Marisa Kakoulas Talks Tattoo Trademarks
Marisa, over at Needles and Sins, has a really cool post up at the moment about a talk she did last week at Fordham Law School. The talk was for the Fashion Institute’s discussion, Art Attacks: Perspectives on the Use of Fashion Logos.The talk was focused, at least on Marisa’s part, on the idea of … Read more
Who Owns Your Tattoo?
In my DVD collection right now is the Hangover II. I still haven’t seen it. I know, I suck. The Hangover II always reminds me of Marisa over at Needles and Sins, and her fascinated interest with the dramatics between the film’s makers and Mike Tyson’s tattooer. Honestly, you read that. Go on, you can … Read more
NYC Convention: Blog Post Round-up
I’m hoping the header image for this post doesn’t get cut off- if it does, it’s from TattooSnob.com. Some of you have been asking about the New York convention, which took place in the weekend. I don’t like to disappoint, so I have some links here for you all to check out. I didn’t make … Read more
One Tattoo, One Article.
Slow news days are the worst. Actually, slow news days when you don’t really have the time to say what you’d like to is the worst. Tomorrow will be better, as I’ll have a lot of time to update you all on tattooer’s efforts to raise money for Japan- great stuff! For now though, I … Read more
The New Barcode Tattoo: and why not?
Last week, I showed you guys an example of a minimalistic tattoo and you didn’t seem to know what was going on. Me neither really, but on the Facebook page you seemed to want some more unusual tattoos, so how’s this one for you? This is, to be blunt, a re-hash of the cheesy … Read more
Crazy, Romantic Renegades–Todays Best Picks of the ‘Net
Today I have a lot of work to do, I’m afraid, but instead of deserting you guys like I did last week, I still have a post here for you all! Today I have three little news pieces for you all, from around the Internetz… WAPO: “TATTOOING OUTGROWS RENEGADE IMAGE” Every time I do one … 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
The Traditional Tattoo & World Culture Fest, on Needles and Sins NOW!
I’m never sure how many of you guys really notice this, but over here at Tattoosday UK, we don’t really focus on traditional tattooing a lot. Why? Because I never feel like I know enough about it, to be honest- and I’d hate to pretend to you all that I know shit about stuff when … Read more
Marisa Kakoulas: On The Hunt For Hearts, Skulls and Daggers!
Marissa Kakoulas is working on another book project right now. In this new book, she’ll be focusing on how tattoo artist take popular themes and interpret them into their own style and way of working. If her last book is anything to go by, it’ll be fantastic. Right now, she’s looking for people who will … Read more
