Tattoo

A tattoo is an indelible design or marking made by the insertion of a pigment into punctures or cuts in the skin. In technical terms, tattooing is micro-pigment implantation. Tattoos are a type of body modification. The word is traced to the Tahitian tatu or tatau, meaning to mark or strike (the latter referring to traditional methods of applying the designs). In Japanese the word used for traditional designs or those that are applied using traditional methods is irezumi ("insertion of ink"), while "tattoo" is use ...

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Tattoo: Encyclopedia II - Tattoo - Tattoo removal Tattoos can be wholly or partially removed by cosmetic surgical techniques, most commonly through the use of lasers. The laser reacts with the ink in the tattoo, and breaks it down. After this, the patients body then absorbs the broken-down ink and the skin heals once more. The procedure can be expensive, and very painful (some say more so than the original tattoo) and often requires many repeated visits to remove a small tattoo. It also may not be entirely effective in leaving unblemished skin, due to the fact that tattoos also scar the skin to varying degrees, depending on how the tattoo was applied, the way the ski ...

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Tattoo: Encyclopedia - Needle

Needle may refer to an object: Sewing needle Knitting needle Upholstery needle Hypodermic needle Tuohy needle Acupuncture needle Body piercing needle Tattoo gun, or tattoo needle or a place: Cleopatra's Needle, one of three ancient obelisks Space Needle, a landmark of Seattle The Needles, a geologic formation off the Isle of Wight Needles, C ...

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Tattoo: Encyclopedia - Alfred Charles South

Alfred Charles South of Cockspur St. London was a British tattoo artist and inventor at the turn of the 20th century. South patented the twin coil, electromagnetic tattoo machine in London on Jun. 30th 1899. His construction was based on a door bell assembly in a plate steel box with brass slabs attached to each side. It was heavy and was often used with a spring attached to the top of the machine and to the

Tattoo: Encyclopedia - Picts

The term Picts refers to the tribes that Mediterranean classical-era writers placed in Caledonia, which itself comprises the part of present-day Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde. Pict first appears in a panegyric written by Eumenius in AD 297. Although Picti is usually taken to mean painted or tattooed in Latin, the term may have a Celtic origin. The Goidelic Celts called the Picts cruithne (e.g. Old Irish cru(i)then-túath, based on the Old Irish root cruth) and the Brython ...

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Tattoo: Encyclopedia - Body art

Body art is art made on, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but also includes scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), and body painting. More extreme body art can involve mutilation, or in some way pushing the body to its limits. One of Marina Abramovic's works, for example, consisted of her dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of Dennis Oppenheim's better known works saw him lying in the sunlig ...

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Tattoo: Encyclopedia - Bicycle messenger

Bicycle messengers (also known as cycle couriers) have carried packages by bicycle for more than a century, but it wasn't until the 1980s and 1990s that bicycle messengers became cultural icons. With its combination of high risk and low payoff, bike messengering is often seen as the quintessential youth culture job. The urban antihero overtones and sleek fashions (such as tattoos, cut-off shorts, and rugged shoulder satchels) are emblematic of bike messenger sub-culture; however, in many cities the level of professionalism and pay scale has increased. Some couriers retain their j ...

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Tattoo: Encyclopedia - At the Circus

At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film in which they save a circus from bankruptcy. It is notable for Groucho Marx's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." Its co-stars include Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden, and Kenny Baker. Buster Keaton worked on the film as a gag man. His career was on the downside and he was forced to work for scale. His complex and sometimes belabored gags (recalled in the book Groucho, Harpo, Chico and sometimes Zeppo) did not work well with the Marx Brothers' ...

Tattoo: Encyclopedia - Clover manga

Clover is a manga by CLAMP. Clover is published in Japan by Kodansha and in North America by TOKYOPOP. Clover is primarily about a young girl called Suu. In the cyberpunk world that she inhabits, the military conducted a search for gifted children nicknamed "clovers", who seemingly have the magical ability to manipulate technology. Demonstrations of their powers include teleportation and summoning weapons from thin air. Classified according to how powerful they are, the children were then tattooed with a symbol of ...

Tattoo: Encyclopedia II - Irezumi - The Making of a Japanese Tattoo

The prospective tattooee must first find a traditional tattoo artist. This in itself can be a daunting task (though it has been made easier by advent of the Internet) because such artists are often surprisingly secretive, and introductions are frequently made by word of mouth only. A traditional tattoo artist trains for many years under a master. He (for they are nearly exclusively male) will sometimes live in the master's house. He may spend years cleaning the studio, observing, practicing on his own flesh, making the needles and oth ...

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