I'm now back in the studio in Vancouver, tattooing my little butt off until February 7th.

Be sure to check me out on Facebook as I'm constantly posting new tattoos and client drawings to my timeline. Feel free to friend me if you'd lie to keep track of the hilarity that is my life!

I'm also on Instagram @adamsky2000

I'll be back in Vancouver and at the tattoo studio on January 25th.

I'm now tattooing in San Francisco until January 25th. After January 25th I will be back in Vancouver and tattooing at my studio until February 7th.

If you want to holler at me, please feel free to get in touch as always I check my email daily regardless of my current location. I'm solid like that.

If you'd like to see some really old illustrations I did - check out some gig posters I rendered when I was 18 years old back in 1989 for bands such as D.O.A., Soundgarden and No Means No. Follow this link to: The Read Street Forum

The fine folks at Tattoo Artist Magazine published some of my work on their blog. It's a real honor to have my work included in this prestigious tattoo artist rag. Sweet!

I got a little bit of press in my hometown free paper. The North Shore Outlook published this story in today's edition.

Thanks to Justin Beddall for the story.

Feel free to join me on Facebook so you can keep track of new tattoos I've done, announcements of last minute openings or cancellations to my schedule and general Tomfoolery. I post a lot of goofy crap to my Facebook page. You've been warned.

CBC News recently did a small segment on my tattooing for the local Vancouver News Hour. Check it out here!

Providing that the Rapture doesn't actually happen on Sunday, which doesn't ensue the upcoming zombie apocalypse, I will be back at the studio in Vancouver on Tuesday, May 22 after spending the weekend with my pals in Portland. If the Rapture / Zombie Apocalypse does happen you can be confident knowing that I will be safe as Drat and his wife Christina are American survivalists who have medical field supplies, bug out bags, food and water for one month and about a thousand rounds of various ammunition. Yes Drat, your shiny new AR-15 is awesome. I brought a video camera to record our own zombie apocalypse movies. Wish us luck.

A big welcome to Andrew Warren, the latest tattoo artist to join the fold at our tattoo studio. Andrew comes to us from the old Sacred Heart Tattoo on Davie Street; Mikel and my old stomping ground from years past.

That makes us a full house with four tattoo artists, or is that four of a kind?

In other news, I'm going to be away from the studio from May 18th to the 24th as I have to pick up a motorcycle I have in storage in San Francisco and ride it home. As per usual, I'll be answering emails from my iPad from some dingy motel room on the 101 during this time but not with my usual grace and efficiency as you've come to expect while I'm in town.

I also want to remind you that you can request Maxilene 5 topical anaesthetic with your tattoo - available exclusively from me! Maxilene 5 greatly reduces the pain associated with getting tattooed, making the tattoo all but completely numb while we work. I do have to warn you that you'll never want to get tattooed without Maxilene 5 once you've tried it. I've got most of my regular customers hooked. Just ask for information about using this topical anaesthetic during your consultation or at any point before or during the tattoo process.

I'm sorta in and out of the tattoo studio throughout the month of May. I'm flying down to San Francisco on May 18th to pick up a motorcycle and ride home, visiting my pals in Portland along the way. I should be back at work for May 24th but in the mean time I'm working hard doing wicked sick tatties for all my homies.

I'm going to be tattooing at the WestCoast Tattoo and Culture Show at the PNE Forum on April 15th through 17th. I've purposefully left some openings in my schedule for the show to take on a few walk-ins but it'll be first come, first serve. So best to visit me early in the day if you want to set aside some tattoo time. Please visit the convention's web site for show times and details.

Suddenly I have some openings in my schedule for tattooing through the week of April 5th thru 8th. As my regular clients know I'm usually booked up a solid 6 months in advance, however multiple cancellations have left me with a lot of availability at the moment.

If you have a groovy tattoo idea and want to get tattooed without a wait, hit me up ASAP. This last moment availability will go quickly.

Hey everybody, be sure to come down and visit my booth at the WestCoast Tattoo and Culture Show at the PNE Forum here in Vancouver on the weekend of April 16th, 2011.

I'll be tattooing Friday evening and Saturday afternoon and selling some of my sketchbooks at the show.

Hey kids! I'm back from my California vacation now and ready to hunker down and do some sick tatties. I don't have any travel plans until perhaps mid May and during this time I plan to be as productive for my customers as possible.

