Internet famous!

Went and saw some friends in Lincoln today, I'm super exhausted now after 400 miles of driving today.

I saw bea, bob, breen, Casey, matt and raina. That's bob above becoming Internet famous while eating a burrito. You can see me devouring mine zombie like over on bea/zombea's tumblr over on the side bar.

Time for bed!

I look in the stars and I remember ...

world wide. thought id make a post that was just a back log of photos. haven't done that for a while, and I've got some time to kill so here goes :)

I've been talking about going to Japan on a trip for quite some time. After talking about it with some friends in Portland that also would like to go I think ive got a lose plan. Or an idea anyways...



first i head to Omaha.



home of DUP @ liquid courage tattoo, were my friend Jason is getting tattooed later this afternoon btw



Jeremy also works at liquid courage. i think i may need a tattoo from him down the road, his stuffs looking pretty good these days.



any how, a quick jump to Portland is next!

Portland is home to my friends Joe and Dom, formerly of Living art tattoo. They are now, or soon to be, under the name "Dead Gods tattoo".



Joe is coming along on the trip, the more the better!



Dom may as well? im not really sure. but this good luck cat he did is awesome right?



Random note: Joe and Dom are tattooing my entire back together stretching from my neck that Joe put 16 ish hours into so far, to my ribs/stomach that Dom is tattooing solo, all the way down the top of all the work Sean herman did on my lower leg. getting filled up :)



the coast in Portland, something i've oddly enough never seen in person. I will be in Portland fora few days before the next leg in our trip. ill spend most of it tattooing and maybe some getting tattooed. hopefully ill find room to see the coast.



Bea and Bob were in Portland and DID see the ocean!



her photos look great, you should head over to the link ----> over here, that says Beas blog and check them out. good stuff :)



and if your going to fly to japan you may as well stop in hawaii for a minute right?



we'll be there for a day or two? tattooing may just happen there.



then japan! i have no idea what city we will head to... but this is tokyo



if we end up in Yokohama hopefully we could be fortunate enough for a trip here.



yellow blaze tattoo, home of this one guy.



whats his name?



oh yeah, Shige!

any how, play that back in reverse for the second half of the trip and there we have it! omaha to portland, 2-7 days in portland. portland to hawaii, 1 or 2 days in hawaii. hawaii to japan, 4 or 5 days in japan. japan to hawaii, 1 or 2 days there, hawaii to portland, 3 or so days there, portland to omaha. done!

mostly the route is set that way for 3 reasons. 1, its actually cheaper to fly that way then direct to japan from Omaha and i want to fly alone the least amount possible. 2, a direct flight would last foooreeevvveeerr and i just don't think I'm up to it having time to decompress would be great. And breaking up all the flying with some time in hawaii doesnt sound to shabby. we know people in almost every stop so we can couch crash instead of having to find hotels and what not in a bunch of different locations. and of course 3, why not?

short and sweet...

well maybe short and tired. im exhausted.



tomorrow "should be" our first official day open after our health inspector visit in the morning. im super ready for it. ive been painting and hanging things or orginizing this stuff until im seeing all blur lately haha.

but its been good.
after my last day at the old shop i met up with my freinds matt and raina and road tripped to see my brother jon in colorado and then onto boulder for another super great hason show.

along the way we checked out a few bike shops because matts all about pedaling everywere. they were preety cool, alot of the buildings were realy old so the existing structures repurposed was preety rad to look at while he chatted to bike people.

ill post more pix when im less beat, but for now figured this would work.

oh and i test drove a new vw 2011 gti. it was awesome. but im currently poor from the shop move :P no gti for me. i will however start piano lessons soon and dust off my harmonica as well :)

now pix

old and i found a cool nash for sale.



first sittin on daves rad neck tatto based on some cool flash @ the shop



my new room at the studio pre epic over haul



seeing the bff's on my way to colorado, we were hunting for a venue for bea and i's split art show. more on that when im less tired.



yup, we are in fact preety amazing, its ok to be jealous



the gti in question, droooool



feeding carp somewere in nebraska..



and like 3 koi



totaly out of order but here are some of the bikes in matts shared workspace. preety rad :)



no post production matt is actualy being beamed up into space right here.



the nash, smaller drool



most bizare hardware store ever.



yeah thats old cameras the shelf up from bear and fox traps above a shelf of old school photos?



and a few records in the plumbing section..



me looking impressive in front of a rad old old bar back... also at the hardware store haha



first bike shop. work space porn. droool some more. im gonna need a mop haha.



second bike shop, to much hipster for one room. but it was a neat room.



idk what theses guys were upto but they had matching jumpsuits and one of them was covered in some slime?



an awesome reason for a 12 hour one way road trip. hanson! it was great great great.

they covered marvin gays 'lets get it on' and the doobie brothers 'with out love'

fuck yea hason :)

ok im tire and have to clean up all the drool.