Konichiwa!

Konichiwa! Oh dear it has been a while since an update. One of these days I am gonna keep on top of this thing.

Well as your probably all aware we went to Japan. Was a very quick trip (just 10 days) but that was enough to let us know that we absolutely love the place!! What awesome people the Japanese are, we could learn a lot from their culture and way of doing things! Anyway, so we did not have much time to explore but as some of you know we went over to organise to get tattooed. Which I am happy to say is happening in November, we will go back over to Japan for 6 weeks. So this trip was a great way to ease our way in and find out where we will stay etc and also gave Matt an opportunity to go into a few tattoo shops to find work. So next holiday will hopefully be a working one, fingers crossed that Matt will get a job at one or two of the places he tried!

So when we got back we found that we had finally been published in the Tattoo Down Under (Tattoo Art) Magazine. So have a look if you get a chance. It has an article on the shop and interview with Matt. Which I must declare they changed around the wording ALOT- so kinda makes Matt sound a bit like a douche. Trust me, Matt would never say "contact us here at Progression tattoo and I'll lay some timeless work on you"- totally cringe worthy. But never mind it is still a good thing to be in there.

As for tattooing side of things Matt has started some new larger pieces of late. The pheonix back piece on our mate Michael is going well, they moved onto colour this week, so it's going along swimingly. The Koi Sleeve is actually Justins first tattoo (that's right, full sleeve- first tattoo!) and he did all outline and shading over 2 days (in 7 hours), what an absolute champ- well done!

So some new stuff too. Amy got her Dali portrait finished, looking good "gunt bags". Annika got a tattoo of a sexy lady on her calf and again we have a champion sitter here. She sat solid as a rock for 4 hours to finish her tattoo in one sitting!! Well done again! I must not forget to mention the MJ Fox- Back to the Future portrait Matt got to do on Nicole, Matt was most excited about getting to do this piece, so thanks Nicole!

Matt wants me to make sure I mention some albums he has been listening too, that's worth a try:

Howlin Wolf- best of

The National- High Violet

The Gaslight Anthem- American Slang

And that's all for now, Ciao!