where the hell?

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.

backdating practices, planning prevenge.

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!

High bear nation

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!

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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...

Art Gallery

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

"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?.......