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After staying up for a total of 40 hours straight in preperation for the Jet City tattoo expo... I prevailed! Went from 2 completed machines to 16! Then I was so tired and over it, I only took pictures of 2 completed machines. Ugh... they didn't even come out all that great. Oh well... I'm pretty over cataloging machines at this point, I'm way more into building them and getting them out in the world for people to use!

Did a few tattoos on the lovely people of the Northwest, had a few beers, a few laughs, and made it home in one piece. Que pics...

Tattoo Machines...

花和尚 魯知深：Kaoshou-Rochishin

Posted by 彫しゅん Horishun

暈しを進めました。

彫しゅん

I did shading.

Horishun.

額：Background

Posted by 彫倭 Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato

『菊水』の額部分が終わりました。

彫倭

I finished background.

Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato.

2 NEW SIGNATURE MODEL MACHINES BY GODOY MACHINES

The Javier Campos tattoo machine is available now.

This Peruvian artist is known for his incredible realistic color portraits as well as his black n grey work. To do this type of work, not only do you need artistic skill, an excellent machine helps too. This is a steel base with a small stainless upright support. No waste of space, all components fir perfectly into the housing frame base. These run so smoooth, so precise solid and are very sensitive. It comes loaded with our Godoy Machines round coil.

We have also just released the Scrappy Uno model machine. Mexico's finest portrait artist. His portraits have won him award after award. On an international level Scrappy is at the top. This machine is loaded with our Godoy Square coils model II, a sensitive and highly reactive coil mounted on our new screw tight tube vice steel base. Another priceless piece of machinery.

These are the BMW's of tattoo machines.

KID：UFC

Posted by 彫倭 AKilla a.k.a. Horiyamato

It was announced!

Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato.

いよいよコチラが発表になりましたね！応援に行けないのが悔しすぎるけど！！！

彫倭

ミラノ：Milano Tattoo Convention

Posted by 彫倭 Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato

去年に引き続き今年もイタリアの『ミラノ・タトゥーコンベンション』に参加することになりました。日程は２月９日から２０日までになります。コンベンション後から帰国日までは『イタリアン・ルースター・タトゥー』にいます。
彫倭

I will join Milano Tattoo Convention. After that I will be at Italian Rooster Tattoo. Schedule will be on 9th Feb- 20th Feb.
Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato.

朴 光哲：MMA fighter Kotetsu Boku

Posted by 彫倭 AKilla a.k.a. Horiyamato

KRAZY BEEの朴 光哲の応援に後楽園ホールへ。本人は試合内容に満足いかないようだったけど3-0の判定勝利でした！おめでとう！
sportsnavi.comに出てたこの写真（２枚目）が素晴らしすぎるので勝手にお借りします！脇腹のネルビオとキキによるタトゥーがリングの上で朴を守り一緒に戦っているような、、、
彫倭

I went to see KRAZY BEE's MMA fighter Kotetsu Boku's fight. He didn't satisfied with the fight but he won by unanimous decision! I love this picture on the middle, with Kiki and Nervio's tattoos!
Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato.

The "Build Your Own" Fall Session

Our Fall "Build Your Own" seminar was a huge success. We wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who attended and hope they enjoyed it as much as we did.
The best thing about a session like this, is it allows you to pick up other ideas from people who build machines every day. It also forces to you to examine your process as you guide someone through their developing process. It feels good to pay it forward. It's also nice to watch SOBA scold people when they have bad intel.
We would also like to thank SOBA for coming out and bringing his big bag of knowledge. At almost every turn he had a great trick for building or something very thought provoking. A pleasure to say the least.
To everyone who attended, thanks for coming out and to Jessica and Katie for the maple bacon cupcakes, well you know. We are in the early stages of a possible Spring "Build Your Own" session and a Fall SOBA machine building seminar at this years Paradise Tattoo Gathering.

龍：Dragon

Posted by 彫倭 Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato

New Year, New Books

Happy New Year, we just got two new titles in at Pulse. The first is from tattoo artist Nick Baxter entitled "Sharp Focus Realism In Oil" and a new collection of skull work "Cranial Visions".
Nick's new book is an in depth look into the step by step process of how Nick constructs his amazing art. It also delves into both his philosophy and basic art principals as well as containing Nicks art cover to cover. There are some great lessons and advice here that anyone can slip into the old noggin. Get your learn on. Hard cover $60. Click to order from Pulse.
Also new is "Cranial Visions" from the mind of Mike Devries and the people at Memento publishing. This all new collection of work focuses on the skull in all it's shapes and forms. Two hundred and fifty eight artists are featured over the books 240 pages showing their goods in the form of 800 pieces of art all focused on the skull. Tattoo work, paintings, drawings, digital art, photography, and sculpture are all featured. It is a very inspiring book and worth the investment. Available now $69.99 from Pulse -Click Here

Happy New Year!

Hey! Well it is my pleasure to announce that the first post of 2011 is to officially say- THE NEW PHANTOMS ARE ALMOST DONE!!

I have been getting tons of requests for the Phantom 5 to be released, and I finally got my ass in gear and got it done. I'm SUPER stoked. These are going to be SICK!! This will be the biggest run of a Phantom model yet. Fancy boxes, multiple finish runs- the whole nine... or 5. Whatever. Here are a few sneak peaks of the project..... and as for a solid release date- stay tuned. I'm hoping for the 1st week in Feb- but ya never know....

元日：神社巡り

Posted by 彫倭 Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato

池上本門寺

Ikegami Honmonji Temple

千束八幡神社 〜洗足池の鯉〜

Carps at Senzoku-Ike.

今年もよろしくお願いします。

彫倭

Akilla a.k.a. Horiyamato.