Prints for Japan

We have finally got the prints for Japan ready and for sale on the Conspiracy Inc. blog. All the money from these prints will go directly to Red Cross since we have an insider with them. On top of that we have a special sale on the rest of my print to get more money for Japan. All money made from any other print or flash bought with this print will be donated to Red Cross as well. Read all about it on the shop blog so run over there and shop...GO!! THIS way! 

This is the print for sale. Limited to 100 pieces. Hand signed and numbered. On 300 gram A3 sized paper. And no... the watermark is not on the print.

On the Conspiracy blog you will also find a list of other ways to support Japan through other artists so check those links out as well. 

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Hello dear blog readers. It is good to be back and even though terrible things have happened since last time, things are still well in the land of the vikings. Japan...not so much. That is why we had to cancel our trip this time. Japan is our second home and it was a tough decision to cancel and stay home when we felt like we were supposed to be there and help. In the end we realized that we couldn't do anything in Japan other that be in the way and to worry our friends and family back home. I mean, if our friends in Tokyo was thinking about skipping town why should we go there. For what? So we decided to wait and instead try to help from back home in Denmark. That's why we are making a print of my latest painting. All the money will go to Japan. There will be different packages to choose from for those who want to buy more and support Japan more. I will be selling the usual prints and flash together with the new print but a bit cheaper than normal and that money will also be going to Japan. I will be auctioning off the original painting and that money will also go to Japan. On top of that we will try to make a charity day at the Conspiracy Inc. where I will be tattooing (maybe walk-in style) for the cause and we will be selling prints and stuff and some of Amalie hats as well. This will hopefully happen sometime in April so keep and eye on this blog or the Conspiracy Inc. blog for updates. The prints should be with us in a few days so keep an eye out for that as well. I will also try to gather a list of other artists who something similar to gather money to the land that has given us so much.

Mean while in Copenhagen this happened!

First Sylvain and Innina came by from Geneva... and brought chokolade.

Sylvain wanted a workaholic demon who was having himself a little tea break. A little rminder to himself to remember not to work ALL the time. Boy do we know about that feeling. Maybe I should get one of those as well.

Innina wanted to get a piece inspired of a painting done by her grandfather. So i did my version of his roses and we added a few of her tools of the trade behind them. 

Anita from the Uk was originally supposed to get tattooed by me on the London convention a few years ago but I had to Cancel her. She came by and finally got her piece. She wanted it super bold and simple and it was super fun to get back to just one bold outline and rough shading and few colours. Good times.

My norwegian homeboy Martin came back to get some more colour in his chest. It is almost done... almost. One small session and we are done and done. I also got me a picture of what we finished last time but the skin was still a bit shiny so we will have to wait with the final picture but you'll get the idea.

Bernie, the burning priest. 

That's it for this time. Now I gotta do stuff... See you soon.

The number of the beast

 Today I have 666 evil followers!! Thanks for the support.

Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

Richard and Ria came back for some new tattoos. It was nice for once to start and finish a few pieces so I could have something to show here on the blog.

Richard got him self a tribute to his favourite Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the lost ark. He wanted it to be subtle so we went with a cobra coiled around the Idol from the opening of the movie. Geeks will know.

Ria likes her bird tattoos and is aiming for the award for lady with most bird tattoos. She does have a bit of a way to go but we are working on it. You can see the two budgies we did last time on her other leg. This time...more love birds. A magpie with some bling bling for the other magpie. Are you trying to tell your boyfriend something? Any signals here?

It was great to have them over again and we are already looking forward to the next visit.


I think there was a bunch of things that I wanted to write here but I have forgotten. Maybe next time. Hopefully it won't be as long a break this time.


I have just posted some photos of my grandma on the photoblog. We went to my dads 60 years birthday yesterday. did a hit n run photoshoot of my 84 old grandma as a present for my dad and to have a photo of my grandma myself.

Sigh no more

The frustration about not having anything new to post here on my blog has now forced me to make a blog post...without pictures!! Ughrrr..! I hate blogging without pictures but I don't wanna post a pitty picture either. The hard life of a blogger.


It feels like forever since I have finished anything that I could get a good picture of. It seams like I have been starting a tons of things and finished a bunch of old pieces and some new ones where I just couldn't get a good picture because swelling or bleeding or the annoying contrast between old and new. Even though I have posted pictures on my twitter and Instagram it just doesn't feel the same as keeping you dear followers updated. So once again sorry for the absence but it has nothing to do with not wanting to blog. 


I wanna use this post for something good anyway. UPDATES!!!


