Prank Tattoo Lettering: The Artists Riot

The mysterious eastern culture has always been attractive to westerners. Nowadays many young people think it is pretty cool and fashionable to have a hieroglyphic tattoo. They do not feel like bothering to find out good patterns and getting inside the culture, but just come to a tattoo shop, and ask for a tattoo which would say “love”, “truth” or whatever. I think I can understand the anger of tattoo artists. I personally would hate to tattoo “honor” in Japanese on someone who doesn’t give a $#!T about it. So here’s what can happen when you just try to follow fashion:

The Bronze medal goes to Joanne Raine, a teenage girl paid $160 to have her boyfriend’s nickname “Roo” tattooed on her stomach in Chinese, but got “Supermarket” instead. I bet, she had a bad time once she knew the truth.

Silver goes to Lee Becks. He says he wanted to have a tattoo which would look great. So he had one for $180 and was quite proud of it until he found out it said: “At the end of the day this is an ugly boy”. Very ironical isn’t it?

And the gold goes not to a victim but to an artist. Andy Sakai, an award-winning tattoo artist, was tired of seeing sacred Japanese words, symbols of his heritage, inked on random white people. So he used their blissful ignorance to make an everlasting statement. Any time a customer came to Sakai’s home studio wanting Japanese tattooed on them, he modified it into a profane word or phrase.

Prank Tattoo Lettering: The Artists Riot Pitt junior Brandon Smith wanted a tattoo that proclaimed his manliness, so he decided to get the Chinese characters for “strength” and “honor” on his chest. After 20 minutes under the needle of local tattoo artist Andy Sakai, he emerged with the symbol for “small penis” embedded in his flesh.

Kerri Baker, a Carlow College freshman, paid $50 to have the symbols for “beautiful goddess” etched above her belly button, but when she went into Szechuan Express Asian Noodle Shop sporting a bare midriff, the giggling employees explained to her that the tattoo really said, “Insert General Tso’s Chicken Here!” “I don’t even like General Tso’s!” Baker sobbed. “I’m a vegetarian!”

Sakai was imprisoned. But you know what, this is NOT the end of the story. He had his inmates as prank targets. Using a tattoo gun fashioned out of a sharpened paper clip, dental floss, and a ballpoint pen taped to a plastic spork, the disgruntled prisoner has drawn Black Panther Party symbols on white supremacists, written CRIPS 4 EVA on rival gang members, and left dozens of hardened criminals with butterflies, fairies, and unicorns permanently etched in their skin.

Prank Tattoo Lettering: The Artists Riot ‘I wanted a stack of skulls on my back,’ said murderer Jimmy Drake, “and that Asian prick gave me a giant Winnie the Pooh!”

Many prisoners ask for spider webs on their elbows to signify time spent in jail. Sakai’s webs have hidden messages in them such as, “F*ck Cops,” “I Swallow,” and “Salad Tosser.”

“Prison isn’t so bad,” Sakai said. “It gives me time to sit and seriously contemplate my next diabolically evil plan!”

So here is an advice for you: once you have decided to have a hieroglyphical tattoo, use some online services to have the word/phrase you’ve chosen for it translated for you properly. Or at least make friends with some Chinese or Japanese non-fun-loving guys. And please, make sure that artists name is NOT Andy Sakai…

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Illustrated Guide By A Freaky Russian: How To Build Self Tattoo Machine

I guess everyone thought once or twice of having a homemade tattoo. It is cheap and even kids can have it done, cause no age is asked. Last week I met a friend of mine and noticed he had a tattoo on his left hand. He said his girlfriend did it for him using a self made machine. I have got interested in how one can make it at home and found the following (click the image to enlarge):

And here is more detailed instruction:

Well, if some of you think that a self tattoo machine is a good idea I must tell you that I have also come across the fact that they can use a first guitar string as a pin… Still, if some of you would like to give a try to make this this machine just for fun, I am willing to assist you in translating from Russian.

P.S. You might also be interested in extreme body piercing idea.

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Some Facts About Tattoo Military Designs

If turning to the tattoo history one can’t but agree that it was used to give the distinguishing sign to the person. Such signs could show person’s class, profession and so on. Roman militaries had tattoos according to their activity.

