BoA

BoA was one of the first introductions I received to asian music. The story of BoA's rise to success is so messed up and interesting. Basically she's from Korea and she was found through some talent search when she was 11 years old. She pretty much been bred since then to live, eat, sleep dancing and singing. She makes her job look so effortless when you watch her perform live. She's suppose to be doing her first American performance on MTV on December 5th in New York. I'm posting her newest single which is what she's going to use to try and break into the American market. I wish her luck cuz she totally has what it takes. Check out her new video below:

Never Say Die Cute Closeups

I was printing our Never Say Die tshirt tonight and was bored while waiting for them to heat up so I took a bunch of pictures of them. I will be putting up a last preview of next month's design so keep your eyes open.

Sungazer Concert

Last night Dora and I attended my close friend Marc's concert. Their band Sungazer played in a great little bar called Saint Laurent Bar 2 which turned into a rap/reggae bar after the show was done.






















That's Marc sporting an Akumu Ink tshirt.











Later in the evening Marc showed me this pic on his phone of his paper toy that he made.











On the way home we saw a manhole overflowing.

Latest Preview

This is the same design I previewed below. It will be available next weekend ;) Bookmark this link because as soon as the shirt goes online I'll post the link here.

More Posters

It's Friday again and I'm watching Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith. So far it's more like the first one in terms of interesting stories. Also I got the rest of my posters and put them up in my printing room. So here are some pics of the posters and you can see my screens that I use to print your shirts in the foreground.

More Vintage Blood

Here is a preview of our December design. As I've mentioned in the last post I was inspired by our past design Death's Embrace as well as the Dark Knight movie.

December Creeping

Today was great fun. I watched the Dark Knight again (second time so far) while working on the December design. Let me put it this way: I was very inspired by the Dark Knight movie as well as our Death Embrace tshirt for this new design. Previews will come shortly.

Inspirational Posters

Dora bought some posters for me a while back, and I got some for myself as well. And guess what...they arrived today! I have a couple more coming that will go up in the printing room which I'll post when they've arrived. So now you can get an idea of what my office space looks like:

Akumu Ink Paintings

I've already mentioned this I know. But here is the official post.






















Anyone can make and sell a print. But I want to offer you something more. I want to offer products that are high end, limited, and custom. I want to express to you the difference between mass produced whether in small quantities or large quantities compared to something made just for you. So this month's new item will be our paintings. All our designs will be available this weekend. I'm still working on redesigning the site. I've just added last night a new feature on every item page called "Customer feedback" which will link to our Etsy page allowing you to either provide feedback on our service and products as well as read what others think about us.

Books of the Dead

I love these hand made book covers. All made from leather to give the impression that their like old sorcerer books. I am totally considering filling my shelves with these.

This person on Etsy was featured in the blog section. I really love the concept, and if time permitted I would totally love to experiment with this medium. Anyways, if anything it opens the doors that if we can come up with an idea all we need to do is put it into practice. You can visit her Etsy page here.

BAPE :: Ideology

There's a real interesting blog post I found about Nigo (the guy behind BAPE) over at complex.com. I'm really fascinated by his "number 2" comment of why his clothes are so expensive. I found myself having to explain to buyers at the tattoo conventions why our shirts were 28$ when some other guy a couple booths down was selling a lame mass-produced Walmart looking tshirt for 15-20$. Read the article here.






















Hopefully tonight I'll get a chance to put the paintings up.

A Lot of Hard Work

If you do read my blog every day or so you might have noticed that I've been very quiet recently. The reason for this is there's not only been a lot of orders coming in but Dora and I have been working hard painting a custom piece. We were hired to do a painting of Montreal blogger and Akumu Ink fan Tanya McGinnity for her birthday. I'm really happy with how it turned out. Here's some pics of our hard work. If you're interested in getting a painting done, no matter what the subject matter feel free to email me.