Give the Gift that Last Forever.

It's that time of year again. YAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to jump start that economy, haha. But if you're like me, I get more joy out of giving. So here's the sales pitch, "Give them the gift that they'll have forever." Or hell get one for yourself. 

And in the spirit of giving, From now to December 23 we are for every $50 you spend we will GIVE you an extra $5. And if you buy a $500 give certificate we'll GIVE you an extra $100. 

FOR THE KIDS

We are also collecting toys for kids at the shop. Stop by 12 oz Studios with a new unwrapped toy from now until December 20 and receive $10 off any piercing, $10 off any tattoo from 50-100, $20 off any tattoo from 120-200, $30 off 220-300, etc. You will also be entered in our raffle. giving away a free piercing, gift certificate, and hoodies, t-shirts, We're giving a lot of stuff away! Every kid deserves a great xmas, together we can all help! 

12 oz. Studios

116 new Broadway

Brooklawn, NJ 08030

856-742-1234

I wanna thank everyone who've help so far and all of you that are going to help. Let bring a little Joy so some kids.

Cafe Racers

So Last night I was flipping through the channel and stumbled on this show called Cafe Racer on Discovery HD.  All I thought is whaaaaaat. Not only have we've been into cafe racers since we watch mad max when we were kids, but we have our 1976 Honda CB750 out at the lobby of our shop for the last 4 years. We are also working on our spring line of t-shirts due out in March, and quite a few designs being inspired by our love for these bikes... Apparently TV America is finally seeing it too. Here are pics of the 12 oz. Cafe Racer and a sneak peek of the first 12 oz Racer Tees.

Fast forward to the Fastwards

So Friday, despite the cold that kept me in bed for three days, we all took that long 10 min trek to Philadelphia, ha ha. Well 10 minutes to get to Philly, 1/2 an hour to get parked. Once getting to Fergie's Pub (1214 Sansom st. between 12th & 13th St), the adventure didn't stop there. At first I couldn't get in because my license was suspended for 30 days for speeding. As luck would have it, even though I have been going to this bar every Monday for their open mic night for the last 5 years, this Friday, a bouncer that I never seen before. He wouldn't let me in. Good thing I knew the band, huh. We went into this weekend chaos to support our good friends Brian and Doug.  They along with their bassist Damon are in this pretty sweet band called The Fastwards. Although they are mainly an acoustic trio, we were treated with some songs with lyrics and an amazing Johnny Cash cover of Rings of Fire. I took the opportunity to take some picture of them and an impromptu 12 oz studios apparel photo shoot. The Fastwards' debut EP "Hole In The Bucket" is now available on www.myspace.com/thefastwards  (see the Ayos iShare window for free downloadable audio and cover art). These guys were amazing. After that performance I forgot about the Mitsubishi Galant full of drunk a-holes waving their have empty bottles of Hennessy and cheap vodka in a plastic bottle while driving erratically in front of us, the 1/2 hour driving 2 inches a minute to get to the parking garage, and the 24 year old fat bouncer's power trip. Well I did until I started writing this blog.

This is called Independence. Perfect for Philadelphia.

I got a new toy today...NO not that kind

So I have about 4 cameras.  Each one was suggested by some one..(First mistake)... Since starting this blog, I've been messing with every single one trying to get the best picture for you.. Yeah that wasn't happening, so I started researching. Then a stroke of luck, I got a new friend. My good friend Izzy (J. Isobel Delisle, Google that she's AMAZING) is an amazing photographer and had a Canon Eos 20D when she took my picture for my website (reconstruction is still in the process). I pretty much molested her equipment. Now a year has passed and I finally got a new, used camera. I got a Canon Eos 30D and it can beat up all of my other cameras at the same time by itself. Actually I named it Chuck Norris.

Brendan is always taking pictures with tiny things. There will be more of these.. Brendan is also known as Sailor B. and bug wrangling is not his only talent. Here he is tattooing.

Here we have Meghan's hands creating magic. There's even a bird flying from her hand..

Here I am Tattooing. Jose took the role of Photographer here.

My grouping of Magic wands

This Beauty was built for me by Seth Ciferri.  He was nice enough to inscribe it to Me.

I did get this camera the day the Pacquiao fight was on. This is the closes I could get of photgraphing that fight. 

These are some of the characters that hang out everyday at the shop... One gots our back and the other gives us luck.... I think... The Gorilla is actually a munny that Jose sculpted.. we are working on a few more of these.. They'll be up here soon.

Yeah the first one is DO no evil.. 

You seriously need some of these.

I"ve been collecting tin robots for a few years now. My new collection of paintings are all robots. As soon as I get them finished I'll post those up

Of course I took my camera home and took pictures of the kids. This is Butterscotch.

Stash is MAAAAAAAAAD

This morning the weather was so nice that we decided to go to historic New Hope. It was a great drive all the way there. The fall colors, the crisp fresh air, and the sounds of nature. I'm a city boy at heart, but getting away every now and then is amazing. These are some of the sights on our way there.

On the Walt Whitman Bridge looking up the Delaware towards the Ben Franklin Bridge.

                                Philly                                                   Benjamin Franklin Bridge

I thought it was just a weird dog bag.. Then I noticed it was a Sonic the hedgehog plushy with a dog bag in front... Just like the Ghetto Boys "My mind is playin' tricks on me."

On that note, I think it's time to go back home and take a nap.. All this fresh air is making me sleepy..