Koren Shadmi

Thrashed by Koren Shadmi

Bob Doucette

Digital Caricature by Bob Doucette

Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden

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How to Properly Examine a Tattoo Portfolio

Check out this article by Guen Douglas on: How to Properly Examine a Tattoo Portfolio. Very helpful for all those first timers or anyone who is interested in finding a new artist.

Some Work by Guen:

Andrew Hefter

 Andrew Hefter Photography

Kevin Earl Taylor

Kevin Earl Taylor

Sarah Ogren

The Bike Ride by Sarah Ogren

Building The Perfect Jeans

Nathan Pyle

HAHA

Rory Kurtz!

Self taught illustrator Rory Kurtz

So fuggin good.

Frederick Robinson

"Dream Ships"

by Frederick Robinson

Theo Ellsworth

(via)

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” 

-Mark Twain

Dan Catalano

New work from LCAD BFA/MFA Alumn Dan Catalano: 

 

Elize Nazelie

Tattoo Artist/ Illustrator out of Boston Elize Nazelie has a coloring style all her own. Where her medium is watercolor, she has the ability to interpret this color style into tattoos as well, which is truly original. Just got some work done by her and love it. Check her out.

Adam Hathorn

Adam Hathorn works at Guru Tattoo in San Diego, California's Pacific Beach. An extremely original artist with a light machine hand. Love his work. Check out some of his stuff on his site and also get updates on his latest work and his "300" club on his facebook. Mine is number 2 of the club. RAT SMASH!!!

Trevor Brown

Trevor Brown

Wastelandscape

an installation by French artist Elise Morin composed of 65,000 old CDs. This is at the Centquatre art space in Pariswhich was formerly a funeral home. The space is now a unique center for creativity that's open to all types of artistic expression including music, dance and theater.

The artist envisioned Wastelandscape to be like "a still sea of metallic dunes." The CDs were hand-sewn together into an astounding 500-square meter surface and then draped over inflatable mounds.

Enkel Dika

"All Around The World" by Enkel Dika

Craig Anderson

Jeremy Flores

Yasmine Putri

See more from Yasmine HERE

The Decemberists

SETLIST - 7/31 - Mountain Park - Holyoke, MA

 

 

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Oceanside

 

 

At Rising tide

You're looking fresher than a July bride

We're picking up what our mothers always stigmatized.

The field is right for reaping

Oh well

I guess I'm something of a neer-do-well

(Even though that's something I could never do well)

I'm on track and keeping

But oh

If I could only get you ocean side

To lay your muscles wide...

It'd be heavenly

Oh...

If I could only coax you overboard

To leave these lulling shores

To get you oceanside.

 

Animated Graffitti

Mel-T Animated Ice Robot

First Ever Animated Tattoo

EPIC!

Jenny Morgan

Born in Salt Lake City, UT and now living and working in NYC, Jenny Morgan has an educational background including:

2008 - Fine Arts MFA, School of Visual Arts, NY
2003 - Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, CO, Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree, Valedictorian
1999 - University of Utah, Foundation drawing classes, Salt lake City, UT
1997-98 - Peterson’s Art Center, General instruction, Salt Lake City, UT

It shows in her work.

Nate Duval

I found out about Nate Duval because he recently created a show poster for The Decemberist's  Charlotsville Virginia gig on their Summer 2011 Tour (which i went to in Holyoke, Ma. Lovely. If you can get a chance to see them, DO IT!) 

He has a lot of rad prints and merchandise for sale on his site worth checking out.

Buddy Nestor

Creepy....

see more of his work HERE.

Tim Shumate

Tattoo artist out of Chicago, IL Tim Shumate is not only talented with machine in hand but is an incredible illustrator, painter, photographer... the list goes on. With a degree in Illustration from American Academy of Art, and a few years of Graphic Design from Illinois Institute of Art, this guy knows whats up. Extremely impressed with his work and am almost tempted to take a trip out to the windy city to get inked up by him.  

Brandon Boyd

 "Spilling/Spinning"

"Algebra"

