Someone suggested this is a picture of Heidi Klum. I wouldn't know. I can only tell if it's Heidi if the lights are off.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Leeching Someone's Leech
The picture in this post is a leech of someone else's leech. The leecher I am leeching from is not exact about origins and story of the picture, so here it is and you have to fill in the rest from your imagination. I'll tell you my thoughts about the picture. PAIN!!!! Let me know your reaction.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Pamela Anderson
The rules are being stretched again. Pamela Anderson is not Asian. To the best of my knowledge the tattoos she wears were not applied in Asia. There is no special connection between Pamela Anderson and Asia other than occassional trips she has made to Asia. So you are free to sue me if you feel I've broken the rules.
This picture of Pamela Anderson is included because rumor has it she will remove her tattoos soon--if they have not been removed already. If you want to volunteer to remove Pamela Anderson's tattoos by kissing them off and wearing them away, you'll have to hurry. Either the job might be done already or she might change her mind.
Be sure to keep me posted about the progress of your tattoo removal attempts.
Russian Tattoo Expo
Strictly speaking, Russia is considered a European country, but so much of Russia is in Asia that I include it here on this Asian Tattoo Art blog. The following photos come from the Russian Tattoo Expo in Moscow, as reported here.
Friday, May 23, 2008
In The Shadow Of The Sun
Dan Hazelton keeps others in the shade. I love the white highlighting in this.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Bunch of Roses Wallpapers
God Bless you love, And may you smile like these beautiful bunch of roses in you life.Wishing a very Happy valentine's day 2009 to you...
Close To Heart Cards For Valentine's Day
Say you soulmate how she Close To Heart with a special Cards on Valentine's Day.
Pink Valentine Roses Cards
Find the best Pink Valentine Cards with pink roses. Pink flowers Expressive Valentines Day E-cards for you lover. Choose The Rose... >> Send a choice of red, yellow and pink roses to wish your friends and loved ones on Rose Month.Wishes For A Bright Day ! >> Brighten up a dear one's day with this warm and elegant ecard. You Make A Happy Difference ! >> A warm message for someone special..
Saturday, May 17, 2008
3D Valentine Cards With Love - Love Cards Wallpapers
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Expressive Valentines Day E-cards
You Are As Perfect As A Rose ! >> Make your friend/ beloved/ wife feel special with this heartfelt wish.Happy Rose Month.. >> A beautiful rose to express your love for someone very dear.Your Loving Touch ! >> A lovely and touching rosy wish for your sweetheart. If Friendship Was A Garden... >> Reach out to a special friend on Rose Month with this lovely red rose. Just Like The Rose... >> Send
Valentines Day Rose Express The Best
Keep Smiling And Be Happy ! >> A bright and yellow rose flash ecard to wish your loved ones everlasting happiness.Your Friendship Is Special To Me ! >> Tell your dream lover how special she / he is to you with this warm and flower ecard.For A Very Special Friend ! >> Send this warm yellow flower ecard to your buddy for making your life a bed of roses !
I Love You Rose Greeting Cards
I Care A Lot About You ! >> Plz Say how much you care for a dearone with this elegant e-card.I Have You ! >> Express to someone, how she fills your world with smiles with this lovely ecard.I Shall Cherish Your Friendship ! >> Just Bring on the smiles of your friend with this beautiful rose flash ecard.Happy Rose Mont! >> show your feelings for a very special person with this lovely rose
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Haven't I Seen You Before?
This Elvgren interpretation done by Aaron Bell. See about five posts back for Mike De Vries version of the same woman.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Mehndi
One form of tattooing that began in India and spread around the world is mehndi, sometimes spelled 'mehendi' and in other ways. It is popular among women in India, especially brides at their weddings. One of the chief reasons for its popularity is the use of henna on the skin surface, so it washes or wears away without a trace.
All sorts of claims are made for henna, from the symbolic to health claims. When used as part of a wedding there are traditional designs attached to geographic areas. There is an organization of mehndi artists in the US. A comprehensive website of mehndi can be found here.
Traditionally in India mehendi is applied to hands and feet. But there are no mehndi police, so other body parts are used, such as those painted in the enclosed photo from an Irish website.
