Tattooing and Body Modification

New York Tattoo Convention

Tattoo King Won't Do Celebrities!

Or he will, but he'd actually rather not. At an Empire Hotel party for his fashion line yesterday, Miami Ink's Ami James told me he's not starstruck when it comes to doling out tats. "I'm a street guy," he said. "To me, it's like street art.

COOL INK

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Long Island: Where You Can Get Tattooed at a Hockey Game

"I'll take one of these, and throw in a yin yang while you're at it."​Sick of waiting until after the Islanders-Predators game to get that tattoo of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes pissing on a Rangers logo? Now you don't have to wait! CNBC's Darren Rovell reports Long Island tattoo chain Tattoo ... More >>

The New York Times Explores the Challenging World of Tattoo Etiquette

Never attempt to finish someone else's crossword. ​In this contemporary day and age, and also, summer, now that people are wearing less clothes, and tattoos are practically, like, shirts or at least jaunty vests in some parts of town, the question of how to behave in the presence of a tattoo h ... More >>

DARK ARTS

What do you do when you’re bored?

Want To Get a Free Tattoo on Camera? SPIKE TV Wants You!

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithThis design probably wouldn't get you cast on the show.SPIKE TV, purveyor of such televised testosteroney magnificence as 1000 Ways To Die and MANswers, has a new reality show in development called . . . InkMaster. Yes, the Maxim of Cable stations is looking for a few good ... More >>

Sean Penn As An Aging Goth Rocker! You'll Die!

​Two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn has played a killer, a gay, and a psycho--all on screen, that is. And now he's stretching his muscles by donning some very vivid makeup and hair design (not to mention wrist jewelry) to play an aging Goth rocker in a movie called This Must Be The Place.

Tiny Skateboarder Adorable, Gnarly

Via The Daily: seven-year-old Asher Bradshaw is a precociously talented skateboarder in L.A. who is totally the next Tony Hawk. Just look at him go! My favorite element of this is watching him interact with the older skaters at the skate park. His role models are these grizzled burnouts with holey ... More >>

WikiLeaks Turncoat Will Not Remove His WikiLeaks Tattoo

​Daniel Domscheit-Berg, author of Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website and owner of the cat Julian Assange liked to physically fight, is in the hot seat for the New York Times Magazine's Questions For column this weekend, online now for clamoring ... More >>

Men With Genital Piercings Actually Quite Average, Say Scientists

​Imagine you're a scientist. You're wracking your brain trying to come up something that will have the world in your grips when you unearth the truth behind the mysteries of...genital piercings? Yes! That's it! Soon you are inundated with grants and TV and radio and autograph requests, and tho ... More >>

BUZZ GOES THE NEEDLE

If your back or arm has room to spare, it won't after this

Darius Jones

If your back or arm has room to spare, it won't after this

'VANS Warped Tour'

If your back or arm has room to spare, it won't after this

Kitchen Ink: Chefs Talk About Their Tattoos

If your back or arm has room to spare, it won't after this

Greenwich Village Still the Place to Get Inked Up Without Mom's Permission

​Every summer, thousands of kids descend on New York in pre-college summer programs, and that's besides the scores of teenagers already living here who aren't "of age." They come wanting to drink underage, smoke underage, and do other things against the law for them even though they're old eno ... More >>

NICE TATS

Love the skin you're in

'Benefit for Matty No Times with Gospel'

Love the skin you're in

Manon

Love the skin you're in

Manon

Love the skin you're in

The Most Ghetto Ink Job of 2009, So Far: Shepard Fairey Obama Hope Poster Gone Bad

photos by Nate "Igor" Smith Hi there, pretty girl. You like Barack Obama. We like Barack Obama. You like that Shepard Fairey HOPE poster, the whole world likes that Shepard Fairey poster. You liked yesterday when Barack Obama became the President of the United States and we liked yesterday when Ba ... More >>

Worst Press Release of the Year! Discuss!

photos by Nate "Igor" Smith Hi there, pretty girl. You like Barack Obama. We like Barack Obama. You like that Shepard Fairey HOPE poster, the whole world likes that Shepard Fairey poster. You liked yesterday when Barack Obama became the President of the United States and we liked yesterday when Ba ... More >>

Gamblers, Gangsters, and Other Anti-Heroes: The Japanese Yakuza Movie

photos by Nate "Igor" Smith Hi there, pretty girl. You like Barack Obama. We like Barack Obama. You like that Shepard Fairey HOPE poster, the whole world likes that Shepard Fairey poster. You liked yesterday when Barack Obama became the President of the United States and we liked yesterday when Ba ... More >>

Getting Off . . .

by chopping off your fingers and toes. For tips: ask David.

Boob Job

A new body image satire says thanks for the mammaries

Revisiting the relics of Central European conceptualism

A new body image satire says thanks for the mammaries

Written on the Body

Brian Murphy's Piercing Analysis