And here we have Neek, hands tied behind his head and about to be cast off Mt. Olympus by the gods, for the grave transgression of, um, washboard abs, mostly. Hera wanted to keep him around because she so fancied the fine stippling work being done by Alice Newstead in his armpits, but was sadly outvoted. After the jump, startling video of his earthly punishment, which involves hanging by hooks in his forearms, for eternity. Terrible.
Friend of BME, Ary from VIMBY Video, just sent us this new piece profiling a man who needs no introduction, Paul Booth, at his Last Rites studio in New York City. Paul discusses trades he’s made for tattoo work (example: a torture chair), tattooing rock stars, shows off “Skeleton Christ,” and more.
Last week I was out in Los Angeles, working on remodeling the Gallery with my partner Todd. We’ve done a lot in the very short year that Canvas has been open, but we’ve definitely stayed true to what we’ve tried to do. With that said, I’m starting to wonder if maybe Vimby is just following me around. They seem to e-mail me at all the right times and happened to show up on opening night for our one year anniversary show. If you look closely, you can see me hiding from the camera!
Special thanks to Todd Burnes, Russel Victorioso and Shawn Barber for helping put together an amazing Visionaries II. Hopefully we have another great year of helping tattooers showcase their art, as well as growing as fine artists. Check out more work from the Visionaries II show after the jump or click here.
Michele Wortman
Kim Saigh
Jeff Gogue
Jason D’Aquino
Ary from Vimby sends us three new videos from shops around the Los Angeles area. Broken Art Tattoo, 264 Customs and House of Freaks are included in this batch. Don’t forget to check out their websites as well. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I like what Vimby is doing. Having met some of their producers/directors/editors over the past weekend, they definitely have a love for what they’re doing and it shows.
[Joplin Globe] It’s pretty often that we stumble across stories of backwards school boards that have decided students with tattoos and piercings are an affront to the education system and do not even deserve access to the same crippled-by-No-Child-Left-Behind embarrassment programs as all the others, and who cares right? What have stupid kids ever offered society other than scabies and juvenile diabetes? Well, the mavericks on the Joplin R-8 Board of Education in Missouri have turned their discerning eyeballs on the swill merchants who are pushing these ideas of “body” “art” on the little scamps: teachers!
Joplin R-8 Board of Education members Tuesday night gave administrators the OK to change wording in the district’s employment policy to not allow any part of a tattoo to show.
The policy previously instructed teachers to wear clothing that “minimizes” tattoos, but it did not prohibit part or all of the tattoo from showing.
The board also wants to make that policy apply to all district employees, not just teachers.
Superintendent C.J. Huff said he brought the issue to the board because someone had raised concerns about teachers with tattoos. The board members appeared to be in unanimous agreement about tattoos not being appropriate in a professional and, specifically, a classroom setting.
[…] Joplin resident Maurice Filson encouraged the board to adopt a policy that requires teachers to cover their tattoos. He said refusing to do so would be a statement that might speak louder than the body art itself.
“You already know the problems our children are facing, so for the sake of our kids, I hope this can be properly addressed,” Filson said.
Do those problems include low test scores and problems focusing in class? Because I have a feeling that even if the subject matter of these classes isn’t engaging the little ragamuffins, then maybe more interesting individuals at the helm could be of some help. But as I’ve said before, it’s hard to argue with an employer that seeks to enforce a dress code, so … keep up the work, Joplin Board of Education. You are doing a job.
[Greensburg Daily News] So what with it being election season and all, does anybody know when we cast our ballots for mother of the year? Because, even though it’s only October, I have a feeling it’s going to be tough to beat Indiana’s proudest daughter, Jessica Middleton of St. Paul, who had herself a pretty spectacular twenty-second birthday:
According to Greensburg Police Chief Brian Heaton, Jessica L. Middleton, 22, was arrested early Saturday morning on charges of neglect of a dependent, a Class D felony. Heaton said at 10:26 p.m. Friday, the department received a call of a 2-year-old in a car unattended in the city parking lot just off the downtown square. Due to a high call volume taxing the on-duty officers he had at the time, Officer Mike McNealy didn’t arrive immediately. When he did, he found a child being cared for by some friendly passers-by.
[…] Heaton said they may not have found Middleton without thew help of a 16-year-old male who said he was friends with the mother. He told officers Middleton, who turned 22 on Oct. 15, went to Somers’ Ink, a new tattoo parlor downtown, for a tattoo at around 9:30 p.m. Afterwards, Heaton said the teenager informed officers she went to the Tiki Bar for a birthday drink. He identified Middleton to officers, who allowed him access to the bar for the purpose of making their arrest.
Booze and tattoos? Sounds like a pretty sweet birthday to me! Other than the whole borderline-infanticide thing, which really sounds like it was being blown out of proportion. When asked for a comment, Middleton told reporters that she used to babysit herself in the car all the time, eating cigarette butts and strangling herself with the seatbelt, and she turned out pretty well, didn’t she? Middleton then fell down, soiled herself and a rabid coyote ran over and licked her fresh tattoo, thus capping the greatest birthday she or anyone else has ever had.
