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.

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  • Oh hey, Video Games!

    Photo credit: Kotaku.com

    In their ongoing campaign to thoroughly dominate the literate gamer community, the good folks at Kotaku have been compiling readers’ game-related tattoos, with some pretty fabulous results, like the above. I’m just saying, if you can’t get on board with a Mega Man/Looney Tunes mash-up, you have no soul. OK, maybe a little one.

    In other video game tattoo news, you may have seen the following NHL 2K9 commercial in which a local idiot gets the moves for the game tattooed on his forearm, only to have the artist … oh, just watch it yourself. It is exactly as entertaining as you would expect a tattoo-related hockey video game commercial to be.

  • Incredibly Interesting, Vital and Important Celebrity Tattoo Round-Up

    Photo credit: Hector Vallenilla / Pacific Coast News

    [People.com] In as much as you can deduce anything about celebrities from seeing them on television and through media coverage, Heidi Klum seems legitimately goofy enough to be genuinely likable. (I have no doubt that immediately after this gets posted, it’ll be revealed that she operates a concentration camp in her garage or poisoned the drinking water of a small town or eats veal or something.) Anyway, she’s just showed up in public recently sporting a new forearm tattoo (AHH SCANDAL) to commemorate her anniversary with her husband, Seal (AWW), which she explains as such:

    “My husband and I always get married every year,” said Klum. “It was our fourth wedding, and we wanted to have our names tattooed together. So it’s my husband’s name and our three children, their initials, in the [three] stars.”

    Tim Gunn was not available for comment, who claimed it was getting a little dusty in the back of his Towncar.

    [BestCelebGossip.com] You would think that when you make the decision to marry one of the dinks from Good Charlotte, you accept that ill-advised tattoos will be as unavoidable as soul-destroyingly-bad mall punk being blasted around the homestead. Well, Nicole Richie is taking a stand against the tattoo plans of whichever guy it is from Good Charlotte to whom she’s married!

    From the sounds of it, Joel has been considering getting another tattoo, but this is something she has put her foot down. Oddly enough, Joel wanted to have a tattoo of their six month old Harlow etched onto his tooth of all places, and Nicole reportedly lost her temper over the whole situation. He had said some time ago, promised even, that he wasn’t going to get any more tattoos, but when a friend suggested doing something out of the box, such as the tooth tattoo, he wanted to go for it.

    Umm … unless our friend Joel has some positively Barbaro-sized chompers, I’m not entirely sure how well this would have worked out even if he had been allowed.

    [ContactMusic.com] Megan Fox has a lot going for her. She’s easy to look at. She’s brash and doesn’t seem to possess a self-editing mechanism. She’s incapable of taking a picture in which she doesn’t look like she’s about three-and-a-half seconds away from blowing you. I mean really, what’s not to like? But the 22-year-old is also somewhat tattooed — especially for an up-and-coming actress — and doesn’t take kindly to people who find her ink trashy.

    “Everyone hates them because they’re closed-minded about tattoos. People who don’t like me, as far as fans go, always talk about how I’m trashy because I have tattoos. I find that insane! This is 2008, not 1950. Tattoos aren’t limited to sailors. I find them beautiful, so I’m going to keep doing it.”

    This isn’t anything new, though. In an interview when she was 19, she mentioned having a tattoo of her ex-boyfriend’s name “next to my pie,” which … well, it’s just plain awesome. You stay classy, Megan Fox.

  • Vote or Cry


    Intrepid reader Jennifer sends in this scan of an ad from Seventeen magazine:

    See, I’m conflicted about things like this. On the one hand, there are a lot of positive things to consider here: Encouraging young people to vote is undeniably noble; realistic-looking piercings in ads are rare; a crying woman is a huge turn-on.

    On the other hand, I’M ON THE INTERNET AND EVERYTHING MAKES ME ANGRY AHHHHHH

  • Fancy Fists

    I’m 99% sure these two hand tattoos haven’t been posted before – The portrait on the left is based upon the work of Gil Elvgren and is by Joe Capobianco (Hope Gallery, CT). On the right is an “armour effect” tattoo by Tony Powers, Northern Minnesota.

    Click through for larger views.

    See more in Hand Tattoos (Tattoos)

  • Twos and Ones.

    INKstar sent in a couple of photos from the recent Wings of Desire / APTPI Suscon in Venice – Click through for a shot of a single point (from two) knee suspension – Judging by the expression on his face it was quite the experience!

    See more in Ritual Events (Suspension Teams and Bonus Galleries)

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