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SKIN: a film by Ryan Hope

Reba Maybury — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:42:09 +0000

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:

Susannah by Tomas Tomas

Adrian Wilson — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:05:08 +0000

Thomas Thomas works at Into You London

Enough said.

roxy music

Maxime Buchi — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:30:46 +0000

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

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second layer

Maxime Buchi — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:50:59 +0000

second layers

Maxime Buchi — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:50:47 +0000

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?.

the suspenseful cave of the ringing

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:46:10 +0000

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

la forme et le fond

Maxime Buchi — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:22:50 +0000

My old friend Andrew May‘s wife Jen.

garage music

Maxime Buchi — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:37:47 +0000

i have 200 images of today’s Mugler show. It will take me a couple of days to process them.
Here is just Jason farrer and his freind whose name I have forgotten, Rico & Nicola, and Dario (not in that order).

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any given time (mugler)

Maxime Buchi — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:36:30 +0000

I am unsure whether there is anything I can say now about this that will not be said 20 billion times in the near future anyway. So I rather not say anything except: <3 (But that's not exactly "saying" something, is it?)

http://www.thierrymugler.com/us/en/

exhibition – london – 6/01/2011

Liam Sparkes — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:32:37 +0000

vyner st, london -private view thu 6 jan . 6-10pm

a little rhino

Maxime Buchi — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:16:06 +0000

on Richie’s arm. BY…

2 tattoos

Maxime Buchi — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:14:18 +0000

My friend and Novembre contributor Scott Bourne’s and my friend and tattoo artist Michael aka M’ink aka Jack Sparrow’s (tattooed by Dan Sinnes) new ones.

Tree-Man

Maxime Buchi — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:29:09 +0000

Today, Rinzing was working on this pretty impressive piece.

Laurant got more work done by Xed LeHead

Maxime Buchi — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:52:54 +0000

Stunning.

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shangri-la

Maxime Buchi — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:53:48 +0000

24 hours in london featuring (randomly)

—the russian criminal tattoos exhibition (good, but… God, haven’t we had enough of this yet??)
—an unexpected procedure at take off
—”a” book at ln-cc
—Liam Sparkes tattooing Nathini’s palm (do you dig these fluo tones my iphone seems to find in anyone’s or anything’s appearance?)
—and Becca’s deer tattooed by Liam too
—JSR’s new Rick Owens shoes staring at me this morning <3

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