The NEW Hidden Agenda

I spent the last two nights with 3 extremely talented dudes painting some walls at Hidden Agenda. GEEZ it was a total blast! I was very honored to be asked to do this as it is my favorite live music venue in this fantastic city. If you haven't been there yet, then there is something wrong with you since they have the sweetest bands coming to play there weekly (or even more frequently).

Here is a picture of my wall...

Richard's Wall

http://richphipson.com/

Ross' Wall

http://rossturpin.blogspot.com/

Dustin's Wall

This dude is mega freakin talent!

http://www.dholmes.co.za/

If it weren't for these South African lads Hong Kong would not be as amazing as it is... and let's face it - it's pretty freakin' amazing! I had such fun with these guys painting and lovin life.


in other news - check me out on the bottom of this website - http://www.beardsforbears.org/en/

May the 4th Be With You

Star Wars AND tattoos? Is it my birthday? No, it's just Star Crossed Tattoo being awesome as usual.

click on this picture for all the details! There are some terms and conditions so be sure to read them.

The star crossed crew and myself have designed some very sweet flash for this event...

for a sneak peak of a couple of my designs - check out my tumblr page

see you all there.

The Artist currently known as Prints

I am now the proud owner of 2 of my favorite people's prints....

ROSS TURPIN

Click HERE for more prints by him.

RICH PHIPSON

Click HERE for more prints by him.

All framed and ready to put up...

I HIGHLY recommend heading down to Star Crossed and picking up some super rad artwork for your own walls.

I will be making prints as well within the next 2 weeks, so keep an eye out for those!

ASS TIME!

Remember when I said I was doing something stupid with the awesome HK band 

Poubelle International?

 

Check it out - making bad decisions and caring little about it!

Star Crossed Tattoo

Star Crossed Tattoo has been home to some extremely talented artists, including myself (JK, I sucked). However, it is Hong Kong's leading shop. With an emphasis on hygiene and pushing the limits with custom work it is one of the only places in Hong Kong I recommend if looking to get some work done.

If you live in Hong Kong or plan on visiting, Star Crossed is a must visit shop. Not only are the current artists fully skilled they are also friendly and fun. The staff is very polite and you will not be disappointed with the quality of work.

After the sad departure of JULIA SEIZURE...

 Star Crossed was taken over by two humble South African artists 

Rich Phipson

Ross Turpin

If you would like to see more work done by any of these artists, please click on the photos or names above them.

Star Crossed Tattoo is located at 57 Granville Road, 2/F, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

Open Daily (except Wednesdays) from 3-9pm

Contact them at 3427 3820

Or

info@starcrossedtattoo.com

Visit their website here-

starcrossedtattoo.com

'Thai' Fighter

Get it?

Bad picture, awesome new tattoo...

done by Ross Turpin at Star Crossed Tattoo.

Hot and Heavy

So... December is upon us and it promises to be a month of supremely good music.

This coming sunday (Dec.4) No Turning Back will be tearing it up at Hidden Agenda... Not super familiar with them but my buddy Ross really likes them.

Support: King Ly Chee, Defiant Scum, and Milkshake 7....
It's only 100HKD...

Then on the following thursday is the return of Parkway Drive! Saw these guys a couple years back, was such a fun show. Very cool band to see live. I recommend going to this, already have my ticket.

They will be playing the same place they played last time - at Hang Out....

support: King Ly Chee, Shepherds the Weak, Evocation

You may watch this video and think, 'what the shit? another band on the beach video?' but keep watching, it gets REAL good!

ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT STAR CROSSED TATTOO

for both shows...

...also simple plan is coming at some point (gives lazy masturbation gesture).

Star Crossed Tees

Your favorite local tattoo shop now has Tees for sale.

2 designs in 3 colors for both guys and the ladies!

Go ahead and pick one up... They make you look awesome!

this WAS halloween

I think it is about time I do a halloween post from last month... slacker!

First things first... during halloween weekend the first anniversary of The Bauhinian Collective invaded all things Wan Chai....

SWINDLERS on thursday... 

DBK warmed up and soaked down the crowd with their sexy sex rock...

DBK will be going to Manila this weekend with Tigerbombers. Wish I could say I was tagging along, but alas, I will be in HK.

This is ammunition hit hard once more with their post-core style of noise.

ALSO - Tigerbombers played, SOMEHOW I didnt take any pictures of them, I think I was getting far too drunk and not snap happy enough.

I missed the friday show at the Wanch which I heard was 'outta sight'.

I was nursing a hangover from the first night. Note to self: Pace yourself.

Feeling much better Saturday, I headed down to Xperience. The last night of the Anniversary (which also happened to fall on dress up day.

Bjork and Beiber made an appearance.

 Wolfman Andre had some bro time with beibs.

