The Female Tattoo Artist Show is a small and intimate convention packed with an array of different female artists and performers from across the UK. The event will be filled with live music, burlesque acts, fire shows and, of course, tattoos! This is the 4th year that the show has been held at The Assembly and we can’t wait!
We’re most looking forward to seeing Grace Neutral, cover star of Issue 6 The Modification Issue, Anna Garvey and Keely Rutherford. There are many more amazing artists who can add to your tattoo collection: see the full artist list here.
Come and visit us at the Things&Ink stand! See you all there!
Fifty-eight-year-old Keith Gordon claims that it is his OCD that has pushed him into tattoo addiction. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has ruled him all his life and it is this condition that has driven him to have his whole head tattooed.
At seventeen he had his shoulders and arms tattooed but changed his mind, he chose to have painful skin grafts to remove his teenage ink.
In the last five years Keith has spent almost £15k not only having his tattoos redone but adding more to his body and face.
Jake and Dinos Chapman hope to raise £25,000 through Art Fund and their crowd-funding website Art Happens to open a tattoo art project at the Jerwood Gallery.
Those who donate can help bring the brothers back to their home town of Hastings, where their new art exhibition will be on display. Not only will the brother’s be painting over old junk shop finds, but they are encouraging the public to bring in art from their homes for the brothers to update with paint.
Jake and Dinos are also opening a pop-up tattoo parlour in the gallery, in which they will reward those who donated with specially-designed tattoos turning them into walking one-off pieces of art.
The original idea was to have Dinos tattooing in a wooden box, the victim – or lucky customer – would stick their arm through a hole in the box where it would be strapped down, totally hidden from site. Dinos would tattoo a design of his choosing onto their arm and on removal from the hole the recipient would see their new tattoo. Fortunately this idea was dismissed on health and safety grounds by Frieze Art Fair.
Chapman brothers tattoo design
Neither one of the brothers has any formal training and Jake’s forearm is covered with blue scribbles done by Dinos.
He isn’t very good, and he really dug in with the needle – it was very painful.
Will you be donating? Would you let someone tattoo a mystery design on your skin?
You’ve all seen Rick Genest (Rico Zombie/Zombie Boy) with his face infamously tattooed to look like a skull, but have you seen him without his tattoos?
Cosmetics company Dermablend Professional created the video below in which they cover every inch of Rico’s tattoos, in order to ask the question; ‘how do you judge a book?’
BBC Radio 4 have been airing a series called Tattoo Tales in which they question why people get tattoos, in this mini interview, ‘Zombie Boy’ explains why he got his first tattoo. Like many of us he went along with someone else, and decided to have one at the same time.
I got it at the age of 16, my little sister – she got a tattoo first, and I went out and got one right after her.
Different Nationalities Photoshop The Same Woman To Make Her “Beautiful”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and this photography project clearly proves that.
In a new photographic series, Journalist Esther Honig took a photograph of herself and sent it to 40 different people in 25 different countries. She asked them to make her unedited and make-up free face “beautiful” using Photoshop.
My objective since the beginning has been to examine how the standards of unobtainable beauty vary across cultures on a global level.
Take a look at the – sometimes terrifying – results… do you think she looks more beautiful in the “after” shots? It’s certainly an interesting project and the editors are clearly influenced by personal and not just cultural factors, as some editors from the same countries have produced drastically differing results.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Kenya
Israel
USA
Indonesia
UK
What do you think? How does this make you reflect on your own standards of beauty?