Travel plans this month include yet another mid winter motorcycle ride in beautiful San Francisco. I'll be away from February 27th until March 4th. During this time emails will be answered with relative efficiency and phone messages will be returned once I'm back in the studio.

Happy New Year my fellow tattoo fanatics! Just a quick note that I'll be out of town on a motorcycle trip to San Francisco from January 24th to the 28th. Aside from that I'll be tattooing all month nice and steady like.

A big welcome goes out to Munk, who with Mikel tattoos along side me at the studio.

And now for an early notice that I'll be tattooing at the WestCoast Tattoo and Culture Show at the PNE here in Vancouver on the weekend of April 16th, 2011. Please let me know if you'd like to reserve some tattoo time at the convention. Book early! Reservations will be gone quickly.

That's all for now. My resolution this year is to do bigger, better and more bad ass tattoos for my customers! Can you dig it?

Christmas stocking stuffer money burning a hole in your pocket? Want to get tattooed in short order? If you've got a tattoo concept that's on the simpler side, meaning something that I can draw for you on the spot, I've got some openings in my schedule for January where we can rock out a tattoo for you without waiting!

Also, check me out on Skype, my handle on Skype is amoneykg. Skype is good if you just want to instant message me with a quick question or you can video call if you want to show me some art or an existing tattoo on your body or anything of that nature.

Every Christmas I get last moment emails and phone calls from clients returning to Vancouver for the Holidays, wishing to get some tattoo time while in town.

If this is your state of mind, not to fear, I've set aside a few days around Christmas to accommodate Holiday visitors. But don't wait to get in touch if you want to scoop up some tattoo time because availability is limited.

As for my Holiday vacation time, I'm taking Christmas Eve off. That's it. Every other day I'm a tattooing fool.

Last minute notice that due to a cancellation I have a rare open day to accommodate any last minute tattoos on Tuesday, November 9th. Please contact me if you'd like to request tattoo time for this date. If it's something that I can draw up in short order, I'll do my best to fit you in.

Otherwise I'm going to be out of town visiting friends in Portland for the Remembrance Day long weekend. I'm taking November 11th through 14th off. I will be checking my email periodically during this time, however I promise to stay in touch.

Hey, check out the tattoo design contest I'm hosting over on the Read Street Forum. There's some beautiful tattoo designs to check out and if you're feeling participatory, you can sign up on Tattoodles.com and vote for your fave tattoo design. The winner of the design contest pockets a really beautiful tattoo machine from my pal John Moniz at MPire Tattoo Machines.

Did you know that I administrate a busy online tattoo discussion forum? Check out The Read Street Tattoo Forum for lots of quality conversations about tattooing! Interactive discussions with tattoo artists and tattoo enthusiasts from around the world.

Hey kids!

As a follow up to my previous blog regarding Maxilene 5, I should mention that I've created a web page for Maxilene 5 information and ordering info. Please visit PainlessTattooing.com to get the low down on this product. If you'd prefer to order some Maxilene 5 over the interwebs and have the postman bring it to your door, you can do so through the Painless Tattooing website.

More travel news: I'm away from the studio and back on my motorcycle for another long distance ride to San Francisco from now until October 14th. Please feel free to get in touch with me via email during this time and I'll do my best to reply, however because I'll be on the bike all day, please have a bit of patience for my response. Phone calls will be returned on the weekend of October 16th.

Thanks to everyone who stopped in on my Facebook page to sign up for a friend request and enter my contest. A winner has been decided.

A lot of my customers have been asking about Maxilene 5 topical anaesthetic. This is a cream that can be applied to a tattoo either before or during the tattoo process which dramatically reduces the pain associated with getting tattooed. I've been utilizing Maxilene 5 for a couple of years on a variety of clients with excellent reported results.

Most every client who uses Maxilene 5 while getting tattooed has said to me that they won't get tattooed without it now.

I make Maxilene 5 available to my clients for $40 per application. If you're curious about using a topical anaesthetic while getting tattooed, please don't hesitate to inquire by email or just ask next time you're in the studio.

Now for travel news; I'll be out of town visiting friends in Portland during the October 2nd weekend. Don't hesitate to contact me via email during this time, however phone calls will be returned after Tuesday, October 5th when I return to work.

