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- Synthetic Skin Book Allows Aspiring Tattoo Artists to Safely Hone Their Skills
- The Amazing Ballpoint Pen Portraits of Enam Bosokah
- Bride Makes Wedding Entrance in Creepy Coffin
Synthetic Skin Book Allows Aspiring Tattoo Artists to Safely Hone Their Skills Posted: 04 Jun 2015 01:03 AM PDT Developed by Tattoo Art Magazine, in collaboration with Brazilian ad agency Lew'Lara TBWA, the “Skin Book” is a revolutionary product in the world of tattooing. It consists of synthetic pages, textured like human skin. With the Skin Book, aspiring tattoo artists can now practice the art of inking skin before actually working on a real person. They have a chance to get acquainted with the texture of human skin, without the risk of leaving someone with a permanent ugly tattoo. Seasoned tattoo artists can also use the notebook to practice new designs with real needles, instead of using a pen or pencil on regular paper. |
The Amazing Ballpoint Pen Portraits of Enam Bosokah Posted: 04 Jun 2015 12:31 AM PDT Using only a simple ballpoint pen, Ghana-based artist Enam Bosokah creates stunningly realistic portraits of prominent African personalities. "A lot of guys have already made their name using pencil, so I decided to use a pen," Bosokah said in an interview with Anadolu Agency. "A lot of artists avoid pens because of the irreversibility (i.e., the inability to erase), but I believe it is one of the easier tools to work with. When I use the pen it is like I am adding to the paper – I can’t take it back,” he explained. |
Bride Makes Wedding Entrance in Creepy Coffin Posted: 03 Jun 2015 11:39 PM PDT Here comes the bride, all dressed in white and laying in… a coffin? Yes, that's exactly how 58-year-old Jenny Buckleff arrived at her off-the-wall wedding – in a closed coffin, pulled by a motorcycle! Jenny, who used to work as an embalmer at a funeral parlor, said that she wanted do "something different" at her wedding. "Instead of turning up in a horse-drawn cart, I thought I'm going to turn up in a coffin," she said. So she decided to conceal herself in her brother Roger’s black coffin, while her sister-in-law Hayley pulled her all the way to the Llangefni registry office behind a VW Trike. Interestingly, Jenny revealed that she isn't actually into any bizarre or goth stuff. "I don't normally dress like this and I'm not goth at all," she told the media. "I work for Bet365, so you have to be well presented and I’m normally very smart. But my brother is different. He’s covered in tattoos so for once he looked the part. My brother and I are very close so it was nice to be able to do something to honour him and do something a bit different. He loved it and said it made his day." |
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