Deep and Dark December....

Last night was a departure from form for Pattern Recognition. It being my moms birthday and all, and with some nudging from my sister, I played a slew of classic rock oddities and b-sides. Of course still dipping into new releases but with a nod to the folks and some strange thrown in for good measure. Highlite albums include: For a Decade of Sin- Bloodshot records, Simon & Garfunkle- bridge over troubled water, Tapes and Tapes- the loon,Willie nelson- stardust, Tv on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mtn, Steve Martin -Lets get small, Nick Lowe-Pinker & Prouder than Previous, Elf power- all the World is Waiting, and Yo La Tengo- I'm not afraid of you and I will beat your ass. Just to name some. I might just post setlist for each show. we shall see. I love having a scheduled time each week to just listen and play music, check out new stuff to explore, dig old things I like or haven't heard yet. Hopefully this will continue to grow as a real eclectic listening experience, reaching more people on the web as well as the maine radio liteners. It all comes from my desire to hear radio that intrigues and excites and offers something unique to the sounscape of the airwaves.

YOU CAN'T SAY TITS ON THE RADIO

Last week on pattern recognition I made a feeble attempt to kill your television but the muthatruka come back from the dead! So I have decided to ask for help from the international community.
I am now taking suggestions for upcoming playlists on
PATTERN RECOGNITION which airs every THURSDAY at 10Pm (east coast time), so drop a line with songs about the following topics for upcoming shows (remember only music that doesn't suck).

1. ZOMBIE T.V./NIGHT OF THE PLASMA SCREEM!

2.OUTERSPACE IS A COLD DARK PLACE (TO DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY...)

3.SLOW DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION

BARBARIAN NECKLACE

This is a custom design for a friend who is a fan of many things barbaric and medievil, norse mythology D&D etc. Complete with runes and bear claws, this is the first session, outline and greyshading.

Radio Free

You may have seen the link to WERU which is a volunteer radio station here in Maine where I host a weekly show. If you haven't guessed yet this is a plug for my show...

Thursday nights at 10pm est. streeming live. PATTERN RECOGNITION. weru 89.9fm 102.9fm

This is an outlet for my music collecting disorder, the show is eclectic to the hilt. No genre is safe, but I play lots of diy techno, punk-salvage, artrap, discorock, freejazmetal, the list goes on and gets more rediculous. I want to post the setlists and I can here dave chapelle making fun of white stoners and their lists....I'm not so sure I can podcast the sets without violating multiple copywrite laws, so tune in and check it out, this is not normal radio, and if you want your music unhinged and commercial free, and if you want you music played on air send a copy to weru.

Up where the air is rareified

A beautiful Don Ed Hardy image, placement seals the deal, I'd like to think I done good work with this one. ;}

From the depths....

what kind of experience are you looking for? Are you here to read ar just look at pictures? Do you want a narrator or is this self guided?

Meanwhile, back on Earth...

So I managed to "explode" my blog for a couple of days while fucking with the template... Okay, my html is not so good, I get help with that stuff. In the time between I jumped out of a plane over Lebanon ...... Maine. I went skydiving with my girlfriend and a friend who is getting married at the end of the month. I have no pictures of it, but that really doesn't matter, the experience is much more interesting and you're a bit distracted for picture taking. Stepping out of a moving plane at 14,000 feet, falling at nearly 120 mph, 9,000 ft in 60 seconds and then floating under a parachute for the last 5,000. The sureal sensation of being untethered, having no earth beneath your feet, letting gravity do what it always wants to do to you, and having no resistance. Actually you resist the force of the air you are passing through and "control" your speed by spreading out your body. Not as scary as you might think. The view was spectacular, and I would do it again.

