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Dan Lake - Rennaisance Man

About Me

Daniel James Lake. Artist. I draw. I draw on skin 4 a living. I also write films, poetry and plays. An optimist..! I paint pictures. Used to act a bit. Films, telly and shit. 34 years of age feeling 17 and 104! I have an 11 year old son, whom i adore. Poet, 'from back in the day'! Ha Ha! Just opened me second tattoo parlour, Arthur T. Sharpe's. Art gallery and studio on Heaton Road last year. Having previously opened Alter-Native Art in Heaton in 2003. Class! Nice and steady. Artist. Loving Guitar Hero on Xbox, still want to be a pilot (still will), still love partyin just takes longer to recover, still dance. Love laughing til i piss. I'm mental not mad, blah blah blah...

My Interests

Art, all forms, mainly films and paintings. Then tattoos. it's what i've dedicated my life to. Designing AND executing. Pretty good at both. Being an attentive father. Music. Used to be just Hip-hop, then Muse came along and now bands are my thing, whey music is my thing. Funk in particular, love to wig out and dance. Current affairs. Theology, philosophy and religion. The world around me, and how best to engage with it.

I'd like to meet:

God/Allah (her work's cool), a mind-reading Gorilla, Hitler, my Dad, Bill Hicks, erm, the ginger bastard who raped me of my last business (in dark alley), shit talkin ex-friends who still accuse me of sum bullshit... er.. Banksy, Anil Gupta, like-minded people, a ghost,

Music:

Muse, new electro, Radiohead, drum and bass, northern soul, the Foo's, SLY & the FAMILY STONE! Queen, Plant life, Richard Dawson, BRMC, Prince, Beth Jeans Houghton, the Monkees, Glen Campbell, pals' stuff, digital underground, Beastie Boys, P.E.

Movies:

Goodfellas, Donnie Darko, Dead Man's Shoes, Matrix (just the first one really, & Animatrix of course!), Pi, Life of Brian, The Player... It's a Wonderful Life, Ninja Scroll, Rear Window, Groundhog Day, The Incredibles (!), Bette Blue, Airplane, American Werewolf in London, Streetfighter 2 (Manga version), Sin City, Aliens,

Television:

Curb, South Park, Sopranos, Nick Broomfield, Documentaries, 6 feet Under, Top Gear, Miami ink, Timbersports,

Books:

Curious Incident of.. Ishmael By Daniel Quinn, most Richard Bach, Chuck..

Heroes:

My mam. My son. Bill Hicks. Me (at times). World war veterans. My sister. My best friend Sam. Most of my friends.

My Blog

we just tore up the edinburgh fringe!!!

aye, we did! wey... seven shows. the new abridged version of Skitzy without the dream sequences ending and just generally much sharper. Seven shows; first two there were four then five peopl...
Posted by dan on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:59:00 PST

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Ahreet all. Dan's first Blog! Erm, just sitting in my tatttoo studio waiting for first tattoo. gonna sort this out and promote my studio but this is all for now... til sum1 shows me whats possible on ...
Posted by dan on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:51:00 PST