Tattoo Age is a documentart which follows Dan Santoro at Smith Street Tattoo Parlor. The first clip gives us the chance to get to know Dan Santoro, alongside his shop mates Bert Krak, Steve Boltz, and Eli Quinters. Dan takes a nostalgic view on how destiny landed him at Smith Street, and what a person [...]
Categories: Art,Codes,Documentary,Heroes,Looks,OutoftheBlog.com,Portraits,Rebellion,Skills,Street culture,Tattoo
Tagged: bert krak, dan santoro, eli quinters, flash, flash sheets, shop, smith street, smith street tattoo parlor, steve boltz, tattoo age, tattoo parlor, traditional, traditional tattooing, vice, vice magazine
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- August 2, 2011 – 19:00
- Author:
- By Andrew
The City of Angels has got a lot to offer (or so is said as I have not experienced this firsthand yet) and like each city, its a place where people with different backgrounds, cultures, interests, and lifestyles live next to each other. I Am Los Angeles gives us a great series of portraits and stories told [...]
Categories: Art,Branding,Codes,Connectivity,DIY,Documentary,Everyday life,Gathering,Heroes,Looks,Movies,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Rebellion,Skills,Street art,Street culture,Tattoo,Travel,Urbex,Youth culture
Tagged: BMX, Echo Park, El Clasico Tattoo, Fallen Fruit, fixed gear, fixed gear bike, fixed gear bikes, fixed gears, fruit trees, I am Los Angeles, Joris Debeij, LA, Los Angeles, mapping, portraits, public, Salvador Preciado, Sean Martin
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- February 21, 2011 – 19:00
- Author:
- By Andrew
Ever wondered how ink is made? Well, in the following clip a Chief Ink Maker shows us how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients: powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making and this in under 10 minutes.
Categories: Animation,Art,Consumer goods,Documentary,OutoftheBlog.com,Quickie,Skills,Tattoo
Tagged: black, cartridges, chief ink maker, cmyk, designers, how ink is made, ink, inked, inks, magenta, powder, printer, printers, printing, prints, toner, toners, varnish
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- January 23, 2011 – 11:58
- Author:
- By Andrew
So, the year has neared its end and guess we should do a little round-up, check if our predicted 2010 moments lived up to what they would be or not. We can already say it lived up to be way better than expected Met some great people, had some great experiences, (re)discovered artists, heard some [...]
Categories: Art,Bookreviews,Codes,Connectivity,Consumer goods,DIY,Documentary,Entertainment,Events,Everyday life,Exhibit,Gaming,Gathering,Gent,Ghent,Gigs,Graffiti,Guestblogger,Heroes,Looks,Mixtapes,Movies,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Reviews,Skills,Sports,Street art,Street culture,Tattoo,Technology,Travel,Twitter,Youth culture
Tagged: 2010, 2011, awesomeness, concerts, experiences, holidays, jong tuig, jongtuig, meetings, OOTB, people we met in 2010, trips, visits, what else should I put here?, year overview, young scum, youngscum
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- December 31, 2010 – 10:00
- Author:
- By Andrew
Amazon dropped some fresh stuff last week. Amongst several Christmas gifts some new books for yours truly. The Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia is a nice addition to my bookshelf. Fascinating stuff the Russian tattoo, especially the fact it goes hand in hand with criminal culture in which tattoos are codes one must learn to master [...]
Categories: Art,Bookreviews,Codes,DIY,Looks,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Politics,Quickie,Rebellion,Reviews,Street culture,Tattoo
Tagged: amazon, criminal culture, mobster tattoo, russian criminal tattoo, siberian education
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- December 19, 2010 – 18:03
- Author:
- By Andrew
Finished reading Siberian Education by Nicolai Lilin which in my opinion is a must read if you are into non-fictional books. The small republic of Transnistria, which declared its independence in 1990 but has never been recognised, is a remote part of Russia in which a community of honest criminals settled years ago. It is [...]
Categories: Bookreviews,Codes,DIY,Documentary,OutoftheBlog.com,Politics,Reviews,Tattoo
Tagged: codes, communist, communists, crime, criminal, criminals, honour, nicolai lillin, russia, siberia, siberian education, sovjet union, thiever, thievery, transnistria
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- December 6, 2010 – 18:42
- Author:
- By Andrew
Steal cars instead Nuff said. Now get out of here.
Categories: Everyday life,Looks,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Quickie,Rebellion,Street culture,Tattoo,Travel,Youth culture
Tagged: bike tattoo, don't steal bikes, mickey mouse, razor blade, Tattoo, wheel
- Published:
- August 19, 2010 – 22:01
- Author:
- By Andrew
For a while now I’ve been following Ross Kemp on Gangs over on Discovery (needles to say one of the greatest channels on the digital screen). As the subject has always fascinated me I also started reading his books on the matter. Fascinating! For that reason I have also been meaning to blog about this [...]
Categories: Codes,Everyday life,Movies,OutoftheBlog.com,Politics,Street culture,Tattoo
Tagged: bloods, crips, crips & bloods, crips and bloods made in america, Documentary, forrest whitaker, gang culture, ghostdog, made in america, on gangs, ross kemp
- Published:
- March 9, 2010 – 19:47
- Author:
- By Andrew
Last night I found myself at NTGent, spending an evening with Henry, Henry Rollins that is. Now for those of you who are not familiar with this 40-something pissed off tattooed hardcore punk-rock icon on Vans, Google and YouTube him as you might learn a thing or two. You might then find out you know [...]
Categories: Entertainment,Everyday life,Gent,Ghent,Gigs,Heroes,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Politics,Rebellion,Street culture,Tattoo
Tagged: black flag, Gent, Ghent, henry rollins, ntgent, spoken word
- Published:
- January 25, 2010 – 19:24
- Author:
- By Andrew
‘Art should be aggressive, it should be intelligent, it should be interesting and it should cause a stir in the emotions, you know? And if it doesn’t, then what’s the point?’ A quote by Frank Carter, the lead singer of London post-punk band Gallows, and opening quote for Lives of The Artists, a feature-length documentary [...]
Categories: Branding,Codes,DIY,Documentary,Everyday life,Gigs,Heroes,Movies,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Rebellion,Skills,Sports,Tattoo,Travel,Youth culture
Tagged: gallows, relentless, relentless energy
- Published:
- December 28, 2009 – 19:16
- Author:
- By Andrew
