Celtic circle - Irish shamrock?

A shamrock, Based on the same pattern as the previous celtic armband tattoo design.

Celtic knotwork shamrock

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Actually, the shamrock shape wasn't even planed, it just came out this way. At first I thought it looked like hearts, but I'm a bit tired of hearts right now, so the green shamrock shape seemed a better option.

While drawing this I couldn't help but think "it's be easier with vector on the computer", but damn, I want to train with *pencils*, and I'll do. :p

Celtic armband

Darn, I should try to update more!
Here's a little bit of Celtic (?) knotwork, a band with a repeatable pattern.

Celtic armband tattoo design

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Brookline Bike Parade

The Brookline Bicycle Advisory Committee (sounds fancy, doesn't it?) will sponsor their annual Bike Parade this Sunday, May 23rd, along Beacon Street.  They meet at Amory Park in Brookline, with check in starting at 11:30 am and the ride itself starting at 12:30pm.  Noah and I did this last year and had a great time.  I'll be at the Boston Theatre Marathon this Sunday, but I think Tracy might take Noah instead.  If you like to ride and you're in Brookline, definitely check it out.  It's a very fun time!

New car: New BMW Alpina B3 S Bi-Turbo with 400 Ponies

The new BMW 335i-based Alpina B3 S Bi-Turbo is now accessible for adjustment in the UK with aboriginal deliveries to alpha in July.

Offered in four-door saloon, Touring, Auto and auto Convertible forms, the new B3 S comes with a adapted 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged beeline six upgraded to bear a ample 400HP at 6,000 rpm and 540Nm or 398.3 lb-ft of aiguille torque.

The 0-62mph (100km/h) dart takes 4.7 abnormal for both the alehouse and auto models which are aswell able of accomplishing a top acceleration of 186mph or 300km/.

Alpina's yield on the 335i ambit is articular on the alfresco by a redesigned foreground spoiler, a new rear diffuser which encloses the tailpipes and a altered set of admixture wheels. The BMWs interiors are upgraded with a new council caster and adapted instruments while Alpina aswell offers assorted cream trim options.

Prices for the Alpina B3 S Bi-Turbo alpha from ВЈ49,250 on-the-road for the auto version.

New car: 2011 BMW M3

the aboriginal official photos of the BMW M3 Coupe accomplished in the new and absolute 'Frozen Black' color. The matte atramentous adumbration is apparent actuality on the 2011 archetypal year M3 Coupe able with the alternative Competition Package and a set of carbon cilia foreground splitters and cossack spoiler.

We admonish you that the Competition Package that is accessible on both the 2011 M3 Coupe and Sedan includes a 10mm lower suspension, 19-inch auto with greater account for a added track, and reprogrammed Electronic Damping Control and Dynamic Stability Control systems. More pictures afterwards the jump.

new car: Infiniti Launches Second Diesel Model - EX30d

Infiniti's European arm has now appear appraisement for the abate EX30d. On auction beyond Europe from July, Infiniti says it expects the EX agent models to annual for eight out of every 10 EX sales in the continent.

The EX30d is powered by the aforementioned 3.0-liter V6 turbo agent begin on the FX30d. It generates 238-horsepower and 550Nm (406 lb ft) of aiguille torque at 1750rpm, and is disordered to a 7-speed automated transmission.

The accepted 0 to 100km/h (62mph) dart comes in 7.9 seconds, while the crossover allotment 8.5lt /100km (equal to 33.2mpg UK and 27.7mpg US) on the accumulated aeon with 224 g/km of CO2 emissions.

In the UK, the EX30d will be offered in three trim levels - basic, GT and GT Premium with prices set at ВЈ35,975, ВЈ37,305 and ВЈ41,220 respectively.

All EX30ds appear as accepted with alive torque administration all-wheel drive, Xenon cornering headlights, foreground and rear parking sensors, 18-inch admixture wheels, Scratch Shield self-healing paint, electrically adjustable foreground seats, power-fold rear seats, cruise ascendancy and a 7-speaker audio arrangement with 6-CD changer, MP3 decoder, Aux-In and Bluetooth for adaptable connectivity.

New Car: Peugeot Tries to Challenge Golf GTI

Peugeot Golf GTI brand isn't asleep for Peugeot afterwards all. Despite antecedent letters from assertive media outlets in the UK, the French close has just launched a new 308 GTi action auto archetypal for the European market.

Available alone as a 5-door archetypal (at atomic for the time being), the new 308 GTi gets the aforementioned 1.6-liter THP engine with a twin-scroll turbocharger begin on added PSA Peugeot and Citroen and MINI products, including Peugeot's own RCZ sports coupe.

It produces an achievement of 200-horsepower accessible from 5,500 to 6,800 rpm and a best torque of 275 Nm or 202.8 lb-ft amid 1,700 and 4,500 rpm. Power is beatific to the foreground auto through a six-speed chiral gearbox.

Peugeot says that the 308 GTi accelerates from aught to 100km/h (62mph) in 7.7 seconds, while it completes the 1,000m dart in 27.8 abnormal and allotment an boilerplate ammunition burning of 6.9 lt/100km or 34.1mpg US with 159 g/km of CO2.

The car's anatomy has aswell been acclimatized to bout the characteristics of the engine featuring a new abeyance and council caster arrangement setup, a 10mm lower ride acme and 340 mm bore anchor discs at the foreground and 290 mm at the rear. The 308 GTi rides on 18-inch admixture auto shod in 225/40 R18 action tires.

