Smarts is a given !

What better way to start the work week than with a "one-shot", I ask ya? Well , there are a few better ways to start the week actually (not working is one, finally getting those prints you ordered a month ago and had completely forgotten about, or even cake! Cake is an awesome way to start the week too) but anyways... In EPK-tattooland today, an awesome "one-shot" is a great way to start the week!!

Ladies and gentlemen .... I present to you the Thinking Hat!!
Some people out there might be interested in such a device (I now know a whole lot of American diplomats who should really look into getting one of these)!! Here's the original thinking hat, worn by it's inventor, Dr Thinky Van De Thought, on one of his many demonstrations! The thing is, however, that soon after inventing the said "smart-hat", Dr Van De Thought realized the full potential of the amazing device he had just created and decided not to share it with the rest of the world anymore and to keep it for himself! Therefore vanishing never to be seen again (which is directly linked to why the very existence of the wonderful "brain helping helmet" is mostly unknown to most commoners)! But for your eyes tonight, unveiled in all it's glory .... The myth, the legend ... The incredibly awesome Thinking hat >>>


Red/Black you know the drill ...





















A few hours later ...



AWESOME !!!!!
Once again the magic of Orange+Purple (the new Bluegrey) has proved unmatchable!!! Hope you like!





-However also in the news of the day >>>> Sadness ... Much sadness!




















Thank you so much for all the awesome times and the ever lasting laughs growing up, Mister Nielsen! I never got to tell you this but you were in many of my childhood classics! You will be missed very much!






Now if you don't mind... There are only 16 hours left before I have to start work again tomorrow and I have about 150 000 pages of Wikileaked awesomeness left to go through!!!

You can say what you want about that but never ever in our history have we ever been able to find out and learn so much, in such up to date and in depth secret information about how the people who rule this world for us work and function! For anyone who likes to know things, for anyone who likes to understand how the world functions, for anyone who doesn't like to be lied to by the people that decide for them, for anyone interested in the truth about things in the world that surround us, Wikileaks is a never before seen amazing opportunity! The Afghanistan and Iraq war files were incredible but these American administration foreign relations cables are pure gold!! This IS full democracy of knowledge!

So, dear Mister Asange: Even though you kinda sound like a douche, I thank you profoundly for making our world a lot clearer and helping uncover the stupidities and lies of our governments!! The very best of courage to you right now!! Having everyone's secret service desperate to find and stop you must be very stressful and well, just really suck!! But please don't stop and keep doing it as long as you can! The world desperately needs this more than it knows!!

And now my final yet huge thanks to Pfc. Bradley Manning who destroyed his career, will most probably end up cleaning toilets with a toothbrush for the rest of his life in a place probably much darker even than the Guantanamo bay "detainment facility", have a substantial amount of his countrymen call him a traitor and hate him forever and all of that for the sole purpose of giving us all the possibility to know!



















Thank you Mister Manning! If you make it out alive one day, you can get a free tat from me anytime!

Break time

FINALLY !!
Got myself a full day of doodling today and it was very welcomed! I'm just not used to not being able to doodle every day and am not liking it at all! But hell... Just two months left to go of this tattoo madness marathon and I'll be free again! Free to doodle all the time!

Here's a few sketchbook doodles from today, a few days ago and from my last UK trip!

Edinburgh spread scanned >



Copenhagain spread from last week >



London page >




















The day's page >






















Hope you like these as much as I do!! Have definitely made a sketchbook push lately! Having less time to paint, I tend to concentrate more on one page or a spread and put more time on that, instead of starting a hundred different pieces at the same time! The result is interesting and I think I like it! You might see more of these full sketchbook spreads in the future and maybe less "patches" ... Who knows ...

Back tomorrow with more unbelievably exciting visual adventures !!!
Stay colourful out there!

Monkey Business

Way too damn busy...

The daily doings have become the every second day's doings this week, yes it's true! I have had very little time to Plog but also a very bad picture week! Many of the pieces were just simply impossible to shoot! Just happens some times... Anyways... I'm pretty happy today's doings weren't to camera shy cuz this day's piece is a beaute, let me tell ya! Check out the week's last, the week's "one-shot" piece of the hour!!

This here smart simian entrepreneur has no morale issues whatsoever with liberal economy in fact he's pretty much embracing the endless capital making opportunities of globalization! The world's more fortunate need bananas and it would be a crying shame to deprive them of such a wonderful thing! -Bananaco.

Red/Black



6 hours later>>>



Premium mechanically hand picked slightly genetically modified and 50% fair trade bananas for the world
-BANANACO





Lots more tomorrow!! No time now!! Got to run again!

Happy Fridays and happy thanksgiving recoveries!!


ROCK!

More Blue ... 2.1.

Barely have time to blog anymore!!

Here's a quick express post with yesterday's day's doings!!

Blue flowers part 2.1 but this time with maintenance crew!!

Red/Black


Few hours later!


More on this in a few weeks and more news tomorrow with the daily day's doings and some other weekly world newsly updates!!


ROCK!

Looking up.

The day's session!

