Friends 4eva

I wish i could say that this Sunday was just like any other Sunday spent at the shop with two of my favorite people, and not the Sunday before the Monday that i have been dreading for so long.
But it wasn't.
It was, and is, the day before Nick leaves us*, and while thinking about that sucks, sucks, sucks, we spent it just the way i'd hoped we would; hanging out at the shop and getting stupid tattoos together.


Before this, Nick hadn't been tattooed in about 7 years... no, really!

Aaaand, by the looks of it, he hadn't missed it much

  Viking?
 
A viking indeed!



So, Nick got the viking tattoo he'd been wanting for so long, but the party didn't stop there.
We needed buddy tattoos as well.
Of course we did.
Nick did the drawing and Allan did the stencil that was used on all three of us.
Magic.


 Nick went first

Next up was Allan (Nick is concentrating hard on trying to figure out Allans machine, and the whole "stencil" concept too)

I was the last one up

Well, what else could it be?

Happy nerds

As a special treat for Nicks clients, i hereby give you a video of your tormentor being tormented... you all earned it!

*I wanna say more on the subject, cause lots more needs to be said, but i think i'll leave it at that for now.
I wanna be able to stay in denial just a little longer.

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Rassier's own thang

Jeff started his own blog cause he is a lone wolf. Its pretty rad so far. He's been doing a drawing a day. Here are a few of the drawings...



Jeff Rassier's Blog Bitch

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RED RED HOOD

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BEN GORHAM

PURE STYLE 

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ROUGH OLD BLACK AND WHITE

via yimmys yayo. not the most stylish pictures but somehow appealing...interesting...wort checking out..

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KANYE ALL OF THE LIGHTS - ORCHESTRATED

hm. thats pretty cool. yes, kanye is a genius. new album this summer ? sick ! via pigeonsandplanes

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Tattoo conventions and professionalism.

So this year, PennyBlack will be representing at the Lethbridge Windy City Tattoo Weekend.
Last year was a ton of fun, and that was just before the studio actually came into being, so this year should be even better with our full crew.

We are also trying to sort out the logistics of getting a booth at the Capital City Tattoo Convention in Victoria.

What we will -not- be doing is supporting the West Coast Tattoo Culture Show. The reasons for this are multi-fold:

-The pricing for booths is, in my opinion, fairly exorbitant. I understand that these events are anything but cheap to put on, but making the artists pay as much as this convention is asking strikes me as unfair. As with so many other aspects of life in Vancouver, these booth rental fees are more a reflection of what people will pay, not what its worth.

-The convention promoters decided to offer half-price booth rental to any studio from the USA, and free booths to anyone from overseas. This strikes us as completely unfair. We're sure the promoters intention was to be more inviting to studios from far and wide. However, its also a fairly blunt statement- "You locals aren't good enough, you don't have enough draw, so you can pay full price." In short, there's nothing fair and equal about such a multi-tiered pricing structure.

-Professionalism. More importantly, the complete and utter lack thereof. Consider the massive banner that loads upon visitation of the West Coast Tattoo Culture Show. Second image down, the 'douchebag alert'. Now, folks, we don't know what has happened between the promoters of this convention and the West Coast Piercing and Ink Den, nor do we particularly care. As it stands, we don't actually even know anyone from either camp.

What we -do- care about is the shockingly unprofessional behavior of the promoters. A banner such as this makes all of the team assembling this look like children. It's infantile, unnecessary, and serves only to reinforce negative stereotypes that we as tattoo industry professionals are trying to overcome. Well, some of us are, at least.
Thus- to the un-informed observer, this is what 'tattoo culture' is- petty name calling.

So. Yes. This is why we at PennyBlack won't be representing at this convention, opting instead to travel out of town to where I know we will have fun and where we know we'll be avoiding the playground politics so willfully engaged in locally.

-Keith

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My Little Porny

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It's a rainy day in Vancouver- but then again, when is it not?
Progress is being made on this blog, but as with everything besides actual tattooing, it's taking some time. Biographies will be placed sooner than later, and photos are still being resized for suitable uploading.

We're still a little confused regarding how busy we've been. Typically, slow season for tattooing lasts from mid-November to late February, but we've been almost as busy in January as we were through the summer. Must be our sunny disposition, hmm?

-K.

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Keith

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More butt roses

I was just about to post something on my personal blog, when i realized that i didn't really have anything to blog about.
It's a real problem for me these days; either we get home super late and i'm too tired to blog, or nothing new and exciting really happened.
That's winter for you, i guess.
Just lots of work and lots of xbox playing.

But back to this blog, where i actually have a little update on a really cool piece.
Anne got another session on her... well, her ass, mostly, last week.
Still only lines, but now there are thicker lines, thinner lines and yeah, basically just a hell of a lot more lines.


The fanciest butt in town


Hopefully i'll have another update on this epic piece soon, so stay tuned!

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GIRLS N COLOR

i feel like: if you run a blog and you havent been posting much lately you ought to appologize to your readers. is that weird ? i dont want to feel sorry for that. aah, whats going on. i know whats going on: dana hasnt been much of a help lately. my life is busy. still: here is a little colorfull monday update.

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JESSICA ALBA

jessica alba ladies an gentlemen. photos taken by terry richardson.

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