Flash Your Tattoo

The Marines are looking for a few good men – minus the tattoos.  Not only has this military branch laid out strict guidelines for interested future marines and soldiers currently serving, they also feel their guidelines will help with any future career plans a marine might pursue once he’s out of the marines. Their view is excessive tattoos detract from the professional appearance that people expect of a Marine.  Although the Marines have had a fairly strict policy in place, Sgt. Maj. Carlton W. Kent stated that they realized more guidance was necessary to clear up questions about the existing policy. Sounds a bit bureaucratic. (continue reading…)

I really wrote about an icon in the tattoo industry, Shanghi Kate, also known as the grandmother of tattoos.  She is a talented and respected tattoo sixty six year old artist that recently had a bad fall resulting in a shattered leg.  She has been tattooing since 1971 and has tattooed celebrities such as Howard Stern, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Jackdaw, David LaChapelle, Casey Affleck, during her career.  I just wanted to bring some attention to the fund raiser started to help Kate pay her crazy expensive health bills.  (continue reading…)

Tattoos are truly becoming accepted in all walks of society.  My hubby and I are chilling, watching the Vancouver Olympic women’s bobsled competition.  The announcers like to fill you in on cute and interesting personal stories about whoever is competing at the time.   Canadian bobsled driver, Kaillie Humphries,  was only twelve years old when she posed a challenge to her family.  If she ever made it on an Olympic team, her family had to get matching tattoos.   Even at that young age Kaillie was jonesing for some skin art.  (continue reading…)

Have you ever heard of the opinion that people should not be allowed to have children unless they were prequalified?  Pass some type of “common sense” test that could determine if you have the brain capacity to care for another human life without fucking it up.  Now we can expand on that to testing the friends of the potential parent.  A twenty year old Louisville man by the name of Lee M. Derrick decided it was a great idea to place a tattoo on the rear end of a poor one year old kid that was visiting his home. Authorities have charged Derrick with a felony child endangering charge which means he is facing up to five years in the big house.  I can almost guarantee he won’t get jail time but maybe this will illustrate to other morons out there that tattooing a toddler is not the best idea. (continue reading…)

Happy Valentines Day – should land on a Sunday every year.  Give us a chance to spend with your loved one.  Valentines Day also reminds us of the ever popular heart tattoo.  All styles and shapes can be found with the heart shaped symbol.  In the past handful of years, a gruesome and realistic version of the heart has grown in popularity even adorning the female population.  (continue reading…)

Even though Taylor Cort has been a tattoo artist for less than 5 years you could never tell that from the high quality work he punches out  His work is detailed and his shop is known for it’s custom work with almost no flash adorning the walls.   Now that he has opened up his shop, Mutiny Tattoo (located in Asheville North Carolina), he is now focusing his artwork on publishing books of his drawings.  The man lives and breathes art.  His first book is published and available on his Myspace page and he says he’s already working on the next 2 art books. His portrait work is top notch as well as his color work.   (continue reading…)