Sang Bleu » hand made

George Reiger

Florence Tetier — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:55:13 +0000

He is the only person in the world with over 1,900 Disney tattoos (as of October 2006). Talk about dedication…

a word from ferg

Maxime Buechi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:09:13 +0000

Sang Bleu II and III/IV featured Fergus aka Fergadelic, do I need to re-introduce him?
Ferg makes Tshirts and tattoos. Yesterday (or so) he sent me an email.

“Here’s a photo of my latest piece,
another ambidextorous (dont know how you spell that) job on my right forearm, just below the elbow.
Came out well, I think – just the taughtness of the skin makes such a mega difference when you’re doing home-made-wrong-handed pieces.

Love
From
Ferg.”

and here is the tattoo

cheers ferg

love from maxime

Marmalade Skies

Ben Perdue — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:09:03 +0000

stumbled on josefin’s blog by accident. she lives in sweden but was in london this wkend. turns out she’s an old flatmate of liam sparkes’ too. small world. six degrees of separation? more from josefin hopefully. leave you with kitchen table d.i.y. skills

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Be quiet or be killed

Maxime Buechi — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:51:45 +0000

Some people tell it, some people live it.
These ones live it.
And have beautiful and poetic tattoos.
And a blog too…

Today I feel I’ve posted more blogs about blogs than usually…
(Maybe it’s true.)

lucy’s tattoos

Maxime Buechi — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:55:16 +0000

hand-tattooed by Adam Sage of brighton (for those who remember, adam was featured in issue zero in the same shoot as Thomas Thomas formerly known as French Thomas).

Tribal Wives

Adrian Wilson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:52:20 +0000

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 tats

Maxime Buechi — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:54:50 +0000

(Almost) all these tats were made by and/or with Maxime (not me, Berlin-Maxime) and his fucked up machine ;) no wonder they look hand made… and good! Much love to all our Berlin folks: Fred, Sonia, Xavier, Maxime, John, Olivia, … Take care y’all it was nice meeting you all.

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More of fergus

Maxime Buechi — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:00:43 +0000

Two of the (many) photos I made…
I am so fan, I wanna don’t disclose them all at once, but keep posting in the next weeks!
There will also be an extensive feature on F in SBIII…

The man himself

A Vivienne Westwood ring. Everything is said.

today i met fergus

Maxime Buechi — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:48:14 +0000

As I was about to try and blag my way inside Art Unlimited in Basel, Switzerland, from afar, I saw a geezer who looked familiar. Cryptic handmade tattoos, long hair, svelte silhouette. As I took a few steps towards him I realized this probably was Fergus, this mysterious guy I had received a couple of pictures of in for SBII. I had to figure this out. With the nicest smile Fergus confirmed he indeed was… Fergus.
What an amazing and pleasant surprise. Not only does he have one of the most interesting tattoo collection I’ve had the pleasure to see, but he’s the nicest person ever.

Tomorrow, we will meet at the Patty Smith signing then have a little interview for SB III. Clare Hilland will take some portraits of him to go with it. Today was a good day.

(Photos by Clare Hilland)

blakam madame home session

Maxime Buechi — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:48:31 +0000

The young swiss award-winning artistic group Blakam Madame is known, among others, for their very personal appropriation of tattooing, which they practice more as a ritualized gesture than an aesthetic effort, like traces of a mysterious rite. Their tattoos often quote their paintings and installations which, subsequently, integrates and implies themselves—the bearers—as full-time parts of their art.

Blakam also run an art space in Lausanne: Bellevaux

Here, some random little videos made during a tattooing session. Note the videos are no way part of their work, just a vague and informal documentation.

blakam 1

blakam 2

blakam 3

Christiane F.

Adrian Wilson — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:22:27 +0000

self-portrait drinking and smoking

Maxime Buechi — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:08:40 +0000

sang bleu tshirt, sang bleu tattoo
erik made it!
live from amsterdam
c u around pal

HAND-MADE/HOME-MADE…
literally