In the new film by Mike Judge, Idiocracy, all members of society in the future are tattooed with a bar code ID. The Joe character (Luke Wilson) gets thrown into the messy future and is tattooed reluctantly by the 'ID machine' with the ID name of 'Not Sure'

Vice DO's & DON'Ts always make me laugh.

There is also an excellent Tattoo Stories feature under Vice Fashion.

I recommend everyone buy the Vice Guide to Travel.

The Heartist / Daryl Palumbo.

also check out flickmasterflash.com

Merry Christmas everybody. I woke up to the worst possible news on a Christmas morning to find out that one of my favorite musical artists died today- James Brown.

Did you know that James Brown eyebrows were actually not real, but cosmetically tattooed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown

Happy Holidays!

Deftones / art shows / life in the past week.

Site format / design will be changing in January 2007. More exciting things to come.

In a bit of an ironic twist, I was fortunate enough to be casted for the new upcoming 'worldwide' ad campaign for the silhouette ads for a very, very popular MP3 player.

In my opinion, in the past year- most of the mainstream ad campaigns featuring heavily tattooed models have been either subpar of horrific. Hopefully 'mystery company' will get it right (with me) with their new campaign.

...and yes, I realize they are black silhouettes- but that probably won't stop them from rotoscoping / animating my tattoos.

Party / Tony / Fuse Art Gallery closing / fun.

Yasumasa Yonehara exhibit at the Reed Space. He does all the model photography for the Japanese American Apparel ads.