Happen to be in New York City right now? Then you may want to check this out! I was just sent the following press release and I’m sharing it with you:

On Wednesday May 18th, Kings Ave Tattoo NYC and Inked Magazine will be hosting seminal SoCal punk-rockers Face To Face and tattoo artist Corey Miller of L.A. Ink fame for an exclusive in-store event.

The band will be signing copies of their latest album Laugh Now, Laugh Later with MILLER who designed the album’s artwork. Meet the band and the artist, get your copy of the CD, vinyl and artwork signed and enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Face To Face show that night at the Best Buy Theater!

Kings Ave Tattoo NYC is located at 188 Bowery (at Spring Street) in New York City. This event starts at 5pm.

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If any of our readers do happen to check it out, please feel free to send in some photos and a short write-up of your experience and I’ll share it here ModBlog.

And don’t forget to submit your photos to BME too!

The following press release found me and I’m passing it on to you.  If you’re lucky enough to live in the area or maybe you’re taking a trip to New York City, this is definitely a shop you’ll want to check out.

Check out some of the work by Mike Rubendall and Grez and the press release that follows after the jump. Be sure to check out their shop’s site for work by all of the shop’s artists. You won’t be sorry.

Mike Rubendall

One of the signature traits of the tattoos that come out of Kipod Studio is the sheer excellence of the quality of work.  We’ve seen tattoos by George and Michael in the past, and one from Arad earlier today.  This portrait of Ganesha on a lotus was done by another one of the talented artists, Alexey Zamotevsky.

With the new gallery format, artists from every aspect of the body modification community can create a gallery for themselves or for the studio that they work out of like the gang at Kipod did.  If you’d like to have a gallery opened in your name just send off an email to support@bmezine.com.

Seeing a tattoo from Kipod Studio in Tel Aviv on ModBlog isn’t something new.  What is new however is the artist.  With the recent update to the portfolio galleries, all the artists from Kipod are sending in photos for your enjoyment.  This piece in particular is by Arad Bert, who sent this in with a number of his other pieces.

This week on BMEtv we’re going to be meeting a couple of artists from Chapel Tattoo in Melbourne, Australia.

Shane Gallagher is the second of this week’s interviews, and he discusses traditional Polynesian tattooing, and his experiences with it.

To check out the video, just keep on reading.

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This week on BMEtv we’re going to be meeting a couple of artists from Chapel Tattoo in Melbourne, Australia.

Dave McAleese is the first of this week’s interviews, and he discusses how he ended up becoming a tattoo artist.

To check out the video, just keep on reading.

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Today we’re going to be taking a look at the works of Michael Kozlenko, one of the many talented artists from Kipod Tattoo and Piercing in Tel Aviv.  We’ve featured works from Michael before, as well as other artists from Kipod.  Over the course of today you’ll be able to see a small preview of some of the many works that can be found in the Kipod Tattoo Portfolio.

In the final post of today’s artist profile, we’ll take a look at one of Michael’s non-portrait works.

Like the rest of today’s images, Michael sent in multiple pictures, highlighting each element of the tattoo.  By heading over to the Kipod gallery, you can see all of the smaller details in this piece.

Today we’re going to be taking a look at the works of Michael Kozlenko, one of the many talented artists from Kipod Tattoo and Piercing in Tel Aviv.  We’ve featured works from Michael before, as well as other artists from Kipod.  Over the course of today you’ll be able to see a small preview of some of the many works that can be found in the Kipod Tattoo Portfolio.

In this, the third of four posts, were going back to a portrait tattoo.  While the subject of the last portrait was somewhat traditional, this one is a bit more modern.

Looking up at the top right corner of the photo you can make out what appears to be a revolver sticking into the girl’s head.  This could mean this piece is just the start of a much larger one.

Today we’re going to be taking a look at the works of Michael Kozlenko, one of the many talented artists from Kipod Tattoo and Piercing in Tel Aviv.  We’ve featured works from Michael before, as well as other artists from Kipod.  Over the course of today you’ll be able to see a small preview of some of the many works that can be found in the Kipod Tattoo Portfolio.

The next tattoo(s) we’re going to take a look at are a pair of matching thigh pieces that depict the famous scene from Le Voyage dans la lune, the 1908 sci-fi film directed by Georges Méliès.

Even if you’ve never seen the film, the image of the rocket in the eye of the moon is such an iconic shot that many people recognize it without knowledge of the film.  You’ll notice that even though the images are similar, Michael made each tattoo unique for the individual owner.

Today we’re going to be taking a look at the works of Michael Kozlenko, one of the many talented artists from Kipod Tattoo and Piercing in Tel Aviv.  We’ve featured works from Michael before, as well as other artists from Kipod.  Over the course of today you’ll be able to see a small preview of some of the many works that can be found in the Kipod Tattoo Portfolio.  You’ll also see why Jen and I both race to post these photos first.  I can’t count the number of times she’s told me her intention to fly to Israel just to be tattooed there.

To kick things off, we’ll start with a color portrait.

The soft purple shading on the face really brings out her features, and makes this appear to be a watercolor painting as opposed to a tattoo.