Two Dollar Tattoo Project

Some of you may recall our friend Philip Barbosa from one of our epic fishing expeditions in La Paz, Mexico, where he out fished even me! And though you won’t recognize the person who did his tattoo, it’s actually Alie K., Phil’s girlfriend and creator of the new Fishing Fury logo.

Recently Phil, with the help of a few great artists, created the tattoo art project Two Dollar Tattoo. Here’s a description:

All artists participating will be expected to create unique works of tattoo art executed with only a single needle (as in single-needle configuration, No cheating using a round or a mag for any of the tattoo!). Line-work, shading, colour…all must be executed with the same needle! The size of the final product will be expected to fill the space of a “toonie”, a Canadian two-dollar coin (approximately 28mm or 1 1/8” in diameter). The artist should utilize all of the space within the circle since in this case its not just size that matters. The Two Dollar Tattoo Project is expected to be both a game of camaraderie as well as a professional courtesy for artists and industry people. The only monetary exchange for the tattoo is to be a shiny Canadian $2 coin, which can be used for sizing of the drawing and final stencil, and MUST be utilized as proof of compliance with the set parameters.

Of course Phil’s not one to create without participation, and so he got his own Two Dollar Tattoo of Ebisu – one of the seven gods of fortune, but more specifically the god of fishermen.

via Two Dollar Tattoo

Everything’s Back to Normal

It’s been a very quiet past few days and I appologize. I had to move to a new rental house here in La Paz, so I spent about two days moving things and taking breaks to do various work related things. The internet at my previous house was down due to some line problems that couldn’t be sorted out with the provider. Now that I have the internet at home again and I finished moving the posts should pick back up again.

My good friends at Fishermen’s Fleet have put together a great promotional video of fishing here in La Paz, Mexico. The video will give you an idea of what a typical day with his charter service provides and what kind of species you can expect to catch. I’ve used David’s charter service for almost a year now, and have nothing but great things to say. Some of the video Clive and I have taken here in Mexico was donated to David even ended up in the video.

Watch the Fishermen’s Fleet video. (20MB; WMV; 640×480; Right-Click > Save As)

The next featured content will be a fishing log, from October 5th. I took two, non-fishermen, friends of mine out for the day with Fishermen’s Fleet and our trip was the most amazing fishing trip I’ve been on all year. You can expect that update tomorrow, with a few pictures from my fishing trip I took today. Until, then you can check out this awesome picture of yellow fin tuna taken by Mike on the trip being featured.

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