First up: Artshow. I did a flash painting for the Cut N Color for the Tattoo Flash show at The Pretty Pretty Collective in San Francisco. It will be for sale but since we want you people near by to go see it and the rest of the pieces in person there will be no pictures of it until after the opening. Go check it out. It should be a great show with some great artists. I am stoked to have been invited to join. Wish I could be there for the opening! Hopefully we will be able to drop by San Francisco on our holiday this summer and say hi to the nice people behind the last two shows that I have been a part of. 
The show opens on March 12. Go here for more details.


Our Japan trip is getting closer! Can't wait to be back in my happyplace!! 
Workdates should be kinda in place so if you wanna get something done in Japan then write me an email with idea, placement, size and what dates you are available for. Write me on Onkelallan@gmail.com
As always I will be working with the amazing Ink Rats in Koenji, Tokyo. You can also email Hata on inkrat00@yahoo.co.jp to book an appointment. We will be in Japan from the 30th of March till the 7th of May. 


I have also been invited to join the Tokyo Tattoo Convention organized by Tokyo Hardcore from the 29th of April to the 1st of May. Again should you be around and want to get a piece done then send me a mail with placement and Idea but remember that it is on a convention so there will be places that I won't be doing in order to not destroy my back. 
More details about the show when I get them. 


Bizarre magazine has just finished a thingy about me that will be in an upcoming issue. Looking forward to see the finished print with fancy pictures from the new shop. 


Speaking of shop. Some might have seen previews of the new workroom on the Conspiracy blog. It looks amazing!! There is still many things that needs to hung on the walls but it is already looking really really epic. Flora have been changing our drawing room too. Looks better than ever but also needs a few last touches. Drop by to see for your self.


Speaking of Flora: Check out her new and improved website that she made! 


I am currently trying to get into making a bunch of paintings for tshirts, prints, stickers and businesscards. Got a few prints that I wanna do but I'm trying to figure out what size and paper and so on. Hopefully soon there will be new goodies to spend your hard earned money on. 


It is time for me to go renew my passport and then go finish another old piece that I won't be able to get a good picture of... Sigh...
Thursday and friday should be new one shots so hopefully there will be something new to look at soon. 


Until then. 

Stripes

Hello again my good blog readers. As always I would like to apologies for the absence from this here blog. It hasn't been because of the lack of time (well, also that) but more the lack of stuff to post. I have been starting a bunch of pieces but not finishing a lot and some that I have finished have not been ready for their photo so today I will bring you the one finished tattoo that I did get a picture of.

Mr. J. Bram is a pinstriper and graphic designer. I have done a few tattoos on him already and this one was to celebrate the tools of his trade. The ohhhh so mystical art of pinstriping!! uhhhh...well not really that mystical but who doesn't like a bit of freemasonry sort of thing?

I have been working on some other projects but it is too soon to reveal any of it. I will keep you posted as soon as I figure out how much to leak to you guys.

If you wanna see some of the progress tattoos that I have worked on then follow me on twitter since I usually post them there.

I other news!! We have booked our tickets to Japan! From the 29th of March till the 7th of May we will be in the land of the sun again and back with our good friends in Tokyo at Ink Rat Tattoo. We are trying to put my work schedule together so let me know if you are thinking about dropping by Japan to get something done. More about that later.

Now...drawing!

Everybody needs a hand

Ahhhh...It's saturday and I am not planning to work...well other than do this blog here. Not really a work but sometimes feels a bit like one of those things that you have to do. Doesn't mean that I don't like doing it, it just gets in the way sometimes. Today will mostly be spend in my living room relaxing with pretty books...not the kind with words in them...picture books. Vinyls will be played and hopefully I will be able to squeeze in a bit of Call Of Duty, Black Ops in as well. So far I have only played it with the gang so I feel it is time for some mission action.

This week was a tough bastard to get through. For a long time I have managed to keep the pains away. Tattooers knows what I am talking about. The back pains, the muscle pains, the wrist pains and the hand pains but this week I guess I did something wrong and it resulted in a few days of intense back pains. Still had to work and I think in an attempt to not overwork my back I used some other muscles in a wrong way that moved the pain to my arms. This for me is reason enough to take a couch day off. I do have piles of drawing ideas, piles of started sketches, almost done tshirt designs and paintings to be done but thet will all have to wait a bit. There is a full week of tattooing in front of me so I better charge a bit before starting again.

Well that was enough complaining, don't you think?

Now for the more fun stuff. Tattoo pictures.

Martin has become an instant regular. We are almost done with his Satanic sleeve. We are waiting for some laserwork to be done so we can do the last bit. So on his latest trip down from Norway we decided to start what ended up beeing a front piece. Pictures will have to wait a bit but it includes a satanic skeleton pope and some other cool things! I also did an exception and did his hands. No that doesn't mean that YOU can get them done here as well.

