And so here we have Nadine from Visavajara in Nürnberg, Germany, posing with Rick Nielsen a friend at an undisclosed location in Europe. Germany? Switzerland? Atlantis? Nobody knows.
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On a scale of one to 10, this tattoo of the AutoCAD dimensioning toolbar is one hell of a nerdy (and awesome) tattoo. “As you can tell,” says the wearer, “I really love drafting.” We could tell.
(Tattoo by Derek Noble at Lucky Devil in Seattle, Washington.)
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I fully understand if Factorygirl wants vengeance for that awful joke in the title. That said, the no pants/fresh cutting/stripy socks triumvirate surely trumps the abysmal wordplay. Well played, my friend.
(Cutting by Rev Lower at Evolved Body Art in Columbus, Ohio.)
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Really wonderful work here by Dustin Poole at Sacred Balance in Calgary, Alberta. Click through for a close-up. C’mon, do it. You know you want to.
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So, if Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the human race, I suppose this is tribute to, hmm, Nick Cave?
(Implant by Lukas Zpira.)
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So, what we talked about earlier, about how it can be a crap-shoot when adapting a painting into a tattoo? The same is not true about images of skeletons rocking out on guitars while riding unicycles. Those are just fantastic, every single time.
(Tattoo by Craig Lee at Sacred Skin in Clive, Iowa.)
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I’m pretty confident that, as close as you may get to guessing this one, no one’s going to get it right on the nose … and no peeking at the tags, cheaters.
(That’d be Xenceval, sporting an 8 mm. Prince Albert, a few frenum piercings, and what appears to be a mustache fashioned out of black washable marker.)
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Quite the murderer’s row of babies on the old ModBlog lately, no? First we had last week’s Smurficide, and now Back Sass Jezebel‘s stunning little Dahlia Grace here just made my heart explode. Good grief. It just got a little dusty here at the office.
(“My little girl loves her daddy,” says the new mama, and those would be daddy’s hands, with tattoo work by Tom at Inksanity in Somerset, New Jersey.)
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It can be a crap-shoot when adapting a painting into a tattoo, trying to balance which elements can be translated effectively and which will require certain modifications. Consider what Wil from Randy Adams Tattoo in Ft. Worth, Texas, did to interpret Dali’s The Ship here. Everything seems a little more “solid” in the tattoo than in the original (Ed. note: I am not a student of visual art and there is not even a slight chance that I’ll use the proper terminology here), and that it was consciously “tattooified” (Ed. note: This, however, is a perfectly cromulent art term) rather than the artist making an effort to create a carbon-copy of the source material. In this case, this seems like an appropriate course to take. What do you all think? About this interpretation, about adapting paintings into tattoos in general, about the world … let’s chat, ModBlog.
And so here is international playboy John Durante, hanging out at the Baltimore Tattoo Arts Convention at the end of January, and just cold skewering folks all over the place (including the lovely Tracie) as part of a performance involving, among others, Nu Ethix Suspensions. Lots of great photos from this set should be up on BME in the next day or two, but you can get a sneak preview by checking out the page of the lovely Miss Ruth Decay, who sent in the majority of these bad boys.
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