Vater Und Sohn

A couple of weeks ago, Kinga and I went to Hamburg to see friends and to go to my friend Sascha's shop, (re)opening party. He has, together with two other great guys, made a name for them selves with this shop, that offers everything you need to be a well groomed urban lumberjack. Everything from moonshine, beard wash, hand made knives and pens to fancy Japanese denim and hand made leather boots. All a true son of Mumford desires. 

They had moved a few stores down, from their previous location, to this spacious beautiful corner shop. 

Congratulations guys.    

If you are in Hamburg go see their fancy... I mean manly shop, 

Vater Und Sohn.

My good friend and co owner of Vater Und Sohn, 

Sascha Kampmeyer.

I'm going hungry

Hey Ya'll! 

I'm sorry to say that this weeks blog post won't be all the exciting. But hey... At least I'm still here and that is something, right? 

Saturday is the new blog day but I also had to do my actual job today, tattooing, and it ended up taking a bit longer to draw than I had imagined. But that's how it goes sometimes. Unfortunately that just means that I don't have time to prepare a fancy post for you guys this week either. Ohhh well... Hopefully next week then.

There is a little bit of news this week. 

On the9th of November, there will be an opening party for a small artshow I will be doing at my local vinyl pusher, Dodo Records. I will post more about this at a later time but if anyone should be interested, then put it in your calendar and come have a beer with me and look at some of the stuff that I have done and maybe buy a record or two.

More info later.

Ok kids... see you next time... I need a burger in my belly now.

Down Here On The Reeperbahn

Hello my dear blog followers! I'm sorry that this weeks blogpost will be another short post from my iPhone. You see, I'm in Hamburg to visit some friends and go to the opening party of the new Vater & Sohn shop. Such a beautiful shop with everything you need for you sons of Mumford and everyone who is into urban camping. Fancy handmade knives. Mushroom calendars. Awesome Japanese denim and moonshine in glass jar. I'll post something later. 

For this post I had to reuse some Instagram shots. I started these flash with girl faces and I already got to do two of them. It's good for you people who don't know excatly what to get. You can't go wrong with a girl face and since not everybody is into satan or naked chicks then I figured I better make something more neutral. Still working on some more pages. Maybe for London?

But now it is time to get some delicious cake made by my friend Anki. So see you later people. 

I Swear There Is An Owl Hiding In That Rose!

Here we are again. I don't feel that I have much to say this week. Well there is a lot on my mind but nothing I want to bother you guys with... If there still is someone here reading this ol' thing?

But the blog is still alive and hopeful there will be more stuff to tell and share soon enough. I do have a few adventures in the horizon so please do come back.

Just to throw in a bit of practical info:

I will be working at the London convention again this year. Really looking forward to it, as always. 

Like the last previous years, I will only be doing walk-ups from pre made designs and flash and line drawings. Who ever comes first or is ready, when I am, gets tattooed. No pre bookings, just drop by and see what is going on. I'll post more soon about this and maybe with a tease of what to choose from. 

So stay tuned. Come back again.

Hamburgers

Last Saturday was kind of a last minute blogging since I finished working really late, but I still wanted to post something since I made this new rule for myself, to make Saturday a blogging day. So here is some better photos of what went down that weekend. Sarah and James came from Hamburg to get a touch up on James' backpiece (didn't happen) and Sarah wanted a little something to show her love for coffee. And who doesn't loooooove coffee so I was obviously excited about her idea. Since it was James' birthday weekend I promised that I would do a "small" filler on his chest. The open spot had been bugging him for ages so who was I to deny him a birthday wish? Roses were done and everybody was happy! It did mean that I finished working on him at 11 that night but we still managed to find a place (my beloved schnitzel place) that wanted to make us food at midnight. After that we went to get a few birthday drinks at a local cocktail bar. I hope they had as much fun as I did.

Did you notice... Second post this saturday?

Tattoos In The Big Apple

Happy Saturday people!

This post is from my trip to New York in June where I had the pleasure of working alongside some great people and artists at Red Rocket Tattoo. I miss them all already and I hope I will be able to work a bit longer on my next trip to New York. But this trip was supposed to be as much relaxation as work so therefor only a few tattoos to show. I did a few more than these ones but they are being saved for a later project so this is what you get for now.

If you wanna see a few photos from my trip then go to my photoblog HERE.

In case anyone still reads this blog then I would like to say that I have time for one shots next week, Monday the 11th, wednesday the 13th - friday the 15th.

If you don't know what to get then I have a bunch of new girl faces ready to tattoo. I'll post some on my instagram soon. 

So if you're interested then email me at Onkelallan@gmail.com

There is also a few more dates here and there open in september so let me know if you wanna fill those gaps.

And once again...

The waiting list is dead and I am only booking two months at the time.

Have a nice weekend everybody!

Better than nothing

I made it!!! My goal has been to post something on my blog on Saturdays. This one is not much but since I have been tattooing til 11 at night and as writing I'm on my way to find something to eat, I hope you will bar with me. I promise I'll post something real within the next couple of days. 

So here is a teaser. I give you James!! Happy birthday buddy!! 

Thank You

In these times where everybody is or can become a custom tattooer, it can be easy to forget how lucky and privileged we are. We have become used to getting to do what we want and sometimes so much that "what we want" isn't even good enough. Going through my files, to find photos for this blogpost, I thought a lot about how lucky I am.  How amazing my job is. What a privilege it is to have customers who trust me enough to let me do what I do. I have fun tattoos to do all the time and it is not because I feel too good to do a kanji or a tribal, I'm just lucky enough to have customers who want me to do what I do. But most of all I feel lucky to get to tattoo at all. 
With all the things that has been going on the last many months it is also easy to "forget" all the nice people who have been through the shop to get tattooed, but looking through the photos they are all coming back. Not that any of you have been forgotten, just stowed away for a short period.
So thank you, everybody who has been kind enough to let me do my thing and let me tattoo you. Thanks for all the good talks and fun times! Thanks for keeping me busy!

