Vine: A Solution For Dodgy Tattoo Photos?
You know how hard it can be sometimes to take a photograph of a tattoo, right? Yeah, a tattoo is kind of two- dimensional, but then when you take into account the fact it’s on a living breathing person it looks more three-dimensional, and it just pisses people off when we’re taking photos! Well, there … Read more
In Pictures: The Brighton Tattoo Convention
As you probably saw last week, I sent two lovely ladies down to the Brighton Tattoo Convention the other weekend, and they had a blast. While Lisa has already shared her review of the convention here, this week we have Emma’s photos from the show. Emma Shamaya is a fantastic photographer, who is situated in … Read more
London Tattoo Convention: 2012 photo gallery
I hope everyone that participated in the London Tattoo Convention at the weekend has now recovered, new tattoos are healing well and hangovers have faded. As a reminder of how fabulous an event it was, here is Tattoosday UK’s photo gallery showcasing some of the finest tattoos spotted at the convention, as well as tattooists … Read more
Update: The Tattoo Project’s Documentary!
After the review we put out of the fantastic new book by Vince Hemingson this week, he’s been in touch with some really cool news. The Tattoo Project is also going to be made into a documentary. Awesome! The documentary looks like it is going to be really cool, and it will focus on how … Read more
Vince Hemingson’s Tattoo Project
Bushwood Books were kind enough to slap a copy of Vince Hemingson’s new book, The Tattoo Project, on my desk just before I left for The Cure this weekend. The book is the result of a project which brings together 11 fine art photographers, who shot portraits of 100 tattooed people. The results are absolutely … Read more
UK Industry Awards: Voting Ends Midnight!
Happy St. George’s Day, everyone! There’s no better day to celebrate being English than giving some serious props to tattooers, magazines and photographers in England and our surrounding countries in the UK. Tonight, the UK Industry Awards, hosted by the Liverpool Tattoo Convention, will close its votes for the winners. I hate to be biased, … Read more
Faces of Black Metal
File this under, “why the hell haven’t I written about this yet?”. Uncle Allan has an art exhibit at Lionheart gallery (which, if you didn’t know, is probably one of the coolest galleries on the planet). If you’re familiar with Uncle Allan’s work, you’ll know that he’s always loved the darker side of life, and … Read more
Peterlee 2012: In Pictures.
So, it was the Peterlee Convention last weekend (and the Scottish one this weekend! And the Essex one the weekend before last! Phew!), and I was there all day covering the show for Total Tattoo magazine. Since I was there for the magazine, I haven’t been able to show you guys what I came up … Read more
The Australian Industry Awards: Cast Your Votes!
This morning, I had a mini heart attack as I learned that I have been nominated for an award! Wow! The Australian Tattoo Industry Awards, which are held at the Rites of Passage convention, have announced their nominees and your humble host actually has a nomination. I am actually amazed that people on the other … Read more
Shamanic Skin: Lars Krutak’s new Exhibit!
Lars Krutak is ridiculously cool and talented. Don’t act like you don’t know it. He’s also been in touch to let us know about something really cool. Right now, Sacred Gallery (New York) has an exhibit on called Shamanic Skin, which shows off some really special pictures from Lars’ photographic portfolio. From the Sacred website: … Read more
Colour on the walls of Life.
I have no idea how tattooing and graffiti seems to go together, but since convention organisers insist on having graffiti artists at their events, I’m going to guess a fair few of you will like this. Hey, it’s art, so why not? I was out on Wednesday taking some pictures at the Quayside in Newcastle/Gateshead, … Read more
Peterlee Convention Panoramic!
A bit of photography here from yours truly- because we don’t really do this often, so I thought you might find it cool. On Sunday I went to the Peterlee tattoo convention- it was brilliant, as per usual. I don’t have anything written about the day yet, but I wanted to share something with you … Read more
Puppy love Facebook Update
While Melissa Hayward and Puppy Love still being fresh in our minds since Facebook took away Melissa’s Facebook profile last week, I’d love to be able to bring you all some good news, but no luck I’m afraid. In fact, things are getting even worse. Photographer Adelheid Walsh, who is one of the super cool … Read more
iPhone App: TatView
In the past few years, people have been really keen to combine technology with tattooing. Sometimes it’s great- we have tattoo social networking sites, portfolios on MySpace and even those weird digital frames I keep seeing on just about every booth at a tattoo convention. Other times, things are just sort of thrown together in … Read more
Photoshop: Helping Cheats Lie to their Customers!
I’m disappointed today. After talking with friends about a certain tattoo artist who I loved, I found out something that really changed my opinion of him- most of his pictures in his portfolios are actually photoshopped. And I mean, really photoshopped. I’m really disappointed in this, I thought this artist was one of the best … Read more