Honor Among Thieves

JOLLY ROGER
This is a quirky one. Skull and crossbones for a ski enthusiast. Done in three stages; outline, dark and medium colors, then a final session to clean the outline and put in the highlites. I am really happy with this piece, the customer on the other hand stiffed me on the last hundred and fifty bucks. He seemed like a trustworthy guy, we had numerous meetings over the summer to design this custom tattoo, spread the work out to let it heal and to help him spread the cost out some. It's too bad, he seemed cool, but now I gotta warn people that Colin Nash, last here in Belfast, said to be going to Seatle and then to the Alta, Utah ski area walked off WITHOUT PAYING! So if you read this Colin or if you see him, please make good on your debts, we do negotiate and barter, and I want a photo of the healed out tattoo.

the Egypt Game

Custom design for a fan of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, outline and final black and grey stages are shown. This is Liz's first tattoo! Like the sign says, "THINK BIG!".

Puff the magic dragon

Here's a hefty dragon on a fella's arm. This was done in one sitting in july, and this was his first tattoo! Way to go.

another tattoo gallery

IN THE SKIN

Custom design for a fan of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, outline and final black and grey stages are shown. This is Liz's first tattoo! Like the sign says, "THINK BIG!"




Here's a hefty dragon on a fella's arm. This was done in one sitting in july, and this was his first tattoo! Way to go.



Placement is nine tenths of the law...




Here is a right Dandy hero some of you might recognize! Thats right, that leg belongs to Mondo Dandy himself!



Carving anti social across the stomach describes the sentiment, without words, first by the strength of its form, the arch. Second, the endurance of the placement is no understatement and by shaping the words from bone suggests sustenance derived from the idea, the meat of it eaten and digested, nourishment for the collector maybe. Or is this the remains of an ideal, found picked clean by the birds, bleached by sun and rain, its skeleton weathering the test of time. Time, who is ever present, each tattoo marking the path, for every inch of skin a moment of your life, a trail of bread crumbs receading into the forest.
Whatever true tale this body holds there is also a perfect conundrum. The label "antisocial"and being marked by tattoos go hand in hand and yet such a large tattoo will certainly bring the collector attention and interest, most likely by others with ink, searching ,as we always are, for connections and commonality. Seeking equilibrium between creativity and entropy, pushing away and drawing c

Come on in!

Secret Tattoo can be a little hard to find, the studio is on the second floor of the Oddfellows hall in Belfast, but my hand painted sign is at the foot of the stairwell to help you navigate.

Luna moth landing

Placement is nine tenths of the law...

"struggle" mixed media on canvas 18" x 36"

Well well well, the shit gets deeper.

Secret Tattoo has gone under the knife, we remodeled the place just in time for memorial day weekend. Visual/virtual tour coming soon! Until then heres a painting hanging on the newly painted wall.

Link in the pool

Here is a right Dandy hero some of you might recognize! Thats right, that leg belongs to Mondo Dandy himself!

Journal Entries

These audio and visual forms evolve through collective borrowing and shared experience, a language being spoken into existence every moment. Now is the future, the past is waiting to be reassembled.

Keep digging. My job swings like a pendulum. a strange clock for sure. One moment its the book of the dead, egyptian mythology of the afterlife, then the next its dolphins and butterflies and then back again, Man's ruin, tick tock tick tock. And then someones asking about cosmetic tattooing, microdermapigmentation, its called. tattooed lipliner and eyebrows. The better its done the less you can tell. Go figure. more ways to sculpt and decorate the human body than you can shake a stick at. Wrestling for jesus, slamdancing for the environment, bake sales for stealth bombers, knitting toward nirvana. 04/14/06


always on the lookout for the writing on the wall...

