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Heads are going to roll.
A painting i did for the Year of the Dragon show at Seventh Son in sf last week. I think the show is still up at their space until mid February. Many great paintings to be seen while they are up.
The study,
and then the outline. We are hoping to finish this in the next five weeks.
Karajishi for Richard
killer of cats, kingdoms and men alike.
and an older one for my home office, FTW!
…the big show is here, 2012. One last spin around? or one cataclysmic cosmic psych out? At the FTW laboratories we’ve been crunching the numbers for years and really have reached little conclusion other than to watch the days stack up as we inch toward the light. That being said, my compatriot Adian Monahan and myself have contributed to a book dedicated to the miracle year, you can order a copy at lllbooks.com
here it is, from the same folks who brought you the “coquille or be killed” volume of stipple paper art which also features works from the FTW crew.
my second of two FTW tattoos in this new year
an outline for the year of the dragon, not to be confused with the year of end times.
and a finished dragon
drones do the work!
I saw an interview with one of my all time favorite human beings, Terence Mckenna, where he was reflecting on his own imminent passage after living with his diagnosis of the very grim glioblastoma multiforme four, he remarked, the one thing he did know about death was that it lasted a very long time. This sums it up too.
third sitting, pressing on
I lost three years worth of tattoo photos recently and have begun photographing the healed images as they trickle back into the shop, here are a couple i got this week.
…and possible apocalypse, its a bitch i know, but its breathing down the collective neck of humanity. I’m guessing wide spread panic and material hoarding, then we live with the hangover of the post apocalyptic nothingness. I’m hoping for aliens but i’m not willing to wager anything on it. So in the meantime, i’m focusing on the year of the dragon which has at least an actualized promise.
study for an arm
in progress for tony
No Lords! This might be one of my favorites ever.
In an age of occupation and the continuing weight of corporatism certain things seem to keep a particular fluency with me, can you connect the dots. Other then working out my neanderthal interpretations of the world around me through tattoo flash, I’ll be traveling to New York once again to make tattoos with some of my favorite tattooers at New York Adorned this next week Nov. 20th, thru the 23rd. If you happen to be in the area and would like to get a tattoo and talk about my space time theories in radical social realignment drop me a line. Id love to make some new works.
not an eagle, but just as much shading.
a study for a tattoo ill be doing. Its essentially from a page of flash that I had done a couple of months back, with some additions, I never tire of skulls.
freshly finished.
an old one, but it felt right.
…you are sometimes afforded the opportunity to make a first tattoo for someone on the day of their retirement. 67 years of deliberation and they choose a screaming eagle after hanging up their final commencement robes as a professor of politcal science, and they now live with the pepper shaded diving eagle!
This is a study for an idea I had about how to approach a sleeve of adorned Tibetan elephants.
I was asked to make a crest with battle axes and an eagle.
a cover up.
and lastly, some ideas im thoreau-ing around.
we’ll be finishing the tail side on the other half of the arm in a few weeks.
FTW!
…to everyone who came down to join us for the party last week. It was a blast, alot of great tattoos were made amidst the colossal magnitude of FTWs party machine, i think the first tattoo in the door was a chola and the last one out the door was a wizard. Perfect. 
some new flash
some more new flash
in progress
and a tattoo from some old flash i painted a few years back.
one day after the devil winds of hurricane Irene passed through the greater new york area I worked on this for someone who had been trapped for days in the trump tower after her flight had been long delayed due to the blanket of airport closures throughout the area. The tattoo however was something she had wanted for a long time. Timing is everything.
