The Bizarre Wat Bang Phra Tattoo Festival
Every March, the Wat Bang Phra temple of Nakhom Pathom, Thailand, becomes the scene of a weird celebration, known as the Wat Bang Phra Tattoo Festival. While in most western countries tattoos are viewed as an art form, in Thailand, a country with a culture deeply rooted in superstition and spirituality, tattoos are considered more […]
The Tattooed Baby of Jason Clay Lewis
The Drill Baby is a bizarre artwork created by New York-based artist Jason Clay Lewis. It is inspired by the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Remember Sarah Palin’s famous “Drill, baby, drill” remark? Jason Clay Lewis named his artwork the Drill Baby in respons to her infamous line. The Drill Baby is […]
There’s a Real Man under All that Ink
Yes, believe it or not, just 2 years and a half ago, this man looked like your average 30-year old, living and working in the Big Apple. I got these photos by email, the other day, and was stunned to see how much a person can change in just two years, if they get carried […]
Julia Gnuse – The Most Tattooed Woman in the World
With various tattoos covering 95% of her body, Julia Gnuse has been acknowledged as the world’s most tattooed woman. What started out as a desperate solution to cover up lesions, caused by a severe skin condition, turned into a true passion, that earned Julia Gnuse a spot in the Guinness Book of Records, for the […]
Ruby Dickinson – The World’s Youngest Tattoo Artist
Three-year old Ruby Dickinson, from Wales, is preparing to ink a small tattoo, on her father’s body, and become the youngest tattoo artist on Earth. Ruby has been living in a tattoo-filled environment, ever since she was born. Her father, Blane, has his own tattoo shop, set up right in their home. Tattooing has already […]
Guinness Rishi – The Human Flag Pole
After changing his name from Har Parkash to Guinness Rishi, in order to show his commitment to setting Guinness records, this Indian daredevil wants to cover his body with 220 flag tattoos. 67-year-old Guinness Rishi constantly tries to make his family and the entire Indian people by constantly setting new records. He previously became father […]
Dude Gets Permanent Eyeglasses Tattoo
I meant to start this post kind of like this: “Of all the idiotic things I’ve seen in my life…” But MatthewG15 has been picked-on enough on his Flickr profile. So while others call him a douche or a retard, I just want to point out that he didn’t actually hurt anyone (but himself). Our […]
ManWoman – Savior of the Swastika
Covered in around 200 swastika tattoos, ManWoman welcomes pilgrims to his Swastika Museum and tries to “detoxify” the hated symbol used by Hitler. Born to a Polish immigrant mother, at the start of World War 2, ManWoman (Manny, for short) hated the swastika as much as any other westerner. But that all changed when he […]
Disney’s Biggest Fan
George Reiger considers himself Disney’s number one fan and to prove it, he has covered most of his body with over 1,900 Disney tattoos. When people ask George Reiger why he has almost 2,000 tattoos relating to Disney, his answers that Disney practically raised him when he was a child and he wanted to have […]
Weirdest Super Mario Brothers Tattoos Ever
Mario and Luigi are, without a doubt, some of the most popular video-game characters in history and some people do the most outrageous things to prove their love for them This dude, for example, got the Super Mario Brothers tattooed on the soles of his feet. I can’t even imagine how much this hurt and, […]
Buy 3 Stars, Get 53 Free!
At least that was the case when young Kimberley Vlaminck asked for three stars tattooed near her left eye. The young Belgian says she went to a tattoo parlor to get three small stars tattooed, but the foreign artist misunderstood her request and left her with 56 stars covering the left side of her face. […]
The real Catman
And I’m not talking about the comic-book hero, but about the real cat-man…or Stalking Cat as he likes to be addressed to. David Avner, a native American, part Huron, part Lakota has spent more than $200.000 on plastic surgery to make himself look as a tiger, his totem animal. He even had all of his […]