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!".