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.

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.

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.

I promised Tiana that I wouldn’t embarrass her on her birthday by making a post here on the scarblog. But since her birthday has come and gone….

Here’s a great shot that Atom took at the SW3 event in Philly. I’m fairly sure the removal piece was done by Ryan Ouellette of PBA. I probably should have checked before I started working on this update… but cookies and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince distracted me.

I have lots to say when it comes to John Joyce; that he can control the weather by touching his beard, that he knows when you’ve been bad or good (so be good, for goodness sakes) or more truthfully that he’s one of the best scarification artists in the world. Most importantly though, I can say that John is my friend. And that’s pretty goddamned awesome.

Happy birthday JJJ.

Ryan holds the distinction of having the hardest to spell last name of all of the artists who’ve cut at the SW events. (Having edged out Jesse Villemaire)

He did this piece over a few grueling hours at SW3 in October of 2007 using line cutting and flesh removal.
You can see more of Ryan’s work at his PBA site: http://www.precisionbodyarts.com

This piece was done at Scar Wars 3 in Philadelphia in 2007, which means in this photo it is almost 2 years old. Sam scars so much more dramatically than the average person, which is part of the reason that I love working on her. I have some pics of her other side which will go up when I get back from Vegas!

Photo by Atom Moore.

I’m fairly sure I attended SW3. But every time I update and scroll through Atom and Casey’s photos, I see pieces I swear I didn’t see being done at the event.

This piece, but the “Paul Hogan of Scarification” himself is a perfect example of that. Given it’s size and complexity, you would imagine Wayde was working on it for a few hours, minimum. But amazing as it is; I have zero memory of it.

Weird.

Wayde Dunn; photo by Atom Moore.

Today is “International Wayde Dunn birthday appreciation day” here at the SWblog. I have a million stories that I could share that would probably still not do justice to the man, so I’ll just say “Blood is thicker than water” and wish him a happy birthday.

Check back in a few hours for a huge update from one of Wayde’s clients!