Zombie on one hand and sad gypsy on the other.

This is the Straight Edge zombie so if you don't want him to eat your brain all you have to do is drink a beer or light up the joint. No intoxicated brains for this Zombie.

This here fortuneteller chick is sad because she broke her crystal ball. It's the second this month and those bad boys are expensive.

Yesterday Olaf came for his 2 second touch up and got himself a gentleman bird. My original customer had to cancel so there was an opening so why not use it for something fun?

Other pieces was started or continued but I am trying to cut back on the in progress pictures unless it is something that will take a while to finish. Well you can see a bit about one of them on Amalies blog since she got some more flowers on her leg/knee.

There will soon be some more action on the photo blog. Promise! But for now some relaxing time.

For those who have asked about my Instagram my username is Unclea.

One last thing! I need your help. Tattoo Artist Magazine has asked me to do a monthly blog post on their blog. Thing is I can't come up with anything interesting to say. Help me out here. What would you like to hear me talk about? Anything? Email me on onkelallan@gmail.com or just leave a comment but ideas will be appreciated.

See you guys later. Ya'll have a nice weekend.

Grrr arrggghh...

I wanna write stuff here but I got things to do...important things...ok ok I'm gonna hang with Amalie and Nick but that IS important. I also wanna post this post now so it won't be a lifeless blog anymore. Here! Pictures! Awesome!

Australian sisters! Another trooper in the books with her T-Rex grrrrfullness.

Other sister got her first tattoo and did fine! Nooo problem!

Not new but just got healed pictures

Ok now hangout time! Hopefully more blogging soon!

Radio silence.

After many days of days off and last minute cancellations I finally have something to report from the tattoo factory.
Sunday was a good hangout day with many people at the shop but the main purpose was to tattoo Christel. You people who havn't found me on Instagram yet has to wait a bit before seeing that awesome piece. I can reveal this: Hot chick in lingerie chillin on pillows and with roses. Awesome!! Sorry for the tease.

Yesterday our Russian Comrade Max came to get the other shin done. Tough dry Russian skin makes it hard to take good pictures of a fresh tattoo and you will have to wait to see them both together next to each other. A fun piece to do indeed.

This was the first piece we did.

And this is what we did this time on the other shin.

I actually just found out that I had forgotten to post this tattoo. Very fitting actually... A Russian doll. I did this piece just before we left for Japan last time so in the all the stress it never made it to the blog but what better time to post it than on a post about our Russian buddy?


There will be a bit more radio silence here on this blog since we have the most of this week off. We were supposed to travel but that didn't happen so we decided to get some things done around here but that means no new tattoos for a couple of days. Well, I might get to tattoo Amalie and I might get to draw or paint a bit so with a bit of luck there will be something t report in the days to come. There will be pictures going up on the New Photo Blog so head over there and check that out now and then.

Welcome to the future

Space age!! Future world!! Can you feel it?? 2011..no? well me neither.

So I hope you all made it to the other side of the new year in a good and nice way.

I don't really know how to say thanks for 2010 but I do wanna say thank you to all the cool people we have met in 2010. All our old friends that we got to see again in 2010. All the great people who came and got tattooed in 2010. All the amazing people who have gone out of their way to help us with our impossible and neverending project that is our new amazing shop. To all of you people who have checked back on this here blog even though it stands still at times. Thanks for all the support and great comments. Hope you will stick with me for at least one more year. Well in short...Thanks to all of you who was a part of making 2010 a good year. Hope you will help me make 2011 even better. Because even though 2010 was great it has also been a handful at times so I hope we can make this year a bit less troublesome.
I would also like to thank everyone who has show interest in my new photoblog. The response so far has been really awesome and I am so happy that you like it. It will be updated more than this since there is less words and more pictures and I got a lot of pictures that just waits to be used in some way and I am counting on keeping them coming. If there is anyone who has feedback on what you would like on that blog please let me know. Like, should there be more text? Do you want more info about the shoots? Do you want more details about what I have used and how? Anything, please get back to me.

SO, Big thank you for 2010

Mads and Peter is no strangers to our shop. Actually they have been getting tattooed by me many times since they turned 18. The twins were the last tattoos I did in 2010 and a good way to end the year work wise. Always good company and I look forward to the the next twin day!

Peter got himself a little green Hanya demon dude. The pictures didn't turn out to good so maybe there will be some better ones later.


Mads got a tattoo of the family dog, Balder. Again not the best shot but it will do for now.

