Books
Holocaust Survivor Married Man Who Tattooed Her ID Number
Lale was the Auschwitz camp’s Tätowierer, or tattooist, where he had inked thousands of inmates’ identification numbers. Gita was one of those prisoners. Lale’s memoir “The Tattooist Of Auschwitz”, written by Heather Morris, reveals when Lale and Gita were separated after the ...read more
35 Literary Tattoos for the Bibliophile in Us All
Sometimes reading and re-reading our favorite book isn’t enough. While we love the adorable Deathly Hallows tattoos and the “So it goes” tattoo for Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, these striking tattoos will strike the bibliophile bone, even for the inked non-reader. Art, ...read more
Lusty Literature: Young Nylon Beauties
Within almost 15 years in business, Goliath has established itself as a highly acclaimed publisher of diverse, and often daring photography and art books, unafraid to introduce controversial, erotic, and subcultural perspectives to modern life. Goliath proudly introduces the ...read more
Putting the X in Xmas Gift List: The Book of Young Exotic Beauties
The natural grace of exotic beauties truly fascinates Richard Lopez, and he obviously has a soft spot for bootylicious butts. GOLIATH BOOKS PROUDLY INTRODUCES YOUNG EXOTIC BEAUTIES. When Richard Lopez was 16, he took pictures of his cousin Ariana wearing a tiny bikini. This ...read more
420 "Dirty“ Pictures! The Goliath Size Dirty Girl Collection!
Each Pic Hotter Than the Next! Ellen Stagg is one of the most well-known American nude photographers. Her passion for photography began in high school, and already during her junior year of college she signed with her first agent. Though she began working successfully in the ...read more
Alice in Wonderland Inspired Tattoos
From the moment it was published Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll captivated the minds of children the world over. The popular fairy tale was made into an even more popular Disney movie and eventually a live-action film directed by Tim Burton. The tale is filled with ...read more
Hidden Blacklight Tattoos Recreate the Magic of Harry Potter
If you’re a die-hard Harry Potter fan and you want to get a tattoo inspired by J. K. Rowling’s wildly popular book series, you may want to consider one of these awesome blacklight tattoos that remain hidden until they are revealed under a special UV light. It’s the perfect piece ...read more
J.K. Rowling Designed a Harry Potter Tattoo to Help This Girl Heal
J.K. Rowling may be a world-famous author, but that didn’t stop the Harry Potter creator from taking the time to reach out and help a fan in need. Just last week, a Twitter user by the name of Kate made a unique request of Rowling over social media, asking her to write out the ...read more
Disney Tattoos Pt. 2
GET INSPIRED BY 11 BREATHTAKING DISNEY TATTOOS, SEE PHOTO #7 TO BE GRANTED ONE WISH! In need of inspiration? Watch a Disney movie! Better yet—get a Disney tattoo in honor of your favorite animated flick. If you're falling in love or in need of change, go for a Little Mermaid ...read more
Jes Baker Q&A: 'My Tattoos Were About Becoming Visible'
The unapologetic, outspoken self-love author Jes Baker started getting tattooed almost a decade ago, when she was 20-years-old, on the places she hated most on her body. This ink came long before she was confident and proud to identify as a “fat woman,” but in time the tattoos ...read more
Deniro Farrar - Hip Hop's Biggest Bookworm
In a society where even children seem to be wildly aware of their “personal brand” it has become remarkably refreshing when you meet someone who is genuinely what they say they are. Refreshing is probably an understatement, “shocked” is a more apt description of the feeling I had ...read more
Tattoos From 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'
If you grew up in the 1980s chances are that Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was a very formative book for you. Either you loved the collection of chilling short stories by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gambell or you were absolutely terrified of them. Most likely ...read more
Amber Rose Is Not Happy With GQ
Amber Rose is done being overshadowed by her past relationships with Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa. GQrecently released a lengthy interview with Rose that largely revolved around her relationship with West—that was the last straw. According to her Instagram, she was "So excited to ...read more
Artist Transforms Bratz Dolls Into Iconic Women
