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 After 2 years of tattooing many wonderful customers at the BLACKOUT in causeway bay with my good friend Electric Pick, I have officially closed the doors.......BUT.......have no fear, BLACKOUT has moved into a new location back in the heart of Kowloon.

As of April 1st I will be joining my friends Pick and Nic Tse, and opening the doors to the South China Sea Collective. 

 

We can be found at:

2F/234 Sai Yeung Choi Street South

MONG KOK (Prince Edward), KOWLOON
HONG KONG

and for those of you who are savvy enough to have mastered the perils of technology we can be face-stalked here:

SCSC on facebook

and we can be insta-stalked on instagram here:

@scscollective

On a final note, i want to say a huge thank you to everyone who came and got tattooed at BLACKOUT, and I am looking forward to seeing you at the new spot.

To say thanks properly......here is a world dominating snake.

CHANGES.

Some of you might have noticed that there has been a severe lack of updates over the last couple of weeks. There is a reason for that, and all will be revealed very, very soon. Needless to say that the news is BIG both for me, electric pick,  and for BLACKOUT. Keep your eyes and ears open and you might hear the rumours, and for once these rumours might be true.

In the mean time, to satiate your need for eye candy.....have a vulture.

Kung Hei Fat Choi

I want to shout out to all the friends and clients of BLACKOUT and wish you all a joyous, prosperous, and all out sweet ass year of the dragon.

yup.

Sorry sorry sorry, I know, I know. It's been for ever since I dropped some pictures for your viewing pleasure. Don't worry I intend to make it up to you with this one. It's been a crazy Busy month and there hasn't been much time to breathe, but on the plus side I got to do some great tattoos and even squeeze out a couple of little paintings too.

First up, the lovely Miss Karo came back from the mysterious land of Nether, she travels a whole lot and wanted to remind herself of the joys of living out of a suitcase. This is what she ended up with. Yup. It's a ship. A pirate ship. In a lotus Flower. yargh.

A nice dude called Matthew got the wings of hermes on his leg bones. Also because he is on the road to Europe and obviously he wants to get there quickly. True story.

 

 I also got to do my cheong saam wearing, cigarette smoking, High heel rocking pin-up.

Lastly, here are some animals. Those of you in the know will clearly see that they are both scientifically and biologically accurate.

In other news. The one Mr. Electric Pick is off on another adventure to foreign lands. This time the spy HQ is sending him to Australia in the next few days, and I have been informed that there will be some serious working invloved, so if you live in Oz and wanna get tattooed by the best tattooer I know (and you should), then check the Electric Plog for details, or E-mail him at: pick@electricpick.com.

word!

Snake Oil - For all your woes and ailments...

...Get it while it's hot.

So you say you want a revolution...

I tattooed this on Joshua yesterday. He has been living up in the wilds of China for 25 years and payed me a visit to if I could work something up for him to show off his revolutionary side. This is what we came up with. It's a depiction of the proletarian revolution that happened in China mostly through the late 60's. I though it would be cool to make it look like an old communist propaganda poster. simple. bold. It does the trick.

Sometimes smaller tattoos can be fun too. and these 2 are about as small as they come.
Black and grey tattoos are also fun.
Finally this is a sketch of what I was going to be tattooing today....but it never happened. you can't have everything i guess.

Until next time....

I wasn't supposed to be working today, but it seemed to happen anyway. Which reminded me of a painting I started but never finished. It's a message to Hong Kong.I ended up quickly finishing it today. It seemed apt.
More tattoos coming soon. Have a nice weekend web buddies, and don't work too hard!!

Mixed bag

Some new, some finished, some still going, some tattooed, some painted...

I did this champaca flower a couple of days ago. This is finished.

It was tattooed.
The painting was not.

Also Pick has some new paintings up on his PICK+TURE+BOX box. be sure to check them out. Don't miss the opportunity, I can't imagine they will be around for long!!

Swings and Roundabouts

As much as late cancellations suck, they do allow for some time to draw, and I figured its been a while since I put up a painting.

What? I like dragons OK?

Apologies for the lame photo, but it's too big to scan decently.
It's A3 as usual, and made with water colors.

I hope you all have a nice valentine's day tomorrow. Now get off the inter-web and do something nice for your loved ones!!

no snow here.

hello friends, i hope this might give you something other to look at than wikileaks, at the very least it might kill a few minutes of that valuable weekend time for you.
i got cracking on this painting this week. i wanted to use really muted colours, you know keep it a little on the subtle side. well, as subtle as you can make a big ass skull, and dagger. its A3 as usual and all done with crappy watercolor paint.

I also got to tattoo some tiny ruby slippers on miss katie, as a tribute to her favorite movie of all time, the wizard of oz. i had fun trying to get as much detail as possible into a small tattoo, and i think they look pretty cool.
finally this is an alternate into for the walking dead... which might become my favorite show in 2010. so far i've really gotten into it, i'm just hoping that it stays this good all the way through.

enjoy your weekends.

the band that ended too soon...

if you are a regular reader of the blog you might remember me shamelessly plugging my friends band "The Merriweather Deer". well the bad news is that they are no more....thats right the lead singer Eph and his wife are leaving our sunny shores for Portland today, and they have decided not to continue on without him. its a huge shame as this band accomplished more in their short 8 months together than some bands do in a lifetime, all coming to a perfect climax when they opened for the Flaming Lips and the Raveonettes last night.
the good news is that knowing that they weren't going to be playing any more shows they decided to produce a CD. its all done by the band for the fans. Recorded in different locations around HK, and amazingly mixed by Scott Evans. Also i had the honor of being able to put together the artwork for the sleeves.

I have a real limited supply of the CDs in the studio. You can pick 1 (or more) up for the exceptional price of HK$70. all the proceeds are going go to the band, and hopefully used to entice Ephraim back to HK for a reunion gig. Also if you are from overseas then i will be more than happy to post them to you

Dont be a sucker, pick one of these up before they are all gone!!!!

this ones for me

i have been pretty busy doing the tattoo stuff recently, drawing tattoos, and then tattooing tattoos...and everyone knows tattoo stuff is great, but sometimes you got to have a break right? right? well i have had a break the last couple of days, and spent them trying to get better at painting and this was the product:its A4 on nice water colour paper, and its done with... thats right water colours. any feedback is always welcome. catch you soon buddies of the electric web

bits and pieces

hey friends. im still reeling a little bit from my birthday shenanigans over the weekend, so forgive me if this is short and sweet, but i thought you deserved some things to look at.

i made this a while ago while messing around with some ideas for a tattoo, and it ended like this:

i tattooed this lettering on new buddy matt, and he put up with it like a seasoned veteran. hope you had a safe trip back to germany mate.

also if you guys are in or around sheung wan at anytime and fancy checking out some new things, then you should definately swing by above second gallery. the art is cool as fuck and so are the 2 lovely people who run it. when you are done there, you should go check out these guys at garage works...they are making some really cool stuff.
oh and before i forget...."never say no to panda"

something for everybody.

one for the boys:

one for the girlsand a couple of interesting tattoos from last week for everyone:
not a great photo but you get the idea
by the way we will be closed on thursday, as im gonna be partying it up at rockit in macau. but back open on friday as usual, so if you wanna get tattooed or just come by and hangout, you better make it any other day.
later friends of the electric web!!

birds and blood

so...my client today (happy birthday missy), had to push back her appointment for a couple of days so instead of some tatooey business, you get some painty business instead.
i have been trying to paint more these days, and im still new at it, but it is something i am enjoying more and more.
so here is a crane:
and here be a heart.
got some nice tattoos booked in for the next few days, so you can expect some real life bloody pics soon.