Zissou would be proud...

... Cousteau too!







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Excitement in the wings...

 
I don't know about you, but I have been kind of buried under a snowbank the last few months. Yes, the snow is ridiculously high, but the days, too, have seemed  brutally long despite nightfall arriving just as we finish up dinner. So what have I been up to? Well, I have finished writing 144 pages of a gardening magazine (Container Gardening 2011) and gained experience writing everything from the table of contents to the final page. To be honest, I don't think I will even so much as read a plant tag this summer. Full sun, partial shade...I don't care. The magazine, however, is gorgeous and is certainly leagues above any gardening magazine I have laid eyes on! Of course, Matthew Mead shot and produced every story; so how can you go wrong?


The other day, I went for a walk with a good friend and we both felt a spring in our step as the sun shone stronger than it has in months. I could feel its warmth lift me out of the winter doldrums and we chatted about spring fashions and the return of brighter days with nightfall arriving when it should. I look forward to spring cleaning (really!) and clearing the cobwebs from my home and my head.  And although we won't be heading anywhere exciting as a family this March break, I do have an upcoming trip to Utah to look forward to!





Last June when we shot Stephanie Nielson's family at Smeeks (in Arizona), we did not get the opportunity to meet her. While we filled her children and their friends with generous doses of sugar, she lay in a hospital bed battling a painful recovery from yet another major surgery. When she emailed me, fretting like only a mother does about whether her children had their hair combed and if we needed anything and how sad she was that she was missing out on the experience, I wrote back and reassured her that she would be front and center at the next one...that Matthew had big plans for her for the next (this summer's) issue. And here we are: this March we will head to Provo and photograph Stephanie and her sisters (yes, Courtney, too!) for a very special entertaining feature. And I cannot tell you what it means to me to finally be able to meet her, give her a hug and tell her just how much she inspires me everyday with her spirit, courage and determination to regain  and redefine her life. My words will be nothing she hasn't heard before, but it means so very much to me to be able to say them. Can you believe she is skiing again??


Oh, and you can bet I will need to step up my wardrobe in anticipation of meeting the uber stylish Stephanie and sisters! Three more weeks and I'll be there...I can't wait! And fingers crossed, when I return it should be nice enough to hook up the porch swing for those April days when it is not raining!



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Gym Time

Dakota and Elle Fanning at different times in their school's gym.
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Elisângela Zanza, Golfinhos 207

"Minha 1ª tatto foi muito bem pensada, porque em minha casa sempre houve um pouco de regras(e talvez preconceitos também), por parte de meus pais. Quando decidi fazer, já estava com a idéia fixa que seria "Golfinhos", por serem considerados anjos do mar, pela inteligência, e a ligação forte com os seres humanos.


Não esperava que a reação deles fossem ser tão boa, elogiaram muito e foi uma surpresa prá mim! Enfim, tirei o preconceito deles e acabei com as 'determinada' REGRAS ashuashua... adquirindo o respeito deles pela arte!

Além dos meus 'Golfinhos' tenho uma 'Estrela' no pulso também e já penso em mais. " A arte é um instante de eternidade e perfeição "
Um beijo á todos.

Tatto feita em 05/03/2010 por MV Tatto Piercing
Rua: Nilo Peçanha, 643 Centro Birigui SP"

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Stolen diamonds

Ok, this is embarrassing, but i have actually been working on this post for a week now.
Not constantly, of course, but on and off.
So much keeps happening at the shop, so every time i'm about to hit "publish" i remember this one thing i need pictures of, and then i decide to wait.
Well it ends here!

On Sunday, and that's last Sunday, not the one we just had, our glorious new wallpaper was put up in the work room.
That room never really became what we'd hoped for the first time around, and in comparison to the other rooms it just seemed a little too... not us.
And with Nick leaving we needed to do some major remodeling anyway, so we decided to go all out.
We sold the old desks, ordered some wallpaper from our favorite wallpaper pushers, bought wood for the paneling and convinced our painters and carpenters to do the actual dirty work for us.
Morten already did the paneling on Thursday, so everything was ready to be painted and wallpapered up.


Fancy

Poor Morten, trying to tame the crooked walls

 Me, Allan and Eckel started the day by going to the flea market to get some new, old furniture and while we did that, our two trusty painters got started on the wallpapering and painting.

There was quite a lot to be done, and at one point it looked like there wouldn't be enough wallpaper for the whole thing, but you know our painters; even when they're wrong they're right!
So they made it with only scraps to spare and it looked amaaaazing.


In progress



Stolen diamonds... no, really
 

We put our marks on the wall before the wallpaper came up...

... this will be there FOREVER!

Everyone joined in

Remember this?


