Scarification can be a lengthy undertaking, particularly with cuttings that require flesh removal. To keep yourself from being worn down by the repetitive cut/peel/cut/peel process, you have to get creative. Like Brian and Wayde on this collaborative piece done at SW3. When life hands you lemons, make lemonaid. When life hands you strips of human flesh… make a tic tac toe board.

Forty is totally the new Twenty.
June 23rd can only mean one thing: Håvve’s birthday!
Here’s a shot Casey Goldsmith took of Christiane cutting Håvve at the SW3 event. As long as Håvve keeps having birthdays, I’ll keep digging up photos! Happy Birthday my friend.

Sorry it’s been so quiet here at the SW blog; my life has become very busy lately and regrettably the blog is one of the things that’s had to suffer in the face of not having enough time for everything.

Things are finally slowing down and hopefully I’ll be able to get back to a daily SW update.

Tonight we have our old friend Brian (photographed in ’06 at SWLA) apologizing for the lack of picture updates. Brian and I will be traveling a bit soon;

Easter weekend we’ll be in Dallas, TX for the SusCon.
May 2-8 we’ll be in Las Vegas for the APP conference.

So expect much more of Brian in the coming weeks!

The Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention is coming up again; March 26th-28th 2010. John J. Joyce is considering attending/cutting again this year so I’m spreading the word: If you’d like to be cut by John in Philadelphia you can contact him through the Scarab Website. Every person who gets cut by John at the convention will get a drawing of a monkey by either my girlfriend or my nephew as a present.

This reminder comes with another Gogo appearance; again from SW3 in Philly back in 2007, Photographed by Casey Goldsmith.

There are plenty of reasons to feature a portrait here on the scarblog; all easily justifiable as to why we’re not featuring someone bleeding. Today’s justification? I miss Sarah. Posting this wonderful portrait (taken at SW2 in LA by Rachel) is a reminder to send her my love.

Philip Barbosa shot this great portrait of artist Dave Gillstrap and client at SW1 in 2005. Dave had just finished the cutting on her leg and Phil decided to go for a very intimate pose to show the connection between the two. The photo loses a lot of detail with resizing, but take note of Dave’s torso scarification. (and his painted toenails)

Things are quiet at Scarwars central.
My hectic work schedule has crept to a halt (which means the book/shirts ship on Monday!) for the time being and it’s time to slow down and spend some holiday time with the family.

I’ve just made a batch of deviled eggs (with bacon and truffle salt) and Claire whipped up some tasty froot loop treats; soon we’ll be in the car headed for the P5 Compound and 4 days of relaxation and present swapping.

My present to you guys/gals is this fine cutting from our good friend Thorsten. Done at SW2 in LA and documented by the spirit of Christmas himself, Atom Moore.

Happy Holidays!

I was just thinking the other day “man, the blog needs more Wayde Dunn”,
Since it’s been a while since the Thunda has sent in new scar pics, I took the ‘roo by the tail and found a photo OF Big Red taken at SW3 by Atom Moore. While it’s not quite the same as one of Mr. Dunn’s expert cuttings, it certainly ups the testosterone of the main page.

Crikey!

Keylan holds the record for being both the youngest and the tallest artist ever to work a SW event. This shot (taken by the ever-bearded Atom Moore at SW3) features the lanky Levine and a very fresh tiki mask cutting/removal.

My schedule has been VERY hectic lately- I’d like to apologize to everyone who ordered the Fall/Winter book & shirt combo. I’ve not been able to get to the printers to pick up the shirts. The books are ready and numbered, the packages made out, I’m just waiting to get a free minute to go pick the shirts up. My work week is 60+ hours right now and it’s regrettably not left any time for extras; you have my thanks for purchasing the combo, my apologies for the delay and my hope that you’ll be patient while I get everything sorted out.

My work schedule is starting to get crazy; for the next few weeks updates will likely be sporadic from me but I’ll do my best to keep up.

I was driving home from work the other night; on a forced Thanksgiving shift, and to get out the frustration I switched from my normal Decemberists/Belle and Sebastian saccharine softer music to my “I’ve had a bad day” commute choice of Slayer’s South of Heaven. It’s what I do every time I get in the car and need to decompress after work has brought me down. An electric blue PT Cruiser (don’t judge me) going 90mph on a back road in New Jersey (don’t judge me) with one temporary tire (since my tire blew on my commute to work on Thanksgiving morning) with the windows down blasting “Read between the lies”…..

I’m sure my friend Scot would have approved. This is his tribute to throwin’ the goat; a flesh removal done at SW2 by the equally goat throwing Ryan Ouellette of PBA.

Scot and his band Kali-ma will be rocking the Tritone in Philadelphia, Dec. 4th.