Some Facts About Tattoo Military Designs Historical fact! Harold the Second (1022-1066), the last King of the Anglo-Saxon Dynasty died in the battle of the year 1066. And they managed to identify his body due to his tattoo “Edit” (the name of his wife).

In the 18th century the Russian tsar Peter the Great ordered to do the distinguishing tattoos to all the fleet and army recruits.

World War I battles also left traces to tattoo military designs popularization. During the lull front soldiers made tattoos each other in order to distinguish their comrades when they die or be badly wounded.

For near 200 years many experts tried to give the explanation to tattoo use among the militaries and seamen. And they still can’t answer exactly why this habit is so widespread today. The professional psychologists consider that the yearning of the militaries to be identified after the death or bad wounding is just a self-prevention instinct. And the It makes them do tattoos that should undoubtedly be unique in order to identify their owners easily.

Modern tattoo military models are not only the way to identify the person but it is the reminder of his active duty serve, some significant events and so on.
But there are also some people in eastern countries that do tattoos in order to avoid army serve. They think if tattoo damage some open skin areas the serve will be dangerous and they won’t be conscripted. But this is only the myth. If tattoo didn’t bring any serious health problems the citizen will be conscripted.

As a rule, tattoos made in the army are done without any special equipment and not in sanitary conditions. And such an unprofessional method can introduce many infections such as tetanus, tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, HIV never mind the various allergic skin reactions and inflammations. That’s why one should think twice before do the tattoo in those conditions. It’s better to go to special salons, where professionals work and are responsible for your health.

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What Are Some Curious Facts about Tattoo Art?

Tattoo Art. Ancient traditions and new reality
Prologue (some curious facts about tattoo history)
Tattoo art appeared many years before architecture, music and fashion occurrence. Its history goes by the entire humanity history from antique Egyptian landfills to our days. Ancient nations used tattoos in religious rituals as the amulet and just as a decoration. The Greeks made codified tattoos to their spies, and the Romans stamped their slaves and criminal thereby. The tattoo doing technique and images were identical in all the countries – plant and geometrical ornament, birds and animals images. Japanese and Polynesian tattoo art played a major role in tattoo making. Up to the end of the 20th century Polynesian ornament “mocha” and Japanese dragons from ancient Japanese legends were the most popular tattoo images.

What Are Some Curious Facts about Tattoo Art? Why do the Europeans owe Cook?
In Middle Age Europe Christian Church tried to destroy tattoo traditions, having considered it as a barbarian heritage. In 1771 captain Cook brought an indigene tattooed from head to foot from New Zealand. His appearance in England caused an unprecedented stir among the English and general tattoo ardour first among seamen than among working people. Then body images fashion spread all over Europe.

Many politicians and the members of royal families decorated themselves with tattoos: The English King George I, the Dutch King Frederic, The Greek queen Olga, The British prime-minister sir Winston Churchill and others.

The enterprising Americans and rock’n’roll
By the end of the 19th century tattoo had become popular in the USA. There were opened thousands of tattoo saloons there; tattoo equipment manufacturing began to prosper. In 60s the clients of tattoo saloons became rock’n’rollers and hippies. The youth began to follow their suits.

In early 80s various conventions and tattoo festivals were held. The first convention took part in 1976 in NY and ever since it is held every year in various countries of Europe and America. There famous masters and freshmen demonstrate their tattoo art mastery, exchange experience and ideas. There you can make tattoo at a famous master who made it to the Rolling Stones or Angelina Jollie.

Modern tattoo epidemy
In the epoch of MTV and top-models, tattoo art became very popular. It has been the occurrence of the world culture: doctors and lawyers, politicians and businessmen, university professors and housewives decorate their bodies with exotic hieroglyphs, magic signs and ornaments. Their interest is stirred up by celebrities tattoo tendency: Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Jonny Depp, Bjork, Jon Bon Jovi, Julia Roberts and others.

Today we can see a real tattoo boom. One can’t define what is fashionable today. Women don’t limit themselves with roses and other flowers. Every tattoo is individual and unique.

In beauty’s service
Nowadays tattoo is made not only as a body decoration or a talisman. A so called cosmetic tattooing is a permanent coloring of lips, eyebrows and eyelids lines. Such make up doesn’t need any correction for 3-5 years and is widespread in many saloons.

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