This post is also a thank you to all the customers who come back either to show me their healed tattoo or to get more done. It can be hard to get a picture of the healed tattoo when most of my customers are traveling to get them done. But luckily I also have people who comes back again and again. Thank you! So here is some photos of some healed tattoos.

Did you notice that the blog is still alive?

Well drop by next week and see if it still is!

Going Back To Tokyo!

Saturday is here again and as promised: A blog post with dates for Japan. I finally found the time to sit down and go through travel sites and cross reference it with calendars. So it looks like I will be in Tokyo from the 16th of october till the 20th of november. As always I will be working with my family in InkRat in Koenji, Tokyo. There is no words that can describe how much I miss those guys and Tokyo so I am really excited to be able to go back. It has been two years since the last time I was there so I feel it more than about time to go back to my favorite place on earth and what I like to call my second home. 

So if anyone should be interested in getting tattooed by me while I am there then please contact Hata at InkRat to book an appointment. I will be open for appointments from the 18th of october till the 19th of november.
Email Hata at Inkrat00@yahoo.co.jp for bookings or me at Onkelallan@gmail.com for ideas and questions.

As I also mentioned last week, the waiting list is dead and gone for good. So now all you have to do is email a couple of months in advance to get tattooed. For Berlin Booking email Conspiracyinctattoo@gmail.com or Onkelallan@gmail.com 

I'll say it again next week to make sure everybody gets it.

Till next time!!

Thing with horns

Here is a post with things that has horns. Not bad, right? Not just roses... Crazy town! Also... second week of posting! Wuuuhoooo!

Since it has been a while I feel I need to say this again. The waiting list is FINALLY dead! DONE!! GONE!! NO MORE!!! 

From now on I will only book max two months in advance. So no more signing up for appointments two years ahead of time. This means that in this moment I am booking August and September. So for booking please email either Amalie at Conspiracyinctattoo@gmail.com or me at Onkelallan@gmail.com . 

For the slow kids I will repeat this next week when I post again... yes it will happen. Next week I will also have actual dates for Japan in October/november.

So see you soon!

Is there anybody...OUT THERE??

Here we go again. I'm not gonna jinx myself by promising that this time will be different and that I will be blogging a lot from now on. I'm Just gonna see what happens and do my best.

There is as always lots to tell and share but I'm gonna take it slow and start with this little picture post. Stuff with roses!! What a surprise, right?

Good thing I love doing roses. More stuff with roses soon.

HO HO HO

Whether you choose to believe in a god or not I wish you a great xmas. For me it's all about the amazing food and great company and not about religion at all. But that doesn't mean that I can say thanks to all my friends, family, colleagues and customers with a little xmas card. Taken..hmrrr hrmrmr.. on our winter cabin in the Alps where we like to go a jodle from time to time. So however you choose to spend this time I wish you all the best. 

See you all soon!

London London London

So here I am again...and it has only been a day!!

I wanted to do a post about this years London Convention but as I was looking through my photos I realised that all the photos looked like crap or were out of focus! I did some really really fun ones too but the lighting in the convention is so terrible that it was impossible to get a good shot with my real camera. I was hoping that it would be better if I took them with my iPhone... it wasn't. So no pictures this time! Sorry! You should go to the Conspiracy Inc. Blog to see the post Amalie posted with some shots from the convention. But we still had a great time and as always, I wanna send a giant thank you to all the cool people who dropped by to get tattooed, say hi or buy stuff! THANK YOU!! 

Like the last couple of years, we shared the booth with my good friend Chriss Dettmer. The best booth mate ever. We stayed at a new hotel this time which was a really nice change but also resulted in us being a bit less social than we used to be since we didn't have to walk through the hotel bar on our way to our rooms. The hotel was really nice and in a new area, which meant new restaurants... what a treat! 

This convention thing that I have been doing for the last couple of years, doing walk-up only, from flash, was working perfectly again this year. So well that I will do the same for the Brighton convention. That's right! We are going to be at the Brighton Convention this February. No bookings. Just drop by and see what I have drawn up and who ever is ready as soon as I am will get tattooed. 

I have more new stuff to tell you, so this is it, about London. Sorry for the lack of photos. But I can't leave you without some sort of photo. 

Tune in again tomorrow for a new post.

Queen Ov Hell

I recently did a painting to help my good friend Nick, promote my never ending Black Metal Book project that will be published through Clandestine Republic hopefully around summer 2014. So maybe it will end... Some day!

This painting was made specially for him to sell through Clandestine Republic and is only made in 100 copies. 

Its a high quality giclée print on fancy fine art paper measuring 40 x 61 cm (16" x 24") and all numbered and hand stamped.

Since in writing moment half has already been sold I wouldn't sleep on this. Go HERE to buy it. It can not be bought through the shop or me since I don't have any of them. I really hope you guys like this.

While you are there you should check out Electric Picks 2 amazing comics, Red Box and Turbo Drome

A taste of Red Box

And a taste of Turbo Drome

There is all sorts of cool limited prints from awesome artist for sale right now so go shop now before they all are sold out. It is also last minute if you want to make sure they get there in time to be under that there three... You know which one I'm talking about.

Great presents for sure. So go shop! NOW!!!

More updates and teasers about the book later... just so you don't forget.