Old School Pinball Machine Art...

While visiting the Halloweekends at Cedar Point Amusement Park this past weekend, I found a huge arcade full of old school games. Its was so cool to see video and pinball games that I can barely remember from when I was little. Here are a few cell phone pics of some of the pinball machines that had badass artwork...
This wizard artwork needs to be translated into a backpiece tattoo for me!
Is that dinosaur impaling the T Rex right in the balls?!? Looks like the cavemen are pointing and laughing!
The girl on the far left has an rad body. Straight up!

Skulls Piece, First Sit...

Completed the first of two sits on a skulls arm piece yesterday. Loving fine line blk and grey. Can't wait to finish this mother!

Favorite Time of the Year...

Halloween is by far my favorite time of the year, especially on the east coast. My girl and I have been taking advantage of the wicked good weather and events going for the past few weeks such as monster mini golf, haunted houses, and amusement parks. Here's some cell phone pics...

Girlfriend riding her first roller coasters like a boss

The devil's skeeball...score-666...too bad, you lose

from: Fedor M. 

to: tiangotlost@gmail.com 

date: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:23 AM 

subject: hanzi smatter in DFW 

This is a sign for a Chinese restaurant in Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. The characters are upside down and seem to say "blue bamboo". 

蓝竹 does mean "blue bamboo" and it is displayed upside down.  

According to Yelp, its food is terrible and only has one star.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/blue-bamboo-xpress-dallas

from: Laura R.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:14 AM
subject: "Chinese" trash can

Hello and thank you for your awesome blog!

We recently visited the "Phantasialand" amusement park close to Cologne in Germany.

This is what the trash cans in the "Chinatown" section look like. It says "garbage" in German, and while I instantly recognized the second character as being upside down (have been studying Japanese for a while now), I'm not sure whether the first one is a correct character at all or if there is any meaning to this combination.

There were loads of upside down or gibberish characters in the "Chinese" ghost train ride, too ^^;

Thanks in advance!

Laura



Not only the second character 圾 is upside down, the first character 垃 is missing a stroke.

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Atomik at Mantis Tattoo...

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