Brighton rock city

We're back from England!
Or, well, some of us are anyway.
You can find Matthew and Wendy tattooing at Black Heart Tattoo this week, and Matthew will also be at Modern Body Art next week, and he has a few openings, so email him to book in: matthewgordon@live.com.au.

Ok, but i'm back and, as always, i have shitty iPhone pictures to share!
The show was awesome, by the way, so well organized and friendly, and we saw so many good friends and got to meet a bunch of really nice people.
Thanks Woody and crew!
And the weather didn't suck all the time, so there's that to be grateful for too.
Ok, pictures, and then i'll be back soon with more guest artist news.
I know, so many awesome people for y'all to get tattooed by this spring!

 Brighton, on one of the good days!

I should have taken a close-up of Chriss Dettmer's banner...

 

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Tattoo by Uncle Allan

Brand new flash by Matthew Gordon, for sale via matthewgordon@live.com.au... 9 friggin sheets for 60€, guys!

Tattoo by Uncle Allan

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Wendy worked so hard all weekend, you may not have even seen her outside of the booth!

Tattoo by Matthew Gordon

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Ashley Riot and his lovely wife Christina are with us in Berlin this week, and he still has a few free spots, if you wanna get tattooed! Email him at thevagrantheart@gmail.com to book in!

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Tattoo by Uncle Allan

March guest artist

Thanks to everyone who has emailed me about getting tattooed by Uncle Allan in April.
I still have a few dates left, so keep those awesome ideas coming!

In other booking related news, we'll have Antony Flemming from the UK with us for a week in March, so if you'd like to get tattooed by him, send your ideas to antonytattoo@live.co.uk.
He'll be here from the 17th of March till the 22nd.
Scroll down to see some photos of his work, and visit his blog to see even more.

 Tattoos by Antony Flemming

Bookings and tattooey goodness

Hey there, a quick little booking update before the inevitable "Merry Christmas" post!

Matthew has taken most of December off to work on some non-tattoo related projects, mainly his paintings (follow him on instagram to see regular updates), but he is now booking for January and February and so is Wendy.
Some dates are already booked, of course, so hurry up and write them to secure the date you want now!

For booking with Wendy, send your ideas/placement/size/when you'd like to get tattooed to wendy_p@live.com.au, and to book with Matthew, send your ideas/placement/size/when you'd like to get tattooed to matthewgordon@live.com.au.
Easy as that!

And here are a few examples of their always awesome work, this time from actual cameras and not just our crappy phones.  
I know, i spoil you!

Tattoo by Matthew Gordon

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Tattoo by Matthew Gordon

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Tattoo by Matthew Gordon

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Prost!

Heey... so that post i was gonna do to remind you of the Oktoberfest party?
Yeah, i didn't have time for that, because holy crap has this month been busy, but here's a little mixed update post, with lots of pictures from the party, and of course a few tattoos.

The party was so much fun... like, crazy fun!
Probably the best one we've even had, and that's probably because it involved costumes, food, drinking, and dancing, but no tattooing!
Our Halloween parties in Denmark were fun too, but people tend to wanna go home after getting tattooed (always leaving us as the only people wanting to hang out late), but this time most people hung around till 4 in the morning, so we finally got the party we wanted!
And while it wasn't an official opening party, it kinda was anyway, and we're happy it was such a good one, and we got to spend it with such lovely people.

Next up on the Conspiracy Agenda is Walk-in Weekend (November 8th - 10th), and i will certainly update you about that during the next week or so... promise!

Uncle Allan started this thigh piece on our friend Kinga

A lovely present from Heather from Canada

Tattoo by Wendy Pham

Fall in Berlin!

Tattoo by Electric Pick

Drawing night with Electric Pick, Brian and Aron from Scapegoat Tattoo and Heather

Party decorations?

Uncle Allan, Oktoberfest edition!

Wendy, all done up in dirndl and wig!

I wore a wig and dirndl too, but sadly i didn't have any lederhosen for Lucifer...

