Art

Shooting from the hip with a Detroit artist who turns illegal firearms into works of art. For the last couple of decades, that’s right decades, the city of Detroit, Michigan has been on the receiving end a lot of bad press. Some of it deserved and some of it media hype. The ...read more

You Own Mystery Spot! These floors are a combination of people’s dreams and nightmares. A bathroom floor infested with sharks in shallow water. A bed precariously perched on the cliff overlooking a Brazilian rainforest or a bizarre geometric pattern that makes it hard to stand up ...read more

The Tattoo Industry Needs a #metoo Moment Alex Bage is a traditional tattoo artist at Fat Panda Tattoo in the United Kingdom. Aside from his career Bage is also a dad and husband. He is married to a fellow tattoo artist, known as @Hayleytattooer on Instagram. His beautiful ...read more

My favorite “trap soul” alt-rock babe Bishop Briggs has a new single out today, called “White Flag” — a song that is an empowerment anthem for the masses, featuring lyrics like “I won’t go down slow” and “won’t wave my white flag, no.” The song rides the cusp of loud anthemic ...read more

These tats are scary good! Walk into any tattoo shop in almost any city and between the flash on the wall — well, that would be if you walked into an old school shop — and the tats fresh on the arm, odds are there would be plenty of skull related tattoo imagery for as far as the ...read more

Last night we were at a cocktail bar in Los Angeles when a group of, well, “bros," saddled up next to us and asked the bartender, “What’s on special?” The bartender recoiled, then steadied himself and asked them what kind of spirits they prefer. He talked them up from from well ...read more

Periods and Other Body “Flaws”! Cinta Tort Cartró is a 21-year-old Barcelona-based artist who goes by the nom de plume of Zineta. Most recently she has focused her attention to the female body and all its “society deemed flaws”. She has decided to embrace these “flaws” and create ...read more

Mobile communications company Swiftkey recently released their "Emoji Report." After they studied over one billion pieces of Android and iOS data from 16 different languages and regions, some interesting facts have been revealed about localized emoji use. Some stats are more ...read more

Jake “Creep” Crawley makes motorcycle-inspired designs that make our tattooed skin tingle. Jake Crawley may be a creep, but he’s the best kind of creep. He’s the kind of creep that likes getting bugs stuck in his teeth when he’s zooming through the desert on his Harley, the kind ...read more

From Thumb-Sized Portraits to Detailed Fabric Patterns Tiny tattoos are all the rave amongst celebutantes these days. From the Jenner sisters to Hailey Baldwin, Zoe Kravitz, Miley Cyrus, and many others, the paparazzi magnets have been adorning their bodies with miniature tats. ...read more

The most iconic superheroine rendered in ink. Wonder Woman is by far the most iconic superheroine of all time. Yeah, Storm, Rogue and Phoenix from X-Men are high up on the totem pole, but they all pale in comparison to DC Comics' amazonian demigoddess. Don't debate me on this! ...read more

She’s One Proud Canadian, Eh? Canada is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its confederation this year, and a Reddit user named Jess decided to mark the momentous occasion by getting the most Canadian of Canadian tattoos – an impressive piece on her calf of a beaver riding a ...read more

It Actually Isn’t as Creepy as It Sounds Although views on tattoos were at their most putrid levels in the early 1990s, plenty of people were still basking in ink. With the popular misconception that the art of tattoo was reserved for the lowest of lowest in society – like ...read more

These Artists Breathed New Life Into These Tattoos Regrettable tattoos will never cease to exist. Whether it's a tattoo done in the spur of the moment by a sketchy artist or something you let your friend scratch on you, people sometimes simply just get bad tattoos. Luckily, there ...read more

Matching Tattoos For Yourself Symmetry in art occurs when the various elements of a painting, drawing or sculpture are composed in such a way that they are perfectly balanced, creating an image that is aesthetically pleasing. The same is true for tattoos. Think about the Thai sak ...read more

Don't forget to blink! You know the drill: We see beautiful girls with tattoos, and we share them with you! We love tattoos, and we love sexy women, so it's the perfect combination. These girls have bodies that are works of art, both naturally and through their ink. They have ...read more

