Brighton rock city

We're back from England!
Or, well, some of us are anyway.
You can find Matthew and Wendy tattooing at Black Heart Tattoo this week, and Matthew will also be at Modern Body Art next week, and he has a few openings, so email him to book in: matthewgordon@live.com.au.

Ok, but i'm back and, as always, i have shitty iPhone pictures to share!
The show was awesome, by the way, so well organized and friendly, and we saw so many good friends and got to meet a bunch of really nice people.
Thanks Woody and crew!
And the weather didn't suck all the time, so there's that to be grateful for too.
Ok, pictures, and then i'll be back soon with more guest artist news.
I know, so many awesome people for y'all to get tattooed by this spring!

 Brighton, on one of the good days!

I should have taken a close-up of Chriss Dettmer's banner...

 

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Tattoo by Uncle Allan

Brand new flash by Matthew Gordon, for sale via matthewgordon@live.com.au... 9 friggin sheets for 60€, guys!

Tattoo by Uncle Allan

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Wendy worked so hard all weekend, you may not have even seen her outside of the booth!

Tattoo by Matthew Gordon

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Ashley Riot and his lovely wife Christina are with us in Berlin this week, and he still has a few free spots, if you wanna get tattooed! Email him at thevagrantheart@gmail.com to book in!

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Tattoo by Uncle Allan

Not-so-foggy London Town

I was in the middle of writing a really exciting post (no, really!) about upcoming events at the studio, but as i was uploading pictures, i realized that i had way too many for one post.
And also i feel like the London Tattoo Convention deserves a post of its own.
Not because i'm gonna write a whole bunch about it, but just cause the show was so kick-ass this year!
Like, it always is, but every year it gets just a little bit better, and so this was the best one yet.
We shared a booth with Chriss Dettmer (as we always do and always will!), and we had a great time, and Allan and Chriss got to do a bunch of cool tattoos.
There's still some left from the super sexy American Apparel flash that Allan did, though, but those will be available at the studio on upcoming flash days (more about that in the next post!)
We saw lots of clients, friends, healed tattoos from last year, and unlike the other years, we even had some good food and coffee!
Oh, and as the title of this post implies, the weather was pretty great too!
Yup, it was great.

Ok, pictures so we can move on to other important stuff.

We stayed at a new hotel this year, and holy shit, what a difference that made... never again, Ibis!

 Tattoo by Uncle Allan at the London Convention

Allan hard at work, as always

Tattoo by Uncle Allan at the London Convention

 Tattoo by Uncle Allan at the London Convention

Our booth, with all of Chriss's awesome handmade merchandise

 Tattoo by Uncle Allan at the London Convention

 Tattoo by Uncle Allan at the London Convention

Tattoo by Uncle Allan at the London Convention

Stay tuned for the next post, coming up in a matter of minutes, if i don't get distracted by something shiny or edible.

June 23rd, an invitation

Ok, i just noticed that our secret (up until now) event is less than two weeks away, so now might be a good time to let y'all know what's going on!

In short, our not-so-secret event will be a walk-in day with cool flash from Uncle Allan and Chriss Dettmer, kind of like Halloween but without the costumes (unless you really wanna dress up, we won't stop you and we certainly don't judge!)

The theme (cause you gotta have a theme) is.... witches!
See, the 23rd of June in Denmark is Sankt Hans evening, and here in Denmark, without getting into a recent history lesson, that means lighting up a giant bonfire, that occasionally will have a model of a witch on it, and singing a bunch of midsummer songs.
And that's all very nice (and who doesn't like a bonfire?) but we've decided to celebrate witches in all their awesomeness instead of lighting them on fire!

So if you think you might like a witch, or occult, or witch related, or pagan tattoo (cause, who knows what they're gonna come up with?) by either Allan or Chriss or maybe both, please drop by the shop on the 23rd of June at 4 pm, or later, and join us for some midsummer fun!

The tattoos will be individually priced, and will not be custom or one-time-only.

If the weather is good (which of course it will be, right?) we'll have the door open until late at night, and refreshments of some kind will be served as long as we have them!
Usually there'll be a bonfire on the lake, so you'll have a chance to go down and see that too.

You know where to find us:

Conspiracy Inc.
Schleppegrellsgade 7
2200 København N
Denmark

Any questions? Leave me a comment.

If not, we'll see you on the 23rd!

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Prepare to be SPOOKED!

