INKWELL

more before

2009-10-08T12:39:00.003-04:00

okay some more before we moved in shots. next up remodel and new look. housey house. the porch is cool. and the unfinished room is off the master bedroom, above the kitchen with trap door staircase. this will be the studio. sweeet!

more house house

2009-10-08T12:34:00.001-04:00

the barn and some interior before shots of the house. we came we saw we painted the rooms new colors

new house

2009-10-08T12:29:00.001-04:00

bonnie and don came and saw. sleeping in the chair with the cat=I live here.

big yard bigger

2009-10-08T12:23:00.002-04:00

down comes the fir tree outside the kitchen window. Let the sunlight in! we have been enjoying morning sun pouring into the kitchen. thanks to john for the chainsawin'.

downstairs gets a makeover

2009-10-08T12:14:00.004-04:00

So before we moved our mess in we made a mess of our own. scraping drywall popcorn off the ceiling, tearing out some sheatrock plaster and slats, putting up a header. dust angels....

DEMO baby!

2009-10-08T12:10:00.001-04:00

DEMO!!! in the kitchen and the dingle we opened up the doorway and made some room around the chimney...

the new house, remodel as it happened.

2009-10-08T12:04:00.002-04:00

really I am posting pics of the new house project, not exactly in order. here is the painting of the upstairs bedrooms, phase one after closing and cleaning. sister power gets it done that night.

COME SEE ME LIVE! TUESDAYS @ LUNA, TONITE @ THA1 LOUNGE!

2009-07-25T17:43:00.004-04:00

TUESDAYS @ LUNA BAR & GRILL ON PARK ST IN BANGOR 9:30 TILL LATE RETRO RECORD MAYHEM WAXING LUNA NO COVER
NEW DEEJAY gigs for DJ PARADISE

TONIGHT AT THA1 LOUNGE DOWNTOWN BANGOR @9:30 SPINNING VINYL ALL NITE NO COVER

BLue HIll Car show 2009

2009-07-25T17:36:00.002-04:00

the sun does shine sometimes round here, and it did just that for the car show day. cullen got into the Delorian and BZAAAP! disapeared!? when she gets back I expect some cold fusion...

sharing a poem of a friend from Boulder...

2009-05-23T15:21:00.002-04:00

PO-OHM by mistr Jonathan Huey

Live Glitch MOB with visuals...

2009-03-30T10:17:00.001-04:00

Glitch mob sort of Live with cool

Look, up in the Pie!

2009-03-20T09:32:00.003-04:00

Ahhh the Whoopie pie. Recent interest in the mysterious new england confection has risen and no doubt will lead to new marketing ventures for Maine's proud dessert. Already produced on a larger scale for the countertops of well lit chains of convenience stores that inhabit Maine's roads. It is really the singular small stores with deliberately misspelled names like "Kwik Stop" or simply named for its town location where you may find, unlabeled and wrapped in cellophane, a basket of whoopie pies next to the megabucks machine at the register. Made by the owners sister in-law or the cooks grandmother who lives down the road or maybe right there in the store, no two are likely to be the same. This is not a light snack. Small whoopie pies are tolerated and even welcomed at a potluck, but the original offender is BIG. Makes your eyes get big. Makes small children look disproportionate when they try to eat them.
- Excerpted from the forthcoming travel guide and culinary inquiry: "Maine Course: driving around looking for Whoopie"
these pics are for Cullen's birthday mega whoopie pie I made

Take the boot escalator to the top!

2009-03-08T16:42:00.003-04:00

It really was a hike-a-thon Janufeb. Cullen on the top at the full moon. out with Brendan sunning and sledding and a toast!
ahh the woods and the snow. This spot atop the field was super fun. Great sunlight lots of great wide powder turns above Blue hill bay. Brendan was the fastest on the red rocket sled. whoosh couldn't even catch em on camera

DEEP and STEEP

2009-03-08T16:35:00.003-04:00

Here's all the big snow we got on the coast. mid-coast is what they call it on the whether report. tell you what it was a sweet ride, even if it was fleeting. beach time is coming soon. you can almost see my yard in that one pic. the guy in on the board is dan, he and I were the only two out that day. having someone to hike with and spot always makes me wanna go farther and a little steeper than I might alone. Fun trees off the summit down to the Osgood trail.

