Poor Jynx (at Electric Expressions in Kenner, Louisianna), being forced to snif his customer’s armpit while doing a series of star tattoos for her (unless you get off on that sort of thing)…
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Not funny…
You’ll find that it’s rare for me to say I don’t like a tattoo. I’m cool with anything from little roses and dolphins and stars on up to large radical custom work… But I’ve got to admit that these “EXIT ONLY” tattoos rub me the wrong way.
Seriously, it’s not funny or witty at all. And if you ever find your chubby homophobe ass in a situation where all that’s protecting you from anal rape is that tattoo, you can pretty much bet on it backfiring terribly and doing little to defend you.
See, that’s a better way to do it…
If the van’s a-rockin’…
I love this zebra girl pinup tattoo by Jay at Lotus Tattoo in Sayville, NY… It’s so 1982! If I ever get a van, this is high on my list of what’s getting airbrushed on the side.
Naut [ilus] a cock
Right now a customer of Cheyenne at Oddball Studios in Portland, OR, is flipping out about the nautilus tattoo they got on their nape. Apparently their friends ribbed them about the end of it looking like a penis, and now they’ve convinced themselves that the cock was actually added to the drawing as a cruel and twisted joke by the tattoo artist. They’ve been slagging the studio to BME members, on LiveJournal, and it’s even become a Fark photoshop contest.
Here’s the tattoo in question:
I mean, I guess I can convince myself there’s a cock in there if I really want to believe it, but if I’m stretching my “must see tubesteak now” muscle that far, I’m in a world of dick, and seeing forests of wang all around me (the supermarket’s cucumber and zucchini section is my pornography). Here’s a few pictures of a real nautilus shell. The left most one is one of the pictures that the client showed Cheyenne, and the others I grabbed from Google as examples:
They all kind of look like cock if that’s really what you’re desperate to see — and if you’re not a confident person, I suppose you could come to truly believe it if you’re friends teased you about it… But I think when you transfer the blame to the tattoo artist and actually start campaigning against what to the best of my knowledge is a top quality shop, you’ve crossed a karmic line that reflects very poorly on you.
To the wearer of the tattoo, I have but one piece of advice for you: If you ever go to the zoo, avoid the elephant enclosure.
Anyway, the tattoo doesn’t look like a cock. It looks like a urinal (source).
WHAM BAM!
Sao Paulo Tattoo Convention Pictures
In the previous entry I showed an amazing performance out of Argentina. I’d like to follow up in my “South America is awesome” theme here by sharing some great photos from my friend Osmar in Brasil. Some of the work is really amazing. These were taken at this year’s Sao Paulo convention, and you’ll see more early next week on BME as well.
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Nobody Outdoes Argentina?
We’ve moved a long way past the “string someone up on hooks and swing around for a while” stage of body ritual performance. The previous entry has an obviously theatrical show, but when it comes to this sort of thing, I feel that nobody that I’ve seen outdoes the professionalism and artistry of performance teams in South America, especially Argentina — here are some pictures from a show put on by IAM:la negra and friends with the International Theatre Festival Mercosur in Cordoba.
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I guess it’s a question of whether you’re there to shock, or whether you’re there to create art and music. I’m not sure that one is better than the other, but I am very happy to see the latter path being explored so well. Oh and there are more pictures from this performance on BME.
Circus Carnis
Here’s a shot care of IAM:toddy of a Circus Carnis performance in Northbridge. It looks like a great performance, but I have to admit that it did take some flexing of my self control not to draw cartoon word bubbles and radically change the scene.
Butterphin or Dolfly?
I mean no offense to the wearer of this tattoo, but I did find it a little amusing to see two of the bigger clichés in tattooing combined into a single chimeric creature. If I was the ironic type, if they asked me what I thought of this tattoo, maybe I’d roll down my lip with a droll look on my face. And then they’d punch me in the nose and I wouldn’t feel so clever any more.
Oh, it’s always that time!
Well, in a perfect world anyway. I love the latest gonzo tattoo (in a long, long series) by Larry Brogan over at Tattoo City Skin Art in Lockport, Illinois. It’s based on an old pinup.
