Posts Tagged ‘Blackwork’

The Actors of the Past

By Jordan Ginsberg • Jun 15th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


Good day, folks! We should have an exciting announcement (that some of you may already be aware of) a bit later on, but let’s kick things off this week with this cutting work by the one, the only, The Absolute (more from Iestyn). What you see cut into Alice’s arm up there is a Vajra, which, as the infallible Wikipedia explains, is a weapon “that has the symbolic nature of a diamond (it can cut any substance but not be cut itself) and that of the thunderbolt (irresistible force).” Indiana Jones will be by to battle you shortly, Alice.

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At a Glance

By Jordan Ginsberg • Apr 3rd, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


This backpiece comes to us—surprise, surprise—from Marc at Swastika Freakshop in Radolfzell, Germany. It’s not just Marc’s technical skills as a tattooist that impress me (although they’re off the charts), but his aesthetic: The designs he comes up with seem so bizarre sometimes, but what they really indicate is a thorough understanding of the human form, and it’s a style that, ultimately, is equal parts complementary and jarring. All of which is to say, Marc pisses excellence, plain and simple. He wakes up in the morning and pisses excellence.

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Stippling From Hawaii

By Jordan Ginsberg • Mar 16th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


Jasn sends in these shots from Pacific Rootz, the shop at which he works in fancy Maui, Hawaii. Up top is a really great stippling piece he did on his friend Matt, and after the jump are a couple photos of his own Japanese-patterned calf.

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The Whole Plane

By Jordan Ginsberg • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: ModBlog


This lithe young gentleman is KnifeInTheMarathon, and those black boxes? In the event of a crash or water landing, they will hold the secrets to the disturbance(s) that befell this ambitious craft.

(Tattoos by Jerson Filho in Brasilia, Brazil.)

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