Ok, he’s not my grandad — this is tattoo icon and author Herbert Hoffmann (the amazing and highly recommended “Bilderbuchmenschen“, also available in English from Last Gasp as “Living Picture Books”), photographed by AEEC in Bibione, Italy. A couple more pictures are after the break.
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This organic flower pod design by Philip Milic (pmtattoos.com) out of Oakland, CA has got to be one of the nicest tattoos I’ve seen in a long time, and the kicker is, if you go to his page and browse through his work, it’s all this nice… Really amazing stuff.
You can and should click to zoom in.
By Julian (Tattoo Julian) in Valdepeñas, Spain…
Now
me and my Adidas do the illest things
we like to stomp out pimps with diamond rings
we slay all suckers who perpetrate
and lay down law from state to state
we travel on gravel, dirt road or street
I wear my Adidas when I rock the beat
on stage front page every show I go
it’s Adidas on my feet high top or low
My Adidas…
My Adidas…
This healed scarification of a koi, about six months old in this photo, is by Matt Vermillion at Newbreed in Indianapolis, IN.
See more in “Misc. Cuttings“ (Scarification)
This awesome full backpiece tree is a coverup of an old tribal tramp stamp (what an improvement!), done by Justin Bolonski (www) at Integrity Tattoo in Royersford, PA.
Badur send me a link to a “plasma blade” cutting tool, what seems like a big improvement on various electrocautery-type cutting tools… Should be amazing for procedures like subincisions…
As you can tell from the screenshot, the video is a little gory (Caitlin says “ewww! what is it!!! is it a baked potato with corn in it!?!?”)*.
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(* Caitlin now says “why must you make fun of me?”)
iam:viva hate
Ashley got this double-headed dildo and butt-plug “love thy neighbor” piece by Tanane Whitfield at Fuzion Ink in Norfolk, VA.
Following up on the facial knife fight scars, here’s some chest work out of Istanbul, Turkey.
