Spiky Lamp Posts
One thing I learned about New York City is that anything can be fun and turn into art as well. Looking at the lamp posts from a distance I was intrigued on finding out what was them decorated with. It was eye catching, super cool and looked awesome.
Once I got closer I realized it was made using the simplest thing on hand and I wondered how come no one ever thought about it before.
I stood there and had to take a few pictures so I can share a fun, cool and creative way of making the lamp posts appealing without having to re-design or try to go fancier to make them look better.
The Pictures were taken at Astor Place.
Once I got closer I realized it was made using the simplest thing on hand and I wondered how come no one ever thought about it before.
I stood there and had to take a few pictures so I can share a fun, cool and creative way of making the lamp posts appealing without having to re-design or try to go fancier to make them look better.
The Pictures were taken at Astor Place.
Tattoed Calves - Great Spot for Ink
Walking in the Downtown area I noticed awesome looking Ink from across the street and I decided to stop the woman who proudly displayed fantastic work of art.
Calves are awesome areas in the body to have decorated with Ink designs, especially when you have flawless skin. there was more to photograph since the person has such amazing taste for body art and I hope I get to feature most of her tattoos and piercings soon.
Outstanding, thats how I can describe all the amazing wrok she has on the rest of her body which is appealing and easy on the eyes. It is a great feeling to stand out from the rest on a high artistic level like she does.
If you're interested in having your work displayed or your business featured on Inked Plus email me for detail: InkedPlus@Live.com
Calves are awesome areas in the body to have decorated with Ink designs, especially when you have flawless skin. there was more to photograph since the person has such amazing taste for body art and I hope I get to feature most of her tattoos and piercings soon.
Outstanding, thats how I can describe all the amazing wrok she has on the rest of her body which is appealing and easy on the eyes. It is a great feeling to stand out from the rest on a high artistic level like she does.
If you're interested in having your work displayed or your business featured on Inked Plus email me for detail: InkedPlus@Live.com
St. Marks - New York City
St. Marks is one of the best hangout areas in Downtown Manhattan. Here you can find plenty of everything for everyone, awesome bars, food places and clothing stores. When you visit the strip you will notice most people have something in common, appreciation for Body Art.
St. Marks have an eclectic selection of restaurant and food spots where you can pick a quick bite or sit at a table to have dinner alone or with friends. There is plenty of Vegetarian / Vegan Restaurants and quick bites as well.
One thing you will notice for sure is the endless amount of Tattoo / Piercing Parlors from start to end. This area has an interesting appeal all year round and people who live or work in the area are welcoming and pleasant.
It is a very relaxed and casual environment, totally inhibited where you can simply be yourself and don't have to worry about non-sense or fake impersonations of what the perfect everything should be, St. Marks is already perfect by being free spirited and open to reality.
Art can be anywhere, everything is surrounded by creativity and artistic vision, from a van full of graffiti to public art exhibits.
St. Marks have an eclectic selection of restaurant and food spots where you can pick a quick bite or sit at a table to have dinner alone or with friends. There is plenty of Vegetarian / Vegan Restaurants and quick bites as well.
One thing you will notice for sure is the endless amount of Tattoo / Piercing Parlors from start to end. This area has an interesting appeal all year round and people who live or work in the area are welcoming and pleasant.
It is a very relaxed and casual environment, totally inhibited where you can simply be yourself and don't have to worry about non-sense or fake impersonations of what the perfect everything should be, St. Marks is already perfect by being free spirited and open to reality.
Art can be anywhere, everything is surrounded by creativity and artistic vision, from a van full of graffiti to public art exhibits.
Getting Inked Up? - Remember This
Everyday I hear stories about tattoos, some are good and some are bad. Most people life happily for the rest of their lives with their Ink and some simply regret having it applied to their body, it makes me wonder why, why the regret. What can make someone regret having a tattoo done, here's what I believe.
Possible reasons to regret a tattoo
1) Ignorance: Sometimes people decide to go get tattooed without doing research first, just because someone like a specific artist does not meant you have to like the same artist too. Someone might think that a tattoo done at someone's backyard that costs twenty dollars might look good in their eyes but that does not mean it has to appeal to everyone.
I've seen people who like certain styles, designs, artists, etc. they see in the magazines and they wish they could have something in their body that looks as good as what they see but never go for it, they decide to stick to the basics and after they get the work done they still wish what they got looked as good as they one they saw in the mag.
Remember this
The basics on getting the best tattoo are easy
a) Do research: Don't go for the first tattooer you cross paths with, you have to like their style, it really has to be appealing on a high level. If you look at a tattooers work and you really think looks good enough (magazine appeal), go for it.
b) Hygiene: That's one of the most important to have in consideration. Tattoos do get infected and the scar it leaves behind is even worst. Most tattooers have knowledge on how important hygiene is regardless of the size of the studio they work at.
c) Appeal: When you're waiting for you turn to get tattooed you want to feel at peace, confortable and confident that the work will come out good, at relaxed environment helps a lot. Believe it or not, a chaotic environment is not the best environment to get Inked. I've seen tattoo shops where people are screaming, yelling, using foul language, sexually explicit jokes and even fighting while having customers and they simply don't realize they're creating a hostile work environment which is not good for them and the customers.