Monday, May 12, 2008
High Resolution Widescreen Wallpapers of Love
Find the best collection of High Resolution Widescreen Valentine Wallpapers.
Turkish Tattoos
I googled 'Turkish tattoos' and wound up at a website that said it included examples of Turkish tattoos. I'm not sure if the ladies in the picture are Turkish or have Turkish tattoos. But what the hell, the picture is stunning and doesn't need further questioning from me.
credit Earth Henna
My quick peek at some Turkish newspaper websites taught me that tattoos in Turkey have not been popular until very recently. There have been problems licensing tattoo artists, since a law from the 1920s prohibits tattooing by anyone but licensed physicians. Young people nowadays get their tattoos done by underground artists recommended by word of mouth. Wouldn't you like to be there when one of these ladies recommended this tattoo artist to the other lady by word of mouth?
Don't be shy about clicking on the words Earth Henna.
My quick peek at some Turkish newspaper websites taught me that tattoos in Turkey have not been popular until very recently. There have been problems licensing tattoo artists, since a law from the 1920s prohibits tattooing by anyone but licensed physicians. Young people nowadays get their tattoos done by underground artists recommended by word of mouth. Wouldn't you like to be there when one of these ladies recommended this tattoo artist to the other lady by word of mouth?
Don't be shy about clicking on the words Earth Henna.
Love Wallpapers Download - Lots of Love and Kisses
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Friday, May 9, 2008
Korea
A 2003 article describes one of the problems Korea is having with tattoos:
Draft Dodging South Korean Style
Tattoos Are A New Escape Route For Draft Dodgers In South Korea
(AP) Koreans have a curse - "You should be tattooed!" - that reflects the ancient practice of using tattoos to brand thieves and slaves.
But a nationwide police search launched this month for men with tattoos has rounded up a new breed of criminals - young men who use the body art to try to evade the country's mandatory military service, crucial to its defense against communist North Korea.
About 170 men have been arrested for "willfully tampering with their bodies to avoid military duty" - a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. [snip]
According to this article Korea tattoo history is similar to the history in Japan described on this blog a few posts ago: tattoos were once meant for criminals and slaves and were avoided by most of the rest of the population because of the Confucian dictum against defacing one's body.
Nowadays tattoos are fractionally more popular, although the art of applying tattoos in Korea is occasionally practiced underground.
I include no illustrations in this post because I could find nothing on the web that is clearly labelled 'Korean tattoo' art or otherwise. One of the popular tattoo magazine websites has links to many countries--but not to Korea. I guess that says Koreans really don't like tattoos.
If you ever run into a tattoo dragon, count the toes. Koreans traditionally prefer four-toed dragons, while Japanese prefer three-toed dragon and Chinese favor the five-toed variety.
Draft Dodging South Korean Style
Tattoos Are A New Escape Route For Draft Dodgers In South Korea
(AP) Koreans have a curse - "You should be tattooed!" - that reflects the ancient practice of using tattoos to brand thieves and slaves.
But a nationwide police search launched this month for men with tattoos has rounded up a new breed of criminals - young men who use the body art to try to evade the country's mandatory military service, crucial to its defense against communist North Korea.
About 170 men have been arrested for "willfully tampering with their bodies to avoid military duty" - a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. [snip]
According to this article Korea tattoo history is similar to the history in Japan described on this blog a few posts ago: tattoos were once meant for criminals and slaves and were avoided by most of the rest of the population because of the Confucian dictum against defacing one's body.
Nowadays tattoos are fractionally more popular, although the art of applying tattoos in Korea is occasionally practiced underground.
I include no illustrations in this post because I could find nothing on the web that is clearly labelled 'Korean tattoo' art or otherwise. One of the popular tattoo magazine websites has links to many countries--but not to Korea. I guess that says Koreans really don't like tattoos.
If you ever run into a tattoo dragon, count the toes. Koreans traditionally prefer four-toed dragons, while Japanese prefer three-toed dragon and Chinese favor the five-toed variety.