The administration upgrades over the accepted 308 are rather attenuate and cover a ablaze atramentous carbon-style admit beneath the foreground bumper, a lower foreground console acquired from the 308 CC, roof spoiler, a rear diffuser accomplished in Perla Nera black, GTI badges and accompanying chrome bankrupt pipes.

Distinctive autogenous appearance cover sports seats at the front, aluminum basal blow and accessory knob, covering action council caster with a bedfast basal and deride rests, and piano atramentous fascia trim.

In France, the 308 GTi will be launched on the10th June, with prices starting from €26,900

2010 Porsche 911 Tequipment Aerokit Cup

2010 Porsche 911 Tequipment Aerokit Cup Picture

Porsche has announced a new package Tequipment Aerokit Cup for 911 model range. With a price of 5883 dollars, the 2010 Porsche 911 Tequipment Aerokit Cup package includes a new Aerokit Cup approximate a redesigned front, delanteroo lip and a huge rear spoiler. All 2010 Porsche 911 components were optimized in Porsche's wind tunnel to improve aerodynamics and handling.

1999 Nissan Silvia Cars Spec-R Wallpaper Picture

1999 Silvia Parts Front Side View

Final version of the Silvia Cars, the S15, for most parts of the world, styling upgrades. But in Japan, had Silvia Parts offered in two packages: the performance-oriented R Spec and somewhat subdued Spec-S, which corresponds to what is in exports.

In the R-Spec cars, Nissan offers several Silvia Parts packages, including V-package, Class B, Style and produced cars Varietta folding hard top convertible on Spec-S. The above versions are available for S15 owners motivated to change their vehicles.
Nissan Manufacturer wants power competition in the Japanese Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC), he developed S15. Lessons from the Nissan Skyline GTR was sent to all models S15 Silvia Cars. For example. The two cars share some aluminum suspension components and differences also adds body and chassis has been strengthened, especially rigidity in much the same way as the Nissan Skyline GTR: the rails, rear floor, body bar, and behind walls.

Ferrari » 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO

Now accessible are the aboriginal photos and advice on the new Ferrari 599 GTO, an acute V12 berlinetta developed to a specific performance-oriented brief. The Ferrari 599 GTO is, in fact, the company's fastest anytime alley car. It is an absolute bound copy appropriate which, in accurate Ferrari tradition, is a absolutely new concept, admitting aggressive by a assembly car. In actuality the Ferrari 599 GTO is based on the 599XX, the avant-garde beginning clue car, and can be advised about a road-going version.

The Ferrari 599 GTO is aloof for aloof 599 audience who seek the best announcement of high-performance driving. The Ferrari 599 GTO allowances anon from the abstruse alteration from antagonism and set a almanac lap time at Fiorano in 1'24".

The Fiorano lap time provides aloof one adumbration of the abeyant of this car. Aloof as cogent are the abstruse blueprint - 670 hp in a 1495kg car represents a weight-to-power arrangement of aloof 2.23 kg/hp, and ensures a 0-100 km/h dispatch time of aloof 3.35" as able-bodied as a top acceleration of over 335 km/h.

Fundamental to the GTO's achievement is the avant-garde access to anatomy development which, for the aboriginal time on a assembly car, saw the affiliation amid a administration accoutrement acquainted for a akin of admiration that is abutting to the absolute and awful adult cyberbanking controls. The aftereffect is the about complete absence of understeer and a absolutely candid chassis.

2010 Maybach 62 S Face Lift

Following 2010 Maybach 62 Sfacelift, the Maybach saloons flash with their self-confident, calmly superior, characteristic charisma. It is aloft all the new ascendant chrome radiator grille that emphasises their aberrant cachet – it is anxiously crafted in two altered variants. In the Maybach 57 and 62 models it is graced with 20 accomplished longitudinal confined and in the 57 S and 62 S Maybach models twelve solid bifold louvres with a “shadow strut” put the spotlight on the vehicle’s amazing power. Both arrow-shaped radiator grilles are aswell college than before, accept appreciably beyond dimensions, are positioned added cocked and added advanced in the administration of biking – acutely symbolising the assured cachet and calmly superior, arresting appearance.The new exoteric mirrors with optimised aerodynamics for beneath active babble harmonise actual able-bodied with the arresting front. Their ample mirror apparent aswell agency bigger vision. Dark red appendage lights of admirable actual superior complete with chrome embellishment, additional chrome trim acclimated on the handle in the cossack lid accommodate the end area a powerful, acclaimed look. This in about-face is accent by new high-sheen 21-spoke 19-inch auto in titanium argent for the Maybach 57 and 62 models. The Maybach 57 S and 62 S models will in approaching be shod as accepted with new 12-spoke 20-inch auto corrective in blue-blooded admirable silver. And all the models are accessible in the new, alone developed Bahamas Blue paint.

Even admitting the engineers at Maybach accept added the achievement of the Maybach 57 S and 62 S by 13 kW (18 hp) to 463 kW (630 hp), they were able to abate the burning abstracts (from 6.4 to 15.8 l/100 km) and the CO2 achievement (from 390 to 368 g/km CO2) at the aforementioned time. The achievement of the 57 and 62 models remained unchanged, but burning (15.0 as against to 15.9 l/100 km) and CO2 achievement (350 as against to 383 g/km) was aswell cut here. All the Maybach twelve-cylinder engines accommodated the EU5 standard/LEV2.

Flowing into Hyperspace and back.....

Some day, when I learn how to work a tattoo machine with a degree of proficiency, I hope to reproduce art like this on the flesh of willing human canvases....