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		<title>&#8220;Swan&#8221; Painting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very traditional styled acrylic painting of a Swan and flowers, finished with gold leaf.
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		<link>http://jamesthen.com/swan-painting/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Pride&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New painting called &#8220;Pride&#8221;, has been a while since I last painting but this is a good start to getting back in the game.
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		<link>http://jamesthen.com/pride/</link>
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		<title>Failure Print</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to get my hand on trying my own Ukiyo-e style prints, instead of using woodblocks I decided to screen print them. Here is a failure print, this is the 2x trying to expose, I already know what I messed up on (The negative was DRAWN, not printed &#8211; that is the main issue). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesthen.com/failure-print/</link>
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		<title>Smokey Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New flash design of &#8220;Smokey&#8221;. He sports a mustache and goatee with booze, smoking pipe, and a lovely rose for that traditional feel. With early woodcut inspired shading lines that give this piece a very vintage look.
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		<link>http://jamesthen.com/smokey-design/</link>
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		<title>Review of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life and Times of Norman Keith Collins</title>
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I had the pleasure of attending a screening of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry &#8220;My work speaks for itself&#8221; at Tribeca Cinema (An amazing venue itself), a documentary of Norman &#8220;Sailor Jerry&#8221; Collins&#8217; life and pioneer in traditional American tattooing.
The film is mainly about Sailor Jerry&#8217;s life, how he was influenced, the few people who influenced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesthen.com/review-of-hori-smoku-sailor-jerry-the-life-and-times-of-norman-keith-collins/</link>
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		<title>Traditional American Pin-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[new painting done in water color, my first of many to come. I plan to start doing paintings and offering them up for free over my blog as flash designs. Here is the first of many, the banner was left blank for that purpose.
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		<link>http://jamesthen.com/traditional-american-pin-up/</link>
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		<title>Origins of Japanese Tattoo artists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written much about tattoos and popular motifs in Traditional Japanese tattooing, although I&#8217;ve never discussed the people responsible for these works of art. The beginning of Japanese tattooists developed from the practice of punitive tattooing, where bands (around the arms or legs) or characters were tattooed as punishment.

Punitive tattoos
This was called Irezumi or &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesthen.com/origins-of-japanese-tattoo-artists/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Raijin&#8221; The God of thunder and lightning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raijin is a demon who is found in Japan&#8217;s religion of Shintoism. When Buddhism arrived in Japan, Raijin and Fuji (The God of Wind) was adopted as well as many other Shinto icons into Buddhism. Raijin bangs on a massive drum to form thunder.

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		<link>http://jamesthen.com/raijin-the-god-of-thunder-and-lightning/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Solace&#8221; Buddha painting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a painting of a Buddha (Thai Buddha influenced) surrounded by three Lotus flowers, to represent the Buddha&#8217;s purity. I intended the buddha to be a statue more so than a person.

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		<link>http://jamesthen.com/solace-buddha-painting/</link>
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		<title>Water Margin and it&#8217;s impact on Japanese Tattooing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story &#8220;Water Margin&#8221; or sometimes referred to as &#8221;The Outlaws of the Marsh&#8221;  or in Japan as the &#8220;Suikoden&#8221; (The latter which spun off to many TV series, films, and a line of video games.) is a story I&#8217;ve mentioned before on my blog. It is without a doubt one of my favorite epic novels, epic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesthen.com/water-margin-and-its-impact-on-japanese-tattooing/</link>
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