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Password confusion

2012-02-16T07:41:00.001-08:00

Had a mishap with my password I need to log into this blog. Took a while but I got it sorted. I'll be back to posting regularly again, thanks for hanging in there.

One of our regulars.

2012-01-20T10:58:00.000-08:00

All these are on one of our regulars here at Olde City. I believe they were all done by JoJo at Philadelphia Eddies.

2012-01-12T10:52:00.003-08:00

New Paintings

2012-01-12T10:52:00.001-08:00

First ones of 2012.

New Sheet

2012-01-04T14:40:00.000-08:00

Did this a couple weeks ago. All designs from acetate ruboffs. Prints soon, if your interested email me. Don't steal it!

Some more biz cards

2011-12-30T17:57:00.000-08:00

These all are from Annette's collection. Jacki Grisham, Annette worked here from '91-'94.

Higgs.

Inksmith, from a brief stint he did in Philly.

Trick or Treat

2011-12-22T13:42:00.000-08:00

Did this at the Milan convention '07. Off of my flash from '01.

Temps

2011-12-17T10:19:00.000-08:00

Some WW2 temporary tattoos. Still on the store display.

The Eyes Have It.

2011-12-14T10:03:00.000-08:00

About 2 years old.

Hot Shit!

2011-12-09T10:08:00.001-08:00

Scott Harrison flash done in '94. From Annette's collection.

To the dogs

2011-12-06T09:53:00.001-08:00

About 2 years old, without a Victorian frame around them.

Tommy Napp

2011-12-03T11:44:00.001-08:00

Took these pics of my customer yesterday. Two tattoos done by Philadelphia tattooer Tommy Napp. Both tattoos are about 30-35 years old.

Classics

2011-11-29T12:28:00.001-08:00

From a few years ago.

Tattoo Museum Yokohama

2011-11-27T08:33:00.001-08:00

Collection of Japanese tattoo tools.

Correspondence with Manson.

Paintings by Horiyoshi 3 done with his own blood.

Annette took all these pics during our trip there in '09.

Lil' Bastard

2011-11-25T11:23:00.001-08:00

Did this guy last week.

Waters

2011-11-17T13:29:00.001-08:00

Percy Waters.I still look at this almost every day, painted my own version earlier this year. Maybe one day I'll actually get prints made.

Music Related

2011-11-15T11:51:00.001-08:00

Def!

Your one of them!

Ed Hardy Tiger

2011-11-10T09:14:00.000-08:00

Did this Ed Hardy design (with key) the other day. Used a bunch of pigment I mixed up, haven't done that in a while.

Dead Stuff

2011-11-09T08:44:00.000-08:00

Been on the road the last week so the updates have been slow. Here's a link to my friend Nicole's blog, pretty wild stuff.

For Sale!

2011-11-01T12:47:00.000-07:00

I got a 10 sheet set for sale, first full set I've done in a while. $120 printed on heavy stock, shipped to your door in the continental U.S.. Email me if you want a set. You can also email me for overseas prices.

Ed Hardy & Bob Roberts 2003

2011-10-29T10:54:00.000-07:00

Good Stuff!

Japan

2011-10-26T17:27:00.000-07:00

Going through a hard drive, found some pics I took a few years ago.

Ed Roth prints

2011-10-20T14:03:00.000-07:00

Some cool Roth prints we got at the shop. Picked these up at House Industries in '97. Big Daddy was there, signing stuff. They were $3, $6 if you wanted them signed

GusLtd./Horiyoshi 3

2011-10-18T10:16:00.000-07:00

Got this today. Brass liner built by Gus and engraved by Horiyoshi 3, for the King of Tattoo show this past weekend. Thanks and respect to Gus and Horiyoshi 3 for sending this to a Gaijin in Philly.

Jerry Design

2011-10-13T09:38:00.000-07:00

Did this one on our floor girl Jaime.

Grim

2011-10-11T14:49:00.000-07:00

Did this Reaper earlier this year.

Grime

2011-10-08T14:44:00.000-07:00

Tattooed this guy at Ladyland, he had a killer Grime backpiece.

Clown Flash

2011-10-04T15:02:00.000-07:00

Some Flash I got going on.

Picture Machine

2011-10-01T09:36:00.000-07:00

Picture machine flash, hand colored at Bert Grimm's shop in Oregon.

More Machines

2011-09-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

Sailor Vern's.

Owen Jensen,all from Annette's collection.