Back at work for another work week!
Here's day one's doings of the day>>>




If you're thinking to yourself that these clouds must a hella-hurt ... You're absolutely right! But well worth it if ya ask me or my customer in about a week when she would have forgotten all about the pain!


Also in the news >>> Check out the EPTB for some pre-Euro-closing Christmawhat specialicious season's specials!!




Stay strong!

The tiny paranoid kingdom Vs the imaginary dragon!

KIDS WHO DON'T LIKE TO SHARE THEIR TOYS END UP PLAYING ALONE!

I got some news a few days ago and have been regularly thinking about it ever since. I seem to be unable to shake it out of my head and just blindly go back on about my own busyness. So forgive me this outburst for a brief post but I find myself with no other choice than to have to rant this situation out of my system.

The story: My friend's husband is being deported from the said kingdom of Denmark!

The stats: She's Danish, he's American. They have been married for 8 years. Living in Denmark as an immigrant he has had to prove himself regularly, like in most other countries, to the said kingdom's local authorities and seems to have done an exemplary job at it. No criminal record, no involvement with anything that could potentially jeopardize his stay. Strictly abiding to all the requested demands. Got himself a good job and has been fulfilling his local economic contribution obligations (taxes) and cultural ones (obligatory language lessons) without any problems whatsoever. Pretty much an example of integration and a model immigrant. Except for the fact that this last week, he made the crucial mistake of completely forgetting, for the first time, about a regular check-up appointment with the kingdom's immigration authorities. The penalty for such an offense here in Denmark -Pack your shit, you have 48 hours to get out! We don't wanna hear about it! Ciao!

After so long. After such a good score sheet. No possibility of compromise (in this case re-scheduling the appointment) possible.

I've done my research in the last few days and the truth is that this shit happens pretty much on a regular basis over here. This one situation touches me more because it's about my friend but very similar stories keep popping up. Last month's top score was a family with kids being split up. I can't help but think (as a human being with a personal moral code and not as a box on a shelf) -Throwing out a mother and separating her from her kids within 48 hours for a missed appointment -Who the fuck does that?


So here's my rant, my outrage in words, my finger pointing, my immigrant's slap in the face not to the Danish citizens by birth who voted for Pia and her DF (the local protectionist xenophobe extreme right party which is actually part of the governing coalition here) who came up with these, and many other non-thought through, immigration laws. For they voted for what they believe in, whether what they believe in is responsible, an educated choice or politically relevant at all in today's world, is, sadly, the inevitable shortcomings of democracy and their birthright. But no! My rant is directed at all those (and I speak from experience knowing many) who would have leaned left, but who take their everyday luxurious pampered Danish way of life for granted and had better things to do than to go vote on the last election day (and probably other election days before that). Who by not voting allowed the crazies' votes to count more than they should have. Allowing the crazies seats in parliament. Not really caring much when the majority craving leading party struck an alliance (for the second time) with the said crazies enabling Pia and her posse to access power, to hijack the country's administration and the possibility to make up and push through ridiculous and nationally self destructive immigration laws such as the one above explained.

It's easy to say that it's Pia and her paranoid friends' fault but truly it's not! Every society has it's crazies, every society everywhere in the world has people desperate for attention who need to shout their opinions about political realities they obviously can't quite entirely grasp! These people are everywhere but it is who listens and agrees with the shallow populist speeches, who votes for and who doesn't vote against that enables these people to acquire positions where they're actually paid to come up with new laws such as the one above witnessed!

Given, this is my personal opinion. It is, however, backed by numerous facts about today's global realities, the facts that in every European country the population is aging rapidly and that to continue to secure today's quality of life, Denmark like many other European nations will have to accept very quickly the cold hard fact that it is actually desperate for immigrants! Right-wing populist anti-immigration rhetoric is, ultimately without foundation and inevitably nationally destructive.

If however, I'm horribly wrong, 100% of voters voted and the outcome of the last election represents exactly what today's Denmark wants in a rare show of democratic success! Then please forgive my mindless uneducated ranting and start fucking and making lots and lots of Danish babies quick cuz if you only want to be around your own, you're gonna need a lot more of your own very very soon!

My advice to my friend however is: Get the hell out of here as soon as you can! Why would one fight to stay somewhere where they're not wanted. There are so many other wonderful places in the world where the local authorities would be willing, with a slap on the wrist perhaps, to re-schedule an appointment!






Rant >>>> Over.

And every day...

What up !?

Back, as previously promised, for your daily tat-doing visual input !
Did I mention this wasn't gonna last? Cuz that's the only thing keeping me going ... Yep ... mhm! Ok ok... Enough with the whining and more of the day's doings!

Today's power session was dedicated to this delicious "kitchen in action" sleeve of the moment!! We pretty much finished all the colour on the top part and well ... It looks fantastic! Judge for yourselves >>>>




AZOME !

What a week!! Off tomorrow and not that much other stuff to do so ... Yeah! A very needed doodle day indeed! Was about to blow up from non-doodleness and well ... Apart from the mess it would have produced, that would have sucked for me!

More news tomorrow!!
Stay AZOME!