Doing Tats at TESLA-MANIA All Day today...

[Masato]

Should be fun:

http://teslamania.tv/


I have BLACK JAGUA, which means I can do all sorts of tat styles, not just the traditional hand stuff.

Also free entrance to the festival, they are changing the name of a major street here to NIKOLA TESLA BLVD, putting Tesla stuff into the school curriculum, and encouraging Hamilton to invest in a variety of Tesla technology... Should be really interesting. Some music, right by the beach, etc

Should be a great day. Will post some pics later

[What]

I didnt know you are a tattoo artist??whaaa???

[Masato]

^ not real tattoos... henna tattoos.

I used to do henna on the street as a job during the summers when I was in college, and really loved it. Now my wife and several friends are always having different festivals and I get invited to come out and do it.

I was also testing this new stuff called Jagua, which is supposed to make black tattoos (henna tats are more red/brown)... but I didn't like the way it worked. Maybe I'll experiment with it more. However I met this woman there who was from pakistan and she knows fuckin EVERYTHING about henna, how to make it black, where to buy etc. She said she will hook me up and I am psyched. I have another ArtFest event coming in August I'm going to and I wanna be stacked with the right goods. I just enjoy it so much, happy people, music, sun, and freestyling stuff on people's bodies and making them happy, its such a wonderful time even if I make no money. Most times I just volunteer but in Aug I'm gonna charge and see how that goes.

[Masato]

Was a perfect day for it. Down by the beach. I brought by longboard




RIGHT on the beach. My town has a choice beach, but most people seem to feel its not clean enough to really treat it like that. But on hot days people come out, some swim etc. I don't really know either way, but its sure nice just to be near water on a nice day





HUGE long flat paved pathway. That's why I brought my longboard, anytime the crowd was slow I'd go for a skate. So smooth, some gentle curves, ice cream shops along the way etc.

[Masato]

TeslaMania was weird. Good vibe but really strange mix of crowd.

HUGE showing by the Serbian community, which I wasn't expecting at all. I guess Nikola Tesla was Serbian and thus he is super famous among them.

I didn't take pictures but there were tons of traditional dancing and music groups all day, coming out wearing fur hats on a summer day, lol

I have to say, to my ears Serbian music is torturously annoying, lol Its like this hyper-happy polka stuff OH GOD MAKE IT STOP lolol




A bunch of TESLA cars there. They look nice. I wanna know how far you can drive before you have to charge it up again

[Masato]

This is literally how far the tents were from the beach:


Lots of wild new technology there, I didn't really bother to try to understand it all, I was having too good of a time to get skeptical (some of it looked pretty wacky, lol)

I have no idea what this is supposed to be:


At one point the event got swarmed by a bunch of VIPS and media. This guy was the Ambassador to Serbia or something like that, and a bunch of bigwig guys I don't know. The media made a big deal, there was ass-kissing in the air, lol




Spliff break:



These guys were awesome. Panflutes etc, from Mexico I think. I love that shit. Thank god the Serbian music was over :D

[Masato]

Didn't do as many tattoos as I expected, and took less pictures than that.

I always forget to take pictures of the best ones, I don't know why. I got a few though.


Here is one I did with the black Jagua stuff. I had done a test on it a few nights before and it kind of bled, the details got runny and it is REALLY black, like it was done with marker, lol

But this really charismatic First Nations guy came up and wanted the black stuff to make 2 feathers on his arms, and I couldn't turn him down. He was a pretty big dude so his arms were large enough I thought I could get away with it, all I had to do was not make too much small detail

Doing henna you have to have a sort of fight mentality, you can't screw up. You have to dive in and trust yourself that you can make it look good. Mistakes are inevitable but you can't panic you have to roll with it and adapt.

I got lucky and it worked pretty well, he was happy


I also did this guy's neck:




Leg:

[Masato]

Most of the others were women or girls wanting the henna on their hand. These are fun but it gets boring.

I want to find a more black-ish henna because then people's minds think outside the box and they want tats on other body parts.

When I used to work as a summer job, my boss provided me with this awesome black henna and I would tat arms, necks, collarbones, feet, make arm-bands etc etc. Way more fun. For the event in August this is my goal

[Masato]

So in the end, here is what the event accomplished:

- Officially changing the name of a major street to NIKOLA TESLA BLVD
- Getting Tesla info inserted into the public school curriculum
- Tesla's concept of 432Hz as a healing sound frequency introduced to the public school MUSIC programs. 432Hz instruments bought in mass
- Officially naming July 10 'Nikola Tesla Day'
- Got a study at McMaster University to test various latest Tesla medical technology
- probably a bunch more shit I don't know

pretty good day.

[What]

what about the "brown note"? ha ha never mind they proved it to be propaganda

thanks for sharing, some great work as always sir. the feathers tattoo I imagine impressed the wearer immensely. how long do these last??