Check out the wonderful write up on Needles and Sins written by the ever fabulous Marisa Kakoulas!

Salute from fellow tattoo nerd to tattoo nerd from across the Atlantic!

This week, the first online poetry & tattoo literary journal, Holly Rose Review (HRR), released its second issue, topping its premier issue of Dec. 2008, which I wrote about on Needled here.

Enjoy the art and poetry, and have a wonderful weekend!

The theme for this June edition is “passion.” Editor Theresa Edwards, who puts out the HRR with partner Toni Turner, discusses this thread that weaves the tattoos and poetry together:
The poems in this issue are reminiscent, sensual, and they express the many meanings of emotion and what true passion is: a longing for a person, a purpose, a remote possibility that love, desire, even the self is strong and steadfast.

The art unleashes anger, fear, love, and determination. The face, a part of the body that expresses a swarm of emotions, has found its place on many of these pages.

The stunning Hanya backpiece on the cover is by Shane Tan, whose work also illustrates the poetry of Daphne Lazarus. You can actually see the beautiful, tattooed writer recite her work on her poetry page.

In fact, that’s one of my favorite features of this edition: audio and video files of the poets reading their contributions adds another dimension to the HRR experience.

The tattooists involved in this issue, in addition to Shane Tan, are Seven Beckham, Chris Belville, Cengiz Eyvazov, Luba Goldina, Maxime Lanouette, Soul Expressions, and Shotsie Gorman. Considering Shotsie is also a poet, I’d love to see the next edition feature his writing and tattoos.

For full bios and links to the tattooists, illustrators and poets, check the contributors page.

Holly Rose Review (HRR), the first online poetry & tattoo literary journal, launches its June issue at www.hollyrosereview.com. The theme is PASSION with worldwide contributors.

Poetry by Arlene Ang, Donavon Davidson, Lane Falcon, Peter Joseph Glovizcki, Kathryn Good-Schiff, Seth Jani, Pamela Johnson Parker, Christine Klocek-Lim, Daphne Lazarus, Jee Leong Koh, Donnelle McGee, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Colleen Mills, Erika Moya, Rhonda Palmer, Siimon Petkovich, Jayne Pupek, Edwin Rivera, Kathrin Schaeppi, & Martha Silano. Tattoos by Seven Beckham, Chris Belville, Cengiz Eyvazov, Luba Goldina, Shotsie Gorman, Maxime Lanouette, Soul Expressions, & Shane Tan. Original art by Tiffany Carpenter, Bob Dilworth, and Thomas Woodruff.

The poems are reminiscent, sensual, and bold. The art unleashes anger, fear, love, and determination. And expressions are limitless throughout as emotion screams, swells, and flourishes on each page.

HRR adds its online store to the creative mix, taking some art and poetry from the mag and extending it into the realms of fashion and fancy.

Please visit www.hollyrosereview.com — read and hear the poetry, view the art, watch a poet/artist read her poem, experience mixed media that expresses many forms of PASSION.

Theresa Edwards Editor/Publisher

Holly Rose Review www.hollyrosereview.com

Check out Shane and Daphne’s tattoo and poetry/video contribution to HRR. Shane’s full back Hanya piece is also featured on the front cover of June’s issue. Gambatte!

Fruition

“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.”

PS: Shane is back in Singapura (In fine print)

Horinaka.com simply adores the work of Lionel, Out of Step, Paris, France.We met while he was guest spotting at Susan’s Ink Tank studio in Zurich, Switzerland.

Lionel’s tattoo art adds a deeper dimension to tattooing, departing from the prototypical client-artist commission tattoo. “The tattoo will be a fruition of the “”Artistic psychoanalysis” of which he performs on his clients, who have almost no say in the design of the tattoo. He translates the personality of the client into images that he conjures.

A true auteur of his art.

His oeuvre of work comprises of imagery reminiscent of child-like sketches, pop surrealism with a tinge of the macabre.

He also custom makes his own line of tattoo machines. Talk about being all rounded!

7079 tattoo machines: Tattoo machines customized by tattooists for tattooists, designed and engraved by Lionel fahy from Out of step tattoos, France, constructed, built, and polished by mister Marv Lerning from Auckland, New Zealand.

Tattooists whom use 7079 tattoo machines include Mister Benji (Paris), Roberto at Art Corpus ( France), Mr Icol (France), Lionel Out of step (france), Marv Lerning (NZ), Yann des Bois at Black Pearl (France), Misskipik at Atypic (France), Léa Nahon at la boucherie moderne (Belgium and France), Chäntal at Lost Highway (Belgium), Christian Banks at Blue Lotus, (England), Yann Your meat is mine at Glamort, (Canada) and Woody, Into You (England)

Visit his myspace page for more samples of his customized tattoo machines here.

And thus, as always, pictures will tell a thousand words.

Golden machine 18k, with osterich skin,
Very limited edition. (Ostrich was found dead in the jungle of Zimbabwe by Marv)

‘We live in the flesh and die in the flesh

But we do not slaughter the flesh that is not of our own.

Burn and disfigure the flag that perpetuated the sickness’

- Daphne Lazarus

”Fuck you Nazi scums!

The hakenkreuz is your symbol of imbecility, lunacy and shallowness.
Our swastikas were never Hitler’s.
Nazi is dead but the Swastika lives on.”

-Shane Tan 

”We declare the swastika to be innocent
of the crimes perpetrated in its name under the Nazi banners.
Five years of war cannot be allowed to wipe out five thousand years of history.”

-
Man Woman
Artist, Poet, Warrior
God Mad Fool
Defender of the Sacred Swastika

Photography By Miss Patchaya Proud Khomna

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A photograph is memory in the raw - Carrie Latet

The process of tattooing is as important as the intent and the final product.

Documenting the sublime through the lens of a camera. A voyeuristic device… capturing the moment, crystallized in eternity.

Photography by Aimee Fiona Lang (aimee_lang@hotmail.com), Zurich, Switzerland.
Aimee can be contacted by email should you want to arrange a photo shoot with her.