A tattooed person suspends from hooks, laying flat, one leg higher than the other. Their head is back, and they seem to be smiling, dark hair dangling like an anime character.

Tag: Immature Internet Humor

  • Welcome to Florida

    I got this from Brandon, mentioned in the previous entry, who owns Foolish Pride in St. Petersburg. It’s a flyer that he found on the street in front of his shop — I’ve censored the studio doing it because I don’t want to drive any business to them. That said, it is an interesting idea, offering an environment where inexperienced people can tattoo each other — I can think of many situations where this could be desired, for example, parents who want their child to tattoo them (which is certainly quite common among children of tattooists, and regular customers or shop friends), or people who want to tattoo or be tattooed by their partner. But to overtly advertise for it? And to do it with this particular wording seems like a recipe for creating legions of kitchen scratchers. What do you think? Great idea? Terrible idea? Good idea done wrong?

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    Oh, I can’t resist. After having looked at their portfolio, my suspicion that this is a shop to be avoided were confirmed. I gotta share a few pictures from their published portfolio — the stuff that they presumably think best represents the sort of quality they aspire to. It really blows my mind that shops so terrible that they can’t even get flash right consistently seem to be able to pay the rent. It’s really a testament to how incredibly stupid and devoid of self-respect the average person is that shops like this have no problem luring people in tattoos that emphasize cheap prices over talented artists…

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  • Viral tattoo FAIL star no more!

    I promise I won’t make a habit of reposting viral images, but I thought this one was worth it. Scott Versago, tattoo artist at Akron’s Empire Ink (empire-ink.com), got to “tackle the official #1 worst portrait tattoo in the world”.

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    I don’t know if I’d agree that it’s the #1 worst — I’ve seen some scary portraits — but there’s no denying that this tattoo was terrible enough to make nearly every blog post cataloging portrait tattoo calamities, to the point where it’s one of the world’s most famous tattoos. As Scott says, “I’m sure you’ve all seen it a million times online, as had I.” He continues,

    “I couldn’t believe my eyes when this guy walked in and showed me this project. I think my jaw literally hit the floor. He went on to tell me the story behind the portrait; He had just married his beautiful wife and not even three months afterwards she was killed in a horrible house fire accident leaving him to raise their three children alone. Shortly after he went to a local tattoo studio to memorialize his wife and was left with this abomination. He later returned to that studio for one more session, thinking that perhaps “he had done something wrong in the healing of the tattoo” and they butchered it even more the second time. Touched by his story, I gifted the entire project to him for free. Now he has closure and I have an amazing story to add to my portfolio!”

    The story really puts a guilt-trip on all the posts torturing this guy, don’t they? But it is wonderful to hear the story, and it’s made even more wonderful when you see the salvation that Scott Versago provided. Click for a larger look at this absolutely beautiful proof that even hilariously bad tattoos can be saved with a rework by a talented artist.

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  • Things not to do with your nipple piercing

    #6,312: use your children’s baby teeth as jewelry.

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    PS. But in all seriousness, one could put a tooth into a properly constructed implant and achieve this goal. People have encased loved one’s ashes and similar artifacts into silicone and metal implants and had them implanted close to their hearts.

  • Ear Stretching, Yoga Style

    Seems silly pictures is the theme of the day, eh? I think I’m going to print this out and put it on business cards so that if any uninitiates on the street ask me how I got my stretched ears I can whip out the card. And if I ever see anyone actually trying them? I’m going to tickle them and see what part of their body breaks first.

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    Photo: Brandon Wolbers

  • Two Mouths, One Tongue

    In the depraved theme of the previous post, I caption this picture of Diego and his massive stretched piercings and eyeball tattoos: “Don’t you hate it when you stick your tongue in the wrong hole by accident?”

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  • Suspension Daisy Chain

    This photo (in which I see Marc of Little Swastika and Roland, Oli, and Ralf of Visavajara) of a circular ring of people doing the suspension hook piercing of the person in front of them by being pierced by the one behind them is totally the suspension version of a daisy chain. And I’m not talking about the innocent sort

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  • Yumyum

    Skin removal scarification is the next step up from eating scabs and boogers. They’re like gateway drugs…

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    But seriously, while I like this scar on Joe by Iestyn a lot, something about it really reminds me of a cartoon face. Click the picture to see what I mean, assuming it doesn’t jump out at you already…

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  • Oh so very very cold

    Ice bullets… sure… but ice nipple jewelry?

    c/o Mr. Mustache

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  • Great corset piercing, or GREATEST corset piercing?

    Yes, GREATEST, I agree completely. The corset piercing to end all corset piercings — the Homer Simpson corset piercing, a masterpiece of lacing, needles, and hilarity by First Blood‘s Joeltron (firstblood.com.au, joeltron.com). By all means, zoom in nice and big.

  • Pick your nose, and your nose will pick you…

    You thought the “you keep making that face and it’ll stay that way” was serious? There are far worse things that can happen. Ever wonder about the nitty-gritty of how Japanese criminals that mess up make up to their Yakuza bosses? Now you know.

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