"congratulations sir, It's a blog"

A new blog is born...
I have just published my new photoblog Photographic Memories. There will be very little text and more photos and most likely no tattoos...unless a model has some that is.
There is already a few posts lined up to be posted but a little at a time so check back once in a while.
So please go check it out and I hope you will enjoy it.

In other photo related news:

Copenhagen Cycle Chic is a cool blog showing our danish bike culture in a stylish fashion (pun intended). I really like the way of shooting people on the street and it inspired me to take some shots in the spirit here of, on my last trips to Japan. They were kind enough to put a bunch of my shots up on the blog. Please go check that out HERE and HERE and let me or them know what you think. There might be a post on the new blog later with more shots from this series.

I gave myself an extra Christmas present this year! A DARKROOM (no Eckel, still not the touchy touchy tecno kind of darkrrom). Soon I will be able to develop and print my own pictures! I CAN'T WAIT!! I pretty much got a great deal on everything I will need to do it so now we just have to build the room. I bought it from a great photographer who is a friend of ours and a friend of Amalie's parents. Mr. Peter Olsen. It felt really good buying it from someone who has been taking so good care of it as he has and who knows what he is doing with the stuff. Thanks Peter for the great deal. Exciting! I will have the best teacher I can imagine, Mr Nikolaj Meding who is a great photographer and Amalie's cousin. The great people at Photografica has also promised me to be as helpful as possible and I have already borrowed a couple of books on the subject from one of the guys. This is going to be AWESOME!!

Now Go check out all the links!

See you soon!

I will see you again...

So where were we this time?

Well, we are back from Japan...have been for a while now I guess. It is crazy cold here in Copenhagen specially coming from nice weather in Tokyo. But it is good to back together with the Gang and I have been keeping myself busy with fun stuff...hence the absence from this here blog.

To make a long post short, I have been tattooing a bunch but not much to post YET.
I have been trying to go through the huge Gigapiles of pictures from the trip.
I just finished sorting through the pictures of bikes and people on bikes from Japan. Some of these might go on this Danish blog if they like my pictures. More about that if that happens.

So many things have happened that I don't know where to start or what to say... ok breath...

Well, I have decided to start a new blog. I will make a blog for my photos so the ones of you who only care about the tattoo stuff don't have to scroll through long post with pictures of...well, not tattoos. Also I kinda feel guilty for making these long posts for the same reason, so therefore a new blog will be born soon. I will still have small posts here on this blog when I update the photoblog and if I have stories or what ever to tell about the pictures. See the idea about the new blog is to have more pictures and less words. So the journal part stays here. Anyway... more about that when I am done editing more pictures and come up with a name that doesn't sound too stupid or pretentious.

Since Myspace is dead (or slowly and painfully dying) I decided to kill my internet boredom by joining something that I though I would newer get into. No it's not facebook. I will NEVER make a facebook profile. No, you see, I now have a Twitter account. Yeb! Havn't tweeeeeted much yet but as soon as I have something to say and have figured out how it all works I guess updates and news will be flowing there for you all to see. I figure it will be everything from updates about travels, cancellations/openings, shows or conventions or stuff for sale but also stupid stuff that I want to share with the rest of my fellow internetters. So hit me up. Im...well Uncle_Allan. There will also soon be a link here to push if you can't find me for some reason.

The two paintings from the "Scream With Me" show, that didn't got sold, is now back and safe at the Conspiracy. If you wanna check them out in real life or even wanna own one of them then drop by the shop.

Please keep an eye on Amalies blog for an update of her Etsy shop. She is putting some of her latest masterpieces up there and I took the pictures of them for her shop. It was a fun day so I am looking forward to see the result online. The hats are amazing so go check them out when the shop is up again.

More news soon...

Now as promised, some pictures!

Matt got the other hand after all. Hope it stays in there!!

One of the last pieces from Japan. A HELL MOUTH!


I finally got to tattoo Rei.

This one was inspired by the Mastodon cover for Blood mountain. Geeks will recognize the logo.

A little sneak peak... I wanna get a picture of it healed before I post the whole thing.

No music video today...but a little treat anyway!
THE MIGHTY BOOOOOSH!!

Suburbs

This is the final post from Japan. Final FROM Japan but not about Japan. I have tons of pictures just waiting to be uploaded to my own computer so I can go through them.
We are test packing and will be sending some crap home later today. Tonight will be our goodbye dinner and tomorrow morning we will leave this amazing place to go back what can only seem like a suburb compared to this wonderful city. We will leave this amazing weather, where we have been able to just wear a hoodie and maybe a coat if cold, for snow blizzards and freezing temperatures. Not good. But at least we have some good people and a good shop to come home to. Friends!!
Now we will go have a last breakfast at our Jazz cafe. Gonna miss that too along with all the other things that makes me soooo damn happy here. But we will be back soon.