Hanya

2011-09-28T08:11:00.000-07:00

This one's also from '09

JoJo

2011-09-27T14:21:00.000-07:00

Dogface boy tattoo 5 did circa '09

Coils

2011-09-26T07:42:00.000-07:00

Artsy pic I took of some coils me and Casey made a couple years ago.

Attitude!

2011-09-24T08:57:00.000-07:00

Painting I did earlier this year for a Misfits inspired art show. 138 artists were given a song title to paint. Mine was "Attitude"

Christina Colorful

2011-09-21T15:04:00.000-07:00

Found this one in some of my old stuff. She's got some great tattoos.

Hot Rod Hoedown

2011-09-11T18:16:00.000-07:00

'60 Impala. I had one of these, not this nice.

Clean shoebox.

Gasser's are back. Radir wheels!

My favorite at the show. Killer Riv.

Reaper Tattooing

2011-09-07T14:11:00.000-07:00

Our floorgirl Jaime took this picture, thought it came out kinda cool.

Mad Bee

2011-09-04T07:53:00.000-07:00

You don't see as many Paul Rogers liners floating (at least I don't). Here's a cool Mad Bee from the lovely Annette LaRue's collection. The Mallets were from Georgia I believe,not sure who the "CRIS" is who helped out on the build. Anybody out there know?

Zero Post

2011-08-31T08:34:00.000-07:00

Having more computer issues. Stay tuned will post when they are resolved!

Tattoos in last year

2011-08-25T14:09:00.000-07:00

Some outlines

2011-08-19T11:26:00.000-07:00

Blacklines I had at my station from tattoos I did not so long ago.

Chicks With Yellow Roses

2011-08-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

Moon Eyes

2011-08-12T19:11:00.000-07:00

Had to stop by while in the neighborhood.

This thing is too cool. If you look close in the background you can see the statue of Big Daddy.

Can only imagine how hairy doing a 1/4 mile in this is.

Garage Company

2011-08-10T11:48:00.000-07:00

Stopped in while in the Los Angeles area last week. This place is awesome you could spend a week looking around and not see everything.

Cool shovel, note dagger on frame

XR750

Yoshi's bike that he's run at Daytona.

Evel Fucking Kenevil

Phoenix

2011-07-26T12:25:00.000-07:00

Did this one a couple years ago at Olde City.

England 1997

2011-07-25T17:50:00.000-07:00

Stopped by Lal Hardy's shop. He was cool as hell!

Inside of New Wave.

Martin Clarke tattooing at the New Wave booth during a local convention that happened to be going on that weekend.

Jack Dracula

2011-07-19T18:29:00.000-07:00

Martin LaCasse's autographed photo.

Sheet of original Dracula flash, also from Martin's collection

Tattoos from the'90s

2011-07-17T18:21:00.000-07:00

Sailor Jerry pin-up on Tommy Maxwell.

Can't remember who I did the panther on.

R.I.P. Wurzel

2011-07-12T09:47:00.000-07:00

Another Good One

2011-07-09T19:20:00.000-07:00

Pinup and Panther by Mike Wilson. I did the Indian chick by her foot.

Bad Photo, Great Tattoo

2011-07-04T06:56:00.000-07:00

This guy stopped in Ladyland a couple days ago. Design by Horioshi redrawn and tattooed by Greg James in Los Angeles.

More from Cowtown Car/Motorcycle show.

2011-06-29T19:05:00.000-07:00

'49 custom shoebox.

Another cool Ford.

Trump Chop.

Cool Bathtub Highboy.

Cowtown Bike and Car Show.

2011-06-28T19:55:00.000-07:00

Got some more pics I'll put up later(having computer issues right now).
For now here's a shovel.

OFF! Panic Attack

2011-06-25T18:30:00.000-07:00

Scored a free ticket to see OFF! last night. Keith Morris still killing it at 56yrs young. OFF! sounded awesome but it would be cool to see them in a smaller venue.

Don Nolan flyer

2011-06-23T18:52:00.000-07:00

Going through more stuff and found this cool flyer.

From the archives

2011-06-20T20:42:00.000-07:00

Chal the floor guys stomach.

Did this one on Scott Smith, both tattoos were done in 1998.

Some more scans from tattoo mags.

2011-06-17T20:01:00.000-07:00

Dave Lum Backpiece from Outlaw Biker Tattoo Expo mag in 1990, from the convention in New Orleans.

Ed Hardy dragon on Sailor Ron from Rhode Island, Bad Ass! From a 1990 issue of Outlaw Biker Tattoo Revue.

