CG Tattoo Preview
Ever want to see what a tattoo would look like on your body before permanently inking yourself? Computer graphics artist Loïc Zimmerman developed a program that does just that. By scanning your …
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Bar Code Tattoos
Today Needled traces barcode tattoos back to their heyday in the 90's when they were common protests of consumer culture. In this time of more restraint (and more consumerism?), the concept is …
Reset Design Tattoo
Needled today directs us to the Parisian site Reset Design's project that tasked designers with reinventing tattoos. The 40 different results range from more lyrical ideas, like a rendering of hair (pictured) …
Suicide Girls x Needled
The latest contributor to help make Suicide Girls a lot more than just a skin site, is none other than Tattoo Revue, as she calls it, is a weekly recap of the …
Needled: Docteur Gecko
Needled reports today on Docteur Gecko who modifies bus shelter ads using light sensitive colors that only show up at night. Like this riff on Desperate Housewives, the results are generally dark …
Needled: Skin Is a Language
Needled visits the Whitney's exhibit that takes skin—metaphorically, literally, and otherwise—as its curatorial premise. Skin Is a Language includes works by some heavy-hitters from the Whitney’s permanent collection such as Catherine Opie, …
Needled: Tattoo Shoe
Needled recently found J. Shoes' leather slip-on with designs by tattoo artists that are hand-etched into the shoes and then burnished with oils and tattoo inks. Driving moccasins for the rockstar set?
Needled: Furniture Tattoos
Although rearranging the furniture becomes out of the question, getting tattoos of coveted objects is one way for the design-obsessed to pay homage. Today Needled looks at the photo-realist work of Connecticut …
Needled: SkinBag
Skin-deep fashion gets literal with these synthetic skin accessories made by French artist Olivier Goulet. Marisa wrote about them today on Needled, pointing out that the totes, purses, laptop sleeves, belts, and …
Needled: Live From Milan Tattoo Convention
Needled is reporting live from the Milan Tattoo Convention today and through the weekend. Check in for breaking news and maybe a new tattoo or two from Marisa.