Back in the day Copenhagen was the tattoo capital of Scandinavia. In the wee-early 19th century newly-laid-drunk-out-of-their-minds sailors would let usually just as drunk Danish tattooists add an eagle or an anchor to whatever ink-entourage they had begun assembling through ports in New York, Hamburg, the far east, and so on. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘tattoing’
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My friend’s a walking medical journal
My friend Matt is covered in medical tattoos. He’s got stethoscopes on his thigh, an otoscope on his calf, and an x-ray pelvis. He is whole-heartedly in love with medical paraphernalia design and has committed his body to looking like a weird, amazing medical cabinet, ready and stocked for any emergency.
Being an individual
Look, some guy who works somewhere that has a black filing cabinet and a really depressing snap-together gray workspace got a tattoo of that Shintaro Kago cover we ran on the 4-ACO-DMT Issue. That’s pretty great, and it just goes to show you that even if you’ve resigned yourself to wearing that horrible modern bank teller blue button-down shirt and pleated black slacks as you plop down into your corner of misery to crunch numbers, submit reports, and snack on Funyuns from the vending machine (which always seems to be half-empty with Balance bars and Baked Lays, godfuckingdamnit) while mouth-breathing your own farts, you can still totally be your own person and express yourself. Read more »
Cat tattooing is big in Moscow
Keen readers of Vice will remember our story last year on pig tattooing. The sight of everyone’s favourite bacon-flavoured pink blobs being injected with ink made a lot of people angry. Well, angry internet people, how do you feel about the recent cat tattooing fad in Moscow?
Some Russian kitty owners are choosing to customise hairless breeds like the Sphynx cat with gaudy tattoos. This Tutankhamun design took three hours. I think you’ll agree that it was most definitely worth every second. Read more »