It's TATTOO CONTEST TIME!

I'm just shy of 500 friends on FACEBOOK. If you're the person who becomes my 500th Facebook friend, you'll win a free tattoo by your's truly!

All you gotta do is add me as your friend and if you're the lucky one, you'll get a gift certificate for 2 hours of tattooing (a $380 value).

I know, I'm a cheesy Internet attention whore but embrace it, will ya?

I've uploaded a bunch of tattoo studio shots to my gallery. You can check 'em out HERE! I figure people want to see the uber cool environment where all the tattoo magic gets created in.

Okay, I'm going to attempt to blog more and to not only announce upcoming travel plans and stuff that most people don't care about but also mention stuff that I'm really in to.

Those of you who've been tattooed by me or those of you who just know me, know that I like to bullshit a lot about whatever I'm currently in to, especially new movies and TV shows and other weirdness. So instead of writing stuff down on scraps of paper that I give to people in hopes that they'll check out the shit that I like, I'm posting my suggestions here so folks won't lose the scraps of paper that I give them.

So first of all, check out my boy Craig Driscoll. Craig is another tattooer and long time friend. Craig is an amazing painter and he's started to make tattoo machines that are elegant to look at. He also blogs about tattoo machines that he likes with lots of photos of interesting tattoo machines - if you like that sort of thing.

Next, many of you know that I'm a huge proponent of bit torrents. For those of you who do not yet know how to bit torrent, which means downloading music, movies and television for free on your computer, you need to download a bit torrent application. Check out U Torrent.

Once you got that, you need a proper media player for your machine, not that Windows Media Player or Quicktime crap. Download VLC Media Player from VideoLAN. VLC will allow you to play most any media files with any number of codecs. Good shit.

Now you'll need to grab some torrents for download. You can do this from a variety of torrent web sites but my favorite free site that doesn't require any sign up is BT Junkie. It shouldn't take you long to decipher how to download content using the site, you just need to pay attention to peer reviews, file sizes and file types. You're a smart cookie, you'll figure it out.

Alright, that's probably information overload for now.

I'm tattooing at the studio Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11AM until 7PM. My next bit of time off is the weekend of October 2nd as I'm attending my pal Drat's wedding in Portland as he's marrying his child bride (15 year difference - WHAT!)

Now that we're on the other side of the Labour Day long weekend I'm back at the studio and hard at work tattooing all my peeps as we wrap up the summer and head in to another hopefully lovely Vancouver fall season.

I have some last moment availability for Wednesday, September 8th due to cancellations. Please contact me if you'd like to come in on short order to start a new, small tattoo that I can design quickly or if you have ongoing work in progress and you'd like to take advantage of my availability.

I'm off to Osoyoos, BC on a motorcycle road trip for Labor Day weekend. I'll return to the tattoo studio on Tuesday, September 7th.

I still check my emails while I'm on the fly, however calls will be returned next week.

Have a great holiday weekend, everyone!

Hey gang! Summer is winding down which means demand for tattooing is surging as folks are ready to take on the commitment of fall and winter tattoo sessions.

This means it's getting very busy again for me for consultation requests. When it gets to this point I can't always reply to every consultation request email or phone call that I receive. I have to be more selective of the tattoos that I can put on my work load, whereas I only select tattoos that I'm inspired by and feel that I'm best suited to do.

Quality, not quantity is my focus; a great deal of time and effort is spent on rendering every one of my client's custom tattoos. And because there's only one of me, I can only take on so much work at a time while accomplishing my goals for a level of quality that I'm proud to be able to produce.

As for upcoming travel plans, aside from perhaps some last moment flights of fancy, my only scheduled time off is a Labor Day weekend motorcycle trip to B.C.'s interior (Osoyoos to swim in the lake). Otherwise it's nose to the grind stone from now until Christmas.

Hey everybody! I'm home from my California motorcycle trip and back at the tattoo studio tattooing full time for the rest of the summer.

The ride was awesome; with hang out time with my friend Barnaby at his tattoo shop in San Francisco and then on to visit Drat at his tattoo shop in Portland.

We got absolutely nothing but sunshine on our ride and zero speeding tickets, thank sweet baby zombie Jesus.

It's good to be home and back at the shop being productive, drawing sweet tatties for my clients.

