Bird lamp

A little firefly lamp action on my new Bosnian skater friend. It has bird skulls, claw and wings and everything! Fancy! You don't see too many of those around anymore! No sir!

Momotaro Sushi

This is from our favourite sushi place in Koenji, Tokyo. Amazing sushi for a good price and a cool small place. You sit by the counter and order as you go. When you are done they collect your coloured plates and that way figure out how much you have eaten for.

We have been there a bunch of times now...heck we even have a mug from the place and we have a picture (soon two) of the chefs hanging in our hallway. We love that place.

Don't cry over burnt milk.

Yesterday was Lucifers 6 years birthday. That happened to be on a day off and on a sunny day too! Awesome! Coffee was had in the sun. A lot of walks. Burgers were eaten including a small burger for lucifer. Movies was watched. Strange sodas was had. A good day.

Now it is "real" monday...that means tuesday and back to real life. At least I have some fun tattooes to do.

Here is what I did friday.

"Catch the milk" ...His band.

Damn good coffee

Here is second half of the posts dedicated to the sweet sweet juice of life, Coffee!!

One of the few good things about being back home in Denmark is getting really really good coffee again! What's even better is that our Java pushers (aka Sort Kaffe & Vinyl) has changed their opening hours so now we can get coffee later than usual! Awesome! Thank you guys!! Really!!
Anyway!
Here is some more shots of what we have when we are in Japan.

When it's hot, Coffee is cold.

Well...sometimes anyway.

A small selection of Boss goodies. Red sign for hot, blue for cold.

Hot Boss on can!

Local Jazz cafe.

A different brand.

Monday 13th came twice this year...this time on a Wednesday

We are back in Denmark. Yeah yeah yeah you know...it sucked. The day we got back was fine but the next day!! Started fine but as soon as we stepped out of the apartment, bad things started to happen. That's it! That's all I'm gonna bug you with because I could go on for hours.

Here is some of that last tattoos I did in Japan this time. Look at those and forget about the ranting part of the post.

A realistic version of my newest machine from Rei.

This young Canadian had done his research and decided that I was gonna be the one to do the first tattoo on him. We did this big rib piece in 2 sessions so well done my friend! Good job.

As soon as I get some alone time with my computer here, that doesn't happen late at night, I will start to go through some of the pictures from Japan. I hope there will be a few good series in there somewhere.
Be back soon.

And the winner is...

...US!!! Why? Because when we tried to check in on our flight home tomorrow the system couldn't find our names. A bit of panic started to build up in my head. On my Iphone I went into my inbox to find the tickets and there it was! The winner number. MAY 4!! Not the 3rd as we have thought all along!! Whaaat!! An extra day in Tokyo? Yes please! So tonight we went to almost goodbye dinner with our friends. We are already all packed and ready to go so no need to spend more time on that. The weather today has been amazing and I have been in tshirt ALL day... all day till now at midnight. The weather report says that it will be just as good tomorrow. AWESOMENESS!
So it will be a day or two more before the real post including pictures and stuff will show up here on the blog.


Tomorrow more hanging out so I will most likely be blogging from Denmark next time.

Here is a little something that we enjoyed today:

Kaffe, Coffee, Mocca, Java, kohi

Back home in Copenhagen we either make our own great coffee at the shop where we got the coffee monster that Wookie has been kind enough to let us have or if we are home we go to Sort Kaffe & Vinyl ...mmmm best!! So this post is dedicated to our lifesavers at SK&V... This is the coffee we drink here in Japan.

mmm...BOSS...hot or cold from vendingmachine!
This is our favorite one out of many kinds!

Hourly fix from Seveneleven.

Following is the instruction on how to make drip coffee in the comfort of your own home.

More coffee later.

Sailor J Kitty

Today we went to Shinjuku to hang out and relax. our first plan was to go to a temple but since it was sunday and the weather was sooooo nice we figured that it would be too crowded. So we went to another crowded place instead.
I did get to take a bunch of pictures for the "Japanese People" thing I got going. I havn't even wanted to put the pictures from the last many trips on the computer yet because I kinda wanna wait till I am all done. Still more days to take pictures of random Japanese folks.

Here is a few more tattoos done on this trip. I actually did them like a week ago or something but just havn't gotten around to post them.

I actually started this first one last spring when we were here. Due to money and Navy duty we didn't get to finish it then as planed. But now it is done and done!




We have been doing soooo many things and there is sooooo much to tell and even more to show but other thing needs to be done. I promise there will be posts about it all sooner or later. Tomorrow is my last day off before two days of work and then my last session on this trip with Shige. Ugh!!!

OK Mata Neeeee

Foxy Lady (someone had to say it)

Yesterday we went to Yokohama and Shige again but this time I was off the hook! This time it wasn't me who had to be nervous about getting tattooed. Yesterday was the day that my brave wife got her thigh (and then some) tattooed by Shige. You should go see her new fox and some more of my pictures on her blog.

