Chocolate chip

So yesterday my friend Ricky Speed came up from Boston to get tattooed and hang out. It was sweet. Ricky plays guitar in the band RAMMING SPEED which is also very sweet. They just recently started working with Candlelight records. Check it out, and while you are checking it out, check out the record label run by my good friend and drummer of Ramming Speed and of my former band Backstabbers inc. Jonah has been working hard on his label for some time now and its totally rad, buy his records. - TDB RECORDS


Heres a couple other pieces I did in the past couple of weeks.








and I just found these pictures, Here a couple prints I did last fall -

both of these first two (the finger and nose) are done with pronto plates





And this last one is a monoprint underneath a digital print on acetate.




I just found out that tonight there will be a dinner/recruitment for Life Chiropractic College Life is the school my father went to and although I am doing other things I still have always had in interest in practicing chiropractic. I am pretty excited to learn a little more about this school and maybe this dinner tonight will inspire me to finish my undergraduate studies, but who knows about that. -

party on -

Beartrap

WOAHWOAHWOAH!

So much has happened, I got back from Jamaica which was totally sweet, have been bike riding, camping, going to a circus, playing shows, partying and all sorts of sweet stuff. Check it out -

First some Jamaica photos -

The family


The Resort


JUMPING JAMAICA! -
Me


Chris


Dad



Totally awesome.


Any and I am guessing many of you in Portland might have already seen this but might not know that it was Watson's April fool's joke on me. In the middle of a semi serious conversation somebody walked over and showed me the new "ad" in the Portland Phoenix. Check out what Watson and Shannon did to me -




In addition to ending up in the phoenix, it also ended up on every telephone pole and flyer board in downtown Portland as well as in the Portland Daily Sun in an article about tattooing, the following week. No escape.


In retaliation however, I decorated Watson's truck.





Also, I was interviewed by Sara Lomba of S. JANE CRAFT! for buddy monday, You can read the interview here - BUDDY MONDAY:BEARTAP

I have also been tattooing a bunch, I finally quit flatbread (stoked) and am tattooing full time now.

heres some of the work I have been doing -

Here are Corinne and I's Dumb and Dumber tattoos I gave us during a surprise visit she paid to portland















AND CHECK OUT THIS TOTALLY AWESOME CRUISE

70,000 TONS OF METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!YYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

I'm totally going.


Thats all for now, more to come soon.
Party on -
Beartrap

WELL WELL WELL

YES!

That is my good friend Omar's first tattoo. It's on his hip and nicely pokes out of his pants line. I have known Omar for almost 20 years now.

We had a photo shoot at Blndsght A couple weeks ago. Liz Donnelly of Liz Donnelly Photography was awesome enough to come and take photos of Watson's work and indulge me in a little photo shoot between folks.
Here is what happened



and here is what I did to Watson's station while he was in Georgia




The past couple of weeks have been fun. Played a couple shows, Sam set up the myspace for Waranimal. check it out!


I also got to do some fun work -














I also got my throat tattooed this month. We finished it last thursday. Not the best pictures but check it out. I am totally stoked on it. -





AND I LEAVE FOR A WEEK IN JAMAICA ON THURSDAY! PAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYY!!!!

CERTRAIN DEATH!

This past weekend was the Mad Hatter convention in South Portland at Govenor's. I got a a sweet Gasmask apparatus. totally awesome, then I tattooed Matt's shin -




I also watched ong bak 2 which was awesome a little difficult to follow and the end was not super awesome, buuuuutttttttttttttt, I just saw this and am now super pumped -



ONGBAK3 -

it looks like candy man meets deathwish meets conan the barbarian post tree of woe crucifixion, meets ONGBAK! aaahhhhh. its going to be so sweet.

Also I just found out that I have a a secret admirer looking for me on the craigslist missed connections -

MIZZED CONEXSHUN

i can not however believe that this is legit and not a certain somebody pickin on me or getting back at me for playing some jokes on them.

and speaking of jokes, this is old but I believe I am going to start back up with my high time for a jokes -



also photoshoot at blndsght today, I think I am going to dress like a shark maybe. or do some sweet face paint on myself. not sure yet.

Party on -
BEARTRAP

HELL YES

I have been doing some fun work with color lately. I finished the first tattoo I did, it's on my little brothers leg -



and speaking of Til death do us party tattoos my buddy tom decided to get one on his ribs and I got him to get the line work done without looking at the drawing at all so he had no idea what he was getting - this is what I did on tom -



he was stoked.


And then a couple other smaller pieces I did last week that I had some fun with -





Tomorrow is the deadline for the Metalicious art show going up at Sanctuary Tattoo this Friday for the Art Walk

I stayed up all night tonight listening to metal, watching Beavis and Butthead and wearing my manowar hat while doing a pastel drawing and putting samples on my dr sample sp202 so that Waranimal can have the chronicler samples we recorded when we play shows from now on. speaking of which - after the opening at Sanctuary this friday there is a metal show going on at Geno's down the road on congress st where my band waranimal will be playing with ruin and hessian. Anybody interested in going should come and party.
Sword and Stoned, 18x24, pastel.





and lastly, here is me keepin it real with the some dude from the Maine Red Claws







Drink oakhurst milk.
Party on
-

BEARTRAP

WOAH! SNOW!

Weather like this makes me never want to sleep. late night bike rides down empty streets covered in fresh snow. It has to be one of my absolute favorite things in the world and I want to stay out and in it as much as I possibly can. Wherever I go when I die I hope its winter there.











Narnia?

ITS SNOWING!

So I have decided to not go back to school this coming semester. I will try to get my internship done, but other than that I just plan aggressively focus on tattooing and put as much energy as I possibly can into becoming a better tattoo artist.

Also, I spent all my money on wii games. I'm broke again, but at least I can have fun being broke. It's time to start saving money, something I have never been good at and need to start doing.

Shannondoah started working my ribs, Its a bearded skeleton on a bicycle from a print by Jose Guadalupe Posada, and it rules.

I have been pretty content riding my 29er so far this winter. its awesome and tons of fun, but I just read about a couple places making 36er mountain bikes. totally awesome and huge. I want one so bad.


but even more than a 36er I would love a built up surly pugsley These rule so much.



Also here are a few sweet tattoos I did this past week