I was just about to give myself a hard time for not having had the time to take more pictures on Saturday, but now that i'm uploading the ones i did take, i'm almost glad i didn't!
I'm not gonna get too much into details about Halloween Walk-in Day, cause if you wanted to know, well, then you could have just dropped by, couldn't you?
But i will say that we me, Allan, Chriss and our guests had a wonderful day.
The shop looked awesome, pretty much everyone who came were dressed up in great costumes, we ate a ton of snacks, the mood was nice and relaxing, and everyone who wanted to get tattooed got tattooed.*
But if you missed it, don't worry; this will definitely not be our last Halloween event.

Welcome!

 Spooky shop detail

 This is what my hair actually looks like; i just wear a short wig to not make people all jealous and stuff

Uncle All... ehm, i mean King Diamond!

Chriss the Cow tattooing Björn (sorry, didn't get a picture of that one)

Part of our spooky pumpkin collection

Undead cheerleaders needs tattoos too

As do cockroaches and elephants (although they came a bit late, so they got theirs on Monday)

Wookie didn't think he was getting tattooed, so it's good that he brought an evil nurse for moral support

 King and Cowboy (i'm kinda bummed that i didn't get a picture of the stormtroopers... yes, there were stormtroopers!)

By Chriss Dettmer on Wookie

Christel's amazing pumpkin muffins

By Chriss on Martin

And a second one for Martin; Helle makes sure he isn't too exhausted from that first one

Eeeevil clementines

 A close-up of my last minute horns... not too bad, right?

Lucifer was dressed up too (but only for a little while and mostly so my parents, who aren't pictured cause they weren't in costume, could see him)

 Wednesday Addams and her sailor (lifted from Martin's instagram)

 The Creepy Conspiracy Crew (also lifted from Martin's instagram)

Halloween flowers from my parents

 

The tattoos Allan did on Saturday and Monday (click image for a bigger view)

Update: Allan had a picture of the troopers in their size 8 years old costumes!

Whoa, that turned out to be quite the giant post after all!
See you again for more spookiness next year, i hope!

*Except yours truly, but really, who's surprised?

Halloween guests, part one

Halloween update time! (Isn't this exciting?)
I just got confirmation from Mr. Chriss Dettmer that he will indeed be joining us for Halloween-Super-Spooky-Fun-Day on the 29th of October!
Chriss will draw up some scary flash you can choose from on the day, which no doubt will be awesome, so go ahead and get excited about that.

More updates coming soon, so check back often!

Ps. I'm getting a lot of mail these days about purchasing the metal and Halloween flash (no doubt they're mostly from people who stop reading our posts about halfway through, so this might not help at all!), so just to try and clear things up:
The London Flash has not been printed and is not for sale.
Same goes for the Halloween flash, which isn't even done yet.
This post on Allan's blog was about an opportunity for those who missed out in London, and anyone else for that matter, to come to Copenhagen and get one of the pieces from the flash set tattooed.
You can still come get the London flash tattooed on Saturday, so feel free to email me about a price quote or just to check if your favorite piece is still available. Walk-ins are welcome too, although those who are already booked in will be tattooed first.
Ok, rant over!

The London post

Arrrghh, i feel so terribly behind on posts right now!
I shouldn't be, it's just that a lot of stuff is happening right now, and it's hard to keep up.
Oh my god, i sound like Nick now...
But fear not, this is what staycations are for. I will catch up with myself!

First up; London!
I am trying to divide pictures between my two blogs, so they both get a piece of the convention action.
Not that i took a lot of pictures; i was generally too busy, tired, bored or stressed to do that, but i got a few.

Allan's flash project was a huge success. Or at least to us it was, but i'm hoping the people who got tattooed liked it as well.
We've tried the walk-up/line-drawing concept before, but this time, with the flash actually painted, people really seemed to respond to it, so that was great.
And Allan got to work more and do way more tattoos than usual (his goal, not mine!), so i think this is what's gonna happen next year too. I don't have a lot of finished tattoo pictures, but Allan already posted them all on his blog, so just go check them out there.
Maybe next year he'll start painting a little sooner than a week before?
Just a thought....

 Setting up on thursday... our banner came out a little (read: a lot) bigger than intended

BBMF (best booth-mate forever) Chriss Dettmer's half of the table

Awkward tattooing

SOLD

Allan and Kevin being all "grrr, metal"

Hand tattoo by Chriss Dettmer

Partying at the hotel means braiding Allan's hair!

Lies, straight from my instagram

Convention family having a tattoo party

Thanks to everyone who got tattooed, and to those who wanted to but didn't get in as well.
And thanks to our friends and clients for coming by the booth and hanging out when we didn't have time to come to them.
See you next year!