James Wisniewski (Body Electric, Hollwood CA) did this 6mm titanium prong faced CZ microdermal recently… I think I remember someone commenting on how microdermals were interesting to them because they opened up a whole lot of body decorating options that were not available before except through procedures arguably in the “[very] minor surgery” category rather than “piercing” category like microdermals are. I suppose this helps illustrate that notion.
I don’t know if this toe piece that David Barake in Santiago, Chile did is going to hold up very well (palms, soles, and so on don’t take ink easily), but it sure is cute!
Damn, I don’t envy what Larry Brogan‘s hands must have felt like after tattooing for that long! I’d say long sits are definitely harder for the tattoo artist physically than the client. Maybe that makes me seem either lazy or like a masochist? Anyway, the piece is titled, “Pussy Worship” and it’s still in progress (Larry’s at Tattoo City Skin Art, Lockport IL).
Matching tattoos, done by Unkie Timmo at Fat Ink Tattoo in Newcastle, Australia.
Obviously I have my personal discomfort about the “CREATION” and “WORSHIP” and so on subliminally placed in this touching remembrance piece, but what I really got a kick out of it is that the tattoo was done by Scott at Pain Hate Pain in Akron, Ohio. (Not because there’s anything funny about Scott, but because I think it’s funny when überfriendly tattoos are done at shops with angry names — it’s the word-nerd in me responding).
Think about that next time you decide to mouth off to the cop that pulls you over for speeding. Ah, silicone. Is there anything you can’t do?
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I definitely didn’t guess that! Mims writes, “this is my brand new tattoo, semi-inspired by Fight Club. It’s a Nitroglycerin molecule inside a heart with crossbones, meaning my heart is explossive and deadly. Sort of speaks of random teenage heart break and mood swings.”
Lior at PsychoTattoo in Tel Aviv, Israel, did this piece.
“My cousin and I convinced our eighty year old grandmother to get her first tattoo with us,” writes the submittor of this tattoo. She looks a little stunned by the whole process, but that’s OK — I hope if I live to eighty and have grandkids that they take me out for chamaeleon skin or whatever kids are doing in 2053…
LexTalonis got this Dirty Sanchez finger tattoo as a “protest to the overdone finger mustache tattoos”. In return, I hear his girlfriend has left him as a protest to the poo smear tattoo (j/k). Tattoo by Jason Von Victor at Marlowe Ink in Fairfax, VA.
