I don’t know if we’ll ever move back to a society where family markings are in the flesh, and I’m also not sure that it’s a good idea (but I’m a sucker for independence and consensuality). Anyway, for now we’ll stick to the adults, with kids imitating in temporary ways I think.
As seen at the St. Petersburgh Tattoo Fest 2006 by Babakhin Dmitry:
Kevin from Ostend, Belgium, tells me this is “self done”, but I don’t believe the pig’s foot is quite that capable. I’m sorry, I know, it’s in bad taste to make second language jokes, but I just wanted some text because I hate posting photos all by themselves.
A photo in context. Tattoo by Bobby Trefz, formerly of Local Color Tattoo in Broomall, PA.
In the past I’ve mentioned dog portrait tattoos (several times), as well as dog portrait scars, but I figured it can’t hurt to show you another! This one is by Jim Gambell at Ritual Art Tattoo:
Oh, and you may have noticed that a few things have moved around here on ModBlog (and may continue to over the next few days. I’ve added a link to me page, as well as a more full recent comments page and more. Anyway, enjoy today’s posts. I’ll try and add more tomorrow but I might skip a day.
I’ll let the letter speak for itself:
Hi. My name is Kristin. About a year ago, I was in a pet store in Langhorne, PA. There was this “aweful” looking little puppy with no hair except for a mohawk on his bald little wrinkly head being sold for $1,000. I’m not for buying dogs from pet stores, but this little dog totally belonged to me! The next day, I went back to the pet store and he was mine.
Long story short, I named him Pee Wee Martini and he is entered in this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog contest held in Petaluma, CA. I’m traveling cross country hoping Pee Wee will get this year’s title. You can see pictures of Pee Wee and vote for him to win by following the links at http://www.peeweemartini.com/.
So… I have never loved a living creature as much as I love little Pee Wee Martini so I decided to get a Pee Wee Martini tribute tattoo. It is one of my more simple tattoos, but by far, my most favorite!
I suppose this Mother Fakir needed just a little extra weight!
Check out TatRouslan from France’s 20mm nostrils (a bit over 3/4″)… So… undersized dogs and oversized nostril piercings it is!
