Tinkering with the Machine

The past week, I decided to brush up on my tattoo equipment, seeing as I have sealed a performance interview at one of the popular tattoo studios in my city. 

Here's what I did with my old machine whilst waiting to purchase the new ones online (will do a review on this whole other topic another time and let you guys know more about my profession!) but for now, I shall leave it at this as I have done quite a bit of work today. 

I apologise for not having to blog often! I have been busy with projects inside and outside Uni. I will post some of the work from my Product Innovation  (Industrial Design) Bachelor Degree as well! 

The Kony Project: Ponder a thought with me? Something's not right

The KONY Project, you say? I second guess.

Hear me out, I am for humanitarian intentions.
I would like the best for Uganda as much as anyone.
But something just doesn't sit right with this 'humanitarian' intervention of the US.

When the video first came out, I remember joking about this issue with a couple people, sarcastically mentioning the US finding another OIL RESERVE in Uganda. If the US genuinely cared for this issue beforehand, they would have done something sooner, not suddenly, later.

The humanitarian intervention involves sending armed troops in Uganda to help capture Kony. Somehow, it  seems like it's just an excuse to worm a way around the international law system, to send troops into a foreign land.


I'd like to encourage more people to speculate on this issue, and the KONY project, if you can see what the US might be doing here. See any pattern? Seems familiar?

• '... with 2.5 BILLION barrels of oil ALREADY CONFIRMED'' (2011) Read more

• '... US Foreign Policy disguises self-interest as altruism. When we see oil and humanitarian crisis, we act: Iraq, Libya, and now Uganda.' (2011) Read more

But don't just listen to me. I suggest you do look into it more, and form your own opinions and conclusions.

Hope this post has been enlightening , Ciao!

Back Again for the New Year!

After being absent for so LONG, I decided to go back because, well ... I have done something related to art today, without any influence of Uni work and such. It all started when I started to clean my room again. I ended up gathering a lot of paint, and making something out of my time.

In my arsenal
Just thought I'd gather my spray paint and put them in a nice section of its own. I didn't think I still have a handful, plus the 4 other ones I bought earlier on in the year.

Spraying Space

After finding my weapons, I wanted to experiment. Couldn't wait to get my hands on them and spray those buggers on a clean white surface and cause trouble. I suddenly found myself thinking and recalling a technique to do with spraying space scenes. Right on the spot, grabbed my stuff, and within minutes, I had myself a space scene! I was surprised to see the result myself. Might do a detailed entry on this one day.

PS. Gonna interest my girlfriend to do this with me, it would be a fun little project to do.

Spraying Practice: Cutting-back

With the little spark of interest still going strong, I decided to to take a risk and go head on with some freestyle graffiti - NO SKETCH.

Always been surprised at how my work turns out when I just freestyle some spray on the spot. It ends up like an experiment progression. To add to that, I still need practice. So I just apply, cut-back, apply and cut-back.

Cutting-back: this is the method of graffiti where the lines are defined cleaner, neater and have angular, sharp edges, compared to normal lines. These lines can go thinner than the tin tips and are ideal for smaller details and canvas artwork.

Anyway, here it is. My little suttin'-suttin'.

Space Rock!

I decided to continue working on one of my ongoing projects last year - a designer toy sculpture. Originally, I couldn't decide on what the colour and/or pattern of this guy would be, I even painted on random colours just for fun.

Originally, it was just a boring tan and black colour. But you know what else was pretty good about today? It was nice I was feeling a little space-y, so I decided to stick to the theme, and make it look dope. But it was just lacking something. I just wanted to give it a kick, you know? So I made his head gold, fading into a midsection of magenta space and stars, fading out into black for the legs.

Check them out and see for yourself.

I even torn some empty cans, which I stuck on his back, and made him wear some custom AF1's.

Still in progress, this project is something I cannot rush. So watch this 'space'! :)