If you go to a tattoo parlor and you don't feel confortable the best thing to do is leave. Reputable shops make sure that thier customers are confortable being in an appealing environment, also most reputable shop employees have excellent customer service skills (who knew!).
d) Customer's Health: If you have a health issue that concerns you at the time you're about to get tattooed make sure you get advice from the artist. He or She will be open about what's best, your health comes first.
Possible reasons to regret a tattoo
1) Ignorance: Sometimes people decide to go get tattooed without doing research first, just because someone like a specific artist does not meant you have to like the same artist too. Someone might think that a tattoo done at someone's backyard that costs twenty dollars might look good in their eyes but that does not mean it has to appeal to everyone.
I've seen people who like certain styles, designs, artists, etc. they see in the magazines and they wish they could have something in their body that looks as good as what they see but never go for it, they decide to stick to the basics and after they get the work done they still wish what they got looked as good as they one they saw in the mag.
Remember this
The basics on getting the best tattoo are easy
a) Do research: Don't go for the first tattooer you cross paths with, you have to like their style, it really has to be appealing on a high level. If you look at a tattooers work and you really think looks good enough (magazine appeal), go for it.
b) Hygiene: That's one of the most important to have in consideration. Tattoos do get infected and the scar it leaves behind is even worst. Most tattooers have knowledge on how important hygiene is regardless of the size of the studio they work at.
c) Appeal: When you're waiting for you turn to get tattooed you want to feel at peace, confortable and confident that the work will come out good, at relaxed environment helps a lot. Believe it or not, a chaotic environment is not the best environment to get Inked. I've seen tattoo shops where people are screaming, yelling, using foul language, sexually explicit jokes and even fighting while having customers and they simply don't realize they're creating a hostile work environment which is not good for them and the customers.
If you go to a tattoo parlor and you don't feel confortable the best thing to do is leave. Reputable shops make sure that thier customers are confortable being in an appealing environment, also most reputable shop employees have excellent customer service skills (who knew!).
d) Customer's Health: If you have a health issue that concerns you at the time you're about to get tattooed make sure you get advice from the artist. He or She will be open about what's best, your health comes first.
Body Piercing Jewelry Update
Jewelry has never been just a girl thing. Men and women have equally been found of especially body piercing jewelry, from very old times.
The history of body piercing jewelry goes back to at least a good 2000 years back. Piercing and tattooing is a very ancient art, and was practiced in many countries all over the world. In countries of ancient culture piercing was taken as a religious art. In Egypt, only the royal families were allowed to get body pierced to wear jewelry, for it was considered to be a right of only the privileged class. Though the medieval ages completely shunned the body piercing culture, with the later ages, it came in to forefront all over again and has gained immense popularity for many years now.
The way the young crowd sees piercing is from a completely different point of view. While some take it as a style statement, many find it to be an expression of their own personality. For that, they want to wear the body jewelry every day; some even want to wear it to work. This is accepted that not all kinds of piercing jewelry should or can be worn to offices of the most common nature. Piercings like those on the lips or the corset piercing or the piercing of the more wild types are never suited for an office environment.
That should not be a reason to get sad, for ear piercing and nose piercing are usually allowed by any type of work places. Even the eye brow piercings are also accepted by some work places, if the environment is not much conservative and the piercing jewelry is not too gaudy. A small barbell or small sober colored banana or spike should go well with many work places. As for the nose piercing, rings are not much appreciated in many offices. However, a small stud or cone should not be trouble at most liberal work places.
For students, wearing piercing jewelry is not really a problem. Though the more unconventional ones would not go well down with the authorities, the simple ones like lip or labret jewelry, belly button rings, eye brow jewelry or even the industrial piercings, if kept within a limit, should not be of much problem.
However, it all differs from institution to institution. Work places which are more of a flexible or creative nature, like restaurants or music cafes or even stores, do not put much restriction on the use of regular piercing jewelry for their employees. It is a common sight in television to catch chefs or musicians heavily pierced and wearing different jewelry items in lips and eye brows and biceps and so many places. But not everyone is lucky like them, for the most common mass of people have to work in conventional places.
A wholesale body jewelry shop is such a place where you can find body jewelry of any type for any use, and within a very affordable price range.
The history of body piercing jewelry goes back to at least a good 2000 years back. Piercing and tattooing is a very ancient art, and was practiced in many countries all over the world. In countries of ancient culture piercing was taken as a religious art. In Egypt, only the royal families were allowed to get body pierced to wear jewelry, for it was considered to be a right of only the privileged class. Though the medieval ages completely shunned the body piercing culture, with the later ages, it came in to forefront all over again and has gained immense popularity for many years now.
