Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Tattoosday...

My friend Brian was in town from Florida, for our homies wedding I spoke of in an earlier post. Now, to bring you up to speed with were this is going, Brian along with another friend of ours decided to go get tattooed in some guys basement in 1995 in our graduating year of high school. At that time there was a lot of giggle bush being smoked, and Bob Marley was in heavy rotation amongst our group of friends. Myself included I love Bob Marley, even to this day, and getting a Bob tattoo is not out of my relm of thinking, pondered it a few times myself I'm sure. The only pitfall to this story is the Bob Marley tattoo Brian got looked pretty grim, even reminiscent of a homeless caveman street person. His chiclets were all messed up and goofy looking, and it pretty much was a grade F failure. For the longest it was a joke for us to ask him to show us the tat so we could all get a chuckle. The longest kept on going even into our thirties at the wedding, were he was asked to show good ol' Bob, and we all gandered in amusement at the now green bum he had immortalized on his arm. He was pretty bummed and said he wanted to get it covered for the longest, well I went to my rolodex in search of a magician that could make that green street person disappear from my friends arm, Low and behold Johnny Gues the electric tattoo maker said he would entertain the task. We decided to leave the wedding and head to Olde City Tattoo to see what could become of ol' Bobby boy. J. Gues went to the lab and brought back a big panther that could handle the job. After reaching into his top hat and a few puffs of smoke and stars, Bob had vanished and right before our eyes was the panther. Once again Johnny Gues is on the job like the mob! He also did this little 3d dirt bird on Lil' chris from OCTattoo, It rules the school.
-Before-

-After-


Marty-Olde City Tattoo..I like funny little tats!

third dimension.... J. Gues-Olde city tats

Sunday, September 27, 2009

working for the weekend...

I guess the title suites these photos well, for the mere fact that every weekend, my wife and I venture out of the city to different rural destinations mostly vintage shopping, and sight seeing, but the most important fact is that we are spending time together. This week will be 7 years that we are together, and we started dating in the fall, so fall has become "our season" as we like to say.
Weekends for most are filled with a lot of R & R, not the case for me, my weekends are treks in the car or on foot, sometimes more tiresome then a days work. Heres a few pictorials of our weekend journeys.

Venus fly trapper....


Bat Bones.

Dewdrops in the garden...

Flower power.


Life moves at such a fast pace, and time flies, but I once read that to be happy in life, you need to stop and smell the roses.


shadows are just real life wannabees...

In the symphony of Angel trumpets

Farmers market fresh....

I been going to my lil' cousins football games on saturday mornings, I miss those days, I played football for a long time over 10 years, and I still get nostalgic in the fall, when I smell the fresh cut grass. (My 2 cuzzo's lil' vin vin and Mario)

Waterfalls in the fall.

Retired workhorse, sleeping in the meadow.

perhaps some day'

pretty cool Kawi, borderline rat bike, but with a classical twist!

Our boy Lew got married over the summer out west, but had a wedding party a few weeks ago, It is always nice to get together with the kids you grew up with.

Hay Hay my my Meliss...

Orange you ready for halloween?

Lewy love acting up while cutting his wedding cake, just like the good ol' days...he rivals Jim Carey with the facial expressions.



Hot doggin' rt. 322

Terrain....neat place!




Electric wizardry at the Renaissance fair...

related to the pistols... because if you ask Steven Patrick the Queen is Dead!

Owls are super cool! Meliss took these photos!



Farmers market dinner...

Friday, September 25, 2009

The motorscooter Diaries...

A good friend of mine was in town this summer visiting from Oakland, and he had just returned from a trip to Southeast asia. He told me a bunch of great stories about the trip, and his travels in the far east. He has been studying Chinese for a while now, and this trip was time to put all the practice into action... After him telling me all about the trip we got to talking about my blog, and I convinced him to share a few of the photos from his trip. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did, I titled this post the motor scooter diaries, because that is a caption that was written on a wall and signed by ECKS-> OSD. He had told me a friend he had met on his travels lent him A scooter, on the merit that he pay for a few repairs that were needed, Good on his word the scoot was his for the borrowing, and he mashed the town on that thing. I often enjoy conversations with friends about their travels, and I am very fortunate to have friends that have got more than a lot of stamps in their passports (honorary globetrotters) believe me when I tell you, and My friend Micah is at the top of that list he has been all over the world even places that the US deem illegal to travel to. Heres a few of the pics he shared with me to post on the BLUX travel guide...
Enjoy!
Bandana obscura...

x marks the spot.

Done by a famous chinese fitti'ist

Ecks OSD->on the great wall! No relation to vans off the wall...

WOW....

Goofy chinglish sign..

Know graffiti..Yes he do!

I hecka love this pic...

Biggest Buddha in the world!

no problem ;)

have a nice trip see you next fall!

I heard the grass is greener in Oakland, but who knows?

CAN you diggit?

This is too funny...reminds me of some national lampoons type of humor!

Beauty defined...


Empty nesta..related to NESTA-> OSD

The chinese take bootlegging serious its like a national pastime. Starbucks never heard of yah!

I could use this sign taped to the back of my eyelids....

Ecks from the west....Udon from the east, birds of the same feather flock together...

Communism, in case you forgot!

Oakland A's

Oakland Sprays..

MSG meaning good or bad im confused...

ECKS lets em' know he is from the wild wild west....




Local tradesmen do guerilla advertising in graffiti leaving their name and the job they offer I.E. JOES PLUMBING 555-1212


Gilligans Island 2009.....

Nat Geo worthy....

Modern Empire...