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Last week I did a promo shoot for Stick To Your Guns from Orange County, CA

Ran bunch of guys. Check them out on the current Atticus tour with Darkest Hour and Unearth.

click on the photo for the whole set.

I love my friends

So on Wednesday I shot some photos of my friend Melissa. It was a nice day out, and was looking forward to this shoot all week.

We had to ditch our 1st location due to mud from previous weather conditions, but we found a couple awesome spots. The 1st spot was actually found on our way from leaving the muddy one. We pull over, and find a nice little spot to trail trough. We walked through the bush, and over some barbed wire, then quickly find out we are surrounded by poison oak! But Melissa was a tough cookie, and decided to shoot anyways, and they turned out great.

The later of the shots were from a location she picked out, and a great one at the least! A nice hike, and amazing view. Thanks Melissa.

Click on the photo to visit the set on Flickr please feel free to leave comments on there, I need the criticism!

…If you’re wondering about the watermark, I decided to make a domain just for photos. The link just takes you to my photo page on here, but its a lot nicer to advertise it separately from tattoo work, and paintings

Heres a couple photos from a fun tattoo I recently made.

theoceanwar.com is now LosLifeRuiner.com

Today is the 2nd week of $60 Sundays.

Here are some samples of variations on 1 (one) of the 7 designs!

Here’s what you missed out on!

Last night i did a quick little promo shoot for Throwdown. It was very lastminute and very limited on resources, but i think they turned out pretty cool. check them out by clicking the photo…

Also, dont forget to get their new CD that just hit stores and iTunes last Tuesday. Totally epic!

So for hween weekend, Hayley and I drove up to San Jose. Thursday we drove up for the Bloodwork book release from the guys at Analog Tattoo in San Jose. The book is amazing, 67 sleeves from 30 different artists. I love the dramatic lighting. A lot of my photography has very dramatic lighting, even my portfolio photos of tattoos. Just seems a little different than the typical tile in the background.

The book release was fun. We got to run into a bunch of friends, but the drive was long and tiring so we crashed early. My friend Brittney was kind enough to open up her new house to us. Such a awesome place she had in a rad location in SJ.

Friday was the 1st day of the convention. It started a little later than usual. The line up was great, and was moved to a larger part of the convention center than in previous years. Picked up some awesome prints for the new station, and coozies for apple juice lol. Later that night we payed a little visit to the Vegetarian House. Great food, totally a cult….

Saturday was Halloween. We took the train to San Fran because the Bay Bridge was still closed and rumors of ungodly traffic convinced us that the train was the way to go. We hungout in downtown SF for a while and did some people watching and picked up some last minute costumes. From there we took the Bart to Berkley. Met up with David and his friends and had a fun night a show with a bunch of bands covering songs all night in costumes. Good show and rad little venue. I miss rad shows like that. Sadly theres only huge shows down here, and a lot of good bands dont play music because they love it anymore, everyones looking for the easiest way to make big bucks. o well…

Sunday we headed home. On the way down we stopped in Santa Cruz. Honestly, I love that city. So beautiful. Mountains, trees, beach, and a lot of rad places to eat. We ate at Saturn Cafe and hungout with Mandi and Ari for a bit. Then Hayley and I hung out at West Cliff. Awesome homes and scenery there.

Then the long ride home.

Here are some photos of the trip. Click on this one to see the whole set from the weekend.