Cool Painting by Joe Coleman "Mike Perfetto at home". Appeared in International Tattoo Art in 1994.

Killer rib panel by Paul Jeffries,from another isssue of Tattoo Revue in 1990. Was lucky enough to get my hand tattooed by him a few years later.

In Memory of Mikey Wild

2011-06-15T20:59:00.000-07:00

Saw this written on a wall around the corner from my house.

Pin-up cards

2011-06-13T20:29:00.000-07:00

Forgot I had these, they're awesome.

Wolf is too cool.

Great tattoo pin up reference

Got to do a lot of good flash in the 90's

2011-06-11T17:36:00.000-07:00

Both of these done in '97 as well.

Ed hardy.

Paul Jeffries.

Tattooing good flash gives you a strong foundation when you start drawing custom tattoos. Something a lot of custom "artist's" could learn from.

Filip

2011-06-07T17:05:00.003-07:00

Going through some old stuff and found this pic of a an awesome Filip Leu tattoo. I think it was done in the late 90's.

More tattoos I did a while ago (1997)

2011-06-05T19:25:00.000-07:00

Guess these were all done in '97,cause that's what it says on the back of them.

Hardy painting

2011-06-01T19:58:00.000-07:00

Really cool 9 tailed fox by Ed Hardy.

Tattoos from 1998-2000

2011-05-31T20:13:00.000-07:00

On "Dead" Ed.

Jeremy.

Steve

Vintage Racing and Car Show yesterday.

2011-05-29T07:09:00.000-07:00

Sunbeam Tiger. English bodied sportscar with a Boss 302 and a Muncie 4 speed. Sorta like a low key Shelby Cobra.

302 crammed under the Sunbeams hood.

Killer Austin Healy.

Real fucking race car!

Killer Vette. Awesome to see these cars being driven hard.

Tattoos

2011-05-27T14:46:00.000-07:00

R.I.P. Mikey Wild

2011-05-25T20:32:00.000-07:00

Mikey's portrait of Vincent Price.

Philly punk legend Mikey Wild passsed away this morning.

If you're from Philly you know of Mikey!

A few of my bands played with him in the past,always a an experience.

Ruin

2011-05-23T19:43:00.000-07:00

These guys where the best from Philly, was lucky enough to see them a bunch of times.

Used to play scrabble with Vosco while we were participating in pharmacological studies.

Good Times!

Bikes @ FDR ride to skate

2011-05-22T20:39:00.000-07:00

Nice triumph.

No caption nescessary.

Too clean.

Dream.

Royal Enfield .

Poor quality cell phone pics. This only scratches the surface of what was at FDR that day.

Unfinished

2011-05-19T20:33:00.000-07:00

Going through some old stuff and found this. I'm not sure when I started this. I'll have to finish it one of these days.

Tattoos

2011-05-16T20:41:00.000-07:00

Did both of these around the same time, about 4 or 5 years ago.

Dave Gibson design with added banner.

Ernie the Hat.

2011-05-14T11:55:00.000-07:00

Got this one at Olde City.

Got this one in my collection was lucky enough to do a trade with Ernie Gosnell for it. I got the better end of that deal.

Recent Tattoos (within the last 4 years)

2011-05-11T10:40:00.000-07:00

Tattoos by me

2011-05-09T20:50:00.000-07:00

This ones about 4 years old.

Did the grenade about 8-9.

Did the panther about the same time as the grenade.

Dragon by Mick from Zurich

2011-05-08T20:34:00.000-07:00

Some really cool paintings by Mick, he does some of the baddest Dragons out there.

Ed Hardy Tattoos

2011-05-06T18:40:00.000-07:00

Bill Salmon's back piece.

Love the dragon with no background.

One of my all time favorite tattoos, there's a great story behind this one. Go get the Tattootime it's in and read it!

Got all these pics from Hardy at the Massachusets convention in '02.

More Rollo

2011-05-04T19:41:00.001-07:00

Rollo originals from Annette's collection. Think both of these are in the "Bullseye"book.

Some cool machines

2011-05-02T19:11:00.000-07:00

Paul Rogers built in 1985.

Wagner frame.

Iron Rollomatic.

Squareback Jonesy.
All these machines are from Annette LaRues collection and may be for sale, call her at Electric Ladyland (the #'s on this page).

Tattoos before I worked at Olde City

2011-04-28T19:48:00.000-07:00

Doing a Hanya in the last millineum,

Messing around with a 10 liner in '98.

Rose I did at Kadillac in '02.

