Osaka Ben http://www.benher.org/blog Being the occasionally bilingual journal of a Professional Ex-Pat Tattooist trained and apprenticed in Osaka Japan Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:26:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 久々HC!! Osaka Hardcore with Masterpiece! http://www.benher.org/blog/2010/03/08/%e4%b9%85%e3%80%85hc-osaka-hardcore-with-masterpiece/ http://www.benher.org/blog/2010/03/08/%e4%b9%85%e3%80%85hc-osaka-hardcore-with-masterpiece/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:26:45 +0000 Hori Benny http://www.benher.org/blog/?p=1556 久々に師匠とハードコアのイベントにいってきた、ミナミのSUNSUIに。MASTERPIECEのライブはめっちゃやばかった！！iPhoneしかなかったができるだけ写真を撮ろうとした。さぁ、以下へ！
Caught the first half of a great Osaka hardcore show at Sunsui a couple days ago. Masterpiece was on tap as well as some of the craziest experimental HC I’ve seen in a long time – felt like being a kid again! Anyway, there was also a lot of artwork on display, which is why I’m posting. Obzoiv!

SHOOTMINDさんと渉師匠と到着！
Osaka skate legend Shoot mind with Wataru – the night still in all it’s youngness!

SHOOTMINDの携帯に登録されている僕の名前は：
Here is how I am listed in Shoot-mind’s phone – in true ‘pokeshiko’ style!

JOEのセツコならび！
The lining of the Setsuko’s by Osaka’s own One-Flow-Joe!

CASPERはギターに直書き！できあがりはめっちゃ上手かった！
CASPER writin’ on everyone’s guitars. The end results were sick!

RIP KASSY

そしてRIPのイベントのお知らせ発見。
…and the eminent RIP event.

モンクさんはライブでピンストをやっていたぁ！（去年、僕のiPhoneにめっちゃやばい般若のモチーフを描いてくれたピンスト達人）新作品はこのヘルメット達！やばない？僕、バイク乗れたらいいのになぁ。
Remember the pin striper MONK who pimped out my phone with that pinstriped hanya? Well, he was back at this event with some sick new helmets! Makes me wish I rode a something just so I could don it.

いろんな人の絵が飾っていた！バテリーがなくなる前、これぐらい撮れた！かっこいいスケボ何枚もおいてあったが近く撮れなかった – 残念！
Finally, the best shot I could grab in the dark of the contributed artworks. There were also a bunch of skate decks by DISE and CASPER that sadly I couldn’t get near enough to photograph before my battery died. But rumor has it they got bought up for release from a certain undisclosed board manufacturer later this year! Stay tuned…

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最近、また新しい活動を始めた。これだけを見たらわかるかなぁ？
Up to something new. Can you guess what it is?

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２ch復活できてよかったぁ！正直にいうとちょっと心配していました！サイバーテロの被害者やわ。えぇぇ… hai. さてと…

HELL CITYに参加する事に決定！（Hell City 9 – オハイオ州）そして、少し更新した、HP。
No, it’s not the name of a GTA4 mission, I really am goin’ to Hell City this year! Specifically, Hell City 9 in Columbus Ohio, USA. For good measure, I made a couple quick updates today.

まず参加するイベント、展示等をバイオページに足した。
First of all, I decided to stick up my event schedule on the Bio page.

ちなみにギャラリーの写真をアップ！
Second, I padded out the ol’ gallery with a few recent photos.

あと…なんやろう。アイ・アム・ア・ヒーロ２巻をこうたのに職場に忘れたぁ。今日、家に帰って、めっちゃ読みたかったのに。あぁぁ。せっかくやる気をだしたのに。早く寝て、早起きして、さっさと店に行くわ！

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キョンちゃんの肩にまだ中途半端の空いているスペースが余っていたので
急遽彫ろうとなった、昨日。チベタンのモチーフは初めてやったが本人は失神するほど喜んでいた(w)
Helpin’ Kyon fill in some of that empty space between her other tattoos yesterday! She was pretty psyched and so was I since I never get to do Tibetan stuff.

まわりにはナッツさん、真腰さん、渉師匠のデザインも入っています！プレッシャーや！
Surrounded by Nattsu, Magoshi, and Wataru! Super pressure!

