Digger (“punk rock prehistorian” — check out his page to see his superb petroglyph tattoos and more pictures like this) sends in these photos of a Thai bronze age burial excavation (click through for a second photo), showing shell and marble bracelets as well as large shell ear tunnels.
The very talented Sergey Vojnov at Extreme Art in Saint Petersburg, Russia did this amazing coverup tattoo, based on Jeff Soto artwork. I see a ton of extremely high quality tattoo work coming out of Russia these days.
Holy moley, I really really love these photos (there’s a second if you click through) of Micah and his father (they sure look alike!). I’ll let Micah explain —
I thought you’d get a kick out of these. After about twelve years, I reconnected with my dad (this was last summer — I’m just slow at getting pictures developed). Anyway, here are some shots of us in Gloucester, MA. Yes, those are tattoos of eyes on his eyelids. They’re about twenty years old and were done by Big Joe Kaplan at his shop in Mt. Vernon, NY and twenty years later, my dad still thinks they’re the funniest thing in the world!
I think the whole “nature vs. nurture” thing applies here… considering I barely knew him growing up, and hadn’t seen him but once in twelve years (and who knows how long before that).
This gorgeous freehand Celtic knotwork piece was done by Jeppe Isbak at I.C. Art Tattoo in Denmark.
These wonderful photos (click for a zoom in) of Andro (Haunted Tattoos and Piercing in London, UK) and Candice were taken by Ashleigh at Savage Skin for a magazine interview — Andros tattoos are by Xed Le Head at Into You in London, UK, and Candice’s tattoos are by Andro.
Click through to see the final piece on Nick J, which is about seventeen hours of work by Israeli tattoo artist Liorcifer (who among other claims to fame, gets mentioned in this over-the-top-idiotic anti-tattoo article), formerly of the Last Rites crew… Great work by Lior as always.
Candice and her boyfriend Andro (who tattoos at Haunted Tattoos and Piercing in London UK, specializing in dotwork and whitework) recently travelled to Thailand and he tattooed one of the guys at the studio he was working at there… This is the amazing result!
Hugh Mattay from Tattoo Culture in Canberra, Australia did this neat multi point industrial… I especially like the helix to lobe bar.
Ian McKown (who’s one of the strongest guys I know) that tattoos at Bound by Design in Denver, Colorado did this great skull on Lorne.
Phoenixx snapped these shots of Square‘s awesome Junko Mizuno flesh removal leg scarification by Wayde Dunn while he was touring in Philadelphia.
