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photographer | storyteller | tattoo artist
✨your experience matters, make it a permanent one
🩸: @tattoosbychuy
🎨: @thefunkpalace
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The beginning of my self love journey started 4 years ago… I loved working with my favorite artist on this project 🖤 #Selflove #selflovejourney #selflovephotoshoot
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Happy anniversary my love 🧡
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The Wilderfounders took a field trip to Estes Park last weekend to celebrate our co-founder Brett & Gabrielle’s wedding! Congratulations to these beautiful humans! 🍾 If you’re lucky you’ll get to know them at our new Denver space… coming in November! 📸 @chuyphoto
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on OCTOBER 3RD…we’re making it funkin’ official 🖕🏽💋🎀 funkers, it is with the fullest heart that i can finally say… WELCOME TO THE NEW FUNK PALACE 🏡🎨 on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, we’re officially opening the doors to our brand new home at the HISTORIC APPLE VALLEY INN in APPLE VALLEY, CA🍎 we truly want YOU there with us. our new home has been dreamt about, worked for, poured every ounce of passion into, and created with so much intention. but as beautiful as our new home is becoming, none of it means nearly as much without the funkers (yes, that’s you dear reader) we get to fill it with. we’re throwing a proper funk palace celebration🎨 💗Tattoo Flash Event
💗Coffee
💗Food + Desserts
💗Music
💗Local Vendors
💗Art, community & plenty of great energy
💗AND opportunities to win a FREE tattoo👀 Yes. FREE FUNKIN’ TATTOOS! there’s only one catch: you have to be here in person on October 3rd for your opportunity to win. more details on that are coming very soon 🫣💘 that is merely a small token of our appreciation for your love and support for the funk palace over the years. thank you for trusting us with your stories, ideas, and visions to bring to life on skin forever. thank you for allowing this funkin’ dream of ours blossom into something so special and beautiful! we can’t wait to get funky with you very soon! 🥹💗 lastly, while we’re still putting together the finishing touches, WE’RE LOOKING FOR LOCAL VENDORS!✨ If you’re a local artist, maker, small business, clothing brand, vintage seller, jeweler, food/dessert vendor, or creative who wants to come pop up with us, please send us a message! we’d love to hear from you! community means everything to us! keep it funky, the funk palace family💗🖕🏽
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as soon as my funkers presented me with their vision of having their engagement session on a basketball court — i dusted off my sneakers, laced them the funk up, and headed straight to the court!🏀💍📸 i love seeing the faces of my funkers light up when we talk about vision and planning for their masterpiece. planting little seeds during our call to help grow and expand their creativity of what truly makes their masterpiece, 1000% uniquely tailored to them. that’s why it is very rare for you funkers to see things being replicated throughout my art. there may be similarities in some things but, the vast majority have such a lovely way of how their love is displayed. this was truly a first for me and absolutely loved being invited to step onto the court with my funkers — a basketball court in which they love to spend countless afternoons with family for quality time. it’s nothing but an honor when my funkers let me inside of their worlds and allow for my funkyness to come and play!🎨🖕🏽❤️‍🔥 the mixture of energy between playfulness and competitiveness that filled the space when these two stepped onto the court was so beautiful to witness and document. there was tons of steamy, intense love all mixed in with laughs, dancing, and occasional passionate stare downs (a let’s get it on, it’s time to cook sort of thing). 😮‍💨🔥 congratu-funkin’-lations to my funkers on their engagement! 💍🏀 wishing you both nothing but funkin’ happiness, love, and success together! i call rematch soon!🗑️⛹🏻‍♂️
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every new masterpiece begins with an empty canvas. join me as i take you on an empty studio tour of our new funk palace oasis located in apple valley, ca🖕🏽🎨
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THE FUNK PALACE: A NEW HOME 🖕🏽🏡 a new chapter a new home for new masterpieces the same funk OCTOBER 3RD the funk is coming🩸🎨
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THE FUNK…is coming THIS OCTOBER 🖕🏽🎨📍APPLE VALLEY, CA
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darth muthafunkin’ maul! this iconic character has been on my bucket list of tattoos i’ve always wanted to bring to life on skin! I’m thankful for such an awesome funker who now gets to proudly wear this forever! 🖕🏽🔥 we’ve been working on a star wars sleeve and cannot wait to show you all that we have planned!🥵
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funkers, meet ziggy, the zebra! the start of a safari themed leg sleeve! cannot wait to bring you funkers along the journey of building this masterpiece with such an awesome funker! done using: @inkjecta @tattooproton @sharpie @dynamiccolor @revolution__ink @hustlebutterdeluxe
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“don’t drop the soap!” - prison mike 🧼 the start to an office themed leg sleeve! this project masterpiece has been one of my absolute favorites! would love to continue creating more pop culture tattoos this year! reach out with all of your ideas and let’s get funky!🖕🏽🎨 done using: @allegoryink @inkjecta @thecreepycaps @hustlebutterdeluxe @_numb_skulled @tattooproton
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been going through years and years of the funkin’ archives for a special project i have in mind this year. in a weird, alternate-universe-blessing kind of way, having this new account has really forced me to dive deeper into all of the masterpieces i’ve created throughout the years. why did i do that?
what was going through my mind?
how the funk did i do it?! are just some of the questions that have come up as i sit here digging through piles and piles of hard drives. i don’t look back at my art wishing i was in the past again. if anything, it comes from a place of honoring the journey (the ideas, the risks, the funky weird experiments that somehow worked, and every masterpiece that has gotten me to where i am today. this masterpiece, “fun in the funkin’ sun,” was photographed four years ago, back when workshops were all that and a bag of chips (or, in my case for this video, the glizzy🌭😂) the concept was simple, and the list of things we needed was even simpler: a blow-up mattress.
a water hose with a connector.
the outdoors.
and a beautiful couple in love. “i’ll take care of the rest!” i said. hahaha. and somehow, we made a whole lot of funkin’ magic. ✨ i do miss being surrounded by incredible artists, all photographing the exact same masterpiece unfolding in front of us, yet somehow walking away with something completely their own. the angles.
the compositions.
the editing styles.
the way one person sees something that nobody else in the room sees. each artist’s photograph can make you feel something entirely different (and that has always been one of my favorite parts about creating alongside other creatives). but seeing those beautiful faces light up with that little “ahhh haaa… i get it now!” moment? single-handedly one of the best feelings in the world as an educator. i miss it very much. and maybe digging through all of these old hard drives has reminded me just how much.
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