My Sweet hubby - My dear Husband
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Caution Love - Falling in Love
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My Soulmate With A Romantic Embrace - An eCard for your husband
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Animated Musical Love Card
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You Will Love Me - Be mine or I will shoot you
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You Are Mine
Send a You Are Mine cards to you love on the celebration party of st. valentine's day.. Enjoy the magic of love in hearts.....
Little Hearts Are Flying
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Valentine Family Card
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Happy Valentine's day with lots of hearts
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Valentine card for wife
The special e cards is fully dedicated to you loving wife, send her such a lovely Valentine card with good wishes
Animated Valentine Cards
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Love Never Fades
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Love in bath tub
I need you right now my love.... Miss U , Please come ... Plz come...Love in bath tub Card - Singing a love song alone in his memmories
I fall in love with you
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Chocolate Box eCard on Valentine Day
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Do you love me
Ask you love dream lover this valentine's day - Do you love me with a sweet love Card. And enjoy the moment.
Don't Disturb We are in Love
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Valentine Rose Cards
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Happy Valentines day Cards
Over the centuries, The Valentine's Day has now become a unique tender-hearted holiday all over the world when we all found the time to say the three magical words ie; "I love you" to one who is near and dear to our hearts. You have the option to express a sentimental hand-written note, on a carefully choosen valentine greeting card with a dozen red roses, a box of candy, or even an love e-card,
Funny Toon Ecards - Cartoon valentine Cards
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Rejected Valentine Cards - Funny, But No: Rejected Christmas Cards
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Japanese Tattoo Words
by Paul Binnie, born 1967
copyright Paul Binnie
The illustration above comes from one of the most scholarly and deep websites on the net about all aspects of Asian art, including Japanese tattoo art. The site is worth a visit. And while you're there you can buy items or bid on them at their auctions.
Today's Japanese tattoo vocabulary includes horimono, irezumi and oukoshisei. All three words mean tattoo. Horimono can mean ancient penal tattoos as well as modern or ancient artistic tattoos. Irezumi and oukoshisei usually mean penal tattoos.The illustration above is a print, not a tattoo, although it obviously includes a tattoo in its subject. The word shunga is used in Japanese to refer to erotic artworks. Many of the classical shunga in Japanese art depict quite exaggerated genitals, which I guess were considered aesthetically appealing.
Valentine Card of Dove
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Sweetheart Be My Valentine
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Unique post card for valentine's day
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To My Dear Valentine - A Valentine Vintage Card
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With Love and Devotion Valentine Card
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Be My Valentine Card - Three Cupids
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Valentine in the morning
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Valentine One - Valentine 1 :- An Car intelligence with radar antennas
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Valentine, Nebraska A complete guide to Americas Heart City
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
History of Valentine's Day and Lupercalia
History of Valentine's Day and LupercaliaValentine's Day honors the very famous saints named Valentine. However, tradition for the holiday have nothing to do with lives of these saints. This customs is in hot list from the ancient Roman festival called Lupercalia, which happens on February 15. This unique festival honored Pan, the Roman god of nature, and ( The Juno), goddess of women and
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
My Face Is Red....But Not From A Tattoo
First things first. The illustration above is the cover of the book Japan's Tattoo Arts: Horimitsu's World which is available for purchase at the website keibunsha.
The name Horimitsu is a kind of nom de plume or 'nom de tattoo artist.' It is a combination of 'Hori' --part of one of the Japanese words for 'tattoo' --and 'mitsu' which is probably part of the artist's given name.
Yesterday's blog post showed tattooed women. To be fair I include the book cover to illustrate tattooed men. The illustration is not as artistic or striking as the pictures in yesterday's post, but in time that imbalance will be corrected.
Now for the title of this blog entry: My Face Is Red... My original intention today was to link to a book on Japanese tattoos available free from the gutenberg.org website. I downloaded the book several years ago. When I wandered over to gutenberg this morning and searched I could not find a trace of the book. Either it has been removed from gutenberg, its title is not what I remembered and the title is not any of the words I entered into the gutenberg search engine, or my memory is fooling me. In any case, I must admit to my failure to find the sought-after book.
