My tattoo-designs: the chinese Five Elements
Hello, everyone! In this post I’d like to present you one of my tattoo-designs which combines tribal elements with some ancient symbols used in the Taoist cosmology (namely, the Yin-Yang symbol and the Wu Xing ideograms).Wu Xing tattoo. Ideograms meaning: the chinese Five Elements: Wood (木, mù), Fire (火, huǒ), Earth (土, tǔ), Metal (金, jīn), Water (水, shuǐ). For more Kanji/Hanzi-tattoo-designs visit my website, seiza.ro…
The Tattooed Poets Project: Larry Jaffe
Our next tattooed poet is Larry Jaffe:Larry explains:”I always wanted a dagger tattoo from the time I was a kid. I went to see David Zero and was thumbing through his books and spotted this dragon being slayed by a sword and said that’s it. It was a painstaking thing as I recall, especially putting in the white on the sword. He had to go over it over and over and over and over again. It is time for me to get it touched up …
The Tattooed Poets Project: Senia Hardwick
Our next tattooed poet is Senia Hardwick:Senia explained that her “tattoo relates to a lot of similar themes and feelings to that of my work, though in and of itself it is not literary.” She adds, “I tend to write poetry that explores the transmutation of feelings and experience into landscapes and…
The Tattooed Poets Project: Sara’s Scorpio
Our next tattooed poet is Sara Tracey, who sent us this image of her ink:Sara tells us the story of how she came by this work:”Jimbo, my tattoo artist, had just gotten his license. He was a middle-aged biker who lived with his middle-aged, ex-stripper girlfriend, Peaches, in Akron, Ohio. Jimbo’s studio was set up in the corner of his basement; just a chair and a table, some ink and a gun. I…
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Wild west coquille board flash sheet
Continuing my never ending fixation with Coquille board…-Murray
Death tattoo – various elements which can occur in a Death tattoo – animals
There are several animals which are often depicted in the Grim Reaper tattoo-designs. The most common of them is, by far, the Death’s black horse. Despite the fact that initially (in the book of the Apocalypse) the Death is described as riding a pale horse, many tattoo artist choose to depict the Reaper riding a black horse (possibly due to the traditional interpretation of the color black representing famine, decay and death.) Another very common tattoo-motif is the Death riding …
My tattoo-designs: I have no money, but I have dreams
Hello, everyone! In this post I’d like to present you one of my tattoo-designs: 金はないけど夢はある (reading: kane wa nai kedo yume wa aru) – is a japanese expression which means “I have no money, but I have dreams”. In the first picture below you can see the original tattoo-design; in the second…
So much for sanity…
Speaking of H.P. Lovecraft (weren’t we?), this torso piece by the incredible Jesse Smith (originally spotted on Rate My Ink) is astoundingly awesome: Necronomicon tattoo by Jesse Smith So creepy how she smiles as her eyes bleed/melt, with Cthulhu looming in the background. Although …
"It’s only after we’ve lost everything that…
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
