Isn't there one of those places around the corner from the office by Subway? Oh wait... wrong happy ending! My bad
You went to Japan and got tattooed with an electric machine? That isn't "traditional"....let them stab you with the sticks. What did you get put on?
This was my happy ending: Ain't too often you get an airbrushed painting of yourself as a gift from a total stranger. Don't know why they picked my ugly mug to depict, but I'm way stoked for the gift.
Traditional schmaditional--Horisen works with both modern and primative tools. He learned he was tattooing me maybe an hour prior to my arriving at his studio; he doesn't bust out the sticks on quickies (it's a panther over his apprentice's previous tattoo of my son with Kanji below done a few years ago).
That is cool that you were even able to get in with him. I know that some of those guys are VERY difficult to get appointments with.
You, sir, are a Rock Star! I think you need to get a matching airbrushed painting put on the deck lid of your Chevy....
And expensive. I'm more than grateful of this opportunity, as was my Japanese budget! As for the airbrushing, I'll stick with silk jackets, t-shirts, and the obligatory plexi-portraits, thank you.
Looks like a goodtime in Japan. Did you go to Truck Masters as well? I had planned to go this year for both shows out there but SEMA got to expensive, next year for sure, we have a member in our club that is Japanesse and he will be our tour guide/translator.
Traditional tattoo......needs a story about getting it, preferably including alcohol and loose women in a foreign land. I'm sick of the whiny chicks on the tv tattoo shows with their Oprah testimony about their lost childhood, virginity, old man....etc etc etc. Looks like ya had a good time. I never got a tattoo, due to being too drunk or stoned to walk while in Bangkok during my military days.
In Japan, they say "REAL MEN get (fed/serviced/depinkied/blown/paid/loved/honored/pissed/etc) on Tatami mats!" apparently, tattoed too! Could you possibly describe the area/building/room/surrounding people/surrounding day's schedule for the viewers at home, Lobbo ??? btw...the airbrushing looks cool, just the freak who dunnit looks a little stalky Note to self.......airbrushing of your car ON your car is about as cool as getting a tattoo of your arm ON your arm...dontchareckon?
hey dude, Congrats on making the cover of the new CRUISIN' magazine!! i picked it up at mooneyes this morning before work. i used to see you driving it around la mirada/whittier on my way to work when it was still in primer, looks even better now!! http://www.cruisinmag.com/index_eng.html
Very cool. The Japanese people are the most generous people I know. Wonderful people and they just love anything American. I always bring a handful of small gifts when I travel there to hand out to people I meet because more often than not, they give you some amazing gift.
You see, I lost my pet gerbil recently. He'd somehow been infected with the HIV virus, and sadly, finally suc***bed. Since I'd smuggled him into the US from Asia to begin with, I thought it only fitting to have a memorial tattoo of him done in his native land. Coincidentally, the artist who did the work also shares a gerbil fetish--I mean infatuation, or, anyway...so, afterwards, we shared a traditional bowl of bukaki. It was better than any Miami Ink episode could dream of being. Actually, my Japanese tattoo quest began many "Moons" ago--the second year we went with the Shifters. We'd met another Hori apprentice at the Moon Cafe; he came over to our hotel later that evening with the intention of tattooing me and Anthony; I unfortunately was sound asleep by the time he arrived. A few years later, I was able to hook up with another Japanese artist, Okamoto, who was working illegally out of his apartment. This year, I ran into him again, and he suggested I have his boss, Horisen, tattoo me in their new studio in Old Yokohama (while he tattooed a yellow koi submarine on Rico--inside story). No memorials, no bs, just 3-4 hours of tattooing, Kirin/Asahi, and tons of miscommunication.
That that doesn't really look like you in that painting, it looks more like Sharukh Khan after a particularly hard weekend drinking Kingfisher and boinking Hindu starlets.
Er dude, it's a dude, and he's the biggest star in Bollywood these days, and you DO look like him, well the painting of you anyway. Are you thinking about Sade?
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