It’s Here: Electric Pick’s Red Box!
I’m sorry if I sound biased in my excitement over this, but Electric Pick is one of my favourite ever tattooers, so this is awesome! His first in his epic series of books is finally here! Brilliant! The book is of fantastic hardback quality, and features over 200 pages of artwork. There are also extra … Read more
Literary tattoos!
I was a bookworm when I was a kid. I used to make my long-suffering father re-read particular chapters of my favourite books to me over and over, and through my childhood I’m pretty sure we worked our way through the complete works of Roald Dahl. To this day, I still love books. And I … Read more
Review: The Woodcut Portraits, by Alex Binnie
The guys over at Kintaro Publishing were very generous and offered to send me Alex Binnie’s new book recently. Naturally, I didn’t have to think about whether to take up their offer. This new book by Alex is a series of woodcut portraits, which are absolutely beautiful and technically brilliant. You may have read about … Read more
Alex Binnie: The Woodcut Portraits
I know we’ve been a bit heavy on books lately, but there are some really cool ones out right now, a lot more than usual. This week we’ve got word of a fantastic book by tattooer Alex Binnie. Alex has been putting together woodcuts for this book, of many tattooers he’s friends with. I think … Read more
Book Review: Art By Tattooists
This is my second piece for Tattoosday UK, so far I love the idea of being able to share my thoughts and views with every reader! So here it is, Art by Tattooists, created by Jo Waterhouse and with a foreword provided by model Jesse Lee Dennin. This book is by no means new. It … Read more
Book Review: The Black Seas of Infinity
I told you guys before Christmas that Dan Henk has a book now called The Black Seas of Infinity. Well, I managed to read it on my time off… and at work… and on the bus. Basically, this book has been everywhere with me, as with most books I read. In all honesty, I couldn’t … Read more
Buy This Book: The Black Seas of Infinity
Really, I could just say here, “The Black Seas of Infinity is a book by tattooer Dan Henk, and you should buy it”, and my job would be done, because Dan Henk excells in pretty much everything he does. However, for the sake of pretending I’m not as lazy as I am, I will continue. … Read more
For Your Bookshelves: Matt Lodder and Smith St. books!
I love books. Books are great. If there’s one piece of advice I could give you all, it’s to never read a book that you wouldn’t be embarrassed dying in the middle of reading. Thankfully, I have some suggestions on some news ones you can buy (or will be able to buy in the future!) … Read more
So… this Happened.
While I’ve been away for a couple of days, a few things happened that you kind of couldn’t dedicate a whole post to. So, here’s a round up of some little titbits that are taking place at the minute. Dan Henk wrote a blog post for Tattoo Artist Magazine about the perils of shows like … Read more
Book Review: Vintage Tattoos, by Carol Clerk
This weekend, while looking for a new book to read, I came across this really cool book about Vintage Tattoos I think you should all know about. I’m sure I’ve seen this book before, to be honest- but I saw it in HMV, where a lot of the time I ignore the tattoo-related books, because … Read more
Review: Body Art
This week the lovely people at Titan Books sent me a book to review called Body Art, which is a book from the makers of Bizarre. I’ve seen these things on the shelves before from Bizarre, though this is the first Titan edition. Titan will also be re-issuing the previous Body Art books too, from … Read more
Bill Reviews Kat Von D’s New Book
Last week, Bill at the US Tattoosday blog got his hands on a copy of the new Kat Von D book to review. I’m assuming it’s out everywhere right now, so if you’re interested, head down and pick up a copy. I haven’t seen it myself, so here’s an excerpt from Bill’s review: If you’re … Read more
Awesome new Books by Philadelphia Eddie and Mo Coppoletta!
This week I’ve been really lucky and got my hands on two new tattoo books. I know, I’m really lucky! Both books focus on one artist (mainly) and offer an exciting insight into their worlds. The first book here, which was given to me by the fabulous Eric Foemmel, is the first volume of Philadelphia … Read more
Tattoo.TV News Roundup!
I am so sorry I didn’t post this on Friday! I had some horrid technical difficulties, I only just managed to write Friday’s news piece before my computer decided to hate me. Technology, eh? As always, Tattoosday UK is not affiliated with Tattoo.TV in any way, this is just something I wrote for someone else … Read more
Tattoo.TV News Roundup!
I was actually going to apologise for the lack up updates over the past fortnight, but now I’ve had a look at what’s been happening on Tattoo.TV’s news page, there’s more there than I thought! Don’t you love it when that happens? As always, Tattoosday UK is not affiliated with Tattoo.TV in any way, this … Read more
