show (spinning drums and fire) I was tricked into going anyway. Well...I actually think I hate them more now! There was spinning drums and A LOT of fire (that we could feel waaaaay back where we stood) but I just can't stand clowns and gimmick bands like that...and the sounds sucked sooo bad too.



We hung out a bit after that and then went over to try to see Fever Ray. There were way to many people so we just went home instead.

More Amalie stories from saturday HERE.


Sunday started with brunch in Copenhagen before going back to Roskilde for the last (and busy) day. After sitting in a traffic Jam for a looong time we just made it in time to see Neurosis. We had to go before the show was over to go see Eagels Of Death Metal. Thay Rocked hard as always and the Band and Co. came and saw most of the show before they had to leave so it was a good goodbuy (or See you later).
Before EODM was done we had to run to the next stage to see M ward. MMMMMM.....Ward! Sooooo goood! We got some good spots right in front of the stage a bit to the side so there was no one behind us. Good show!! After that we were starting to feel full. We went to see the end of The Bronx, who I had heard so many good things about but I couldn't focus on listening to new music. While we looked for food we listened to the last song from Madness before we went over to see Yeah yeah yeahs. We were all just way to warn out by this time so even though they rocked out like nobodies business then we were to smashed to enjoy it and that was the end for our Roskilde Festival.

One thing is for sure...we need to find a new band to tack along next year because going to Roskilde this way is the only way now.

Thanks Stan for hooking us up and hanging out and thanks to Cancer Bats & Co for some great days!

More Amalie report HERE.

country for...tiny men

Anki's parents were nice enough to take us into their homes after the wedding. Her father is a big collector of many things...I like that. There were so many things every where but what grabbed the attention was the big railway track/village he was building up stairs. Really nice. He promised us that it would be even better next year when we come back! So maybe more pictures next year.

For ever and ever

This is what I did for Sascha and Anki for their wedding. Congratulations again and again!!

All the best guys!!

All dressed in white

As mentioned in the post before this one we went to Hamburg because Sascha and Anki were getting married and I got to be the best man.


To begin with I would like to say that I was the worst best man even. I was working to much to find the time to write a little thing about Sascha for a wedding booklet that Ankis parents was making with small stories from family and friends. I didn't make a speech for same reasons but also because I really really hate speeches both giving them and receiving them so I was happy when Sascha told me that I didn't have to make one anyway.




They got married in a big museum inside an original samoan house, with a local government official to perform the ceremony. I had to pretend to understand everything she said but that went well. I just smiled and nodded once in a while.
After all the official stuff it was just nice relaxing time at Ankis parents house where there was delicious food and drinks and nice people! Such a good day and it was so good to see the happy couple get each other.

Sascha's dad

John, The homie/bandmember

Chrissss D.

Immortalizer

In the end of last month we went on a little trip to Hamburg, Germany. It was the day before my birthday but that was not the purpose of this trip, no no! Something way more important was going on!

Our friends Sascha and Anki was getting married and I had been chosen to take the most important role as best man.

We took the train there and had a short break on the ferry where legs could be stretched and "delicious" cafeteria food could be eaten. I don't know what is wrong with me but I just can't resist that kind of food even though I know it's bad.


We had decided to bring Lucifer on this little adventure and he behaved so well on the whole trip even though he had to sit in his little dog bag the whole way.

Sascha and Anki came and picked us up at the station and after dropping bags of at their new mansion we went out for some Italian food.



The next day was my birthday and what better way to celebrate than to go shirt and tie shopping? You see, I had the suit, I had the shoes and I had the socks but no shirts or ties that I felt like wearing with this fancy new suit so we had to do a little last minute shopping.
Later that night we saw Valiant Thorr which made me really happy because I had been bumbed out that were gonna miss their show in Copenhagen but Sascha and co. had decided that we all should go see them play on my birthday! They were great and I had a great birthday.

The next day was the wedding but I think that will have it's on little post in a bit.

The day after the wedding Sascha and Anki went on a little honeymoon but they were kind enough to let us stay at their apartment.