Gallery Follows the Text Wendy Tsao, an especially talented artist based out of Vancouver, Canada, has recreated the Bratz dolls and transformed them into iconic women of all fields. As you surely remember, Bratz dolls are complete with excessive eyeshadow, over drawn lips, and ...read more
Tattoos Inspired by Banned Books
It's hard to believe that classic novels such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill A Mockingbird have been banned from libraries and schools across the country, as these are books that we most associate with our high school English ...read more
Inside the Yakuza
Photo Gallery Follows the Text Photographer Anton Kusters was given an unprecedented level of access to one of Tokyo's infamous Yakuza families and the results are incredible. While simply hearing the word "Yakuza" conjures images of men with full tattoo bodysuits and missing ...read more
Teachers With Tattoos
Gallery Follows the Text People always say knowledge is power. No matter how much we may or may not have complained about school growing up, we all can remember the one teacher that truly changed our educational experience–the teacher that believed in us when all the others ...read more
Become the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
As the latest novel in the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series is set for release at the end of the summer the book series is making headlines again due to a pretty bold casting and publicity campaign. The publisher, Hachette Australia, has stated they "want your back for a ...read more
Hair Raising 'Goosebumps' Tattoos and Movie Trailer
Photo Gallery Follows Text and Trailer I can't even begin to count the amount of nights that I lay awake staring at the ceiling unable to sleep because of the horrific images and scenarios running through my adolescent mind. All of these nightmares had been placed there by R.L. ...read more
'Game of Thrones' Tattoos (No Spoilers)
Last night, HBO dropped a pretty intense fifth season finale of "Game of Thrones." As promised, we won't be spoiling anything from the episode. We're fans too and understand that not everyone gets to watch the show right away, so here's a blog that you can safely spend a little ...read more
Anni Irish and the History of the American Tattooed Ladies
When Anni Irish was 16-years-old she entered a tattoo shop for the first time. She had ventured in looking to get her nose pierced but ended up leaving with a blueprint for her academic life. After experiencing the culture within the shop Irish was instantly intrigued and would ...read more
Interview with "A Million Miles" Author Amy Fleisher Madden
Once you start reading “A Million Miles,” Amy Fleisher Madden's first novel, you'll hate that you have a “real” life—work, school, etc.—that’s going to eventually interrupt you and make you put it down. When that real life allows you to get back to the novel about 20-year-old ...read more
James Franco Gets Shirtless and Tattooed for New Role
GALLERY OF JAMES FRANCO'S TATTOOED PAST BELOW THE TEXT It doesn’t take much for a James Franco Instagram to go viral. The man is always doing something new and interesting, so you can always expect that his social media presence will be the same. Over the weekend, Franco posted ...read more
Watch This Tattoo Come To Life With Augmented Reality App
Australian interactive comic artist Sutu gained notoriety last year when he took comic books to a new level by creating the augmented reality comic “Modern Polaxis.” Now, the award-winning artist has taken tattoos to a new level by using the same free augmented reality app that ...read more
Discover Jonathan Shaw's Novel 'Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes'
As if it’s not enough that Jonathan Shaw is a legendary tattoo master and outlaw artist, the man who Iggy Pop calls “the great nightmare antihero of the new age” gives us the first trade edition of his cult classic novel “Narcisa – Our Lady of Ashes.” The story that “captures the ...read more
A Tattoo of a Dirty Old Man
The reason that doing portrait work can be so difficult is that the key doesn't lie in replicating the face perfectly as much as it does in capturing the spirit of the subject. That fact holds true no matter the medium—paintings, photographs and tattoos all need to do this in ...read more
Tom DeLonge to Release Solo Material and Novel
While we’re all still recovering from Tom DeLonge’s messy departure from Blink-182, the guitarist released exciting news regarding his own music. DeLonge is set to share his new album, To the Stars… Demos, Odds and Ends on April 21. He made good use of his social media accounts ...read more