Look out my front door....

2009-03-08T14:59:00.003-04:00

nice sunset up here... next stop spring. Really enjoyed the so called back country skiing Maine has to offer. actually I rode my snowboard. and the hike is right off the dirt parking lot next to the paved road called "mountain road". but I can see my apt. from the top and a lot more than that. MDI in one direction and Camden in the other if the air is clear. the local voluntter radio station WERU broadcasts from up here, and its trust land so no motor traffic.

Ride for free! Or Green Skiing

2009-03-08T14:53:00.003-04:00

wee the sno comes late on blue hill. lots of good sno in jan and feb. but now its march and its already beginning to melt away. but Awanadjo was lots of fun. good hiking and even some rock drops and chutes. been up to saddleback as well but there aint nothin like riding with a view of the ocean and no gapers!

THREEHALFPRESS gardening blog...

2009-01-15T11:55:00.003-05:00

I've added a new bloglink to the other Flies on the Web list, its a blog of gardening on the maine coast (the peninsula, deer isle specifically) check it out for some recipes and info for the coming season.

babydady

2009-01-13T15:15:00.003-05:00

Proud daddy. no sleep till jackman.

ooh baby baby...

2009-01-13T14:58:00.003-05:00

We drove down to waterville to view the newest addition to the fam! Emma makes her entrance...
The new rents looked good... good and ready to be outa the hospital and git home. can you believe it? Happy Birthday Emma! Cullen made a sweet baby blanket for the kiddo as both christmas and birthday present. typical idilic scene from the north Maine woods. Is moose and squirrel!

Love hurts...

2008-02-10T16:08:00.001-05:00

Don't Look!

Oh yes, cute cat pictures, avert your eyes!

2008-01-04T10:49:00.001-05:00

What can I say? kinda turns your stomach huh?

jingle

2008-01-04T10:10:00.000-05:00

Christmas came and went but December has left a lasting impression. Sno pics coming, but here we have round one of the xmas frenzy, mostly calm this year, Cullen and the fam show off some holiday ham.

Catching up with the holidays

2008-01-04T10:06:00.000-05:00

Thanksgiving in Putney is a serious event! Taj said the bird had legs like a deer.

Leaf Angel, Leaf angel, would you be mine?

2007-11-13T14:13:00.001-05:00

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy! So we took the time to make leaf angels in the yard. Good thing we got it done cause it rained that night!

Birthday Girl!

2007-11-13T13:55:00.000-05:00

So after a long day of yard work, on her birthday no less!, we had a swell dinner of duck breast and mashed potatoes with sweet pots too, and an antipasto salad. Then the apricot cake with lemon butter cream frosting, coconut, and strawberry raspberry liquor drizzle. MMMMM!

PARADISE TATTOO

2007-11-13T12:07:00.001-05:00

This is a mass emailing (gasp, groan) to let you all know, if I
haven't told you already, that PARADISE TATTOO is now OPEN! Located in
Blue Hill's cozy downtown, looking out to the bay from the Water
street town parking lot. Technically 49 Main St. unit #3, If you can't
find it give me a call, 207 902 0263.
Available for appointments most days and times, and in the shop
Tuesday through Saturday, from 3:00pm to 8:00pm. Custom tattoos in a
professional comfortable setting.
Check out some of my tattoo photos at http://paradisetattoo.blogspot.com

thanks for your time and support,
Corey Paradise
PARADISE TATTOO
49 MAIN ST.
BLUE HILL MAINE
207 902 0263

Happy Halloween!

2007-11-08T13:35:00.000-05:00

W made the Bangor Deadly News for our Wicked Good Jack-O-Lantern display at Fairwinds Florist (Cullen's flower shop) in Blue Hill. Alas, beauty is fleeting and these all rotted in a few days. We are always looking for fresh blood, so come carve a gourd with us next time!

I survived GWAR live!

2007-11-08T13:19:00.000-05:00

GWAAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!! Who knew I could see the filthiest band in rock inside the confines and safety of Maine's borders. In Orono, no less. Anyhow, second time I've seen these guys, and although not as outright offensive this time around, still just as messy. And HORSE the band was the most underrated opener since Incubus opened for Limp Bizcuit

RIBS!