Painting

2011-04-27T19:21:00.000-07:00

Did this one in '02 18x24. Can't remember who bought it. Was going to put up a couple more but my computer is giving me hassles trying to upload shit right now. So only one pic this post.

Dragons

2011-04-25T18:59:00.000-07:00

Got this one from Toshi in '08.

Got this painting from Joel Long who works at Boulder Ink. Worked with him at Kadillac for a week when he came to do guest spot there in '02.
Thanks to both these guys for the generous gifts.

RIP Thunders!

2011-04-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

20 years ago Johnny Thunders died in New Orleans.

Duke Kaufman

2011-04-22T20:11:00.000-07:00

Some original sheets of Duke Kaufman flash from Jason Scott's collection. Took these pics in Congress St. tattoo, Portsmouth NH.

Tattoos I did in the last Millennium

2011-04-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

Some photo's I just dug up.

Tombstones in Portsmouth NH

2011-04-20T20:56:00.000-07:00

Thought these were pretty amazing. Annette took these pictures in Portsmouth, most were done in the 1700's

Old Tattoos

2011-04-17T19:59:00.000-07:00

Pinky Yun did this eagle. I took this photo in 1997

USN Skull by Philadelphia Eddie, on the same guy. Photo 1997 also.

No idea who did this one but it's a great tattoo.I took this photo in 2001.

R.I.P. Joey

2011-04-15T20:55:00.000-07:00

Joey died 10 years ago today.

Tattoos

2011-04-14T20:51:00.000-07:00

Did this one at Kadillac around 2000.

Clipper also done at Kadillac around the same time.

Bill's hand '01 or'02

Fear, The best part of Decline

2011-04-13T20:08:00.000-07:00

Kensington's own Lee Ving.

Tattoo Skateboards

2011-04-11T20:36:00.000-07:00

Horioshi 3. Got this at museum.

Mike Wilson, for a Florida company.

Jay Goldberg, NJ skateshop/Creature only 60 made I think.

Tattoo Revue 1992

2011-04-10T09:29:00.000-07:00

By Paul Booth

More color from Paul Booth.

By Kazuo Oguri.

Also by Kazuo Oguri, from an article about his apprenticeship, All American tattooers should read it. Maybe I'll put it up here someday.

Awesome tattoo from Tom Beasley.

Tom Beasley as well.

Pretty killer line up in this magazine. Don't see nearly as much quality in mags these days.

I stand corrected.

2011-04-08T14:14:00.000-07:00

25 seconds in it's the pool from my last post. Stumbled across this today,WEIRD.

Whoops

2011-04-08T08:15:00.000-07:00

Just realized I double posted some tattoo photos, ,my bad the memory ain't what it used to be.

Washington Skate Trip 2006

2011-04-07T20:09:00.000-07:00

Arlington, Me and Smitty got hurt here the first day.

Found this pool the last day. Not enough time to clean it before we left. I'm sure it's long gone by now.

Artistic mossy coping shot.

Conrad busted his dome.

Lines for days!

More Tattoos

2011-04-06T19:41:00.000-07:00

Hey Yo!

Tattoos of heads I've done.

2011-04-05T19:09:00.000-07:00

The only full color Zombie tattoo I've ever done.

You're one of them.

Grim Ripper.

Paul Rogers

2011-04-05T06:00:00.000-07:00

Another one from Annette's collection. Some Paul Rogers designs (and a Sailor Jerry) with an acetate ruboff. Colored pencil on tracing paper done when he worked at Sailor Eddie's shop in Camden NJ.

Had some phone and computer issues for the past few days so no posts for a couple days.

Doc Webb

2011-04-02T19:20:00.000-07:00

Couple original sheets of Old Doc Webb flash from Annette LaRue's collection.

Pittsburgh 1991

2011-04-01T18:30:00.000-07:00

Chris Henry, tattoo by Chris Garver. Chris Henry worked on 4th street at Philadelphia Eddies for a while. Badass tattoo by Garver

Paul Bearer of Philadelphia's Serial Killers. Tattoo's by Gil Monte, Freddy Corbin, Dan Higgs, Sonny Tufts and others.

Choke, tattoos by Paul Jeffries.

Really cool Dave Lum tattoos.

Timothy Hoyer showing off a Jack Rudy portrait.

Was looking through some of my older tattoo magazines the other day, thought I'd scan some pics from "Tattoo Expo". Those where the days!

Street Style

2011-03-31T07:18:00.000-07:00

From one of the earliest street contest's. That's Theo Jak's car with him sitting in the drivers seat, so that makes it tattoo related also.