Ryan Hope reveals Garage magazines ambitious project which tattooed pieces of the most contemporary and prestigious artwork on to willing volunteers. With the likes of Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Raymond Pettibon images being tattooed by other tattooers  this project brought up many interesting questions about ownership and prices of the tattoos made.

Other than bringing up these intriguing questions the film has been made in the most detailed and achingly stylistic way. The film also gives a voice to the tattooed and their own personal experiences rather than the hugely famous artists who created the images.

Watch it here:

Thomas Thomas works at Into You London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enough said.

It has already been established, I have a soft spot for (good) tribal tattoo. I recently stumbled across Roxx’s work. Pretty stunning.
www.blingblingroxx.com
www.2spirittattoo.com

At Zana’s show I bumped into my friend, man about town and fine tattoo collector Sean Risley. Last winter we had started to tattoo on him red shapes on top of his black collection. Here are some more pieces following the same principle (I forgot to ask who did them. My bad.). I am quite interested by the principle of second layer tattoos. But this is another discussion, and I believe my friend Nick Schonberg will cook us a nice essay on this topic for the upcoming Sang Bleu 6, isn’t it, Nick?.

It’s an image about a random nothing of a moment, but it is so deftly written that it tells the story of so much more and you realize this in the very last line, with the guy staring at his leg and probably the girl on the telephone with her ex-boyfriend downstairs with her family, thinking, “I could imagine the urgency of the dial tone, then the suspenseful cave of the ringing, and all the things that go through your mind.”

picture by Maxime Ballesteros

My old friend Andrew May‘s wife Jen.