2007-10-05T16:21:00.000-04:00

He really likes sushi....

where the hell?

2007-09-10T09:13:00.000-04:00

mygod, you'd think i dropped of the planet, right ovr the side of a flattening world. not quite. summertime leaves little time to hang over the keypad for some of us, plus i don't have my very own at home, i blogpoach on library or girlfriends broadband. But I'm turning a new leaf, i am reblog. So alot has changedand i must revamp my virtual landscape to reflect this, so bear with me while the INKWELL goes under the knife in the near future. coming soon: pics of my ass. In the meentime enjoy funny vid.

Stars in the sky

2007-06-15T19:07:00.000-04:00

Look closely, can you read what it says?

Stabbed in the leg

2007-06-15T18:59:00.000-04:00

Roberto say Hi! Note the bone handle, black rose and cool gore! Hope you love it, cuz I had a blast.

Big Mike

2007-06-15T18:56:00.000-04:00

Big Mike is in effect! Park Slope and Bar-B-Q whats up? Nice new Tatu.
what can you get in New York you can't get in Maine? haha, that's a rhetorical question...

behind the glass door

2007-06-15T18:52:00.000-04:00

Went to the city to visit, ate lots of take out, drank lots of beer, barely saw the sun, visited a tat shop and found this lovely piece of wheatpaper graff. soak it up.

new address

2007-06-04T09:31:00.001-04:00

Hi. I have changed my address to a (gasp) gmail account from yahoo.
please use this new address to contact me. I will still be checking
the pacomouth account for a while so no one slips through the cracks
but I figure corey.paradise@gmail.com is easier to associate with me
than pacomouth (at least for most of you.) if you don't want mail from
me just let me know, otherwise hope everyone is happy and well, stay
in touch drop a line top 8 me etc.
-Corey

Dream Catcher

2007-05-09T11:56:00.000-04:00

I added this dream catcher to the name already tattooed on the guys arm. Reworked, and revived.

backdating practices, planning prevenge.

2007-04-30T09:21:00.000-04:00

I know you are visiting expectin all the new shiz, I got a bunch of photos and drawings to update/inundate you with, but I need more time. It's been a busy month. Plus I went out to get some new ink on me! Tattoo by Tooth at Cherry St. Tattoo, Burlington VT. I will be adding the pattern recognition playlist soon, this week Magnus makes a guest appearance on PatRec while I posse up with the homies and go see THEYMIGHTBEGIANTS!!!!!!!!! in new hampshire! Will report back with all the goods!

Vine and Flower Tattoo

2007-04-06T16:17:00.000-04:00

Friday afternoon, a week out from the tatu con., summer is rapidly approaching, time to show that skin, get tattooed in time for beach weather.

black and grey tattoos

2007-04-05T16:56:00.000-04:00

All black and grey forearm with a deconstructed mandala and the newest addition of a conch shell, eventually we will tie these together with more water flowing around the floating shapes.

Photobucket link to a slideshow

2007-04-03T19:17:00.000-04:00

I am consolidating photos on photobucket as another place to store them alongside blogger. I made a slideshow! Now gimme a cookie.

Celtic Cross Tattoo

2007-03-28T13:23:00.000-04:00

Free flash

2007-03-13T16:28:00.000-04:00

Coloring book page! This is the line drawing for a good size tattoo design, suited for a thigh or big forearm or maybe ribs? Where would you put it? Print and color your own then send me a copy so we can compare cool versions! Sweet.

Butterfly tattoo

2007-03-10T13:55:00.000-05:00

butterflies, roses, vines, tribal...Can't decide? Go for a little of everything.

Big knife tattoo

2007-03-06T15:35:00.000-05:00

Names seem to be the soup du jour these days, here we have a first time customer diving in to a pretty big tattoo. this is also the first tattoo I have posted that was done at Blind Faith Tattoo in Bucksport where I am now tattooing so come by and visit, maybe I will get you in the chair for some Ink...