The following Sunday, yesterday (or day before since it's technically Tuesday i guess) the painters finished the black panels and the red wall.
It looks so amazing and i can't wait to get stuff on the walls and make the room come together.
Epic is not too big a word.


The red wall

Eckel started on his corner today 



The other rooms are getting small makeovers as we go along too, here's what the office looks like now

The small orange couch now lives in the drawing room... off limits, as it should be

Oh, and tattoos still happen here too, here's one that Eckel did of Danish national treasure, Lars Von Trier (i'm sure you're all very nice, but if you don't know him, we can't be friends)
 


I'll be back with more work room pictures as soon as things are looking a little less chaotic than they are now!
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São Paulo Tattoo Festival 2011

Nos dias 19 e 20 de março São Paulo vai ferver com a 6ª edição do São Paulo Tattoo Festival, um evento reconhecido internacionalmente por profissionais, artistas e admiradores da milenar arte da tatuagem.


Idealizado em 2004 pelo tatuador Polaco, o evento mais uma vez será realizado pela Polaco Tattoo e Iron Works Brasil, com expositores de todo o país e convidados internacionais, sorteios, body piercing, venda de produtos, concurso de tatuagem, e apresentação de novas técnicas. Muitas informação, lazer e cultura reunidos em um espaço de fácil acesso, agradável, climatizado e seguro.

Considerando as edições anteriores, estima-se que o número de visitantes ultrapasse 5 mil pessoas, que poderão aumentar a coleção pessoal de desenhos corporais ali mesmo, ou realizar o sonho da primeira tatuagem direto com os melhores profissionais. O público também poderá apreciar o acervo do Museu Tattoo Brasil, com peças do mundo todo.

O São Paulo Tatto Festival já é referência de evento no segmento, ao promover o intercâmbio de
conhecimento e experiências, integrando ideias e unindo profissionais com um objetivo comum: a
valorização da tatuagem como arte, expressão pessoal e estilo de vida.

A tatuagem chegou ao Brasil pelo porto de Santos em 1959, com o dinamarquês Lucky Tattoo, símbolo
de respeito e admiração pela ousadia e determinação. Ganhando cada vez mais adeptos em todas as tribos, a tatuagem conquistou espaço como expressão cultural e artística, vencendo as barreiras do preconceito e angariando cada vez mais seguidores e apaixonados.

Hoje são milhares de estúdios espalhados por todo o Brasil, com uma imensa variedade de estilos,
formas e técnicas. O profissionalismo no segmento tem aumentado cada vez mais, contribuindo para o
desenvolvimento econômico e geração de empregos. A atenção e respeito aos clientes e o devido cuidado a rígidos procedimentos de biossegurança também merecem destaque.

Fecomercio – Rua Dr Plínio Barreto, 285 – Bela Vista – São Paulo – SP
Informações e Vendas: (11) 3222.8049 / (11) 2959.5575
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And we're selling stuff again...

I'm trying to make room in the back for all the new photo equipment, so stuff has got to go.
Today i'm selling the mini fridge from the old shop, and since you probably won't buy it unless you live around here, i'm gonna switch to Danish again.

Vi sælger vores 40 liter mini køleskab for at få plads til at bygge vores mørkekammer.
Hvis du kan bruge det, eller kender nogen der kan, må du endelig gi' os et kald!
Se annoncen her.




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Even More Formal Pics

Dakota Fanning attends her winter formal, February 11, 2011.
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from: Nick
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM
subject: unknown calf

Hi there,

My brother got this tattoo on his calf many years ago, has no idea what it means.

Can you help????

Thanks, Love the blog.

Nick



First of all, the character is not correct. It is either missing a stroke in the left radical or having one extra. The intended character could be:

枠 means "frame; spindle, spool, reel".

or,

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This was posted in Checkoutmyink.com:


http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/inkdazfukaz/tattoo-3

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More Winter Formal Pics

Dakota Fanning attending Winter Formal February 12.
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Winter Formal 2011

Dakota Fanning attends CHS's Winter formal.

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from: Pat B.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM
subject: Brad the Art Guy : Business is steady.

I'm in Hong Kong now and in my class we're looking at Chinese folk religion at the moment, so I went looking for a picture of Laozi and found this ... thought you might enjoy it.

Blog: Brad the Art Guy
Post: Business is steady.
Link: http://bradtheartguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/business-is-steady.html


"There was a man in North Carolina who got me to draw a portrait of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, which he had transferred to his arm by a talented tattoo artist."





Brad the Art Guy's rendition of 道德經 looks nothing like the real thing.


