Inked Interview with Margaret Cho
Nothing about Margaret Cho made it look like she had a chance in hell in Hollywood. Chubby, Korean, and bisexual (she admits to all three) in a business that typically has a hard time swallowing that list, Cho's rank as one of the biggest female comedians ...
Inked Interview with Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan isn't shy. Anyone who's caught him on a talk show knows he's as quick to strip down as he is to declare his intentions to impregnate half of the audience. (A quick YouTube search will yield plenty of results, especially with the keywords ...
Incredible Gang Tattoos and their Meanings
What do gangs and tattoos have in common? In short, pain and permanence. In many countries around the world, tattoos developed as a way to identify prisoners and ostracize them from law-abiding society. Tattoos were imprinted on inmates to not only identify them as felons, ...
Ink meets Inc.: Twenty Tattooed Professionals
An employee who is heavily tattooed. Images likely to surface are that of a bouncer, mechanic, Carny, or a Mcdrop-out. Thanks to white-collar professionals who have white-hot bravado coupled with artistic balls, stereotypes surrounding tattoos in today's workforce are not only being challenged, they ...
That’s a Wrap: Miami Ink Calls it Quits
Tattoos are permanent, television shows are not. After three years of production, saturated toilet seats, infamous "Kat" fights, and a shitload of tattoos, Miami Ink is hanging it up. Its fourth and final season is now airing on TLC, but the tattoo artists, and the ...
Ultimate Guide to Tattoo and Piercing Slang
01 December 2008
If a tattoo virgin stumbles upon a parlor, he or she may quickly realize shop talk can be hard to understand. Select key words and phrases are as common as tribal tats to typical parlors. This wayward language is intrinsic to the tattoo industry and, over the years, both artists and collectors have become fluent [...]
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Inked Interview with Margaret Cho
01 December 2008
Nothing about Margaret Cho made it look like she had a chance in hell in Hollywood. Chubby, Korean, and bisexual (she admits to all three) in a business that typically has a hard time swallowing that list, Cho’s rank as one of the biggest female comedians on the planet is the result of a one-woman battle, [...]
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Inked Interview with Tracy Morgan
10 November 2008
Tracy Morgan isn’t shy. Anyone who’s caught him on a talk show knows he’s as quick to strip down as he is to declare his intentions to impregnate half of the audience. (A quick YouTube search will yield plenty of results, especially with the keywords “Tracy Morgan is wasted”). This rep is bolstered by Tracy Jordan, [...]
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Top 50 Popular Tattoo Lettering Syles
10 November 2008
While the body art industry is highly visual, tattoos are not always images. Though we often associate tattoos with pictures or symbols of particular objects, there is a growing population of word tattoos. From bold words to statements to live by and quotes to admire, with or without accent images, word tattoos are increasingly popular in [...]
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Twenty Tattoo Endorsements - Expression or Exploitation?
28 October 2008
Oh, what some crazy cats will do for money. This is Kari Smith, a mother from Bountiful, Utah, who decided that the most industrious and auspicious way to come up with ten grand for her young son’s education was to sell her forehead as advertising space to the highest bidder on eBay (it’s probably best that [...]
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New Tattoo Reality TV Show - Rio Ink
28 October 2008
In a city where dental floss is acceptable beachwear, it is no surprise that Rio de Janeiro has plenty of flesh for the inking. Rio Ink is the latest body art reality show to hit the airwaves. It is a Discovery Channel spinoff of the original hit “Miami Ink” on TLC and, like the original, it [...]
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Incredible Gang Tattoos and their Meanings
28 October 2008
What do gangs and tattoos have in common? In short, pain and permanence. In many countries around the world, tattoos developed as a way to identify prisoners and ostracize them from law-abiding society. Tattoos were imprinted on inmates to not only identify them as felons, but also to identify the crimes they committed. Prisoners capitalized on [...]
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Ink meets Inc.: Twenty Tattooed Professionals
21 October 2008
An employee who is heavily tattooed. Images likely to surface are that of a bouncer, mechanic, Carny, or a Mcdrop-out. Thanks to white-collar professionals who have white-hot bravado coupled with artistic balls, stereotypes surrounding tattoos in today’s workforce are not only being challenged, they are being altered. A hat goes off to these 20 tattooed professionals [...]
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