On Saturday, July 24th I leave for vacation until August 3rd. I'll be road tripping on my motorcycle in Northern California and Oregon, with extended hang outs with my pal Drat on Portland until my return.

Feel free to drop me an email via my CONTACT page as I'll be keeping touch with my clients by internets while I'm away.

What's up ya'll? Enjoying our glorious Vancouver summer?

Feel free to add me as a friend on The Crackbook!

I post regular updates of last moment cancellation availabilities and new photos of completed tattoos on my news reel.

I want to thank Jackie and Ryan for scooping in on my free availability during the month of July. Barring the odd cancellation, July is now full for starting new tattoos.

I am trying to squeeze some smaller stuff in for August, so please do not hesitate to contact me about any tattoo project you have in mind and I'll do my best to accommodate you.

Early summer is here and the sun is starting to finally make an appearance in Vancouver. And with the longer days and predictable sunshine comes more availability in the tattoo shop as clients prefer to go camping rather than get tattooed.

For years I've attempted to educate my clients that it's better to get tattooed during the winter when swimming and sunbathing doesn't interfere with healing a fresh tattoo and finally that information seems to be sinking in.

The downside for me, however is that it's difficult to get people to commit to getting worked on during the month of July, so if you're itching to get a tattoo in short order, I actually have some cancellations open up some brief time in mid July. As you may know, it can be a wait of several months to get in my chair, so here's some rare availability on my calendar.

Right now July 13th and 15th has availability for tattoos that don't require a great deal of preparatory drawing. Email me to inquire if you want to swoop in on one of these dates.

As for the rest of my month, I'm planning to visiting San Francisco for the last week of July to retrieve a motorcycle that's been sitting in storage down there. I should be away from the studio from July 24th to July 29th as I ride back up the coast.

We've moved!

Mikel and I have moved our studio to The Waterfall Building near Granville Island. I felt that after four years operating out of our previous studio in Gastown, we had run our course with that location as the neighborhood continued to display more disparity between extreme wealth and extreme desperation in poverty.

More high end condos, clothing and furniture stores kept opening amidst the blatant drug abuse, property theft and underlying violence that permeated that historic neighborhood.

In the 25 years I've lived in Vancouver, Gastown has always been a neighborhood in transition as property development moved in and poverty receded. But the crime that accompanies poverty would push back and property development would falter and recede, only to make another push years later with new condos and new restaurants. New tenants would then get sick of getting their cars broken in to and would eventually move on to Yaletown or Coal Harbor and the cycle continued so on and so on.

As long as the flop house hotels on Hastings Street remain, Gastown will always be a cultural battleground.

Our old studio on Water Street was situated on the front lines of this culture war. Our studio was a million dollar condo with hardwood floors, exposed brick and epic views of the ocean and mountains. But set foot outside the building and you couldn't walk two blocks for coffee without being aggressively panhandled or just generally harassed by one of the local drug addicted denizens.

Inevitably Mikel and I decided that it would be best to move our operation to another area of the city where we could tattoo in peaceable enjoyment and our clients would feel completely safe and comfortable arriving for their tattoo appointment.

Our new studio, situated only steps away from Granville Island is absolutely lovely and wonderfully convenient for us and for our customers. There's a bus stop right out front and ample parking in one of the several lots surrounding our building, including parking on the defunct CP Rail line that runs along side our suite.

The new studio is a loft style room with our waiting parlor on the entry level and the tattoo work stations on the balcony above. Mikel's loft overlooks the central room and my tattoo area has sliding glass doors that open up to a large patio with views on to the Burrard Street Bridge and the North Shore mountains.

I've even set up a nice patio table and chairs so my clients and I can take a break during a tattoo for a drink and a snack while enjoying the outside air. It's really quite posh.

The new studio sits facing the courtyard of the Waterfall Building, so unlike that our previous location there's no intercom or elevator rides, just a quick flight of stairs to the mezzanine level and you can open our door and walk right in.

As with our previous location, we're still a 100% custom tattoo studio, with all tattoos and consultations done by invitation and appointment only.

I'm now taking consultations for new tattoos at the new spot. Please don't hesitate to contact me and I'll be happy to invite you down to our new digs to chat about your tattoo ideas.

Thanks for reading!