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1. Deron Bauman on July 25th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

   hey, is that yours?

   nice one.

2. Sheila Ryan on July 25th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

   That. Is. Brilliant.

3. Derek White on July 25th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

   Indeed, yes, thanks. Tats never look good right after, all pink rimmed and shaved, but should look better with time. Anyone need ink done in NYC, go to Alex at East Side Ink, especially if it involves text.

4. Phil Bebbington on July 26th, 2009 at 2:12 am

   Derek, that really is quite stunning. I love the way it makes me linger and attempt to make sense of.

   A side note – my eye is drawn to Ital. My association is unfortunate, but, I really love what you have there.

5. Lucy on July 26th, 2009 at 6:13 am

   Very very nice segueway, Phil.

6. Phil Bebbington on July 26th, 2009 at 6:34 am

   Why thank you, Lucy!

   The Ital still makes me shudder to this day – we had them as police cars for a while, perhaps why everyone got away! It was a wallowing, go no-where fast piece of shit!

   British Leyland added insult to injury by only producing it in various shades of brown and beige. The ultimate combo was the brown version with the beige vinyl roof.

   I shall have nightmares tonight.

7. Lucy on July 26th, 2009 at 6:45 am

   I’m sorry to hear that, Phil. But it looks like the kind of car that the Olsen Gang might have used as a getaway.

8. Phil Bebbington on July 26th, 2009 at 6:50 am

   Well, I can’t imagine they would have got far! But then, with the obvious Italian design, who knows.

9. Lucy on July 26th, 2009 at 6:52 am

   Olsen Banden never got very far. That’s the secret of their belovedness.

10. Phil Bebbington on July 26th, 2009 at 6:53 am

    Oh, good. If their desire to go far was limited, the Morris Ital was the car for them. It would be able to take them nowhere really quite fast.

11. Lucy on July 26th, 2009 at 6:54 am

    That’s usually where they ended up, but they always always had big plans.

12. Phil Bebbington on July 26th, 2009 at 6:57 am

    Ah, big plans and lack of success, I seem to have much in common with the Olsen Gang.

13. Lucy on July 26th, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Well they’d always feed you smørrebrød in København, Phil.

14. Phil Bebbington on July 26th, 2009 at 7:06 am

    Lucy, I do like the sound of that, even though I have no idea what it is. I also like the painting.

15. Lucy on July 26th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    It is exactly what is in the painting, Phil. Classic Danish lunch: translates as ‘buttered bread’, means usually liverpaste or ham or cheese or shrimp or egg on dense rye bread, but can be fancy. Most people would make something like the smørrebrød in the painting, in their own homes, rather than the fancy versions. And always have it with a beer. Probably even at lunchtime, in the Olsen Band’s time.

16. Phil Bebbington on July 26th, 2009 at 7:11 am

    Sounds perfect – I love all of those things.

17. Sheila Ryan on July 26th, 2009 at 8:43 am

    And there I was gazing at [ITAL] and thinking back with longing to those happy days when we inhabited the Land of Italics.

18. Lucy on July 26th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    There isn’t even any trace of it left, Sheila. It just lives on as a memory now. I know I was in the Land Of Italics, you know, Phil knows. We may be the only ones who know. Everyone else may deny it, and who knows, maybe one day one of us will also remain forever upright and lose memory of it too.

19. Derek White on July 26th, 2009 at 9:01 am

    Don’t want to JINX myself with an S.P.Q.R. thrown in there, so a land of [ITAL] suggestion as NEXT EXIT works for now.

20. Cindy Scroggins on July 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Amazing, Derek. I love it.

21. Kelsey Parker on July 27th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    This is remarkable! Derek, did you design it yourself?

22. Derek White on July 27th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Thanks, yes, “designed” it I guess you could say, just an accumulation of things I’ve wanted inked in the past 6 months.

23. Rick Neece on July 27th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    Derek
    I’ve returned to look at it, here, several times. It is mezmerising. It induces “the gaze.”

    A thought occurs. It is on your flesh. Which means, one day, it will be dust (unless you are mummified, then mayhap a few hundred more years before the inevitable). Save for this photo on c’flock which will likely be dust, or ephemera, some day down the road. One might think of it as a bloom, here today and gone tomorrow, but I’m thinking it ought to be carved, exactly as it appears, on a slab of stone by some wizard of monumental expertise.

    This begs to be found and gazed upon. Deciphered by some expert in lost languages in a future world. Just beautiful and beautifully rendered.

24. Lucy Foley on July 27th, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    Dash Snow’s woman wanted to photograph his tattoos as he laid in his coffin a couple of weeks ago. His parents thought this was not a good plan, and stopped her. One of those unfinished tasks. An impulse of the bereft.

25. Derek White on July 27th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Why thank you. I guess tattoo is a form of publishing which at least won’t go out of print in your own lifetime. Which is all that you can be sure of anyway. Though to think of their brief existence as they decay is also interesting to imagine.

26. Rick Neece on July 27th, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    Yes, Derek. The brief, no matter the time-frame, as they decay, imagined.

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