WE here at frankylicious are big tattoo fans and urgently need more ink ourselves. Recently the attention was drawn to this gorgeous whole back world map tattoo and today we have some more cool map tattoos to show you.
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. Read more
Along the lines of the awesome whole world back tattoo is this map of China tattoo. Not really a map of China and I really hope when the guy’s finished he will go an see a decent ink artist to draw better lines because until then it will look bad with all the dots.
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.
Pictures of the London Tattoo Convention at the Tobacco Docks.
Even if when many years younger I wanted to get the Guns ‘n Roses logo as tattoo, generally I tend not to like brand or idol tattoos. We al know how it goes: some day you just won’t like your formers idols anymore or have become the biggest opponent of the brand you used to love, what about that ink then.
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.
I am jealous. Not only about the tattoo but also about the person who has the luck to stare at this back piece every evening (day). Certainly one for the awesome department of the tattoo section on frankylicio.us.
Photo credit: Blake Coleman.
Title really says it all. Being a fan of something is cool (can be), getting a tattoo of that can also be cool but in this particular case we go all WTF!
Oh! It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.
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
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Although I had another contender today already for the DotW title, this guy seems to make the regular posts totally needless for the remainder of the year. I think we can certainly award him with the Dumbass of the Year title and if there were one error about his tattoo it is the location. He should have gotten this tattoo’ed on his face so we could all see what a stupid a$$ he is.
And here’s me thinking that the tattoo boob job silly was.
Via DeadDog.
There seems to be no end to the ever expanding tattoo reporting at frankylicious and they seem to get creepier and creepier with every update. After the shark stump tattoo another guy had the brilliant idea to get shark ink… on his breast in between his breasts.
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.
This probably is one of the freakiest tattoos I’ve seen lately: a guy who has lost his arm to a shark got a shark tattoo on the stump of said lost left arm. I don’t know, somehow I find Kimberley’s 56 stars tattoo a lot cuter.
I don’t know if I find this a cute, creepy, awesome or rather hot tattoo. I think I lean towards the latter option. Actually this is a rather hot tattoo to be honest.
Via Amanda F. Palmer.
There are some pretty horrible tattoos out there, but this guy has gotten just a little further and got a boob job for his Cowboy Girl tattoo. At least he could have trimmed the bikini line too!
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Kimberley Vlaeminck, the girl who claimed having fallen asleep during a facial tattoo, to wake up to 56 stars instead of 3 tattooed on her face has now publicly backtracked and admitted she lied. She asked for 56 stars but started blaming the tattoo artist because her father was enraged.
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.
A Belgian teen girl went to a tattoo parlour to have 3 little stars tattooed near her left eye. She fell asleep and woke up with 56 stars tattooed on her face.
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…