Finding the Beauty in Death
It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that Paul Koudounaris has spent more time with the dead than with the living over the last decade. Koudounaris has spent his time documenting the one thing all humans share in common—death—by photographing all of the different rituals ...read more
50 Shades of Black and Grey
Remember all the hoopla about Fifty Shades of Grey. It got to the point where you heard it so many times that you started to tune out whenever you heard the word "fifty." While we are all for books/movies about kinky sex—see our features about Fat Mike and his love of S&M or our ...read more
'Popular Skullture' Celebrates the Macabre
Gallery Follows the Text Given the harsh reality that every human eventually concedes to death it's not surprising that man has always been intrigued by the macabre. Every known art form ends up focusing on death. Be it tattoos, comics, literature, paintings, opera, it doesn't ...read more
Nate "Igor" Smith's Night of Gourmet Ink
Bacon, buffalo wings, Philly cheesesteaks, chocolate, peanut butter. Who doesn’t love food? Just these thoughts of food are enough to make our mouths water. Lucky for us here at INKED, our paths crossed with food and tattoo lover, Nate “Igor” Smith. Smith is a Brooklyn-based ...read more
Out of the Fire and Into the Kitchen
The idea of a 31-year-old person writing a memoir would normally cause one to roll their eyes and dismiss the idea before reading a single page, but Jesse Schenker is no ordinary 31-year-old. His memoir, All or Nothing, tells the story of how in slightly over three decades the ...read more
Tattoos Inspired by Stephen King
Novels like The Shining, Pet Sematary, and Salem's Lot have all been transformed into amazing and horrifying films since author Stephen King first released his ghoulish stories to the public. Along with other great novels, short stories and even the fantasy series The Dark Tower, ...read more
Where's Waldo Tattoos
When Martin Handford drew his first scene crowded with people and one weary traveler wearing a striped shirt there is no way he could fathom how famous that character—you know him as Waldo—would become. The Where's Waldo books became a phenomenon as people tried to find all the ...read more
Tattoos Inspired by Neil Gaiman
The 2014 San Diego Comic Con is here! So in honor of the biggest annual convention in the world, we'd like to bring your attention to one of the biggest names in fantasy fiction comics, Neil Gaiman. Known best for his comic series, The Sandman, Gaiman is also a novelist who has ...read more
Literary Tattoos
Books come in all shapes and sizes and cover just about any topic you can think off, however, there are some that perhaps you were forced to read in high school, decided to pick up off of a coffee table, or stumbled upon in a book store that have resinated with you long after you ...read more
Dr. Seuss Tattoos
From wockets in pockets to fox in socks, Dr. Seuss was a mastermind at bringing fantasy worlds and creatures to children everywhere. To show our appreciation for the king of cats in hats, here are some of the Seussiest Dr. Seuss tattoos out there. ...read more
Tattoos Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson
On July 18th, 1937 Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Ky. In his lifetime Thompson redefined what journalism could be as he became the official spokesman of the counterculture. Thompson is most famous for writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the semi-true tale of Raoul ...read more
Harry Potter Tattoos
Of all the young adult book series that have come out in the last twenty-five years, Harry Potter is by far the most beloved. With a following based off of seven novels, eight films, and even an amusement park, fans can't seem to get enough of the wizarding world. Some people who ...read more
Carl Zimmer's Unified Theory of Tattoo
“I happened to notice a tattoo of DNA on the arm of a neuroscientist and it got me to wondering if scientists are the sort of people who have lots of tattoos,” Carl Zimmer—noted science writer and author of Science Ink—explains. “I didn’t know the answer because normally I’m ...read more
Green Ink: An Evening of Irish Poetry, Drink, and Tattoos
If standing shoulder to shoulder in a packed bar drinking warm beer infused with disgusting green food coloring isn't exactly the way to you want to spend your St. Patrick's Day the people at Bowery Arts & Science have come up with an amazing alternative. Celebrate the Irish ...read more