[YouTube] No snark here, friends: The video that follows is of a ballet performed by a pair of amputees, one male and one female, and it’s about as beautiful as anything you’ll find on these here Internets:
Lately I’ve been waking up, wiping the sleep from my eyes and sitting down at my computer for another 14 hour day in front of the Internet. The one main benefit is that I never know when I’m going to get a lovely surprise, like naked photos of heavily tattooed women who in my mind, are just waiting for the go ahead before they make their way to my place. When I first got this email, I completely skipped the text and went straight for the photos.
While I’ve never heard of The Fuel Girls, I certainly didn’t have a problem with them sending me their photos.
I remember the days when the only fire breathing, milk bathing, scantily clad and heavily tattooed woman making waves was Masuimi Max. These days it seems like anyone can take off their clothes, breathe a little fire and shake their ass next to a heavy metal band and top it off with their own TV show. At least they look good doing it. The Fuel Girls will be touring with Motörhead so check the tour dates to see them live!
PLAYBOY TV TURNS UP THE HEAT WITH THE PREMIERE OF FUEL GIRLS!
New Series Will Ignite Playboy TV with Hot Girls and High-Octane Stunts
DATE – Playboy TV announced today the programming is getting even hotter with the premier of the new series Fuel Girls. The new series captures the wild action from the Fuel Girls worldwide tour that mixes the most volatile combination of guys’ favourite gas-powered toys with heavy metal music and some of the hottest, sexiest girls in the world.
The Fuel Girls are a kick ass, ultra-sexy, fire breathing, rock and roll dance and stunt troupe famous for their sex appeal, bad behaviour and love of all things motorised. They perform all over the world with a passion for FMX shows, rock festivals, motor shows, rallies and wild parties.
“Fuel Girls has everything to keep guys wanting more – fire-spitting, motorbikes, masses of sex appeal and some of the hottest women in the world,” said Richard Gale, Marketing Director, Playboy TV. “We are always looking to excite our viewers with the sexiest programming available and once we saw what the Fuel Girls can do on tour, and knew our viewers would want to take part in all of the action.”
“This season of Fuel Girls on Playboy TV will include some of the most exciting stops from their last worldwide adventure including the infamous Gumball Rally where they travel through Hollywood in “KITT” with David Hasslehoff from the television show “Night Rider” and a visit to the Hellfest rock festival complete with an onstage appearance with heavy metal band, Motorhead.”
The series covers the Fuel Girls worldwide tour that has taken them everywhere imaginable, from glamorous nightclubs in the South of France, to rock festivals across Europe, car shows in Puerto Rico and fire shows in LasVegas. Playboy TV viewers can now see all of the Fuel Girls’ wild adventures backstage, in their hotel rooms and behind the scenes at their sexy photo shoots.
Fuel Girls airs on Playboy TV every Friday in October and every Sunday in November – Fuel Girls at 10:30 pm and Fuel Girls Uncut at 11:00 pm. Available on Sky 900 and Virgin 475.
For more information visit PlayboyTV
Håvve Fjell of Pain Solution sent us the link to his most recent appearance on the Norwegian TV program Waschera..
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Check out Vimby‘s newest video featuring Brandon Bond of All or Nothing Tattoo in Atlanta, Georgia. Not only is All or Nothing Tattoo an internationally recognized and award winning studio, they also run their own AoN Pit Bull Rescue. Check out the interview!
“Let’s be honest, we’re not curing cancer, we’re doing tattoos. We may as well do good ones.” – Brandon Bond
Earlier today I got an email from Ary over at VIMBY. They’d just done an interview with Shawn Barber, who I happen to think is the bees knees and so I wanted to share the first video with you. Shawn’s new book Forever and Ever is available from several places online, including the publisher that I linked to, and it is definitely worth picking up.
It also doesn’t hurt that Ary sent over a couple of videos about CanvasLA, with a segment about the gallery itself and another video featuring the opening of Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman‘s Scratch Art show. It was an amazing collection of work from some of the best tattooers in the industry.
I posted the extra studio/city videos because I felt like these videos are much better than the various “Ink(ed)” shows on cable. They don’t give you the same manufactured lines that you hear over and over again which come off more like the producers feeding the stories to the people getting tattooed. Want to see more videos like these? Let me know in the comments section..
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This video is from January, but it’s new to us! NBA players with tattoos are nothing new, but Rashad McCants is a bit different. For one, he’s an unabashed poet who publishes his pieces on his Web site, but beyond that, he takes his tattoos — and indeed, tattoos in general — very seriously. He writes about his at length:
My greatest analogy for tattoos is that life is pain. The new challenges you encounter in life present a type of pain that could make a person give up. The moment you feel the discomfort, you divert to what’s comfortable and less painful. But a tattoo makes it all mental. Separating the mind from body and focusing on the outcome of the challenge. The pain never lasts forever — it’s just temporary. In life, going through bad times also means good times are soon to follow. The moment you decide not to fight the bad times, everything turns around for you. And the outcome is more satisfying then ever.
That’s the same with a tattoo. It hurts like hell the moment that needle touches your skin. And it continues to hurt until its done. And even a couple days after. But, just as with life’s trials and tribulations, the pain subsides and the outcome is everlasting. There is nothing like a fresh tattoo. The look of it. The feel of it. Knowing that it hurt so bad, and you wanted to quit.
In the video, McCants is followed around during a photo shoot for Inked Magazine, and offers even more about what tattooing means to him:
Rashad McCants Shows Off His Tattoos [YouTube]
Tinted Tattoos [RashadMcCants1.com]