Skin Deep magazine offers the reader a cornucopia of colourful tattoos from around the world. The magazine includes tattoos of all styles, be it a small piece of flash work to full body suits that are both inspirational and informative.
CUSTOMIZING THE BODY The Art and Culture of Tattooing
Added by: tark | Karma: 19.73 | Black Hole | 1 November 2009
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CUSTOMIZING THE BODY
The Art and Culture of Tattooing
REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
In those days, a tattoo was still a souvenir—a keepsake to mark a journey, the love of your life, a heartbreak, a port of call. The body was like a photo album; the tattoos themselves didn’t have to be good photographs. . . . And the old tattoos were always sentimental: you didn’t mark yourselffor life if you weren’t sentimental (Irving, 2005: 74–75).
This book shows how exhilarating crime fiction can be. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--which already won the Crime Writers of Scandinavia’s Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel of 2005.
An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, where she receives critical instructions
