Welcome!

Graphic Tribe is Dali Rău’s tattoo studio, located in Tokyo, Japan.

Black and Gray

Specialized in black and gray, fine-line, realistic designs, prolific in tattooing styles such as portraits, biomechanics, lifelike floræ and faunæ, compositions, dragons and kitsch art, but also having a vast experience in tribal and lettering tattoos.

Custom Designs

All tattoos are based on unique, original, custom designs, drawn from scratch for each and every client. Flash catalogs are never ever used or —to put it simply— we don’t need no stinkin’ flash!

This Website

Starting with detailed information about the studio system, contact details and an extensive FAQ section, and ending with a photo gallery containing approximately one thousand tattoo pictures grouped in several collections, this website aims to provide all the information you need for a thorough research and decision regarding your first/next tattoo(s), as well as an enjoyable visit for those of you “just looking”.

The news column contains excerpts from the most important announcements, schedule– and update–related articles published on the blog, which can also be accessed via the RSS or Atom feeds.

For a complete table of contents, please refer to the site map.

Hotmail At It Again

[…] Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics or IP/domain reputation problems […]

Yeah, right‥!

Hotmail is fucking me again… I mean, it’s fucking everybody again, since the above is an excerpt from a message bounced back to me when trying to contact —stupid Dali— one of my clients.

I’m too tired of this, my finger hurts and the weather’s gray, so here’s the bottom line: if —for whatever mysterious reasons you might have— you’re still using Hotmail and that is the only account you’re stubborn enough to have, don’t bother to write. I won’t respond —unless I’m in one of those rare generous/masochistic/hippie moods— no matter how many times you resend; your e-mail “provider” (if you can call Hotmail that) is blocking —flagging me as a spammer— either my domain or some of my IP addresses (or both) and my messages won’t reach you.

This is not the first time, those scumbags fucked us before many times, but this is the first time when I’m gonna reject any correspondence with Hotmail users. It does catch you —if you’re one of them— in the middle a little bit, for which I’m sorry, but come on, it’s so easy to set up an account at Gmail nowadays, there’s no excuse to stick with that fucking piece of shit Microsoft tricked you into using…

Fuck Microsoft!

System Info

More info: guide page (working hours, appointments, prices, hygiene), FAQ…

Contact Info

More info: contact page…

Latest Additions to the Photo Galleries

Retakes

For more samples, have a look at the galleries…

News

Site Move

I’ve just finished moving this website from the old URL (http://graphictribe.com/tattoos/) to the current one. If you have any page bookmarked, please update it by removing “tattoos/” from the URL…

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Back to Work

I’ve resumed work Thursday, on the 7th, but I was already at the studio a day before that, catching up and getting ready for the reopening so, between answering e-mails and wiping the floor, a tiny post to say just that: I’m back! :)

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Hotmail Users

Window$ £ive Hotmail —a.k.a. “The Laughing Stock”— is, once again, randomly blocking legitimate e-mail messages from reaching your inbox. I gave up —long ago— trying to resend messages that had been rejected by them, so there is a good chance my replies never make it back to you.

Please use another account (e.g. Gmail, Fastmail) for our correspondence.

Thank you!

P.S.: When looking for an alternative, be aware that the filthy snitches at Yahoo! will fuck you over with the first chance they get.

Contact Info Page » E-mail

Infrequently Asked Questions • Part I • Professionalism and Preconceived Ideas

IAQ, the “Infrequently Asked Questions” and the infrequent answers given to them. Questions frequent enough to deserve extra-attention, but seldom enough to be kept out of the more conventional FAQ section of this website. Some of them do have something to do with tattooing, most of them don’t but, hopefully, answering to some of them will prove to be more useful than just entertaining :)

The first chapter of the series gives a little insight on how my personal views —about religion, as the example given in the article— affect my work. A must read for first time visitors who are thinking about getting a tattoo with a religious theme…

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