tattoos

Meet the Ultimate Julia Roberts Fan

By Emily Temple on Mar 13, 2011 8:58am

This fellow, who very much enjoys Julia Roberts, has 82 tattoos of her face on his body. His name is Milijenko Parserisas Bukovic and he is a 56-year-old Mexican newspaper vendor. Apparently, he has spent over $82,000 on the tattoos, which are inspired by scenes from Erin Brockovich, the movie that kickstarted his um, enthusiasm for Ms. Roberts. He plans to continue getting more Julia Roberts tattoos until he runs out of money and/or blank patches of skin. Click through to see Bukovic’s awesomely disturbing smorgasbord of Julia Roberts faces. … Read More

Photography

Pic of the Day: Dietrich Wegner’s Tattooed Babies

By Caroline Stanley on Feb 28, 2011 1:30pm

You could argue that from the moment that we’re born, we’re exposed to corporate branding. In fact, it is estimated that kids see 40,000 ads per year on TV alone. Australia-born, Pennsylvania-based artist Dietrich Wegner has flipped that idea on its head by covering real babies in multicolored fake tattoos that feature logos from companies like Apple and Fed Ex, essentially turning them into tiny (and totally oblivious), crawling billboards. Click through to see more photos from the series, along with a few of Wegner’s sculptures, and let us know what you think of the concept in the comments. … Read More

Art

Jacob Dahlstrup’s Eerie Paper Tattoos

By Judy Berman on Jan 10, 2011 3:30pm

Love tattoo art but can’t bring yourself to permanently alter your skin? Then it’s high time you acquainted yourself with the work of Jacob Dahlstrup, a Danish artist who uses a tattoo machine on heavyweight paper to create eerie, skeleton-obsessed line drawings. From ships and mermaids to roses and scrolls, Dahlstrup uses traditional tattoo designs as a starting point before veering into the uncanny and unsettling. See a few examples of his paper tattoos, and watch a video about he makes them, after the jump. … Read More

Music

13 Wonderful Song Lyric Tattoos

By Judy Berman on Jan 7, 2011 10:30am

It is often a bad idea to get song lyrics tattooed on your body. Really, who wants to be a 40-something mother of three with, say, a Dashboard Confessional tramp stamp that dates back to high school? Our friends at Buzzfeed have rounded up 22 truly awful lyric tattoos, from a misspelled Goo Goo Dolls line to what appears to be a toilet paper roll bearing the words of Staind. As music fans, we knew there had to be at least a few decent song lyric tattoos out there. After the jump, 13 that we can get behind.

Oh, and people? Lay off of “Love will tear us apart” and “There is a light that will never go out” for a while, OK? … Read More

Design

Design Porn: Impressive Typographical Tattoos

By Caroline Stanley on Nov 11, 2010 2:32pm

Perhaps because they’re an easy way of ensuring that something that’s permanent looks good, typographical tattoos aren’t just popular with design geeks. In fact, the trend has become so widespread that Ina Saltz has published two photographic books on the topic: Body Type and Body Type 2. Click through for ten of our favorite examples of typographical tattoos, from an ode to the ampersand to some beautifully-rendered fonts. … Read More

Events

The Coney Island Tattoo and Motorcycle Festival

By Margaret Eby on Sep 20, 2010 11:32am

The first thing that you notice at the Tattoo and Motorcycle Festival is the sound. The rumble of revving engines comes at you from every angle, starting and stopping like a mechanical chorus. Then there’s the whine of tattoo guns, punctuating the overall ruckus, underscored by the blasting of Nicki Minaj songs. And that’s even before you get to the actual event: a sort of Hells Angels pageant, celebrating gleaming choppers of every make, embellishment, and size. Not to mention the freelance tattoo artists, and the heavily pierced and generally freaky, who were out in full force. There were spiked leather seats and inked portraits of Lady Gaga! There was a little person who mooned us! All this, and more, after the jump. … Read More

Web

10 Hipster Icon Tattoos

By Judy Berman on Aug 26, 2010 1:07pm

Hipsters and tattoos go together like soccer moms and minivans. But hipster body art so often entails irony or obscurity that we find it kind of refreshing to see folks literally wear their heroes on their sleeve. So, inspired by the utterly wonderful Billy Murray tattoo Great White Snark tipped us off to this morning, we present a roundup of hipster icon ink. Let us know which pieces you love and hate in the comments. … Read More