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Good Morning Hawai’i!

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As I have posted in the past couple of days, I’m in Hawaii for a wedding. It’s been storming and raining since we got here. We spend today walking around Lahaina where we met Rachel from Atomic Tattoo in Lahaina. It had a lot of cool old flash from tons of tattooers around the world as well as stacks of portfolios from one of their artists named Yvette. I was surprised by the sheer amount of photos in her portfolio. The majority of them were flowers. It was definitely my kind of shop.

After we got back to the hotel, we decided to go for a swim as it had finally stopped raining. I had gotten lucky and stopped at a little camera shop where they had an underwater housing for my old canon camera. I got it for cost because my camera isn’t made anymore. I was testing it out in the pool because we’re going to try and go snorkeling on Molokini if it ever stops raining. This is one of the photos that came out of just messing around in the pool at dark.

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Click through for another one!

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Norm and I tried to do our best to remember what they said on ANTM on how to “pose” underwater but due tot he salt water pool, it was really hard to even stay under the water. Norm did a better job than I did!

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I’m not sure what else is going on in the world around us but I’ve got a video with Bugs to post later today once it’s all finished processing and some lovely girls along the way. Hope you’re all having a great day.

High Five

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I’m a little surprised by the email I just got. Considering I’m sitting in a hotel on Maui and Jasn is apparently here working out of Pacific Roots. I’ll have to investigate further! Unless I’m confused, Jasn has been all around the US, Canada and now out here on the lovely island of Maui!

“remember that your life is always in your hands” – Jasn

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Angry Eyebrows!

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Norm and I both laughed for a couple minutes when we pulled up this image. We debated the click through aspect of it and I was hoping this one would past the test. I’ll give you a hint. It’s either a penis tattoo or a giant clitoris tattoo. You be the judge. Click only if you want to find out!

“He looks like he needs some dental work.” – Norm

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Good Cat Bad Cat

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Tony Touch out of Infinite Art in Toledo, Ohio did the kitties on the back of  Knux‘s calve tattoos. In case you haven’t noticed already, the commentary is short and sweet. Not that I’m a long winded airbag to begin with but I’m trying to have a little fun in the sun. If you’re all lucky, I’ll try and get pictures of some of the worst tourist tattoos I can find by the pool.

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It was a bear.. I swear.

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Dave wrote me the other day to let me know he’d redone his facial scars. Apparently they didn’t work as he’d wanted the first time. Quinten from Kalima Body Piercing Studio in Worthing, England “burnt him a little deeper for a better scar.” He also included a photo of him and John “fooling around” after the branding was complete. I hope to see these healed and I hope they work out this time. I can’t imagine it’s a procedure you want to do a third time. Practice makes perfect, I suppose.

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More pictures after the jump.

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Is there a doctor in the room?

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I don’t know Dr. Peet and I couldn’t tell you his work from a hole in the wall but frankly, this picture terrifies me. I’m expecting this to be an outtake from the SAW movie series and he’s putting me into some kind of contraption that I’ll need to cut a key out of my own stomach to get out of before the pins erupt and my head is penetrated by steel rods at warp speed. That’s a pretty weird way of saying “wow, sweet picture” but it’s the first thing that popped into my head.

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I’m going to Hawaii on Sunday for Tim Hendrick’s wedding so the next posts from me will include funny umbrellas and photos of Norm in a bathing suit on the beach. Shhh, don’t tell him because he doesn’t know I’ll be posting them! Stay tuned and thank you for your continued support of BME.

Gilson Hook Suspension

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Steve Haworth sent me this photo of Joel’s resurrection suspension. You’ll notice it’s done using gilson hooks. Jorge Pozuelo took the photos and the suspension itself was done in Madrid, Spain with the A Sangre Fria suspension team. If I’m correct that means cold blood. It’s either that or some kind of alcoholic drink that I don’t know  much about. Either way, pretty sick name for a suspension group but then again, everything sounds better in another language.

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