So yeah, mI like me some nice body art and tattoos. Even scarification can be nice but this… it looks like a frakkin’ pumpkin carved for Halloween. I even can not imagine it looking nice when healed. Too detailed for a nice scarification.

Let’s just stick with Halloween Body Art for now.

The whole world, tattooed over both feet is a great concept and it looks ace. Too bad that Britain is barely visible and Eurasia and Africa need both feet. Ace tattoo though.

In the same spirit this world map spread over both cheeks. It is not clear if this is a tattoo or a temporary airbrush, but no matter what it is this makes anyone want to explore the desert.

If you prefer it more old-style this original world map is for you. Again both cheeks are needed.

Cool colours, not too clear what Western part of the world in this image. It looks like distorted Britain, with a splash of Scandinavia or something like that.

Awesome Australia map tattoo.

The Galapagos Archipel.

The Philippines, together with the surname of the owner.

The last ‘cheeks map’ in this list. Again it is hard to see if this is a real tattoo. My bet goes to a temporary airbrush. It does clearify that the Middle East is in shit though.

This is how our galaxy would look from a distance.

The last tattoo map is a tattoo for all geeks. Better than a map of the Middle Earth this is the map of Thrór, the King under the Mountain at Erebor.

Bonus map: subway map tattoo.

And you absolutely MUST get a costume of course, but how to find an original one if you’re no DIY sewing princess? Get bodypainted!

Admitted, most of these aren’t creepy but at least you won’t risk to look like the neighbour’s son who also decided to get that witch costume!

More here.

In 2002, participants in the Long March Project began a “Walking Visual Display” along the route of China’s historic, six-thousand-mile Long March (1934-6). As the team undertook the arduous journey, Beijing-based artist Qin kept in close contact with them and tracked the group’s route, with needle and ink, on a tattooed map on his back. Three years later, Qin continued the trek where the original marchers had left off. He was accompanied by three cameramen, who recorded their movements over unremittingly demanding terrain—from snow-covered Himalayan peaks to swamp grasslands—and a tattoo artist, who continually updated the groups progress on Qin’s back.

Via The Map of The Art.

More pictures at BME.

But there obviously are exceptions. Pixar is one of those everlasting love stories. Toy Story even more. And this person thought she had to make sure he would not forget her love. Enter ink.

Photo credit: Blake Coleman.

Tattoos again. This time a new hype, fashion in the ink setting art: literary tattoos. Hot or Not?
I think they can be totally hot if the right quote or excerpt is inked, obviously Chuck Palahniuk immediately comes to mind but below some examples of other great literary tattoos.

Yes, yes, yes. Pardon the excitement. NOT.

“I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks to much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laught and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.”
- from Love me, love my fool: Thoughts from a psychoanalyst’s notebook by Theodore Isaac Rubin

Although I would rather keep this area for the name of my kids, if you’re like me and have none, Five by Five will do.

“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
- Tyler Durden in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Via Obvious.

And here’s me thinking that the tattoo boob job silly was.

Via DeadDog.

I honestly don’t know what is most disturbing here: the tattoo, his boobs or his six-pack. Seems like a Fosters pack to me.

Via Amanda F. Palmer.

I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious. So I said I fell asleep and the that the tattooist mad made a mistake.

Body artist Tourmiantz now has withdrawn the offer to pay half of the removal costs and also admitted having received ample publicity for his studio during the tattoostargate case. In the future he will insist on getting written permission before tattooing anyone else.

Via The Telegraph.

First lets put things straight: these tattoos look rather cute. BUT, no tattoo artist should accept to make facial body art on an barely major person. 18 _IS_ too young to make that kind of decision.
Now the story.

Belgian girl Kimberley Vlaminck, 18, is suing Rouslan Tourmaniantz to make him pay for removal of the 53 tattoos on her face. No one knows why/how she fell asleep at the parlour, but she only requested three little stars. Drug allegations are obvious but the artists denies having doped or hypnotized Kimberley.

“I think he didn’t understand what I wanted,” the teenager complained to the UK Sun. “He spoke only fractured English and French, but I explicitly said in my native tongue, French, that I wanted three little stars only near my left eye.” (The French words for three (“trois”) and 56 (“cinqueante et six”) sound nothing alike. Maybe go with hand gestures next time.)

Still I think the tats look kinda curte.

Update: After sueing the tattooist for deliberate assault and battery, they have now come to an agreement. The tattooist will pay for half of the expenses of having the tattoos removed by laser. The estimated cost of this is €10 000, but he says he doesn’t want the girl to be unhappy or feel scarred for the rest of her life.

Update 2: Kimberley has admitted that she asked for all 56 stars. Aaawwwwww…

Photo credit: graff hunter.