My reason for seeking this book is that it had a clear discussion of the history of tattoos in Japan. As I recall from my reading tattooing began in Japan quite a long time ago as a punishment for prisoners. People sentenced to prison would be tattooed, often on easily-visible parts of their bodies, so the rest of the population could quickly identify them as offenders and could avoid them if they escaped from prison.
It was only later in history that tattoos spread to the rest of the Japanese population. As I recall the telling, people who served their prison terms and returned to society often engaged in additional criminal activity. If they were successful criminals they elaborated their tattoos and wore them as a mark of pride. Into modern times criminal elements in Japan--referred to in Japanese as yakuza, roughly equivalent to the word Mafia--wear elaborate tattoos, which makes them easily distinguishable from the rest of the population. Well, actually, yakuza also cut off parts of one of their own fingers as a sign of membership in a gang, but that's another story.
In more recent times many artists gravitated toward out-of-the-mainstream societal elements and adopted their tattoo habit. As I recall the story told in the missing gutenberg book, artistic tattoos did not become a trend in Japan until just a few centuries ago. In any case, until a few years ago the average Japanese citizen abhorred defacing one's body, so considered anyone wearing a tattoo a social outcast, whether for criminal or artistic reasons.
Got that story? Now forget it.
After failing to find the lost book I did some googling and found many websites which contradict the story I related above.
Some websites claim the Yayoi and Jomon people--the ancient precursors of the modern Japanese people and now-extinct inhabitant of the Japanese islands--wore tattoos. The same can be said for the Ainu people, who pre-date the modern Japanese people and still inhabit parts of the northern Japanese island. Women Ainu sport tattoos. Other blog historians claim tattoos were worn by many non-criminal elements in Japan's past, well before the era when authorities branded criminals. Written and archeological records of tattoo wearing can be found in many periods of Japanese history. So there goes the neat story I told at the beginning of today's post.
I can see that establishing a correct historic record for tattoos is not a simple cut and paste job. If the Japan story is complicated, imagine the China story and the Korea story. Nah, I don't think I'll go there.
Rather than trying to write a definitve history, I will devote this blog to a random stroll through the visual element of tattoos. I hope to find interesting--even striking--illustrations of tattoo art and reproduce them here. In any order which strikes me.
One thing I feel honor-bound to do is to cite my sources. I have no intention of stealing anyone else's work. There is a well-established doctrine in copyright law of 'Fair Use.' When a person discusses another person's copywritten material it is considered Fair Use to limit the reproduced work to a few sentences or a few pictures from the larger body of copywritten material. And to cite the original source. Good enough.
Please note that yesterday's post did not cite the original source. The original source is written in Japanese characters. I am in the process of trying to get an English-language link to Amazon Japan or get Amazon in the US to offer for sale in the US the tattoo works I referred to yesterday. And perhaps get them offered for sale in other countries. I'll keep this blog abreast of the progress of this project.
In any case, check in again for examples of Asian tattoo art. So many skins, so little time.
वैलेंटाइन डे हिन्दी ब्लॉग
वैलेंटाइन डे हिन्दी ब्लॉग - मुफ़्त ग्राफ़िक्स, फॉन्ट और झंडे, हास्य, सुंदर रोमांसपूर्ण आकृतिया१४ फरवरी (वैलेंटाइन दिवस) का इतिहास काफी पुराना है लेकिन भारत में 165 साल पहले हमने सुना वैलेंटाइन का नाम। हाँ सबसे पुराना वैलेंटाइन कार्ड जो ब्रिटिश म्यूजियम में संरक्षित है, वह सन 1400 का है। वैलेंटाइन डे नजदीक आते ही यंग दिलों में खलबली-सी मच जाती है इस मौके पर इस साल कार्ड्स और अन्य उपहारों की बिक्री
History of Valentine Cards - Hallmark Company History
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Valentine's Day Book Gifts
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Valentine Symbols - Body Language
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Lucky For Some
I'd shit myself if I was attacked by swallows that big though. Hannah Aitchison again.
Ol' Blue Eyes
Loving this Tamara De Lempicka-styled creation from Mike De Vries. He uses colour so wonderfully!
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