High bear nation

2007-02-28T17:24:00.000-05:00

those of you who check this blog often, I thank you for your patience. the rest of you probably don't care, so piss off, I have been very busy and not blogging lately, I am stocking up on new art and tattoos to show. For now though I will just say hi and move along, If you really need a Corey fix, tune in thursday night at ten, east coast time, to www.weru.org to listen to my radio show. I am working on that wierd al request. I shall return, But my next day off will be in New Hampshire snowboarding! see you soon and thINK big!

Mandala

2007-01-04T18:16:00.000-05:00

Initial sketch for a fragmented mandala in black and grey, deconstructed for her pleasure... To me mandala art is like an optical illusion, where the mind creates three dimensional space out of two dimensions. Stare at the forms long enough and physical space begins to expand in the minds eye, unfolding impossibly, expanding infinitely, conflicting spatial information shorting out the assumptions of the minds chatter, revealing that which lies beneath the surface.

Two peas in a pod

2007-01-03T17:37:00.000-05:00

Here we see a lovely leg, freshly tattooed as a christmas present, for her husband. How will she hide it until christmas morning?

Pattern Recognition on the AIR

2007-01-03T16:10:00.001-05:00

Call to listeners!
Pattern Recognition is a weekly radio broadcast
on WERU fm, a volunteer powered community radio
station.
Aired from 10-1 east coast time,
every Thursday evening on 89.9 fm or 102.9 fm in
midcoast Maine and STREAMING LIVE ON THE WEB!!!

HOSTED BY ME Corey Paradise,
PR features music of seriously eclectic stripes. from
electronic punk, disco tech, to garage hiphop,
downhome industrial, folkmetal, post-neo-post etc.
Everything old, new, lost and found.
Email requests or contact me if you would like to here
your music on the show, or would like to discuss
appearing on the show with your band of robot slaves.
This is a call to all who might enjoy listening, who
want alternatives to TeeVee, and like music you can't
get elsewhere. (not all of us have time to scour the
myspaces for good new music.) Thanks for taking the
time to read this and I hope to see you,
ON THE RADIO.

www.weru.org
COREY PARADISE
PATTERN RECOGNITION
pacomouth@yahoo.com

short list of favorites on the show SO FAR:
outhud, secret chiefs 3, fugazi, they might be giants,

eno, tree, 65 days of static, the pope, daniel
johnston, moldy peaches, talking heads, ween, le
tigre, who am I kidding this list will just go on and
on, just listen if you are curious......

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Deep and Dark December....

2006-12-15T13:54:00.000-05:00

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

2006-12-13T15:52:00.000-05:00

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

2006-12-06T12:33:00.000-05:00

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

2006-11-17T14:59:00.000-05:00

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

2006-10-26T10:43:00.000-04:00

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....

2006-10-17T14:50:00.000-04:00

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...

2006-10-11T16:29:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-16T15:01:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-16T14:55:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-16T12:24:00.000-04:00

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

2006-07-05T11:16:00.000-04:00

IN THE SKIN

2006-07-05T11:04:00.000-04:00

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!

2006-06-27T13:37:00.000-04:00

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

2006-06-14T15:07:00.000-04:00

Placement is nine tenths of the law...

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

2006-05-28T11:52:00.000-04:00

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

2006-04-15T19:30:00.000-04:00

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

Journal Entries

2006-04-07T13:16:00.000-04:00

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

2006-03-28T14:22:00.000-05:00

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

Music Reviews

2006-03-22T11:50:00.000-05:00

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

2006-03-20T15:24:00.000-05:00

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

2006-02-04T16:37:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-28T18:27:00.000-05:00

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

to drunk to f*ck

2005-12-12T15:19:00.000-05:00

"if it wasn't for disappointment, I wouldn't have any appointments... Side effect or drug trip? I was a snowball in hell..."

My mid day appointment was a no show but his story is worth telling. Apparently he has done this a few times already. Picture the scene: guy stumbles into tattoo shop, says "hey, are you open Saturday? I wanna get a tattoo" sways from side to side a bit "I want 'Drinking & Driving' on my wrist here" Pulls up sleeve "I've had four or five DUIs already and I need a reminder when I'm hammered at the bar and it's time to leave." Wouldn't DON"T drink & drive be more appropriate?.......