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あやなみレイからヴァレンタイン！本人からやでぇ、箱に書いてある！！「From Rei」
Valentines Chocolate from Ayanami Rei! It even says so on the box!

レイのブロマイド写真も入っていた！中身のスイーツよりやっぱりこれが！！
Of course, the real appeal of any convenient store trinkets isn’t the candy inside, but the toys and cards!

「優しくあけてね」と書いてあるけど…びりびり破ってから気付いた僕。レイちゃんの頑張って作ったチョコは美味しかったが…正直あんまり手作りっぽくなかった。
“Open me softly” written on the wrapper… which I noticed after shredding the chocolate wrapper open with my bad teeth. Delicious, but didn’t look like she slaved over it for hours in the kitchen.

そして偶然やけど後でSUNKUSにいって、ミラクルくじ引きを！！A賞をとったぁっぁあぁぁぁあ！！なんで？！めっちゃラッキー！！
But what’s this? No lie, I go to Sunkus for a coffee and on a whim buy one of those ‘lucky draw’ tickets and I won this awesome figure! Miracles happen every day, and this one… this one was mine.

関係ない画像やけど…
昨日のアメ村の火事の現場（Big Stepの前）消防士が準備しているとこ。やっぱりかっこいい！！
Not really related, but that fire yesterday in front of Big Step afforded me the chance to snap some great fire fighting pron.

そして好きなおまけ動画：
帽子のかっこえぇとりかた！！
And lastly, just for service some animated antics:
How to properly remove a hat with Magoshi!

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リアルな蛇頭！！しかも、手彫り！（池袋の彫とし）ご苦労様です！
Got to see Magoshi get some head-tebori! A real snake-head! (by Toshi in Ikebukuro)

TACOCHEという珍しい本ばっか置いてある本屋さんにいって、大好きな先生の画集がおいてあったわぁ！丸尾末広とコラボしたシールは売切で残念やったけど。
A random trip to a shop of random tomes, Tacoche led to this lovely discovery of a favorite artist of mine! Too bad all their Maruo collaboration stickers were sold out. うるうるうる！


東京ならやっぱり靖国神社！！天皇陛下万歳ぃぃぃ！
What trip to Tokyo would be complete without a trip to the Yasukuni Jinja! Got some Yasukuni cherry blossoms encased in glass – awesome!!

麒麟のデザインがのっているでっかぃぃ提灯が靖国の前にある！
On the way out is this great lantern with 8 unique Kirin reliefs. I snapped them all!

後で、ベンの初Wiiパーティをした！…っなんでか写真ないけど
Then, I had my first Wii party – for which strangely there are no photos.

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HPは壊れていたらしくて…問合せフォームが凍っていたり、ギャラリーが見えなかったり…全然気付かなかった！！申し訳ない。今日、大分修理したのでこれからよろしくどうぞ！！
I guess a bunch of shit was broken on this site for like, weeks. The contact form, the image gallery – basically anything you might actually want to see. Sorry! I fixed everything today… nominally anyway. If you couldn’t get ahold of me try again with the magic of disabled-AJAX!

日本に十年間ぐらい住んでいるのに富士山の写真を上手く撮るのは初めてや！
In the 10 years of living in Japan, I’ve finally managed to get a shot of Mt. Fuji from the shinkansen!

あれ？くそ！関東と関西の間にはトンネルなんか多ぃわ！
Whu? Sunuvabich! There’s a lot of tunnels between here and Kanto.

SDカード３枚程つかっちゃったが、撮れた！晴れとんな！！
I used up like 3 memory sticks to get this. Blue skies!!

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なんでかこういうミニポスターのやつをおもっきり忘れちゃった！知らしとほぼ一緒やけどもっと人が壁に貼りたいぐらい、絵っぽく描いてみました。まだまだ実験中や。最近の絵はこれ。
I totally forgot about mini posters for some reason. They’re really just flyers, but I’ve been experimenting with ways of making them something you might actually hang on to – or even hang up on your wall, locker, inner coffin lid, etc. So for the first time in a long time, here’s an image of my latest abomination.

あっちこっち貼ってあるはずやからチェックしてください！
Soon to ruin a hangable surface near you!

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