While she was getting tattooed I got a chance to sneak out for a moment and enjoy the weather for a bit. I wanted to take some more pictures for my (in progress) series of Japanese people but old people in Ichikawacho is angry looking. Every time I as much as thought in my head that I would sneak a picture I looked at them and they would look angry back at me. So not a lot of picture here. I did take a few on the street anyway.
Soon after I went back to make sure that the wife was alive and well and that was the end of the nice weather.
Today it is raining like hell!! Tomorrow will be the same! Good thing is that I have finished a bunch of drawings for my upcoming project. More about that later.

Not exactly a political correct sign. On a bar called Party Animals.

Shinjuku on a rainy day

The other day we went on a no mission day to Shinjuku. The weather was really sucky but a day off no less so shopping had to be done. Well, mostly looking at stuff. I was armed with the Canon AV-1 but I had no idea what film I had in it. The weather didn't really inspire to shoot anything. It was just blah...not bright and not dark enough to go heavy...just blah. Well pictures was still taken.
We met up with Crystal for a quick coffee and then later on we went to the birth town of Astro Boy, Takadanobaba, to meet up with Izumi who works at one of our favorite tattoo magazines, Tattoo Burst. Just because the Magazine is great doesn't mean that they have a fancy office or anything. The "office" is more like a small corner between boxes, on a floor shared with other magazines. Since tattoos are in the adult category, it was mostly porn. Everywhere was old computers, boxes random piles of porn and more old computers.
When Izumi finished work we went out to dinner in Shinjuku. This is where I ran out of film but go look at Amalies blog for more pictures from that day.

Our stairs.

In good company with RxKxBx on the Burst wall of fame...or stickers.

Today looks like it will be a nice and sunny day. Some temples will be visited and hopefully a lot of pictures will be taken.

Later sucka fools!

Ketty Juhl

They came from a land down under

It is time for me to try to catch up with the blogging. It's not that I don't have anything to blog about. Actually the post material keep piling up but it is more the time to do so...well I have the time but there is just so many other things to do...and also we have one computer for two bloggers. But here is the first tattoo post from this trip to Japan.

The first picture was Mel who got her.... well, jaw, tattooed. We figured out that, Japan was the only place she could get me to do it since it's against the law to do hands and above neck in Denmark and I don't do it on conventions either...sooooo, Japan it was.


Brendan came from down under to get tattooed...TWICE!! Not only that but he had recently bought one of the original animals from the print set AND he is already booked in for a sleeve in Denmark next year! Brendan you rock! See you sooner maybe!
The first day he got a little reminder of home. A koala popping out of the old globe where the heart marks the spot...home.
Second time was this pirate parrot who has the key to the monkey island treasure around it's neck...sitting on a monkey skull....arggg.. It's actually a really cool story but I don't have time to tell you all about it. Sorry!

Home is where the heart is.

...And with this piece he got him self a place in the hall of fame of troopers.

Rudin got tattooed by me here in Japan a few years ago. This guy is also from Australia. He just happened to be here again at the same time as me so why not get a new piece! Awesome

Today a bit more tattooing and consultations and hanging out with our friend Toshi.
Tomorrow maybe more posts about our many adventures so far and MAYBE news about an old project that I have finally started.
Mata neeeeeee

Two days of ARRRRHHHH!!!!

...( Amalie came up with the headline)

So as you can see I did survive my two days of torture with Shige. 13 hours of tattooing in two days is no fun.
But here is the result so far.


See more pictures from those days on Amalie's blog.

My life in Japan

Dear Blog readers.
If this will be the last you hear from me it is because I am on my way for my second appointment in a row with Shige. My back hurt from what we did yesterday and now I am about to go back and do some more right on the same spot!! Urg!!!
Well other than that it is sooooo awesome and much needed to be back in Japan and Tokyo again.
Well, then you might think; where is the photos then?
Well... I might have been here for some days now but I have been tattooing for 3 of them and getting tattooed (soon) 2 of them. Next 2 days will also be tattooing days but after that there should be time for some vacation and some blogging for sure. Good tattoos, good stories and hopefully the first wave of photos from Japan. Until then just check in on the wifes blog for updates and good stuff.
Hopefully I will be back soon!

I'll see you there.

This will be the last post from Denmark for a while. Next post will be from our second home, Japan. We are getting a new apartment this time so we don't know how the internet situation will be but we will have internet at Inkrat so we will be able to post at least once in a while.

Here is the last two days of work.

A new trooper is added to the hall of fame. Michael took his first tattoo as a trooper and earned the title! Good job.



This little skull got some final touches.



Now...Packing!

Sayonara