While this intriguing tattoo may look like a cross-section of some biological thingummy, it’s actually a visual map of a mathematical formula’s performance. In less huffy terms, it’s a fractal. This fractal tattoo creates balance between chaos and order because it was spawned by the coupling of a Julia set and a Sierpinski carpet. [source] […]
This tattoo video shows Ferank Manseed skilfully creating a hand poked tattoo with a single needle. He created the design himself around a symbol called a Hunab Ku. This symbol is a tricky one to decipher, because some scholars claim that the symbol was used by Mayans before the arrival of Europeans, while others believe […]
Humanoid, mechanical men have been popular for centuries. Even in ancient tales and myths, there are stories of inanimate statues that come to life and act upon the orders of their living, human masters. In the 20th century, the literary realm of science fiction was popularized and the mechanical and electrical robots that we know […]
Mikhail Kolesnikov, aka Mike Amanita, is a tattoo artist from St Petersburg, Russia, who specializes in black ink esoteric tattoos. Featuring mandalas, sacred geometry, optical illusions and elements from nature, Amanita manages to express the ideal that there is more to the world than meets the eye. Amanita is a master of visual textures and […]
This first person point-of-view video shows the tattoo process from the perspective of the tattooer, Jørgen Zamora. The GoPro video allows us to watch first hand how the tattoo artist creates textures in a dotwork tattoo one tiny dot at a time. You can see more esoteric dot work tattoos by Jørgen Zamora on Google +.
This poignant tattoo of a character from the popular 90s animation La Linea was spotted on a wheelchair-bound party goer at an Ozora festival. His tattoo shows one of the legless characters that Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavadoli made famous in his single-line animations, and is a fun reminder to always look on the bright side of […]
While a full bodysuit of tattoos is impressive, Glowrious Geroge is really a sight to behold, under both regular light and blacklight. Glowrious wears both a regular full bodysuit of tattoos as well as a UV tattoo bodysuit, which makes him the only person in the world to wear two tattoo bodysuits. Glowrious George is […]
A mandala, also known as “the flower of life” is a beautiful geometric design that is often given a deeper, spiritual meaning. Some mandalas resemble symmetrical flowers with patterned petals while others seem like the mad art of a mathematical genius on acid. Whichever form they come in, mandalas have a visual appeal that most […]
In the Kalinga province of the Phillipines lies the remote village of Buscalan. To reach this village, one must survive the chaos of intense traffic before scaling narrow mountain passes, steep dirt roads and mudslides. Although the journey is a tough one, each year hundreds of people travel across the world and make the hair-raising […]
Karolina Bebop is an artist from Colombia, South America who reflects her perspective of the world in her tattoo art by including fantastic patterns, sacred geometry and spiritual symbolism not just within her designs, but within the creatures that they depict. While the outline of her animals, birds and sea creatures may resemble their real […]