Later in the afternoon we met up with our friend and fellow tattooer Chriss Dettmer and his girlfriend, Silvie to hang a bit and to plan out our unholyness for this years London Convention...I can't say more about that just yet...later!!
It was a nice day with window shopping, coffee and food and relaxing in sunny Hamburg!

One of the best things about this trip was that I could hang out with friends and my wife and dog and not stress about anything for 5 days! Ahhhh...

Yes I still tattoo

...In case you were wondering!


A little update on the gypsy 3/4 sleeve. We added this little Tucan sitting on the gypsy girls crystal ball.



And a little doggy.



Later!

City of Angels

We took all our Japanese friends shopping the last day they were in the states. Crazy day. 3 cars, 8 Japanese peeps and 2 Danes and way to many things to by and places they wanted to go...and too few hours in a day to get it all done. We had to plan everything so that they would get to go all the places that they wanted.

First stop, Bike shop for Hata. He is into these fixed gears bikes so he had this special shop he wanted to check out.

After that we went to Melrose where we started with some coffee. Amalie and me quickly realized that the Japanese guys were getting a bit to comfortable if they wanted to get everything so we decided to split up and meet back at the café a bit later. It kinda worked.

Wacko is this awesome bookstore/toystore/art gallery thing and this was on everybody's list so that was cool.

On the way to Swingers Rei remembered that he needed to go to a home depot to get some screws and bolts for making tattoo machines. To our luck I spotted one in the middle of a mini mall so one more thing on the list checked off.
We kinda need to go to Swingers when we are in LA. We really like the place and the food is good to so that was a must.

We ended the shopping spree at Amoebe where a bunch of music was bought and where I could have spend plenty of more hours but it was getting late and we had a long drive back to Santa Ana.

A fun but stressfull day.

...you know?

Thanks too Sid we now always have a place in California and some good friends!

What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart?

We didn't get to hang out that much with Bill this time but we did get to have a few meals together.

I don't think my wife really needs any presentation...Here she is...and yes that is Gene Simmons.

...And the sign says...

Jon, who used to be my little long haired freaky person, was actually the first to contact me about coming to California to work. Now he is one of my best friends. Vi elsker dig, Jon.

GOOD MORNING MR. BREAKFAST!!

Up next we have my evil twin Klaus. I fucking love this little hater. I got his stupid face tattooed on my arm and he has mine on his leg. More pictures of him here.

HAIL SATAN....Whaaaat?

The next few post will be dedicated to some of our friends that we hung out with in California...well those who got caught by my camera.

To open the ball we have Will. Will came to hang and get tattooed and just have an awesome time while we were in California. Such an awesome dude.

You!

I'm still here!! It's true! I am sorry that it has been so long since I have posted anything. While in the states I never had time to be on the computer so most of my internet activities was done on my iphone.
When we came back it was straight to work and some loooong days that didn't left me with any energy or time to blog either.
Then it was time to go to Germany to my friend Saschas wedding where I was the best man.
Now I am back and ready to get back into the blog world again. Hope I still have a few of you with me.

I feel like I should tell a lot about the trip to the states but I fear that I won't be able to catch up with all I need to post and there by never get back in the game. But how about some pictures instead? If you wanna know more about what we did then as always check out the wife's blog.

Here is just some random shots of things...thing that I saw in California this year.

A few pictures to keep you guys happy

I have absolutely no computer time so here is a short post with pictures. I havn't even had time to look closer at the pictures taken so far but it looks like there will be some good photo posts coming up...but maybe not until I am back in Denmark where I have a bit time to look at them and upload them here. Until then, here is some of the tattoos done so far.


First was my good friend of pure METAL, Will. He came to hang out in short shorts and awesomeness and also to get some more awesome tattoos.
This time we added this magic wizzard and the lamb of doooom.
More about him later.





Next we have what I did on this years Ink N Iron in Long Beach. More about that as well later.





Now shopping. If you can't wait to hear about all the awesome stuff going on here then go check out my wifes blog.