James & Duncan X
havent done a girlhead in a while it seems , Charlotte let me do a pretty normal lady with a rose. always nice to see a lady without an agenda in visual and physical form.
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Come hear me speak at Art History in the Pub, tonight! 22nd August 2011, The Monarch, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8BG. 7:30pm, Free. [Nearest tubes: Camden Town / Chalk Farm]Dr Matt Lodder presents: “Not Just for Sailors: A Sceptical Look at Media Perceptions of Tattooing in the West”As an opening line for an article in a popular newspaper about tattoos, the suggestion that “tattoos are not just for sailors any more” is a familiar one. Indeed, it often feels as if the same sentiment graces every article about tattooing in the mainstream press: Tattooing, we’ve been told again and again recently, is coming of age - finally coming out of the murky shadows of the deviant underworld to leave its mark on the most well-heeled. Tattoos are now to be seen on catwalks, on trading floors and around the chicest tables.The hacks who churn out these stories might be surprised to learn,then, that the popular media has been reporting the arrival of tattooing in high society for nearly one hundred years.In a talk drawing on his doctoral thesis, Matt will be presenting a sceptical look at media perceptions of tattooing in recent decades, and present an alternative way of looking at, and thinking about tattoos: as art objects in their own right.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqbwcp9C6M1qcr2jvo1_1280.jpg)
Come hear me speak at Art History in the Pub, tonight! 22nd August 2011, The Monarch, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8BG. 7:30pm, Free. [Nearest tubes: Camden Town / Chalk Farm]
Dr Matt Lodder presents: “Not Just for Sailors: A Sceptical Look at Media Perceptions of Tattooing in the West”
As an opening line for an article in a popular newspaper about tattoos, the suggestion that “tattoos are not just for sailors any more” is a familiar one. Indeed, it often feels as if the same sentiment graces every article about tattooing in the mainstream press: Tattooing, we’ve been told again and again recently, is coming of age - finally coming out of the murky shadows of the deviant underworld to leave its mark on the most well-heeled. Tattoos are now to be seen on catwalks, on trading floors and around the chicest tables.
The hacks who churn out these stories might be surprised to learn,then, that the popular media has been reporting the arrival of tattooing in high society for nearly one hundred years.
In a talk drawing on his doctoral thesis, Matt will be presenting a sceptical look at media perceptions of tattooing in recent decades, and present an alternative way of looking at, and thinking about tattoos: as art objects in their own right.
Th’Ink: A think tank for the Ink Generation
I was quite pleased to find my tattoos featured in this blog twice: ink / spired, haha. Thank you! (P.S. The owner of the blog is really cute. I like her wrist tattoo.)
I got this done in April by Billy Toler at Cherrybomb tattoos in New Port Richey, Florida. It’s based off the painting called “The Devil Whale”, also an old legend. It has a lot of meaning to me and I love it.
Love this frame!
Credit where credit is due: Lee Knight’s hands, by Steve Boltz (Smith St., NYC). These are straight up my favourite tattoos ever. Lee tattoos out of Cult Classic in Romford.
Why do these things get posted without attribution, anyway?
this is my newest tattoo and probably my favourite. it’s an image from a comic by grant morrison called “kill your boyfriend” which totally changed my life. it taught me that there is no such thing as the “self”. you can make yourself whatever you want to be.
a character in the comic says “i think i understand. shake a person enough and what they thought was a personality starts to separate. we can be anything. i’m a page three girl. i’m a warhol superstar. i’m a dyke. i’m a riot grrrl. i’m the queen of sex. i’m a housewife with a jar of rat poison”. this whole idea totally changed my perception of the world and that’s why i decided to mark the turning point with a tattoo.
done by jarek at asgard southampton.
I think i love you.
