Filler: Marisa over at Needles and Sins has a really great post up today about her feature on Durb Morrison for Inked Magazine. The interview seems really cool, and Marisa has a small excerpt up there on the site for you to read before you buy/download. Quick, have a read of it here!
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
Some Magazine News for you all…
Here at Tattoosday UK we love tattoo magazines, and we hope you guys do too! A couple of the newer magazines have had some cool things going on, and I’ve been able to catch it all to stick on a blog post here- you can thank me later ;) Okay, first off, Tattooist Art made … Read more
Mel Noir’s Christmas Message
Picture above is from Off the Map tattoo studio, and was originally posted on TattooSnob.com – I hope you guys don’t mind! Hello there, my tattooed children, First off, I’m really sorry for the lack of updates this past week. I won’t lie, you lot have pretty much worn me out this year, so … 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
Pictures from the London Tattoo Convention!
If you went to this year’s London Tattoo Convention over the weekend, I hate you. Well, I don’t, but I am extremely jealous. I’ve heard nothing but brilliant things from friends who were there, and I can’t believe university has made me miss out again (next year I’ll rock it, don’t worry ;) ). For … 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
Needles And Sins and Horiyoshi III: Machine vs. Tebori
Over the past two months, I have really enjoyed reading John Mack’s guest blogs on Needles and Sins about his experiences talking with Japanese tattoo legend Horiyoshi III. While each and every of the eight posts are fantastic, the most recent one has really caught my attention. In the new guest post, Horiyoshi III talks … 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
