Tuesday night I was feeling a bit depressed after leaving Hawaii, My friend Craig called me up and told me to meet him at Detroit Bar near my house to watch The Ringers play. What an awesome show! You guys have to check this band out if ever the chance. It’s one of the best shows I’ve seen in a while, take my word for it. It was just what I needed to feel a little bit better about missing all my friends in Hawaii and one special woman.

http://www.theringersband.com/

http://www.myspace.com/theringersband

Every Winter I try and spend as much time as possible on the North Shore of Oahu, one of my favorite places to be. What can I say, the waves are epic, the people are happy, the water is warm and the weather is amazing, not to mention most of my friends live there and treat me like family… EXAMPLE: I just landed in Honolulu Airport and was figuring out my ride situation when all of the sudden my friend Rico just happened to be driving through, he hollered at me to jump in and he ended up giving me a ride all the way to my front door on North Shore, what a good friend. I am truly one of the luckiest people I know. A special thanks to all ‘The Boys’ who let me come out here and surf THEIR waves, Many Thanks.

This is Jarrah Tutton, He is a professional surfer from Australia and one of my good friends. Over the last year he has been staying in California and we’ve been having a blast surfing, partying, and hanging out a lot. Unfortunately for us, it was time for Jarrah to make his way home, but before he left I gave him a little going away present for safe travels.  You will be missed here in Costa Mesa my friend, keep the drinks cold for me down under until I get there!  ~  Tim

Jarrah Tutton - http://profile.myspace.com/

So if you were trying to reach me all last week and were wondering where in the hell I was, well I’m alive and well and back from an amazing adventure. I went to Guadalupe Island with some of my good friends to jump into cages in Great White infested waters. It was an epic experience. I got to see Great Whites up to Eighteen feet in length two feet in front of my face! The crew was friendly and hilarious, and they treated us like family, It also helped that one of the crew(Josh aka ‘Lazy’) was our friend. I had such a great trip, even though I’m gonna have a hard time getting in the water to go surfing tomorrow morning…

Most of you don’t know this, but I was part of a company a while back that was starting to produce metal flake chopper parts. It was a wonderful idea at just the right time in the motorcycle enthusiast world. Unfortunately things went bad. My friend Nelson interviewed me for his rapidly growing website blog called Church Of Choppers to get the story from MY end, thanks Nelson! To read the interview click on this link http://churchofchoppers.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-what-happened-to-super-sixties.html 

For all those who desire to purchase my machines and are currently in the UK, Dante from Frith Street Tattoo in London is currently selling my Working Class Machines. If you would like to pick one up please contact Dante at tel: 02077348180 or check his website out for more contact info and a look at his great artist working there http://www.frithstreettattoo.co.uk/

To those of you who have been there for the ‘walk-in days’ or various conventions to get tattooed by me, you have most likely seen this face. This is Patrick, and he is adamant and unstoppable. Rain, sleet or snow, this man is always first in line. He even pulls tricks like calling other clients he has become acquainted with and telling them he’ll be there at around 3am, all the while knowing he’s gonna show up at 1am to be first. Ya gotta love him. Fortunately for me, he’s damn cool AND he gets bad-ass tattoos. Below are some of the tattoos he has collected from me in the past couple of years.

Today I had the privilege of going to San Diego to paint on the walls at the new location of Lucky’s Tattoo Parlor. If you don’t already know it, Lucky’s is the premier shop in San Diego and is home to a team of excellent tattooers. I felt a sense of pride being able to help out my friends, and am looking forward to a soon grand re-opening of their new shop.

 http://www.myspace.com/luckystattoo

http://www.luckystattooparlor.com/

This new Print as seen in the new Miki Vialetto Book ‘Art Of The Mark II’,  will be available starting at the San Jose Tattoo Convention. They are limited to only 25.  These are proper prints, using 100 year lightfast archival pigments and printed on luscious all cloth heavy paper, dimensions are 16″ x 24″, and each one comes signed and numbered.  This Print sells for $100




To everyone that has been messaging me about appointments:

I regret to inform you all that I am not taking appointments for while, I don’t even own an appointment book at the moment. I will only be tattooing walk-ins during dates on my calender for a while to come. Thank you still for the support, I will tattoo until my hands fall off, so if you’re patient enough eventually you will get tattooed. Thank you for taking the time to read this.