tattoos
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Literature in Your Skin
If you need a few minutes to break away from your day, why don’t you head on over to Tattoo Lit, where the word is made flesh. It is updated regularly with submissions of tattoos inspired by literature. Virginia Woolf,…
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Ed Hardy: Way Cooler than You Knew
Did you know Ed Hardy is not just a brand name, but an actual person? And that after becoming “the first Westerner to work with a traditional Japanese master” of tattoo art, he led the “current tattoo renaissance” with an…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Rage
“The heart is a fist, and he taught me to make mine hard.” Laura Bogart makes her Rumpus debut, exploring the link between rage, power and grief.
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Pen & Ink Seeking Submissions for Book
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, a tattoo might be worth a book. If that sounds like the kind of book you’d like to read, good news: Pen & Ink, the blog about tattoos and the stories behind them…
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Tao Lin Tells Tattoo Tale
If you didn’t already know, Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton run a spiffy little blog called Pen & Ink, which documents “tattoos and the stories behind them.” Today, alt-lit luminary Tao Lin reveals the meaning behind his…
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ALBUM #1, Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work: Stephanie Tamez
Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work
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History of Tattoos
The fact that tattoos existed in a time before “punk” was a word to describe a movement is a hard notion to grasp. The New Yorker has compiled a series of photographs of women in the early to mid 20th…
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The Stone of Help
My husband hunches over the table, picking at his quesadillas. I’m gulping the last of the water, dropping my plate in the sink with a clatter. An idea hangs in the air between us like a burnt smell. We’re arguing—or…
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Inked Up Librarians
Mental Floss compiles tattooed librarians. As expected, much of the skin art is literary themed, but that is not to say that classic skull and bones motifs don’t make an appearance. Each tattoo’s origin is explained in detail and shed…
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“Hit the Iron Bell Like It’s Dinnertime”
Docsorrow got a bad-ass Sugar tattoo, inspired by Dear Sugar #41: Like an Iron Bell. Who else has a tattoo to show off at next week’s coming out party?
