Bizarre Magazine

Yes, it is a Hat Trick this month... all the travelling, tattooing and interviews I've done this last year all seem to have coincided in November :-)
   When Denise from Bizarre Magazine contacted me about an interview I was a little scepticle to say the least. Bizarre is generally known for their graphic photos combined with tabloid captions. I was a little worried that they would misrepresent my work... especially with experimental archaeology, as some sort of extreme and bloody ritual. However after talking to Denise and later meeting her in London, I could see that her questions were out of genuine interest and not focussed on gory details.
   Despite this I only submitted photos showing my work and not the clients faces (most of whom are friends). Despite also sending photos ot the techniques and process close up, they still chose to show the end results and only talk about the process. The cropping of the photos could have been a little better... but with such limited space I am more than please to be featured as "Inking Icon # 14" in Bizarre's monthly column on tattoo artists :-)

Tattoo Revolution Magazine

   Neil Dallywater is the "Wonderboy" of the tattoo industry. Former editor for Skin Deep Magazine, Neil personally invited Pat Fish and I to attend Skin Deep's "Tattoo Jam" in Doncaster last year. Unfortunately Neil resigned his position mere weeks before the convention, so I never got to thank him. We caught up again in London where he talked about starting his own magazine... yeah sure, with so many others on the market already?
   But Neil not only lands on his feet... he bounces back, with a vengence :-) Within a year he had created one of the most popular tattoo magazines in Britain and was named Tattoo Journalist of the Year!!! Neil's Tattoo Revolution Magazine just celebrated it's first anniversary... and what better way to commemorate this than to come back to where it started :-)

   Neil interviewed me when he drove over to Ireland to visit the Traditional Tattoo Festival in Cobh outside of Cork. Despite me babbling for at least an hour, Neil was able to make coherant sense of it all... including my noticable Danglish grammer :-) Issue #12 is on sale for the month of November or can also be downloaded online :-)
   Thanks and happy anniversary Neil!
 

Tattoo World Book

Marisa Kakoulas is known for her "monster tattoo tombs" on Tribal, Colour and Black & Grey Tattoo Art, featuring some of the best and most innovative artists in the world today. Tattoo World is a condensed version of these plus more... at an affordable price.
   My work was previously featured in Marisa's "Black Tattoo Art" by Edition Reuss and I'm very proud to have made the cut and gotten mentioned in "Tattoo World" as well :-)

Robbers and Thieves

Attention:
Just Back from Sweden the other day only to discover our flat had been broken into once again!!!! Sometime between the 21-23th of October. The got both our home and shop laptops as well as the camera this time :-( Lost all of our photos and video clips from the last year. What is the use of making copies if they just steal the backups and the backups of the backups?
Any info or help would be appeciated if you got old photos of Loki's globetrotting, tattoos I've done or important e-mails regarding appointments.
Thanxox - Colin, Nanna & Loki

Dmitry Babakhin

Just wanted once again to than Dmitry for coming to guest at Skin&Bone. It is nice to see someone work with te traditional motifs but who has developed their own recognizable style as well.
Here is a peak of some of the work he did while he was here. I'll post other work he's done while at Skin&Bone when I get a chance :-)

Sorry, we didn't get your tattoo finished Dmitry... but now I have an excuss to come to St Petersburg :-)

Tahitian Tattooing At Skin&Bone

Dmitri Babakhin from "Bang Bang Custom Tattoo" in St. Petersburg, Russia
http://www.babakhin.com/
Through my years of travel I've met and befriended many traditional Polynesian artists from Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaií and New Zealand. Dmitry Babakhin is "Not" one of these :-) Dmitri comes from St Petersburg Russia... which is as far away from French Polynesia as you can get. Despite this "handicap" Dmitri had a burning desire to specialize in the Polynesian style. As the Polynesian style has blossomed over the years, Dmitry has been at the forefront... and by specializing where there are no others, Dmitry has acquired more experience at large scale Polynesian tattooing than most native tattooists have. So if you have ever wanted a Polynesian tattoo but couldn't afford the ticket to Tahiti, here is your chance to get something from a Master and Ambassador of this style. Dmitry will be a guest artist at Skin&Bone from the 14th - 24th of October… so contact him immediately if you are thinking of a tattoo babakhin@gmail.com or babakhin.mailto:babakhin.2@mail.ru