Inked Digital Dream Girl: Stefani Chapman

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What do you look for in a guy/what’s your type?
I have always gone by the simple saying, “The way a man treats his mother is the way he will treat his woman.” Nice teeth and lips, clean nails and dope kicks.

How can a guy get your attention?
I like confidence, but not cockiness. If you are funny and can crack me up you have my attention.

This tattooing robot draws perfect artworks on your skin

A team of French designers have adapted a 3D printer and turned it into a tattooing machine that can draw any image onto your skin with pinpoint accuracy.

The machine combines a tattooist's needle and a Makerbot 3D printer. A piece of software lets you take any image - whether it’s a photo or a sketch - and then insert your limb into the printer.

The needle will then automatically move across the skin, puncturing the skin up to 150 times per second, to create the permanent design.

The printing head features a sensor that detects the surface of the skin. This means that the needle follows the contours of the body - only ever piercing the top layers of skin.

The machine was created by design company Appropriate Audiences, made up of Pierre Emm, Piotr Widelka and Johan Da Silviera.

They tested the machine initially on artificial silicone skin, before moving on to a human victim who got a simple circle tattoo.
It was tricky to make sure that the machine could draw a tattoo on a curved surface - after all, humans are not made in straight lines.

Belgrade International Tattoo Convention 2014

Last weekend, Belgrade hosted its inaugural International Tattoo Convention at the Mikser House venue near to the centre of the Balkan city. The event enjoyed a huge turn-out across the three days ranging from Indian-ink debutants to purebred devotees looking to increase their portfolio of body art; or those just out to observe the inner workings of tattoo culture, including my blank-skinned self.

I witnessed tattoo artists with names like Sloba from Belgrade and Blue Cock from somewhere in Sweden working eight-hour body art sessions. Pirate's treasure maps were scratched onto bums and a portrait of granny meticulously carved into a young woman's forearm. Ear lobes were inked, as too were many thighs, the latter most definitely the market leader in current tattoo trends. But what struck me was the apparent normality of all that was going on. Maybe it was down to a kind of desensitisation but this particular skin and ink fest carried the matter-of-fact ordinariness similar to that of a stamp collector's convention.

As well as getting a closer look at the social phenomenon of tattooing, the festival organised various seminars, competitions and live entertainment. The convention also played host to world-renowned tattoo artist and practitioner of the traditional and manual 'skin-poke' technique, Mr Yushi Takei who informed me he is set to move from his studio in Amsterdam to London's Soho, this December.

Stealing the show however, was a young Serbian artist called Marko Stamenkovic who did his first tattoo only seven years ago, winning both 'Best of the Convention' and 'Best Black and Grey' awards. Yes Marko is a Serb, but as an invited member of the judging panel (an real honoured!) I can vouch his achievement was born out of pure coincidence rather than a fix-up.

Like the aforementioned Mr Takei, successful tattooists are natural itinerants because the respect they have earned travels before them easing their path. A commercial driver that maybe in itself, with conventions like this only serving to help it along. Stamenkovic told me,

"This is my first competition and I win two awards, the feeling is incredible and I didn't expect to win because competition was very hard. When you do good tattoos, studios hear of your work, and I have a couple of opportunities from studios in Germany so I will be guest artist in those studios."

And on Serbia and the Balkans, Stamenkovic comments:

"We have made a very big progress because artists in the last few years don't do tattoos for the money only but also fight to be the best on the scene, so you can see progress in every artist out there."

I sometimes consider getting my skin inked but what always stops me is finding both an original place on the body, and of course a truly unique image too. The fact/rumour (who knows?) that the late actor, Oliver Reed carried an 'extending' falcon's talon on his you-know-what always amuses me. It stops me in my tracks too. I mean you can't top that, can you? Well maybe next time in Serbia, or Soho, Falmouth or Vegas? We'll see..

Belgrade in pictures:-

International Tattoo Convention Poster - Belgrade. October 3 - 5. 2014

  
Dule from Belgrade is a Tattoo artist and collector. (C) AP Childs

Dule, other side. Belgrade tattooist. (C) AP Childs

 Fine detail. This tattoo was finally completed in seven hours. (C) AP Childs

 Zen like preparation. Mr Yushi Takei a Japanese tattoo artist renowned for his great skill and use of the traditional 'skin poke' method. (C) AP Childs

Mr Yushi Takei. Japanese tattoo artist. (C) AP Childs

Inky Fingers. (C) AP Childs

The fabled Skin Poking technique. (C) AP Childs

Serbian Glamour and Fitness model Jelena Kasalović carries the largest 'single piece' tattoo in the Balkans. The flaming dragon stretches from the neck to the toe.(C) AP Childs

Kristina from Nice, a Marilyn fan. (C) AP Childs

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Miley Cyrus's New Tattoos: Check ‘Em Out

If there’s one thing we know about Miley Cyrus, it’s that she’s always down for more tattoos. While in Australia for her Bangerz Tour, the pop star tapped Aussie tattoo artist Lauren Winzer of Hunter & Fox Tattoo to lay down some fresh ink on her and her crew.

