Good morning, ModBloggers! Let’s start the day off with the lovely Finch (seen wearing substantially less clothing here) and this very pretty chest piece, featuring…huh, what is that? Some kinda falcon or something? I’m no ornithologist. If only there were some sort of indication of what kind of bird this is! Sigh. I guess some mysteries were never meant to be solved.

Whoa hey, and also, it’s Friday! We made it! Sometimes we’re so bad, we scares ourselves.

(Tattoo by Brian Hutflies at Warlock in San Francisco, California.)

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If you’re anything like me, you’re largely unimpressed by cats. “Oh, you’re enjoying your Sunday afternoon, sitting in your favorite chair and catching up on some reading? I’m just going to ninja my way across the room and then bite the shit out of your feet. Happy birthday, asshole.” Give me a big, dumb, loyal dog with nothing remotely resembling an independent streak any day of the week. With that said, I had a hard time not enjoying this portrait of a lost (but not forgotten, obviously) cat of Harriet‘s by Valerie Vargas at Frith Street Tattoo in London, England. After the jump, we zoom out to see this cold-blooded killer letting loose on an errant bumblebee.

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We’ve featured the work of the excellent Jason Stephan before, but past offerings have typically been of the cartoonish variety, tremendous as they were. Well, this time around, Jason checks in with this photo-realistic rendering of a few fish species native to Springfield, USA, embroiled in some sort of heated underwater battle. Just as it’s no secret that, around these parts, we love our hideous creatures and animal warfare, nor should it have been hard to guess that this sort of glorious combination of the two would make an appearance here. Early advantage to the purple and green monster notwithstanding, my money’s on the orange one. Let’s not make this a racial thing though, alright?

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I’ll admit that I’m not always a fan of the hoary old ripping-through-the-skin tattoo, but, as we all saw earlier in the week, Paco Dietz at Graven Image Tattoo is, if nothing else, quite adept at turning the grotesque into something rather attractive. Really, between hideous creatures and painstakingly accurate renderings of internal organs and muscle tissue and such, this Dietz fella is going places.

(Tattoo by Paco Dietz at Graven Image Tattoo in Mountain View, California.)

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OK, now let’s see here…Eye of Ra? Check. Grapes? Check. Gorgeous dog portrait? Check. Horn? Check. Peyote? Missing. Oh, wait, there it is, in my mouth. Carry on.

(No, seriously, I love this tattoo, even if it’s a bit of a brain-melter. Tattoo by Josh Weir.)

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