INCOGNITO TATTOO

new site and a new blogg

2010-05-02T09:57:00.000-07:00

So we have the new website running and its over on wordpress. So I wont be posting stuff on here any more . but check out the new stuff it is super rad.

http://incognitotattoo.com/

tough biker chick

2010-04-01T10:11:00.000-07:00

I love her dagger tattoo

Another super rad B-day present

2010-04-01T09:27:00.001-07:00

Adrian R Sanchez painted this for me for my birthing day.
He did a great job.
thanks man

THE MC

2010-04-01T09:15:00.000-07:00

THE MASTER CONTROL MODULE
this photo is going to be used for customer cards for Incognito Irons

UMAMI BURGER

2010-03-26T09:24:00.000-07:00

The boys from Dice Magazine and I went to Umami Burger near their offices on Hollywood Blvd. I gotta say man that is a good burger, and the cheezy tots ruled

SPRING IS HERE...

2010-03-26T09:20:00.000-07:00

There is no doubt that our short wet winter has passed.
Flowers, butterflies and fuzzy caterpillars are everywhere.

The Amazing Mr. Benny

Ravens Books

2010-03-24T13:32:00.000-07:00

Here is the book mark that Pierre Mitchell placed in my book. The art is all by Cliff Raven , hand lettering and all. This thing is so cool.

DESERT TRIPPING

2010-03-23T13:05:00.000-07:00

My birthday was a few days ago so Spitfire Girl and I headed out to the desert for some music and BBQ, our first stop was Pappy and Harriet's in PioneerTown, if you have never been do yourself a favor. The best smoked chicken in the world. We had an excellent time.

The next day we hit up some crazy ass swap meet in Yucca Valley,
Spitfire kept asking why I was not taking photos, seriously I thought
I may have been murdered, this was like the opening Barter Town scene
in Thunder Dome. CREEPY!!!

I digress, we made a wrong turn and ended up in 29 Palms, I mentioned that Cliff Raven had a used bookstore around these parts and low and behold I drove past it twice.

Cliff Raven was really the reason I started tattooing, he was creating the most amazing art and tattoos his entire career. Cliff's work had a certain playfulness that was really not present at the time in the tattooing. Cliff made most of the tattoos on my teacher, Bob Horn, those tattoos were the first example of really amazing tattooing that I had ever seen, those tattoos are what piqued my intrest in tattooing. Bob Horn, my teacher, worked for Cliff at The Famous Sunset Strip Tattoo in the late 70's-80's. Cliff's tattoo aesteic and tattoo philosophy was passed down to me through my teacher. The tattoos that Cliff did on Bob were and are even still the most elegant tattoos i have ever seen. I find it really amazing that I can draw a straight line in my personal history back to Cliff.

So I find the store and I am kind of freaking out and I can see all the signs that used to say tattoo shop, if you look close you can see how the weather has really eaten off the repainting of the signs that used to say tattoo and Cliff painted over when he got out of the tattoo game. I was really walking into a piece of my own history I had heard many stories from my teacher about driving out to the desert to get tattooed by Cliff.

Upon entering we are greeted by Cliff's longtime friend and business partner Pierre MItchell. Pierre was kind enough to chat with us and let me take some photos of a few of his tattoos. The koi Cliff did and I can only guess how old it is, the cherry blossoms were made by Kazuo Ogouri, on his first trip over to the states in the 1970's.

I picked up a great book on 17th century natural history Lithography.
My next trip I need to spend some more time really searching his
stacks of books.

Bisley??? is that the guys name?

2010-03-23T12:57:00.000-07:00

This is the start of Leigh's inner arm
I think we are coloring it in real soon .

MOUNTAIN WHO

2010-03-17T09:53:00.000-07:00

I never knew that the old style mountain dew labeling has so much style, complete with hillbilly and Mountain Dew mouth. This is a real thing Mountain Dew mouth apparently after years of Dew consumption all of your teeth fall directly out of your head.

more little cut-outs.

2010-01-28T23:08:00.001-08:00

little cut-outs

2010-01-27T00:37:00.000-08:00

The rain has everyone painting.

Adrian and I have been painting smaller designs while it's slow, we're putting together a pork chop sheet of $150 tattoos to hang up, all traditional stuff that we haven't had a shot at yet. Take a peek at what's done so far.

-Tyler

HANK

2010-01-15T07:58:00.000-08:00

I moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and was determined to find this man and buy him a drink. I knew that his phone number was listed, so I called every Bukowski and Chinaski in L.A. county.
I think I got his wife once, she was not going to let me speak with him.
Alas...

Bristol Tattoo Club

2010-01-13T11:55:00.000-08:00

Killer Killer Killer

my polaroid project

2010-01-09T09:11:00.000-08:00

This is taste of my polaroid project that I have been working on for over a year, it may become it's own blog.

The always cool Mr Waits.

2010-01-09T09:05:00.001-08:00

Tom Waits has been one of the real constant standards of music around the tattoo shop for the last 20 years or so.

The toughest man in the world ever

2009-12-22T18:03:00.001-08:00

More bad ass vanness

2009-12-22T18:02:00.000-08:00

please let us enjoy the glory .

vanstastic

2009-12-22T18:01:00.000-08:00

I am quickly becoming obsessed with custom vans.
I will trade serious tattoo time for something I can turn into a summer surf wagon

2009-12-20T17:51:00.000-08:00

A great big stack of tattoo machines. Get some at www.incognitoirons.com

2009-12-20T17:48:00.000-08:00

Old Grimshaw flash ... from a long time ago ... before TV

Girly Anchor action

2009-12-20T17:45:00.001-08:00

This kid flew down from Vancouver and got a nice little reminder of his trip.
Thanks Dave.

BEST TATTOO EVER.

2009-12-20T17:43:00.000-08:00

This came off of some old Spaulding flash from the 70's.

I love it.

2009-12-20T16:51:00.000-08:00

Well we made it through another one.

Here is the final blast for the year.

I was not good about keeping up on the blog.

I will do more I swear people.

2009-10-31T12:07:00.000-07:00

I have been tattooing like crazy. heres a few more

more tattoos

2009-10-31T12:04:00.001-07:00

My Mom worked for Matell toys in the 70's and I had all of these Shogun Warriors.

They are awesome

WOW

2009-07-09T09:38:00.001-07:00

Has it really been this long since I put up new pics?

2009-01-13T09:06:00.000-08:00

So I have not exactly been posting everyday, but I will try and keep everyone as up to date as possible.

Some crazy skull roses, super fun,

I love this stuff so keep it coming

A crazy weird angel on my pal Pete

A little shi-shi I got finish before the holidays.

2009-01-01T11:59:00.000-08:00

Here are few new pics from what Jason has been up to.

The cardinal and dogwoods with the heart and dagger was a great project from last year.

Paul's drunk singing

oni and one more little oni

from last year.

WELCOME

2009-01-01T11:54:00.000-08:00

Incognito has a blog holy shit !!!!

We are going to try and post on here everyday with some new photos and what is going with all of the mens at

Incognito.

Welcome to 2009