Tuesday, November 20, 2007

ITS BEEN A WHILE!

Many month have passed since i last updated my blog, nuthing much out of the ordinary happend to me tho..well not from my point of view anyway.. I have done some tattoo work but not much..

For some of you that dont know..i'm getting married soon, so i'm kinda cracking my head here to find fundings for my big day..my heart was shattered today when i found out that my loan was not approved by the bank..now i'm really down in d pits. Fuck, money can be such a pain in the ass. Cant live with it cant live without it, this is the only time i really need $$ that i dont have, money was never really important to me as long as i have enuf to survive day by day, i can always find more.. but this is the time i really need lots..money is not everything but you are nobody without money.
Sure make you wonder about the good old days when you dont need money, just harvest your surrounding for food, but then again there were no computers n internet line either..LOL

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Sandakan Visit...





Just before my Danum Visit i was at Sandakan, the east coast of Sabah, iI was there to visit my Brother and in the same time to tattoo...i made my mark on a few people..here they are:- the fairy is a cover up...

ANYONE KNOWS WHAT THIS IS????


Here goes......we found a unidentified spider. It has a very strange appearance, it has a cup like thing on its back..it is only active at night and during the day it close up concealing itself like a dead leaf. At first we saw it i could not believe my eyes. If anyone knows the answer please inform us...if not we might be on the verge of discovering a new species of spider...we nickname him or she "transformer" hahahaha...

Danum Valley Relived




At the extended canopy walkway

Its been many years since I've sat foot at Borneo Rain forest Lodge at Danum Valley..I was there recently on a working trip, its so good to be back there again. Danum valley is a class one protected forest, lush with green vegetation and abundances of wildlife. I've encounter many interesting things on my resent visit.












Just to list a few things i have encounter
  1. Orang Utan
  2. Borneon Gibbons
  3. Red leaf monkey
  4. pigtail macques
  5. western tarsier
  6. Rhino hornbill
  7. wrinkled hornbill
  8. black hornbill
  9. pied hornbill
  10. Pacific swallow
  11. whiskered tree swifts
  12. black backed kingfisher
  13. brown wood owl
  14. crested fireback pheasant
  15. reticulated phyton
  16. Wallace flying tree frog
  17. Harleyqueen's flying tree frog ( if i'm not wrong)
  18. parachuting gecko
  19. many bul-buls n many bablers
  20. many spiders
  21. redsided water snake
  22. slug eating snake
  23. asian paradise flycatcher
  24. malayian blue flycatcher
  25. pied fantail
  26. bearded pig
  27. Tons of leaches
  28. brown wood frog
  29. spotted rock frog
  30. mouse deer
  31. and theres a few things i forgot i think
I think i might go there again soon, maybe.....until then...enjoy

Sunday, July 8, 2007

White Man Return!!!



It been one year and seven month since Daniel Kabubby left Kota Kinabalu. He was here reccentlly dropping by saying "Hi & Helloes" and left his mark once again in KK. Daniel Kabubby is a tattoo artist originally from Rome and had a Tattoo shop called " As tradition Die". He shut it down and began travelling and tattooing everywhere, He does amazing work. i've attached some of his work here.. 1st photo is Franky on Joe's tights and 2nd Photo Bio-Mechanical Actually he was here for the 2nd International Tattoo Convention held in Sibu Sarawak for 3 days from the 30th 0f Jun to 1st of July. I my self did not manage to attend the convention but was happy enough to have meet up with Daniel again. Daniel Kabubby was in in KK for 7 days i think spending most of his time with the "Black Ink Industry" boys...tatooing and partying.. They had fun. For my self..i manage to get this amazing artist to work his magic on me..


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Its not finish yet...i still have to do another session of it, when Daniel comes back again next time.. it took him or us 5 hours and 30 minutus until he calls it quits. cause we've been working too much on the skin and its getting stress and when that happens the skin breaks and the tattoo wont be so nice anymore. And it was pretty late...oh sorry its was early morning to be exact. Daniel Kabubby went back home today and promised to be back in December. I am already looking forward to his return.
You can check out his website for more of his amazing work at www.kabubbytattoo.com










Thursday, June 7, 2007

A brief history of tattoos

The word tattoo is said to has two major derivations- fromthe polynesian word ‘ta’ which means striking something and the tahitian word ‘tatau’ which means ‘to mark something’. the history of tattoo began over 5000 years ago and is as diverse as the people who wear them. tattoos are created by inserting colored materials beneath the skins surface. the first tattoos probably were created by accident. someone had a small wound, and rubbed it with a hand that was dirty with soot and ashes from the fire. once the wound had healed, they saw that a mark stayed permanently. despite the social sciences' growing fascination with tattooing,and the immense popularity of tattoos themselves,the practice has not left much of a historical record.

Bronze age in 1991, a five thousand year old tattooed man ‘ötzi the ice man’ made the headlines of newspapers all over the world when his frozen body was discovered on a mountain between austria and italy. this is the best preserved corpse of that period ever found. the skin bears 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimeters long above the kidneys and numerous parallel lines on the ankles. the position of the tattoo marks suggests that they were probably applied for therapeutic reasons (treatment of arthritis).




Borneo is one of the few places in the world where traditional tribal tattooing is still practiced today just as it has been for thousands of years. until recently many of the inland tribes had little contact with the outside world. as a result, they have preserved many aspects of their traditional way of life, including tattooing.borneo designs have gone all around the world to form the basis of what the western people call ‘tribal’.


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Monday, May 14, 2007

MY humble beginning!


Hi My name is Ben Duncan and I am a Tattoo Artist..( I fell like Ami from Miami Ink..ha ha ) As far as i can remember, drawing has always been an interest of mine, drawing on walls or any surface i can find when I was a little boy. I remember during my primary school, at the end of each year our teacher would ask us, " What would like to be when you grow up?" My first answer would be, "An artist!" I never failed to answer that question, year after year after year. I guest i develop that interest from my family, especially my two elder brothers, whom I love dearly. We always gets good results in arts class, top three at worst. On Our spare time we design and prints Our own t-shits just for fun. As We grow up, interest towards arts faded, as We need to make a living to support our family.My Elder brother turn to music and my other brother works with a Agricultural company. Me?! I turn to Tourism. I'm a Licence Tour Guide by Profession, Its been 10 year ( dam that a long time) and I'm still doing it. But My true passion is Tattooing. It started 4 to 3 years ago when i was exposed to Tattoo by a Swedish friend, and i got my 1st tattoo on My right thigh, it was a picture of a sea dragon, its because i love water, I do a lot of swimming before, and the dragon symbolise strengths.As the years past I tend to get more and more tattoo. Until one day I decided to be a Tattoo Artist. With the help of modern facilities ( internet ) and purchasing my very own tattoo equipments, I began my journey towards tattoing.