My helmet became a whore for the night..

First band of the night...

An undead Sun Eskimos.

Mad Props to Shotgun Politics for putting on such a kick-ass performance

Sushi Robot was throwing down some phat ass shapes in between sets..

and at the end Very Ape played. Again no pictures... hmmmm...

After all of the drinky McDrink nonsense, I headed out to see the sights and frights....

One picture I managed to take was of these...... Joker convicts?

ACTUAL HALLOWEEN

Star Crossed Tattoo was having their annual Halloween Free Tattoo Day.  I had drawn up some crappy skulls for people to choose from along with some of my artist buddies...

AND I SAW A BULBASAUR!

....and a gameboy...

It was a wearwolf bar mitzvah!

Miss Piggy: the later years

This beautiful disgust is done by RICH PHIPSON of Star Crossed Tattoo

Other than that, no big news..... yet.

we're doomed

My star wars arm is coming together quite fantastically, thanks to Ross Turpin!

Ross pounded this bad boy into my arm last week, I freakin' love it!!

C3P0's praying hands

In other nerdy tattoo related news, I got some of the tattoos on me posted on geekytattoos.com - CHECK IT

tears for deers

I gots me inked up yesterday by one of my favorite artists... Richard Phipson!!! You are gonna have to check out his blog to see the tattoo itself...

HECK YES!

Today is a Sad day...

... here's why-

Beardless, and soon to be jobless.

Last night was good though. We started filming our secret Star Wars film (although not that secret). More on that later. I leave you now with some photos of the night (which I totally stole from Sarah.)

To My Future

I have been looking for this video for a while now and have just finally found it.... This is an interview with my buddy at Star Crossed (who many of you who read my blog already know anyways).

Enjoy.

CLICK ME TO WATCH!!

Rock Lobster

Went in to the ol' Star Crossed today to finish up my latest leg addition. Done by the one and only Rich Phipson (thanks again bru-seph)

This is probably the worst picture of a tattoo anyone has taken anywhere, so when I get a better one, I must post it eh?

anyways, very stoked with it!

Gonna check out this show on Saturday, there is one on friday too, but I'm pretty keen to check out the Hard Rock Cafe here that just opened up...

yuk, not looking forward to heading back to work after a couple of holidays....

Gypsy Knee

Kneecap done! covered with a gypsy head that Ross Turpin drew up for another client who ended up changing his mind... I really liked the design and asked him to chop it on me!

picture is stolen without permission from Ross' blog...

I think he did an amazing job on this guy and I am super stoked with it!!!

Thanks buddy!

Here is a song from one of my favorite gypsy punk bands

Blank Skin

So check out this magazine... Hong Kong's first and only tattoo magazine, sure hope it works out. It's free right now so go pick one up, not exactly sure where you can find them, alls I know is there is some at starcrossed right now.... Blank Skin. Ross and Rich have some flash in there and a cool looking ad. Yeah proud of my friends' accomplishments!

Also, this game is super fun!

You are this big blob who rolls around and colors up cities that have been taken over by the evil commander black (the enemy of color and all things fun). You do this by jumping into pools of paint and splashing color onto literally everything!

-It's cooler than it sounds....

That's all for right now...

It's a Blokes World

As I was waiting for practice to commence yesterday, these dudes rolled into Star Crossed last minute from an australian TV show called Blokesworld. Funny dudes, one of the guys got a tattoo and they filmed the whole thing. If you watch the Hong Kong episode (whenever it comes out) you may be able to see me....

Check them out here...

Looks pretty funny, you should check it out! Also the guys told us about a worldwide group called the 501st Legion (dunno why I have never heard about this).... Check that out here! ----> 501st Legion when I get my stormtrooper outfit I am super joining the Hong Kong section!

Today at work a colleague at work sewed 'pimp' into the side of my hat, because I pimp daily which you all know!

So Naturally in return I made for her a Zombie hitler from drinking straws and a bottle cap...

Also, this was a recent purchase......

My elbow is fully operational!

First things first, my other elbow is now complete... stung like a mother....

After a session and a touch up I now am the proud owner of an exploding deathstar on my elbow...

I apologize for the poop photo, but it was the day after and I used my phone to take it... MIGHT just take a healed photo and repost later.... If you're lucky.

(done by the ever talented and equally star wars obsessed Ross Turpin)

Got this on tuesday, but not before getting this from a shop next to Star Crossed....

Literally the first shirt I looked at on the rack.... It was my destiny! (pun intended)

After getting my elbow slain, we did a little band practice with our band SINS! (sorry Greg, may have stolen the name from you) and that was rad. Hope to catapult into having some hot and heavy fun and play some shows asap....

Also got these the other day!

yessss!

That's all for now, goodnight and good luck!