The “Adore You” singer opted to refresh some of her more worn-down hand tats, and she added a few extra charms to her digits, too.

Miley’s hand tats are like the Lucky Charms of our wildest dreams hallucinations.

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So fresh and so clean clean 💖👽🍉👀 RAD @laurenwinzer fixed up my ratchtatz

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The alien head and watermelon slice appear to be new additions, while the heart symbol was glitter-ized and the evil eye restored to its former glory.

Miley’s heart ink was the first to appear on her hand, and it represents the bond the Cyrus family shares. (Everyone in the fam has a copy of it.)

You’ve come a long way since stick ‘n’ pokes, baby.

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Little wizard 📢📢📢👽😛💥 @mileycyrus

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Winzer (wisely?) handed her tattoo gun over to Cyrus, which makes her the second tattoo artist brave enough to allow Miley to permanently ink up their skin. Earlier this year, Miley gave New York City’s Bang Bang a crescent moon on his thumb.

“Tat swap with the realest pineapple in the game,” Winzer wrote.

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Tattie swap with the realist pineapple in the game @mileycyrus 💕📢🍍🎉💋

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Bristol mobile tattoo parlour collects more than 200 images and stories

Soniya Mundy got her first guardian angel tattoo in 2008 after her 11-year-old son had a stroke 

A mobile tattoo parlour which has been touring the streets of Bristol has collected more than 200 tattoos for a show about the city's body art culture.
The project "I Will Always Have You" began in Knowle West in June and asked people to photograph their body art and share the stories behind it.

Curator Melissa Mean said it had been so successful they hoped to expand the tour to other Bristol neighbourhoods.

The exhibition at Knowle West Media Centre runs until Christmas.

Ms Mean said the aim of the project was to gather the memories and stories behind the tattoos for the project's digital archive.

She said: "By exploring the power of personal narratives and the construction of character through body art, we hope to better understand the growing popularity of tattoos across the UK and the richness of Knowle West's tattoo culture."

Pete Froom is aiming for a Guinness World Record for the most spiders tattooed on a person

Handyman and father-of-three, Pete Froom, who has 50 spiders tattooed on his head, downloaded images of his tattoos to the archive.

He said: "I intend to be completely covered with spiders - except hands and face - so I can still put a shirt and tie on and still look relatively presentable.

He said tattoos had helped him with shyness and dealing with groups of people.
"If I have tattoos they're not looking at me - they're looking at my tattoos.

"[People may] see someone with an arm full of tattoos and automatically think, 'wrong'n, rough person'. But some of the nicest people I've ever met in my life have been tattooed from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet. Never judge a book by its cover."

Chantelle Simpson's first tattoo was a present from her mother who is also "heavily tattooed"

Melissa Mean said the archivists had spotted "some really interesting patterns" as the individual stories came in.

She said they had found tattooing to be "very much a family affair" with "mothers and daughters having matching tattoos".

"Tattooing can also offer an alternative route into the creative economy, especially to those who don't have access through the usual routes of higher education," she added.

Mark Allen started his business by practising on grapefruit skins

Mark Allen now owns the Marked Up tattoo studio which he started from his spare bedroom.

Mr Allen said: "You've got to be able to draw - a lot of these people who think they can just pick up a tattoo gun and just tattoo, 80% or 90% of them are in for a bit of a shock, really."

The project also found tattoo parlours to be "community hubs" where people "of all ages and backgrounds come together".

Royston Radford reminisced about tattooist Les Skuse whose family has been tattooing in the Bristol area for 80 years 

Melissa Mean said: "Contrary to common perceptions that tattoo parlours are part of the 'dark side of town', we found tattoo parlours that are community hubs. The parlour can be a safe space for people to share the deeper stories from their lives - while having them inked onto their skin."

The exhibition "I Will Always Have You" is on show at Knowle West Media Centre until Christmas

 She said people could still add their tattoos to the online archive at Knowle West Media Centre, and said she was also "very excited" about Bristol's first tattoo convention planned to take place next summer.

Source:http://bbc.in/1v1RpwM