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Needle, Thread and Flesh: Artist Hand-Sews Scenes Right Into His Palm

With his own skin as his canvas and needles as his tools, artist David Cata demands a pound of flesh from himself in return for his creative expression. That is to say, each individual piece ...

Modern Markings: 42 Bold Black & White Tattoo Designs

Modern tattoos are less about sailors, pin-ups and 'MOM' and more about bold black lines, complex geometry, architecture, esoteric imagery, glitches and even blacking out entire body parts to ...

Living Street Art: Contorted Human Bodies in Urban Spaces

If you were to pass a bunch of colorfully-dressed human figures crammed into a crawlspace beneath a public staircase, you might think they’re mannequins at first, with their splayed limbs and ...

Urban Camo: Body Paint Blends Humans into City Backdrops

Human figures blend into iconic New York City scenes, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Guggenheim Museum, in artist Trina Merry's tromp l'eoil urban camouflage works. Each subject is carefully ...

2D or Not 2D? Body Paint Illusion Makes Faces Look Flat

Three-dimensional human bodies are transformed to look like paintings on a flat surface in this curious collaboration between a makeup artist, a photographer and a retoucher. In his series Art of ...

Body Paint Illusions Transform Human Models into Animals

Intricately painted and carefully posed, the human bodies serving as canvases for artist Gesine Marwedel are virtually unrecognizable as they morph into swans, flamingos and iguanas. The ...

34 Bad Tattoos: The Awful, The Weird, and The Misspelled

In carpentry they say to measure twice and cut once. In tattooing it's "choose your tattoo artist carefully, and bring a dictionary." These mistakes will haunt their owners, and everyone who has ...

Natural Born Tattoos: 35 Fierce Nature Images In Ink

What better way to show off your harmony with nature than proudly displaying a tattoo with a gorgeous landscape, or fierce growling animal? Some nature tattoos are better than others, but the ...

Geek Tattoo Designs: Wish Your Social Life Goodbye

There's geek, and then there's hardcore, plaster your favorite operating system's logo on your right forearm geek. The latter tends to be more interesting (at least on the internet), so I've ...

Robot Tattoos: Awesome Works of Mechanical Body Art

Robots are intrinsically fascinating, especially now that we almost have the technological capability to create what once was only a science fiction fan's dream. We're not quite there, ...

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