more of christian, søren and 3rd guy
tattoos by misc artists (rinzing & filip among others)

Christian Maas is a man of mystery. This bronze and more of his work can be found in Coco de Mer on Monmouth Street, London but nobody knows where to find him. He calls to say he’s finished a new piece, it’s delivered and he’s gone. If anyone has the answer, please tell.

a little one for today: søren

christian

Following almost seamlessly from the last post, which is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a long time, here are a few square inches of the Jolie Rouge studio at 364 Caledonian Road, London N1. Home to Lord Montana-Blue and his fellow Gentlemen o’ Fortune. myspace.com/montanaxblue & jolierougetattoo.com

one of the most amazing place in europe…. Kutna Hora a little town in Prague. After one hour of train and 45 minutes of bus in the middle of no-where, we have found this ossuary….

beautiful dot-work and cover-up by Rinzing Thaptsangky (Leu Family’s Family Iron, Lausanne)

sorry mate, forgot your name…
Holler if you see that, I’ll be happy to correct that.

a beautiful piece tattooed by:
Trevor Mcstay, Dynamic Tattoo, Melbourne, Australia

Just as life’s roller coaster drags me down, it must take me up and so after one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve had for years, in Paris last week, along comes Masha (FM London) and all of a sudden the black cloud has gone. I’ve been saved. Business as unusual. A very nice shoot for Sang Bleu III&IV.

The Tattooists of New York Adorned put together a group art show this past Thursday, the 24th of July 2008, it was curated by our visionary leader Lorin Levin, here is a little gallery of some of the images and the press release on the show.

Chris O’Donnell
Horizakura
Kaz Matsumoto
Stephanie Tamez
Bryan Randolph
Thomas Hooper
Virginia Elwood
Dan Santoro
Dana Helmuth
Katja Ramirez

Curated by Lori Leven

The third week of Six Feet Under presents Uncharted Waters with the combined efforts of the world-renowned tattoo artists of New York Adorned. Armed only with the nude bodies of our nation’s youth, the artists of New York Adorned collaborate to transform our apathetic youth into vibrant canvases.

Tattooing is an imperfect art. Every body’s skin holds a different character. It is the incomparably specific topography of each individual’s anatomy that yields an entirely unique product. An ever-changing, ever-meaningful, ever-living canvas, the human skin transcends traditional media. Unlike any other artists, those of New York Adorned are challenged by a canvas that can feel the pain of the artistic process- they have learned to anticipate the outcome of a permanent bodily change.

Confident that New York could support a tattoo shop that created high art for the skin, New York Adorned opened in 1996 when tattooing was still illegal in NYC. Today, Norah Jones, Tyson Beckford, Margaret Cho, Christina Aguilera and Samantha Ronson are small collection of the numerous celebrities that the shop has adorned. An ever-dynamic location, the East Village offers the perfect location for artists to permanently capture memory, love, emotion and opinion.

Patirck O’Dell will supply larger than life photographed nudes for the installation that will be permanently engraved with small reminders of their fleeting innocence. O’Dell photographs fearless people searching for their place in life and the talismans which will guide them there. The artists of New York Adorned will provide these talismans. The engravings will give strength to the adorned individuals, strength that they will require to proceed protected into uncharted territory.

This is Jordan and Caleb, they are two very good friends of mine and i have been tattooing them for almost 6 years now.

They where photographed last weekend by a very good friend of mine Richard Ballard.

I think this shot is amazing, Richard is a great Portrait artist.

Copyright Richard Ballard Photography

Sometimes television can be useful. Recently the BBC ran a six part series called Tribal Wives. It was honest, inspirational, often very moving and it reminded me how fruitless my lust for things that sparkle will always be. If you didn’t catch it, here’s a relevant moment.

Berlin is also the home of my favourite tower as (not quite) seen here in this rather poor homage to Eugene Atget’s photograph of Notre Dame.

Don’t want to show too much of Jay Jay just yet but here’s part of this charming man. You can find all of him at Blood Brothers, 120 Holloway Road, London. myspace.com/zombiework. When he tells me who’s tattooed him I’ll let y’all know.

Black Gordman, Preacher’s Lil Gal, See, Especial A Go Go

2003
ink and paint on vintage magazine

Dr Lakra is a tattoo artist living and working near Mexico City. In his parallel activities here, however, Dr Lakra transfers his draughtsmanship onto the idealised figures in 50’s Mexican magazines. Pin-up girls, wrestlers, beauties and cuties are tattooed and ‘enhanced’ in ink with bats, demons, spiders and the faces of pouting vixens. Like pertinent graffiti, the relative innocence of another era is politicised and the images are infused with a relish for the diabolical. Beautification or social identification, the works are a carnival of the grotesque. Kitschy erotica, ancient ritual, and hallucinogenic visions are fused in a collage of ideologies.

Text and images found on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/