The way the young crowd sees piercing is from a completely different point of view. While some take it as a style statement, many find it to be an expression of their own personality. For that, they want to wear the body jewelry every day; some even want to wear it to work. This is accepted that not all kinds of piercing jewelry should or can be worn to offices of the most common nature. Piercings like those on the lips or the corset piercing or the piercing of the more wild types are never suited for an office environment.
That should not be a reason to get sad, for ear piercing and nose piercing are usually allowed by any type of work places. Even the eye brow piercings are also accepted by some work places, if the environment is not much conservative and the piercing jewelry is not too gaudy. A small barbell or small sober colored banana or spike should go well with many work places. As for the nose piercing, rings are not much appreciated in many offices. However, a small stud or cone should not be trouble at most liberal work places.
For students, wearing piercing jewelry is not really a problem. Though the more unconventional ones would not go well down with the authorities, the simple ones like lip or labret jewelry, belly button rings, eye brow jewelry or even the industrial piercings, if kept within a limit, should not be of much problem.
However, it all differs from institution to institution. Work places which are more of a flexible or creative nature, like restaurants or music cafes or even stores, do not put much restriction on the use of regular piercing jewelry for their employees. It is a common sight in television to catch chefs or musicians heavily pierced and wearing different jewelry items in lips and eye brows and biceps and so many places. But not everyone is lucky like them, for the most common mass of people have to work in conventional places.
A wholesale body jewelry shop is such a place where you can find body jewelry of any type for any use, and within a very affordable price range.
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Whitney Port Biography
Tin: Internal Clock soon at Last Rites Gallery - New York City
Tin: Internal Clock
October 1st – October 23rd
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 1st, 7-11pm
Last Rites Gallery presents Internal Clock, new works by Tin, in what will be the artist’s second solo show at the gallery.
Working with a neutral color palette of oil pastels, artist Tin creates dream worlds where beautiful women intermingle with rigid machinery. His exaggerated female forms maintain a sensual pin-up quality, while casting an undeniable air of mystery. Combining innocent eyes and soft flesh with manufactured industrial parts, the viewer is lured into a dark fairytale where natural and mechanical elements seamlessly co-exist.
Influenced as a child by comic books and cartoons, Tin states that his real passion creating art did not come until later in life, spurned by a brush with his own mortality: “I sketched from time to time and did ok in high school art class. Then I became a fisherman, like the kind out of the movie Perfect Storm. I almost died three times and should have lost my drawing hand at least a dozen times. After my last close call with death I decided to become an artist.” Tin went on to do commercial and pin-up art for 7 years, but his art took a turn as he felt unchallenged with what he was creating. He says “The art I was doing had no heart. So one day I was finishing a pin-up girl and I remember saying out loud to myself ‘If I only had a heart’- which reminded me of the Tin Man from The Wizard Of Oz. At that moment I decided to do more interesting works and call myself Tin.”
Last Rites Gallery
511 W 33rd Street, NYC
212.529.0666
info@lastritesgallery.com
Last Rites Gallery Announcement
Laurie Lipton:
Carnival Of Death
New York, New York
October 1st – October 23rd
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 1st, 7-11pm
Last Rites Gallery presents The Carnival Of Death, new works by Laurie Lipton, in what will be her first solo show at the gallery.
A master of graphite, Laurie Lipton’s detailed drawings explore the passages of life and the portal into death. With technical prowess, she approaches her subject matter with a unique blend of both elegance and dark humor. Influenced by Día de los Muertos iconography, this exhibit runs just prior to The Day Of The Dead, commemorating the holiday by which it was inspired.
“I became fascinated by the contrast between the Day Of The Dead festival in Mexico and my experience of my mother's death. My parents were atheists. We had no ceremony, no goodbyes, no "closure". My father instructed the hospital to cremate my mother and dispose of her ashes. She was gone, disappeared, zapped out of existence. I was left with Nothing... literally and metaphysically. Friends & family treated my mother's death like an embarrassment. They awkwardly murmured Hallmark platitudes before slinking uneasily away. Death is as forbidden a topic in modern society as sex was in Victorian England.
When I visited Mexico in order to see The Day Of The Dead festival some years later, I couldn't help feeling envious of their approach to mortality. Families gathered on graves and picnicked, whole villages turned up with food for households in mourning. Death was treated as normal, even silly. Candied skulls grinned in their hundreds and skeletons danced in a fair-ground atmosphere. I decided to rebel against my heritage and create drawings inspired by the mood and atmosphere of the Mexicans. I decided to get in-touch with my bare bones. My culture runs from death, screaming. We worship youth, beauty and the illusion that we have all the time in the world. We frantically face-lift and botox, and throw pills, creams and money at death. We fool ourselves into thinking that death only happens to other people & only losers die. Skulls always look like they're laughing. Maybe the joke is on us?”
-Laurie Liption
About The Artist:
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany,France and London and has recently moved back to the States after 35 years abroad. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It's an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort".
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