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Dart

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About Me

Some of my favorite art quotes:
"Don't listen to the teachers." ~David Larwill~
"What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough." ~Eugene Delacroix ~
"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves" ~Paul Gauguin~
"My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic." ~Keith Haring~
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all" ~Michelangelo~
So...about me. Well, I'm an illustrator, hotrodder, pinstriper, and tattoo artist working at Golden Apple Tattoos here in Austin. I specialize in low brow illustration and hot rod art, but I'm versatile to a large degree. Check out my galleries and you'll see what I mean. I'm also the President of the Kreatures Car Club.
Check out the Kreatures website (perpetually under construction) at http://www.geocities.com/bigdaddytattoo.geo/kreatures.html
See more pinstriping at http://www.pinheadlounge.com/Dart.
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My Interests

String cheese, tiki kulture, pinstriping, hot rods, politics, bobber motorcycles and monster art.

I'd like to meet:

The guy that invented zip ties, George Gobel, The Monkees, Carl Perkins, Selma Hayek, Robert Mitchum, Gene Winfield and Zamfir...oh yeah...and Trader Vic

Music:

rockabilly, swing, rock, old country, some older punk, Psycobilly, polka and the pan flute. Oh yeah....and Bagpipes. (unlike a lot of pipe fans, I really AM Irish and Scottish)

Movies:

Goodfellas, Casino, The Unforgiven, Father Goose, Road to Perdition, The Quiet Man, Thunder Road, Boondock Saints, True Grit, Sin City, Two Mules for Sister Sarah and Flubber....the original.

Television:

Never touch the stuff. Rots yer mind.....except Cops, Family Guy, Space Ghost and the History Channel

Books:

Anything by Douglas Adams, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books, John Sandford's 'Prey' series, who-done-it stuff, and Garage Magazine

Heroes:

My late Dad, Big Daddy Roth, George Trosley, Shawn Kerry, Fred Boatman, Dave "Big" Deal, Gene Winfield, Robert Williams, Bo Huff, Clint Eastwood (before 'Bridges of Ovary County') The Duke, the guy that invented the Wonderbra (I have to assume it was a man), Gene Vincent Pete Millar, Carl Kohler and Me.

My Blog

Tribal Tattoos....It needed to be said

First, let me say that I know some of you got your tribal art before it became trendy. Some of you got your tribal art because you really are born of Pacific Rim heritage. However, to the rest of you ...
Posted by Dart on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:49:00 PST

Tattooing is like being in the mafia......

You can never really leave it forever. I think this quote was from Godfather 2: "Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in!" (or something to that effect).Anyway, I'm done with the truck driving...
Posted by Dart on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:19:00 PST

It’s high time I updated this mess.....

OK, for starters, I never did end up driving a truck over the road. Turned out that Swift Transportation, who was originally going to train me, is a huge money scam. I won't go into all the crap about...
Posted by Dart on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:30:00 PST

The story of ..."The Amazing Mongo"

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls! There is ferocious beast alive and hunting within this very house! A beast brought back from the dead to devour all in its sinister path! A beast so deadly, so bl...
Posted by Dart on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:26:00 PST

Christmas Blogginess

So, Christmas time is upon us. For tattoo artists, that means one thing: Poverty. This time of year is when I need the most money, but get the least. Whaddya gonna do?   Anyway, all this means t...
Posted by Dart on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:37:00 PST

'bout time I posted a new blog

Sorry for the lack of action here. I just got my internet up and running a couple of days ago. So....where to start.....The house is coming along nicely. We've been busting our asses with painting, ...
Posted by Dart on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:44:00 PST

Texas, here we come!

I'll be leaving at about 6:00am on Saturday for Austin. I think I'm going to pack up my computer tonight, so I may be out of contact for a couple of weeks until I get settled in down there. I'll post ...
Posted by Dart on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:08:00 PST

Big Daddy is Retiring!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right, folks. I'm hangin' up my guns! Vanessa and I just got back from Austin Texas. We were down there on a recon mission. We scoped it out, looked at houses, made an offer on one and we'll be...
Posted by Dart on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:21:00 PST

Car show and other ramblings

Well, the car show finally came and went. I thought it would never get here. I've been planning this thing since September of last year. It was a long time coming, but ended up a great success! We had...
Posted by Dart on Wed, 31 May 2006 10:10:00 PST

My new baby!!!!

Ok....been a while since I posted anything on this here blog, so I thought I'd catch everyone up on stuff. First, the car show is fast approaching, so I've been pretty busy with that. Vanessa bought a...
Posted by Dart on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:51:00 PST