Articles about “tattoos”
The 10 Best Tattoo Shops In NYC
A well-crafted tattoo makes for some pretty spectacular body art, despite what your grandparents keep telling you at family dinners. And though there are a million places to get inked in town, a top-notch artist will turn...
It's Now Illegal To Tattoo Your Pet (But You Should Have Known Better Anyway)
(Instagram) In the endless list entitled Things That Shouldn't Require A Law But Apparently Do, we may now add "tattooing and piercing one's pet." How depressing for us. You may recall our story from March, in...
91 Photos From This Weekend's NYC Urban Tattoo Convention
Tattoo enthusiasts, motorcyclists, and body art aficionados came together in Industrial City in Brooklyn this weekend for the annual NYC Urban Tattoo Convention. It was a cornucopia of pit bulls, spiked clothing, and tattoos of every...
Manhattan Politician Wants To Ban Animal Tattoos & Piercings
(Instagram) This week, animal lovers were up in arms after a Brooklyn tattoo artist posted a photo of his dog, still unconscious after spleen surgery, sporting some newly acquired ink. Artist Mistah Metro (aka Alex Avgerakis)...
UPDATES: Brooklyn Tattoo Artist Inks Dog
(Instagram) [UPDATE BELOW] It appears that a tattoo artist employed at Prospect Heights' Red Legged Devil tattoo shop—owned by Chris Torres, who was featured on the TLC show NY Ink—took the opportunity to tattoo his dog...
Would You Get A Scar Tattoo Carved Into Your Skin?
Via Facebook Yeah, your trad demon-eating snake tattoo is really edgy and all, but if you're looking to take your body art to the next level, why not ditch the black ink and use hypertrophic scar...
The New Flesh: Tattoos That Vibrate When You Get Calls/Texts
via GeekyTattoos We finally understand what Neil Armstrong was getting at when he said, "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind"—Nokia has patented a tattoo that vibrates when someone calls or texts...
This Is How To Show Your Extreme Love For The Giants
rachel konik's twitter While Jets fans are huddled in a corner praying for a Dark Knight Rises-esque stadium collapse to occur during the Super Bowl in two weeks, Giants fans are practically glowing right now. And...
Star Wars Meets The Virgin Mary For The Best Geek Tattoo Ever?
(NewYorkShitty) People get tattoos of the darndest things, but still, this tat that New York Shitty recently spotted in the wild is worth noting! Yes, people, that is R2D2 stylized as the Virgin of Guadalupe being...
Staring At Tattooed Woman On PATH Leads NJ Man On Constitutional Fight
Photograph by c00lmarie on Flickr A 64-year-old Bulgarian immigrant and Hoboken, NJ resident is fighting the local bureaucracy over what he calls an "unconstitutional and irrelevant ticket" for disorderly conduct on a PATH train. And it...
17-Year-Old Tattoo Artist Arrested For Practicing Trade
All she was missing was a sign (ShamrockTattoo) Does anyone care about small businesses anymore? Or have we completely transformed into a Socialist state precisely as Brother Beck warned? First they took away the ingenious MetroCard...
$31 Tattoos Are Back For Halloween
Which one would you get? There are two Tattoo parlors in Brooklyn offering up Halloween specials this year, because there's nothing like a bargain to help you in deciding what to permanently ink onto your skin....
Will Hangover Sequel Be Delayed By Tattoo Artist's Copyright Lawsuit?
America can't wait to point and laugh at Ed Helms's tattooed face in the Hangover II, but a litigious tattoo artist could make that laughter die if a judge grants his motion for an injunction halting...
SI to House NYC's First Tattoo Museum
As if the graffiti and anti-hipster sentiments weren't enough to prove that Staten Island may indeed be Williamsburg II, the borough is raising the bar by opening up NYC's first ever tattoo museum! How hip is that?...
Knicks Fan Reaches the Breaking Point
We talked to someone who was at the Knicks game in Boston Thursday night and he told us he saw something he'd never seen at a sporting event before––a fan ripping off his team's jersey and throwing it onto the court in disgust. The Boston crowd loved it. The gesture came as the Knicks were trailing the Celtics by 50 points in what would come as the team's second-worst scoring performance in the history of...