This is what we are listening to while packing. Still love it!!

Sadistic Magician

Here is the last couple of tattoos I did here in Japan... for now anyway. Still have a few more to do but now a few days of vacation. The day before yesterday I got my last session on this trip from Shige and yesterday was Amalies turn. I bet there will be some pictures of both on her blog as soon as she has the time to post them. She did soooo well and we went out with Shige and his family for dinner after her session.
Today we went back to Yokohama. We met up with Toshi at Yokohama station. We went by Yellow Blaze to say hi to Shige again. Matt (the guy who I did a neck and a palm on) were having his 3rd session on his sleeve so he was having fun! We took his wife Sam with us for a bit of China town shopping and a trip to the Ramen Museum! This place was amazing so it deserves it's own post later with pictures.
Tomorrow is another amazing day in Japan and with no work. I might take my camera and have a little photogrphic adventure... I need that! I have a few ideas in mind and there is some places I need to go check out as well now that I finally have the time.
So see you soon.

The Grim-Seahorse

To be continued in April.

And here is your soundtrack:

Kyō wa mokuyobi desu

Today is our day off. We are gonna go shopping with Hata and later go have dinner with our friend Izumi. This is a big deal for us since it is the first time we will meet her boyfriend and see where they live.
This is some pictures I got back yesterday. Nothing fancy but I thought I might throw them up here anyway.

Hataaaaa.

Papa Rei.

Meals on wheels.

Sweet potatoes and baked potatoes.

Amalie Desu.

Moving on...
Mata ne

Kyō wa suiyōbi desu

So this was the last day of the super Tattoo Madness part of the trip. Still have a few more pieces to do but it will be easy compared to this week of making one Trooper/Super Trooper (6 hours/8 hours) after the other. I am telling you, they must put something in the water in Australia because we are talking 9 and 9,5 hours with no complains. One guy even got two tattoos with one day apart and was still talking about going for the highest of titles next time... JEDI KNIGHT! That's right! 11 hours! That, my friends, is the true trooper spirit!
Well let's get to the pictures, shall we and why not start with this young Padawan.

We started with his upper arm. Do to rough Jedi skin it took me longer than I had hoped for so it will have to wait until April to be finished and blogged. He still made it way past Super Trooper on that one. He did, however, finish his Trooper titled piece a couple of days after.


In between his mad sessions we managed to find the time to make a Trooper worthy tattoo on his girlfriend. Can't go wrong with a classic like an owl. Specially if you slap some antlers on it!



The next Aussie couples didn't hold back on their Trooperness either!
Ladies first!
This is a little tribute to her cat. She wanted her cat to have a Venetian mask on and riding a carousel horse. It ended up looking like this after more than 9 hours.

Matt here had his whole arm lined and shaded two days in a row by Shige. Even though that still wasn't fully healed yet he still didn't hesitate (much) to get a huge neck piece AND a palm done. ATTENTION: Palms will NOT be a new thing for me to do. This was the first time and I did it to try it out and since he REALLY wanted me to do it. The deal was that he gave me a spot where I could do a nice tattoo so he at least would have something nice to show from me in case it fell out or blew up or something. And since the rest of his skin was already spoken for to get a bodysuit then we were left with the neck. Some of you might know that I am not the biggest fan of doing neck. It sucks. But to my luck Matt had the best neck skin in the world and that allowed me to do one of the biggest neck tattoo that I have ever done.

We were supposed to do both his palms but we figured that after 5 hours of tattooing on the neck one hand would do. We also just wanna see how that goes and if everything is good we will do the other before we leave.
This idea was Amalies idea. See, I was looking for something mystical/occult/secret to do on this hand since he is getting the pyramid with the all seeing eye on the other. She came up with doing a rose so you could lift your hand and talk "Sub Rosa". Press the link to read about that. Cool idea babe! I googled a bit and came up with this simple 5 leafed rose like they used in the churches.

Last up is this little fellow! I was a bit concerned at first because he only had this spot to give me. Between upper and lower arm on a skinny dude with two cool Matt Sharmah tattoos on both insides. On top of that he wanted it to get a pyramid with an eye. Ok, one more then. It ended up being a really cool piece if you ask me. I am super stoked about them all and you guys have all been good company.
This dude didn't make it to Trooper though, since it didn't take that long. Still think he did a good job any way. Maybe next time when I come back.

I am falling asleep while typing now so I think I will go to bed now.

There might be some pictures coming up tomorrow since it is a day off but we do have plans so only maybe.

Later