Tattoo - Visual Art Form

"I know alot of fancy dancers,

"I know alot of fancy dancers,

people who can glide you on a floor.
They move so smooth but have no answers."

- Cat Stevens, Hard Headed Woman

A couple rolls of black and white film came back from the shop. One roll was accidentally shot twice. The first exposures were taken around the tattoo shop, riding bikes in the park, of still lives around the house etc... The second layer of exposures, I was really trying hard to shoot good photos of Brothers playing at The Rocker. I'm stoked on what came out.


Shop reunion.


Dexter's first day riding without training wheels!


Brothers setting up.


Jimbo and Elliot.


Jimbo and D'Man, full-shred.



Definitely some of my favourite people. Drex looks Stee in this one.


This is the kind of image i would normally hold onto forever and only show my own prints, because it is SO art. The landscape is a photo of a sleve that Iko is working on, the lamp is like a sun sitting on a ghostly world, the crescent of a rising moon drifting there. The couple sitting in the middle.... man... art...


One mind.




The cover of Jimbo's biography.


They played heavy, their control over a space like an adaptive thing. Brothers, you guys are killing it, really doing something great.



Me tattooing shot by Iko. This is like hella-lo-fi meets digi-smoothness. The client has a D9 tripoded taking time lapse video while we've got a beat to hell FM3 with 3200 and a fifty on guessed settings.


Stoked on this one.


"Iko Drawing" is like the new "Oatmeal" photo on Wreck Blog.


Avery, almost walking.


Frame one.


The grinch, tattooed by me.


Stepped out, in the pouring rain.


Ulmus americana.



Poppies.





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