Rumor Has it That Kobay Kronik May Be Tattooing in L.A. Soon We hear that award-winning artist, Kobay Kronik, is looking to relocate from Istanbul to the sunny streets of Los Angeles soon, and we simply cannot contain our excitement! As one of the best tattoo artists in the ...read more

Bone-afide Fabulous Art! Skulls. Skulls. Skulls. If you're like me you can’t get enough of them. For so many of us the skull was one of our first true childhood fears. That's right, the skull was its own entity. It symbolized everything that was scary, spooky and downright ...read more

Tackling Multiple Mediums Fifteen-year tattoo veteran, Darwin Enriquez, didn’t intend on slinging ink for a living. His entrance into tattooing started through his skill for drawing. Looking through tattoo magazines, Enriquez felt that he had the necessary artistic aptitude to ...read more

Baby got back... tats Everyone loves a good back tattoo. When you want to get a big piece of artwork done on your body, the first place you think about is your back. With so much room to work with and the ability to hide it whenever you want, it makes a great location for some ...read more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might quite possibly be the coolest head of state—especially now that Barack Obama is no longer in power. PM Trudeau hangs out with the likes of singer The Weeknd, he fights for refugees' and women's rights – pledging $650 million to expand ...read more

Perfect Pixels Video games can be more than just a game; some people devote their lives towards playing games. Some can be pretty moving once you get into them, so it's no surprise when people across the globe want a part of a game cemented on their skin forever. Check out this ...read more

The Curious and Wondrous Tattoos of Alberto Moreno A gun-toting chimpanzee, a tiger with a bandana on its head, a panda bear wearing a monocle and bowler hat and smoking a pipe, and a dog sporting boxing gloves. This isn’t some kind of twisted zoo exhibit—these are the tattoos ...read more

We’re not here to say bigger is better, but when it comes to a back piece, well, we’re here to say bigger is better. Devote that much skin-canvas to an artist and it better be damn good. Although YOU will rarely see it, back pieces are some of the most impressive tattoos around — ...read more

20 Sick Chest Tattoos That'll Leave You Floored Around here we believe that if you're going to get your chest tattoo, you either go big or go home. The chest is one of those wide open spaces of canvas on your body that — much like your back — you can go wild with when it comes to ...read more

Being discriminated for a job because of your tattoos isn’t anything new, but a paying customer being turned away from an establishment – a bar of all places – because of your ink is definitely new territory. U.S. Marine veteran Brandon Andrus was recently denied entry into ...read more

Jennifer Liles, a tattoo artist based in Toronto, is doing her part to raise awareness about the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, by donating a day’s earnings once a month to organizations advocating for the cause, or to families of these exploited ...read more

All Sorts of Places You can do whatever you want with your body, and you can get a tattoo wherever you want. Some people choose to have tattoos that you can't see in their every day life, and some people like to have them right out in the open, covering their body. A select few ...read more

15 Tattoos Reppin' 'Hoods Around the World Would you be down to represent your hometown or state with a tattoo? Rapper Paul Wall will tell you that reppin' your 'hood through body art is one of the most satisfying things you can do, as the hip-hop artist recently got a tattoo of ...read more

Reppin’ your ‘hood in ink has been a staple in the tattoo game for quite some time. Whether it’s the Hollywood sign across your back or a killer sleeve of Lady Liberty surrounded by subway cars, folks around the world are all about getting tattoos that pay homage to their ...read more

Getting together a bunch of hot tattooed models, splashing them with paint and photographing them sounds like a helluva good time! It can also yield some amazing photos. Fifteen-year photography vet, Senén Llanos, is known for adding paint to his photography projects, splashing ...read more

We don't know about you, but getting tattooed gives us the major munchies—especially after a long tattoo session. After the artist securely wraps up our new tattoos, we scurry off to the nearest eatery to satiate our hunger. However, we've never followed up a tattoo session with ...read more

20 Tattoos by Jay Freestyle That Will Blow Your Mind There are plenty of bad tattoo artists in the world. Jay Freestyle is not one of them. He leaves you feeling like you have nothing to fear when it comes to the end result. That's a pretty important thing to factor in, ...read more

World-class tattoo artist, Mike Rubendall, came up in the '90s era of tattooing, where things like the Internet weren't available and Photoshop had still not made its way into tattoo shops. Every design Rubendall and other artists of that time created were done through "real" ...read more