Ben Laukis + Surf n Ink = Dirty Dirty

A week or so ago, I made the short journey down the freeway to the Gold Coast to hook up with my man Ben Laukis who you may remember from my ill Dirty Harry tattoo a month or so ago.

This time I was lined up to get my Dirty bookend, the man, the icon Old Dirty Bastard.
ODB was/is one of my alltime favourite MC's who's solo album return to the 36 chamber: the dirty version is still in my top 10 of all time. For those of you that were born post '93, its hard to explain just what kind of impact he and the Wu had on hiphop when 36 chambers dropped.

I wanted to have the matching Dirty Harry v Old Dirty legs, plus have a tribute to an alltime great character of the hiphop game.

Ben was tattoing at the huge Surf 'n Ink tattoo convention and offered to tattoo me there. No way I was passing up that opportunity. Big ups Ben, thanks again, your work is fucking banging my friend.

Any of you interested in getting a sick tattoo, hit me up and I'll put you in touch with Ben. You wont be disappointed.

Sketching up the iconic flick of Ason

When I saw that this was going to be a key skin shade I knew for sure that this was gonna come out sick.

A couple of minutes later I see this. Now we're laughing and I'm thinkin ODB is watching this from somewhere, high as fuck, and is feelin' this shit haha. Shouts to Uncle Jermaine and Maim lurking in the background.

If you've never had a portait done, this is how they begin.

 

 

 

halfway - otherwise known as the Quesy smokebreak.

Ol' Dirty, captured with all his character.

Needless to say there was plenty of other cool things going on during the day, here is a few snapshots I managed to get, hopefully I will update again soon with some pics of the pinup girl competetion if I can pry the photos away from Bens cold skeletal grasp.

This is another of Ben's crackin tattoo's - done immediately before mine

Some dope pin-up girl skate decks.

This young lady was stoked to show off her brand new Teniele Napoli tattoo

Hardcore.

The booth