New Project

Seeing how vinyl casting is full of impracticalities for the individual mostly due to the huge financial burden and complexities involved, I've decided to do some projects and cast in resin. The first run and  prototype is my spin on the traditional Japanese Hanya mask. At the moment it's only sculpted and cured but I figured I'd post the stages and progress of this venture. There will be more to come when I have time and motivation to proceed.

The Bishop And The Angler

I noticed this space has been kinda lackin' in the way of tattoos lately, this hasn't been intentional. There's just been a lack of photo worthy tattoos coming my way at the shop recently or they've just been unfinished or it just slipped my mind to capture it digitally. Fear not, though unfinished here's a recent tattoo, a couple hours on the hand was a bit much for this fine lad, can't blame him though. It was my first run through with a Bishop rotary machine, works pretty sweet, but certainly has a learning curve. The machine's light as hell and runs super quiet yet real punchy at the same time. Just saw this tattoo a few days after I did and it's all most healed already so all in all the Bishop Rotary is pretty badass. Sorry for the shitty photo, it was taken with an iphone.

Rot Your Teeth With Sugar Skulls

For some reason everyone seems to love sugar skulls, day of the dead skulls or whatever the hell you want to call em. Currently available at my Etsy Shop, which of course can be viewed HERE (shameless advertising and product placement blog post warning) are two sets of skulls. I've made similar sets in the past and they sell quick, so stop reading this nonsense and consume my little capitalist friends and fellow Americans. There's and economic depression/ recession goin' on so get out there and buy shit you don't really need, well, buy my shit anyway. Do it.

The Barren Months of Winter

As it often does, the approaching winter has put the brakes on work over at the old tattoo shop. Still tattooing of course but nothing significant or bad ass enough to post here, just the same old song and dance. However I need to fill this space with some sort of snazzy images or shit like that, sooo...

Here's the most recent munny I've completed, my wandering samurai. Some of you may have already seen this guy on the Kidrobot forums. He's more of a prototype than anything. This was my first attempt at full clothing and it was a hassle to say the least. I'm already hard at work on another more refined version which includes some very badass authentic antique kimono fabric straight from The Land of the Rising Sun, which I hope to have completed real soon. 

Vinyl Abuse

The 7 inch zombie and 7 inch Salty Sailor are now for sale via my Etsy shop. Just go here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/HumanRelic

These guys are fully custom and one of a kind. At $100 dollars each they can be yours to enjoy.

The Zombie comes with my Infected Area print as complimentary bonus. The salty sailor doesn't come with anything, but he does have a very nifty woolen cap.

I also sell the Infected Area print on their own. They're a limited edition run (only 4 available) signed and numbered, $15 also available through Etsy. So Check it out.

New Poster

Here's a new poster I've been working on. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to use it for but it'll be pretty badass when I do. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a thank you gift for orders placed through my Etsy shop.

If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all

Living in New England has it's moments for sure, some good and some not so good.  Up here we have the changing of the seasons, good trout fishing, scenic hills and all sorts of stimulation for the senses. Now snow is a part of life here in the North East, we get dumped on quite a bit through out the winter and that goes without saying. However when we get shit on all over by 2 feet of snow in late October that is not normal. Due to all the damage to property and nearly the entire state loosing power and heat it became a state of emergency. I am writing this 9 days after the storm, I am stealing my wifi signal from  someone, somewhere (sshhh) and I just got power back on thanks to some wonderful good ol' boys from South Carolina who came all the way up here to assist the inept and incredibly poorly run CL&P.  Much of the state is still without electricity and heat, there is quite a bit of damage to homes and other property and a few people have indeed lost their lives.  My home still stands and and my friends and family are quite alive so it could be much worse. However my neighbors 300 foot oak tree lost the battle to snow and gravity and turned my Nissan into a scrap metal. When all was said and done it turned out to be a town tree and I appear to be shit out of luck. According to insurance law it's an act of god(it would appear that insurance companies can place blame on an invisible man in the sky) and no one's liable or responsible. In short I'm fucked and out a good deal of money. But I'm trying to take an enlightened approach to all this and stay positive. Tings always seem to work out in the long run but don't get me wrong this ones a bitch.