Today’s BME World Tour video features Cliffe Clayton owner of Inner Vision Tattoo in Sydney.
Cliffe talks about his career as an artist, as well as the philosophy behind his studio.
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Today’s BME World Tour video features Mimsy Gleeson, owner of Mimsy’s Trailer Trash Tattoo.
As you can probably guess by the thumbnail, Mimsy does indeed work out of a trailer. She’s also a huge fan of old school tattoos and as you’ll find out, they’ve really influenced her style of art.
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This week on BMEtv we’re checking in with a couple of long time BME/IAM members, who also happen to be accomplished tattoo artists working out of Sacred Skin Tattoo in Brisbane, Australia.
In the second video today, we have Swirly Wanx Sinatra, an English tattooer that made the move to Australia a number of years ago after meeting his bride through IAM.
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Last summer the BME World Tour interns stopped by Western Tattoo in Auckland, New Zealand. While there they had a chance to sit down with tattoo artist Steve Ma Ching and get his thoughts on modern Polynesian tattoos.
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During the BME World Tour, the crew visited Sacred Tattoo in Auckland, NZ and sat down with Dean Sacred, one of the owners of the shop.
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BMEtv is back with another video from the BME World Tour. This time around the crew stopped in to visit Steve Wood about tattooing in New Zealand and his private shop, Ronin Tattoo.
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One of our first stops in Australia was Kaleidoscope Tattoo down in Bondi Beach. We spoke with tattooers Luciano Lima, Freddy, Stevie Edge, Cory Ohrman and their piercer Brady Hardin. If you’re ever lucky enough to be checking out the beautiful beaches of Sydney, Australia, there is no doubt you’ll be making a stop to see the world famous Bondi Beach. Don’t forget to visit Kaleidoscope Tattoo while you’re there!
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Occasionally there are times where just one ModBlog post isn’t enough to share something remarkable. This is the first of two posts today that will be showing off the works from Joey Pang, and the rest of the artists at Tattoo Temple in Hong Kong.
Recently Joey uploaded a number of works to various galleries on BMEzine.com, and pretty much all of them are beautiful in their own way. Since 2006 Joey has owned and operated Tattoo Temple in Hong Kong, and has been putting out some fantastic work. This first post will be focusing on her color and black/grey work.
In a blog from two years ago, Joey had this to say about her philosophy when it comes to tattooing.
To me, tattoos are ‘new clothing’ for a naked body. Tattoos are not there to just cover your dull skin tone or trim your body’s contours with visual tricks. They can also express your personality, your thoughts and the world inside you. It is a presentation of the practical realm as well as the abstract mind. As the designer and tailor of this new ‘piece of clothing’ I have to thoroughly understand my models - so they are able to express themselves with the creation of perfectly fitting ‘new clothes’. Only the model and I truly understand these ‘new clothes’ as they are highly personal creations. However, if this ‘outfit’ can evoke emotion and admiration in other viewers - this in itself serves a higher purpose. Then these ‘new clothes’ may be categorized as a work of art. My happiest moment is being able to share this with the world.
Art facilitates the movement of abstract concepts in to reality. In most cases, the medium for art is simply inorganic matter. Only tattoos are exhibited on a living body - a permanent display to the world. Every medium allows for art to be portrayed in a unique way. Yet, the human body is perhaps the single most distinctive medium of all. This art can only be carried when someone is ready to go through pain and have their blood shed. The physical body underneath the tattooed skin continues with its daily functions – its mandatory life cycle. The person then carries this art-skin out and into the wider world. This person is a living, moving exhibition. The art-skin makes its way across the world, from country to country. This breathtaking interaction between ink and the dynamic human body gives life to this art. The art piece changes, grows, ages, dies and is eventually buried with the body. For someone who genuinely appreciates the power of this art, in death, the tattoo should not remain a subject of the mortal body. To separate this tattooed skin from the body allows the tattoo to then be seen in its original form – as a Work of Art - a collectible that could be held for auction.
Keep on reading if you’d like to see more works by Joey, which include some color and freehand work, as well as a large greyscale backpiece.
Some of you heard rumors that I was opening a tattoo/piercing shop and those rumors are true. I built the shop in April/May of 2009 with a tattooer as a partner but before it opened up, things with the partnership fell through. Regardless, I got a new partner/owner as well as a partner in life and it’s now his shop. I built it with blood, sweat and a whole lot of tears (you drop a tatsoul chair on your big toe and see how it feels!).
Now that Norm has the shop “looking like a tattoo shop” and not like a fancy hair salon, he’s put up a help wanted flyer on his myspace. I figured that I would help spread the word, as I’ve done in the past for other shops looking for new hires. The shop is beautiful and Fairfax has basically become the “new Melrose” as far as alternative areas of town. We’re next door to several art galleries, Supreme, Hall of Fame, RVCA, Diamond, The Hundreds, and several other great stores, including the world famous Canter’s Deli.
It’s a great shop, on a great street with a great owner. The look and feel of the shop is amazing. One could spend a day oogling the amazing flash collection, the art on the walls from hundreds of amazing artists and tattooers from around the world and the set up is amazing. I can toot my own horn a little bit on this as I designed and planned the shop.
If you have a portfolio or would like to send this out to a friend that might be interested, feel free to pass along the flyer. Send your portfolios or a link to them to Norm via his email address if you’re interested. There are currently only 3 booths available and Norm will be splitting his time between Will Rise Studios and Spotlight Tattoo. We’ve got an amazing list of guest artists who will be coming and going as well as if you’re lucky you can catch Bob Roberts hanging out. BMEshop is still located in the back warehouse area of the shop and will be staying there.
I hope that everyone has been happy with the volunteers who are donating their time to keep modblog updated while I’m busy working on the new site and keeping the old version updated as well. Thanks to Sean, Jen, BlueStar, Lilly and Lexci for their hard work. I’m glad you guys don’t miss me too much!
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