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Tomas Garcia

Right now I live in Arlington, Virginia, USA (yes, next to the Pentagon).

I am from the center of the city of Barcelona (Spain, Europa),next to Pza. Universitat.
I studied graphic design at IDEP,and I was working as a graphic designer,I had my own studio and also I was workingfor Saura and Torrente at Edicions de l'Eixample for art galleries(Fundacio tapies, Museu Picasso, Fundacio Miro...)for tattoo shops, bikers (81...), clubs (La Terrazza, Discotheque,8, Cia...)since 1987 until 1996 when I had to decide between that and tattooing,and I decided tattooing was what I liked better...


So, I have been working professionally since then,this means, before I was apprenticing and tattooing friends,but after that I started to work in a tattoo shop6 days a week 10 hours a daytattooing people I didn't know (customers) until now...
I love travelling.
I have been travelling all over Spain to places like all over Catalunya, Madrid, Valencia, Alicante, Sevilla, Granada, Leon, Bilbao, Santander, Zaragoza, Toledo, and many more...
I've been to some places in Europe like London, Sheffield, Cheltenham, Edimbourg, Paris, Montpellier, Toulousse, Perpignan, Monaco, Amsterdam, Dortmund, Laussanne, Brussels, Antwerp, Cyprus, Roma, Parma, Milano, Regio Emilia, Firenze, Pisa, Venezia...
And some places all over the world like Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, different places around the USA like Los Angeles, Irvine, Costa Mesa, Laguna beach, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Ritchmond, Baltimore, DC, Raleigh, Galax, Alaska and some more...
I like travelling, languages, I speak Spanish, Catalan, English and French, and some others not as well, diving, scuba diving, painting...
I did a world tour that took me from february 2003 to september 2003Barcelona - London - Bangkok (I was 3 months all around Thailand) - Tokyo - DC - London - Barcelona...


..at the moment I am studyng Japanese, so anybody interested on practicing would be wellcome to email me in katakana and hiragana...
...my level is really low, so, I don't guarantee I will understand it,but I will be able to read it (no kanji at the moment...)...
I love tattoos...
doing them and getting them...
in fact I am a tattoo collector with work on my body done by:
Ramon (Barna Tatus, Barcelona, Spain), Oscar (el sudaca, Barcelona, Spain), Fabrice(Toulousse, France), Iron (Sabadell, Spain), Mono (Elektra, Amsterdam, Holland), Jesse Dicey (Urge, Victoria, Canada), Erik von Bartholomaus (Keepsake, Arlington, VA, USA), Lola Garcia (LTW, BArcelona, Spain), Matt Rinks (Jinxproof, DC, USA), Brady Duncan (Read Street, Baltimore, MD, USA), Seth Ciferri (Read Street, Baltimore, MD, USA), Dan Higgs (Baltimore, MD, USA), Nick Colela (Chicago, IL, USA), Mario Desa (Deluxe, Chicago, IL, USA), Tas (LTW, Barcelona, Spain), Mike the Athens (Athens, Greece), Christos (Ayia Napa, Cyprus), Yorg (Athens, Greece), Javi Chong (LTW, Barcelona, Spain), Monga (Aloha, Barcelona, Spain), Javi (Mao & Cathy, Madrid, Spain), Dr. Lakra (Dermafilia, DF, Mexico), Amanda Toy (Original Classic, Trieste, Italy), Beppe (Ink Addiction, Verona, Italy), Hata (Inkrat, Tokyo, Japan), Rei (Inkrat, Tokyo, Japan), Washo (Eccentric, Nagoya, Japan), Harlan (Deluxe, Chicago, IL, USA), Pepe, Chris O'Donell (NY Adorned, NY, NY, USA), Jef Whitehead (Tattoo City, San Francisco, CAL, USA), Jeff Rassier (222, San Francisco, CAL, USA), Pablo Barada (Quilmes, Argentina), Paulo Suluape (Samoa), Xam (Sacred Art, London, UK), Keko (LTW, Barcelona, Spain), Mike Cooper (Keepsake, Arlington, VA, USA), Tim (Liquorbrand, Antwerpen, Belgium), Lucky Rich (Sidney, Australia), Kathryn Jergovich, Tim Biedron (Deluxe, Chicago, IL, USA)...........
...and I will feel a big release when I get my Pe'a finished, because now I look really empty, but I have to keep the space for it...
Also I am writing graffiti since 1983, I have been always a bomber, tags and so on, not that much artistic, more quantity than anything...

So, my life has been painting, writing graffiti, graphic design and tattooing mostly, so those are my interests...

and collecting sneakers...

Check my website and see what I like,the things I do,who I am and so on...
I moved to Arlington, Virginia in September 2003, after 2 years travelling around, I am from Barcelona, Spain, so I don't know many people in the area and it would be cool if I go out to see some faces I know instead of only unknown people, wich is also cool, but both I guess is better...

So, I would like to meet some people from the DC-Baltimore area mostly, because I also go often to Baltimore

also I would like to meet people in Chicago, my wife's family is from South Chicago (yes, there, pretty ghetto, where the abandoned steel mills and all that shit...), so we go there at least once a year to visit them...
also San francisco, LA, New York, Phila, New Jersey, Boston and some more places that I usually go...

I'd like to meet people interested on similar things...

People into Graffiti, tattoos, painting, art, classic cars, languajes, scuba diving, Eurofolk...

I am not interested on dating

I am not interested on meeting people for sex

I would like to meet people with something to say...

I also would like to meet people with nothing to say...

In general I don't like people and hate the human race...

If you put a button in front of me and tell me that if I push it all the humans including myself would disapear, I would push it 5 times... ...just to be sure...








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Some useful links:

Keepsake tattoo
Inupie King of Graffiti
Fotolog
Photos of tattoos I did
Paintings I did
Contratattoo
Graffiti Writing Masters
Jeniphir

Mixi
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