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from: P. McKown
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:32 PM
subject: Academic citation

Hi Tian, I'm an undergraduate at an American university and was so inspired by your website that I decided to write a research paper about Chinese textual tattoos. As I was combing through an article looking for additional sources for my paper I noticed that your website was mentioned. It's an article called "The Blood-Stained Text in Translation: Tattooing, Bodily Writing, and Performance of Chinese Virtue" by Daphne Lei, which I've included as an attachment. Your website is mentioned in the second entry in the end notes.

Keep up the great work!

-----

Daphne P. Lei, University of California, Irvine - The Blood-Stained Text in Translation: Tattooing, Bodily Writing, and Performance of Chinese Virtue (PDF) Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 99–128, ISSN 0003-549. © 2009 by the Institute for Ethnographic Research (IFER) a part of the George Washington University. All rights reserved.Source URL: https://celebrity-tattoo-show.blogspot.com/2011/02/
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Slip Slidin' Away...

 Life is so much more fun when you're a child. 
I didn't have the courage to go down that hill even once.
I am officially stodgy.
I really am...

Isn't my baby pretty?



 Her friends are pretty cute, too!


Saw a pretty funny (and fitting!) sign outside a church yesterday. 
It read, "Whoever is praying to God for snow, please stop!!"
Amen to that. 
The snowbanks at the end of my driveway are too tall for me to see over.
Are you jealous?


Does anyone else feel like they're living out the movie, Groundhog Day?
I just finished writing an entire gardening magazine. I am going out to our "big mall" to celebrate.
Sophie needs new gloves. She wore out her other ones.


Snow, much?


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Snowbells and Stone Staircases...

Well, we thought it was time we shared a few photos of our new home with you. This sea of snowdrops (or snowbells, as they are called here in Herefordshire) was just one of the wonderful suprises which welcomed us on the day we completed on our new home. They cover the top part of the garden which is a small and secluded woodland area. We are hopeful that Spring may bring bluebells - we can hardly wait to find out!

We have a lot of work to do at the house and with the builders due to start work in a day or so, Mike has made his own inroad into the renovation work; and made some interesting discoveries. We believe the house dates to the mid 1700s, it is rich with original features including a flagstone floor, a winding stone staircase, wooden floors and doors, heavily timbered walls and wattle and daub (apparently made from chestnut wood, something which was particular to Herefordshire.)


Mike has removed the 50s tiled fireplace in the dining room and revealed large old timbers in the wall which we will make a feature of. Fortunately, the previous owners who had lived there since the 1950s didn't do much in the way of modernising the house so thankfully it has retained a great deal of character - including a stone plinth set into the hall which we understand is a pig salting block! There is a tumbledown stone pigsty in the garden too.

Although it hasn't been modernised, it does lack certain comforts and requires a good deal of TLC to bring out the wonderful old features. One of the first tasks is to install a Rayburn and radiators so we can be nice and cosy! It will take us some time to fully restore the house and outbuildings, indeed it will be a labour of love. But we are looking forward to it and will keep you informed of our trials and tribulations! The hamlet in which we now live is beautiful and very friendly, we are sure we will be perfectly happy here. For the time being, we are dividing our time between Oxfordshire and Herefordshire but as soon as the necessary work is done in the next few weeks, we will move in permanently, along with Dennis our cat! It is business as usual at Vintage Home and in the coming weeks, we shall turn our attentions to updating the website on a regular basis again.

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from: Tom De R.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:47 AM

Can you please tell me what this means.
My brother got this last week and is an idiot.



自律 means "autonomy" and 樂 means "joy".

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As good as it'll get

I finally got around to fixing the laminator (that i am perhaps, maybe also responsible for breaking) so we now have a sign!
Well, almost.
It's more of a sign than the handwritten Rilakkuma note was anyway.


It's the same size as the handwritten note, only slightly more official looking

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Fita K-7

"Olá, gostaria de saber qual seria o valor para uma tatuagem (a foto da tatuagem original e a foto do desenho que eu gostaria estão em anexo) na parte de trás do ombro esquerdo. O tamanho seria mais ou menos proporcional ao da foto, em que a tatuagem está no braço.
Ah, no caso do desenho, eu não gostaria de preencher a fita com preto, gostaria de deixar igual à fita da tatuagem original, só com o contorno... a única diferença mesmo seria o coração. Obrigada!"
Luisa: luisasiemann@hotmail.com


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Raposa e Navio

"Olá, bom dia!

Eu estava pesquisando algumas imagens pra umas idéias de tatuagem e acabei encontrando esse blog (que achei muito bom, por sinal!). Achei extremamente interessante essa área de Orçamentos e gostaria de saber o valor aproximado de duas tatuagens, ambas no braço, como mostram as figuras.
O tamanho seria o mesmo das imagens, algo entre 18 e 25cm de altura. As tatuagens também seriam coloridas.

Agradeço desde já."
André: andre_bowser@yahoo.com.br


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