How deep does it go? Questions people ask about tattoos go deeper than the words that ask them. In measurable depth, not very. The other answer is deep into the past, in the soil with the ash and bone and memories of skins.
Ancestors tell stories and we try to listen, but there is no library to house the tattoos of the dead. Only memory, only repetition. The wearer may see a fresh tattoo as permanent, forever changing the architecture of the temple. But the body will sucumb in time, so what is the element that lasts? The impression on the greater canvas of bodies. The slight shift in the seas of idea. What is natural looking skin? Smooth, shaven legs glistening with anti-wrinkle cream. The soft raised scar of bypass heart surgery or knee replacements. The bent frame of hard labor and straightened teeth of wealth. The body as a biography. The form an expression of divine intent. The individuals will enscribed in a parchment of cells. There are more intimate scars we all carry. The smallest of scars, sometimes nearly invisible, often tell the most elaborate stories. How deep indeed. 04/12/06

Artists Profile

these are the tracks I grew up on the wrong side of...

Music Reviews

Take a listen to
carrigan
from burlington VT, an impressive two piece that sounds much bigger. More in the vein I've been enjoying lately; epic heavy instumental rawk. slow build crashing waves burried melody digging its way out of the undertow. Look for them on tour this spring.

You need to listen to: Pelican. from chicago i think. more instru-metal,like godspeed or isis w/o vocals. cool rmx by godflesh guy of track called Angel Tears. where does this music belong anyway? too thoughtful for most metalheads, not angry enough for the str8edge crowd, but the hipsters probly get nervous, unsure if a moshpit may break out any second. closer to classical music than ac/dc. long evolving song structure, plenty of space to wander off into, forget where you were going and then, coming up fast from behind: crumbling walls of liquid rock pouring down over your shoulders, like getting caught up in a guitar avalanch. and only 2 cuts on the single. do you here this stuff in yor head when waiting for the bus? do you wish they soundtracked movies with stuff like this instead of john williams or whats-his-shore. so far it seems video games are one of the few places srtange music is turning up, but mostly techno over rock. i have only been to chicago once. is this what it sounds like? rust and grey bricks and salt crusted automobiles. name that genre.

TRIBES OF NEUROT-silver blood transmitions: the band Neurosis has an alternate identity, sort of a pensive dark side, called tribes of neurot. with each Neurosis album there comes in its wake the flotsam and jetsam of the process reconfigured, reanimated, and released into the wild. Transmissions comes after "through silver in blood", with titles like "primordial uncarved block" and "fires of purification" and "continuous regression" the sounds should come as no surprise. starting from breath, building to cries echoed off window shutters flapping in the wind, trailing away into the shadow of the drums of war, clawing its way into the grave, this album has a gait like romero's zombies. Think radio transmissions from space coursing through the rusty walls of an abandon steel mill. Think whale calls responding to sinking ships scraping the walls of the ocean. t.o.n. explores sound collage and feedback control and constantly threatens to become rhythm and melody. In short, this is a great record to listen to while painting or writing. This particular album was put out by release records but the band does have there own label now, Neurot Recordings.

Salty ink

Carving anti social across the stomach describes the sentiment, without words, first by the strength of its form, the arch. Second, the endurance of the placement is no understatement and by shaping the words from bone suggests sustenance derived from the idea, the meat of it eaten and digested, nourishment for the collector maybe. Or is this the remains of an ideal, found picked clean by the birds, bleached by sun and rain, its skeleton weathering the test of time. Time, who is ever present, each tattoo marking the path, for every inch of skin a moment of your life, a trail of bread crumbs receading into the forest.
Whatever true tale this body holds there is also a perfect conundrum. The label "antisocial"and being marked by tattoos go hand in hand and yet such a large tattoo will certainly bring the collector attention and interest, most likely by others with ink, searching ,as we always are, for connections and commonality. Seeking equilibrium between creativity and entropy, pushing away and drawing closer.



From sketch idea to tattoo, just like magic.

Inkless Tattoos

First inkless tattoo, fractal like design, put in lightly and lasted a few months, healed to prety much no scar.




Second time the piece was put in more heavily, scarring lasted considerably longer and was more pronounced.

Art Gallery

fear is the mind killer. That which does not sleep, eternal lies. Slipping into darkness,reaching quiet...
post-op art. Triage tyiptyc.