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My name is Brandon Boyd. I am a Los Angeles native, a Vegan sympathizer, an artist by day and come nightfall I sing in a band called Incubus. I am suspicious of religion, advertising and know-it-alls. My teeth will one day fall out from overconsumption of licorice. My closest friend on the Earth is a dog from France. I sleep diagonally until I have company, then I sleep lengthwise. I am straight, yet I adore sparkling mineral water. I have a bionic right leg as a result of a freak gardening accident. My right eye goes lazy after about 3am. If you feed me after midnight, I multiply. My name, when translated literally, means 'Broom-Hill' which I find horrifyingly exotic. I live in an old building that at one point in the 1900's was a working brothel. As a result, the ghosts of under paid and over worked prostitutes roam my hallways. So, there is a lingering smell of cheap perfume on the second story of my home after 3am, which might explain my occasional lazy eye. I am allergic to milk and as a result have never had an ice cream party. You may have just heard the sounds of very small violins playing behind that last comment, but don't feel bad for me; I have sorbet parties at every Equinox and spend about half a day thereafter happily cleaning the 'sticky' out of my fingernails. My right knee is named Chet and my left is Garrison. Everything I wear once belonged to someone else with the specific exception of socks and underpants. I am quite certain that in the above rant/ Myspace 'About Me' section there is a sizable window for you curious and or skeptical observers to peer through. I have always cringed at the thought of describing myself and my multiplying creative endeavors, but it seems as time wears on, that the personal 'Bio' is a necessary evil in the vast catacombs of the "I wish I didn't have to, buts..." of our strange culture. So with that veiled apology out of the way, I shall now recall (for those who desire to know more) a not so brief remembrance of my time in art thus far... The first piece of art I can remember is actually now hanging in my kitchen. It is a self portrait my Mother did while she was in Art School. She was very pregnant with my older brother and thought it would be funny to paint herself as the Virgin Mary. So this painting, for all it's cracked and aging beauty, looks very pious and intimidating. It hung in the guest bedroom of my Grandfather's house that my brothers and I would bunk in when staying there. On more than three occasions, I woke in the middle of the night and saw the eyes of this painting alive and looking down at me! My Mother ( the Virgin Mary) in a very ominous voice would say, "Go back to sleep, Brandon!" I started scribbling in very small pads with very small pencils as a child. I have since been scaling up exponentially. In Medium, content and size. As my mind grows, so do my sights on what is possible creatively. This has allowed me to reach into pen-ink, paint, pencil, photography, music, literature and lifestyle. All of which are as important as the next. The kinds of art that have stood out to me have never really followed any particular pattern. I guess my eyes and my heart gravitate towards unusual, dark, absurd, sincere and beautiful works. I obsess over line work and flow. I have no formal training; other than a few semesters at community college and some classes at the YMCA. I would very much like to return to school in the near future and absorb the myriad different techniques I have been missing out on! That being said, I was raised in a creative environment, and that does wonders for a young person's mind. I have always had a hard time in describing my creative style. I find the same dilemma when asked what type of music I play. But if I had to, I would say that I am doing my best to turn my mind inside out and see what it looks like framed. ;) Once you get past the gooey bits and the debris, there is the occasional sparkly gem that glows like the edges of Barbara Walters in one of her interviews. My creative process is both complex and simple. The complexities arise when I try and understand what I am doing when I am doing it. It's like trying to describe the sensation of love; one is better suited just experiencing it for oneself. But it becomes simple when I let go into the process and don't question it so much. Kind of a surrender into right brian, as it were. But for clarity's sake, I have waves of creativity, followed by times of drought. In these times, I have learned that just reading, listening to music, and surfing a whole lot help to pass the time before the next creative pulse arises. It's been this way in my life for as long as I can remember. I work predominately out of my kitchen. It looks like a kitchen, but it's actually...well, a kitchen. Things are cooked there, and things are consumed. But just as much paint is thrown into amorphous abstractions onto paper and canvas that reveal my inner perv and my longing for contact with extraterrestrial intelligences (not to be confused with one another) as there is corn chowder stirred and swallowed! I like to allow any and all influence into my world. Cultural or geographic. Political, or emotional. As far as I am concerned, anything is game. I find that large parts of my work are observational in the sense that I am merely living as I chose and the art, in whatever form it takes, is the unconscious filter of my experience. I think that to live a life of expressivity is paramount. To me it is the embodiment of freedom. I don't have a particularly specific statement that I am trying to convey; like the Romantic's Manifesto, or something akin. I am more interested in existing in a continual state of creativity. To be able to see the art in every occurrence. To find beauty in the mundane and in the otherwise trite and or trivial. My life, as it were, is not unlike one of my drawings; a continually evolving, bulbous, mass of thought, after-thought, absurdity, intention and enthusiasm. Scribbled happily in ink without pencil lines and signed at the bottom. I am currently working on a new series of paintings on canvas in acrylic that I will have no idea how to talk about until they are hung and dry and my shrink is standing back from them with an inquisitive scowl. I just did a quick proofread of this communication, and I am struck by how often I used the word, "I." To my count, it is repeated 63 times in this glorified Personals Ad. Cheese and Rice! You'd think I was a fucking rock star with these levels of self absorption. Fuck it. I think that'll do for now. If anybody has anymore questions beyond art, music, haunted paintings, relevance, used clothes, literature, tiny pencils on tiny pads of paper, heartbreak, disillusionment, love, death, addiction, leather goods, lactose intolerance, the future, optimism, nihilism, idealism, plagiarism, environmentalism and the smell of turpentine, please don't Google my name or ask your "friend who knows about music". Call me at your Mom's house, I'll be there having a sorbet party on March 20th. Your friend and lover, Brandon Boyd " (VIA)

Michael Page

"Michael Page (b.1979) lives and works as a full time artist in San Francisco, CA.  He has shown his work nationally and internationally throughout both Europe and the United States including the cities of Reykjavik, Berlin, Bristol , Rome and Montreal. "

Jeff Soto

Eddie Vedder US Tour poster by Jeff Soto.

Lauramae

Lauramae on deviantART

Will Santino

Technicolor octopus! oh, Yes Please. See more from Will on Society6 where you can purchase prints of this and his OTHER WORK.

Norman Duenas

This guy has a lot of really beautiful pieces. They are all available for sale as prints HERE.

Jesse Balmer

Interesting stuff. Check out his site.

Inbal Shved

see more of this artist's work HERE.

Salty Kisses

This deserves a re-post because It's AUGUST which means this is my last month in Mass. Then it's back home to Cali! What a trip this last year on the east coast has been. LOVEd it, but oh boy, am i ready to go home. :D enjoy.