All dressed up and ready to cook some weisswurst!

We weren't the only ones in costume, blurry Kinga dressed up too!

So did Jess and Amanda

Cuuute!

Eating knödel with chopsticks is totally German, right?

Foods!

And dancing! 

Nope, that's definitely not a dance-off to Bootylicious... nope, no way...

The day after the party was Nick's birthday, and the day after that, we had a Dinobaby visit! 

Another drawing night in the attic....

Also among our many recent visitors: my parents! And they brought us awesome stuff, like apples, homemade bread, skulls, and tons of other goodies, like this old filing cabinet

Some flea market finds, some fox skulls kindly donated by my parents' neighbors, and a sheep skull that my parents found in their village... swoon!

Cat bus by Uncle Allan

Sexy sailor by Electric Pick

 

Huge front piece cover-up in progress by Matthew Gordon

Ok, that's it for now, but i'll be back soon with some Walk-in Week updates!

Ps. Do you also really fucking hate feeling ripped off by after-Christmas sales in early January?

Yeah, that's annoying as hell, right?

Well, Clandestine Republic is having a pre-Christmas sale on the Red Box comic, all fancy gift wrapped and stuff. A sale when you actually need it, yay!

Pps. Sorry for even mentioning the C-word in October, it's very much not like me...

Cancellation time

Hello dear readers, just a very quick post to let you know that i have a few cancellations with Uncle Allan that i'd like to book, so if you're wanting to get tattooed with very little waiting involved, here's your chance!

Dates are the 29th of August, and the 2nd and 12th of September.

Fun stuff only, email conspiracyinctattoo@gmail.com to grab them!

I'll be back soon with more updates and pictures and stuff, lots and lots of stuff!

In case you forgot what an Uncle Allan tattoo looks like...*

*Sorry for the iPhone picture, it's all i have!

Some almost, but not really, news about booking with Uncle Allan

So, last week on twitter, Allan dropped this little gem on his followers:

And while it's true we've been talking about changing the booking system, i wasn't quite done with the waiting list at that point, and i am still not done, as there are still quite a few people i have to contact before we move on to a new system.

When we came up with the idea for the separate email waiting list, i pretty much thought it was an idea of pure genius, mostly because i wouldn't have to answer emails with a "no, sorry, he's all booked up" every day.
And most people responded positively, and seemed to have nothing but the best intentions of waiting for as long as it'd take for them to get tattooed.
But the wait was apparently too long, and not everybody lived up to their promise of waiting patiently, and instead of letting us know they were no longer interested in getting tattooed, they'd simply not respond when offered an appointment.
Obviously changing your mind about getting tattooed is fine, and so is running out of patience, but not even replying to emails is pretty immature if you ask me, and kind of a ginourmous waste of time too.

The people who did reply, and who have now had their tattoos done, or will within the next few months, were of course awesome, and i think they're great for waiting around for so long to get tattooed, i'd just hoped there'd be a more reasonable repliers to non-repliers ratio!

So while i still think the waiting list idea is pretty great (seriously, it was, and not just because i came up with it, ahem!) we're gonna have to try something new. Or old, i suppose.

The plan for now is that within the next couple of weeks, i will contact the rest of the people currently on the waiting list and offer them a date to get tattooed.
And after that, we'll probably go back to the old ways of letting you all know here and on twitter/instagram when we're opening up for bookings.
Yeah. More emails for me, but hopefully we'll make some people happy about not having to sign up and wait indefinitely for an appointment!
We will stick to booking about 3-4 months at a time, cause that works best for us, and honestly, we never wanna be booked out years in advance ever again.
So yeah, those are the not-really-news-at-all of the day!
As a reward for reading my boring rant, you get a picture of a tattoo Uncle Allan (almost) finished yesterday.

Tattoo by Uncle Allan

 

 In other non-news, it looks as if we'll finally get some home made cake next week.

Seriously, when did people stop bringing cake to their appointments, and more importantly, why?!

If all it is is a subtle hint about our weight, i gotta say, we are very offended!