Last year I had a solo exhibtion on Londons Southbank, in a haunted
historic building, which was the site of the last bear baiting pit in London.
Anyway, I just found this slideshow on flickr....  see it [ HERE ]

This young dude dropped by the Addict store in London yesterday, and was very excited to show off his latest ink. Personally I am pretty flattered that he used one of my camo patterns as the inspiration for the work and even had my boxtag™ logo added at the top. Luckily the store manager had his camera at hand.

I recently designed a tag logo for a friend which he applied to his leg, and I have one of my own designs on my arm , if anyone knows of any more examples please dont hesitate to get on touch or send through a photo.




 

Inspiration, I believe, is a personal and unique experience for all of us.
Although I do not get inspired directly by objects or art itself I do know
that if I put myself into situations I enjoy or are going to get me excited
then in turn that energy should feed back into my work. The Executioners
Car Club Spring Riot is just such an occasion. It is held at The AceCafe
in London and is a chance for HotRod and 50's enthusiasts to get together,
talk cars, tats and cloth caps while having a drink and listen to rockabilly.
It is always an essential date in the diary, and a chance to mill about and soak
up a genuine private culture just getting on with itself.
My interest in the cars came from being taken drag racing regularly as a kid
in the 70's and early 80's and I am still fasinated by the detail and personal
expression put into customising cars. The names of the car clubs like Suicide
Shifters, Cleavers, Them, Throttlers also adds to the mistery and outlawry of the
whole culture. The internal reaction to the throaty rattle of a V8 mixed with the
smell of a burning tyres is not possible to convey in words, but it makes
me smile.

I have posted some pictures of car details here or if you prefer
people watching go here.
cheers
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This is good timing.

At the same time I wrote about the paintings yesterday, Jeff Hamada posted up a film  he  made  of me making them at the store.
  I am still not  that comfortable about being interviewed on video, but Jeff did a  great job on this and its worth a view just for the soundtrack.
Have a look here.
And be sure to visit Jeff's blog too.

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 SUBDIVISION  is a great  niche  Vancouver store.
On my last visit to Canada owner Antony  asked me to  make  a couple of paintings for the interior  to compliment  his core brands like BountyHunter, FibreOps, Devilock and Addict which sit  with  his very focused ownbrand  DVSN  products.
Clothing is displayed on wooden pallets againsts raw concrete walls and black ceilings and minimal lighting.
We have just finished working on a couple of very limited collab pocket teeshirts and an M65 jacket which will only be available in the store. (check back for release date, should be end of this month) and make sure to stop by if your in the city.
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