Another Tattoo Music Video.

Filed under: Modern Tattooing, Tattoo Music Videos, Video

Haha, this one brings me back to my youth, good ol Weird Al’ Yankovic. Just thought you might need a laugh.

Filed under: Modern Tattooing, Tattoo Music Videos, Video

This post has nothing to do with Indigenous Tattooing but everything to do with Modern Tattooing, when I seen it I had to post it. I have begun to realize the other day that to deny that portion of me that is not at all Indigenous, the portion that comes from being brought up in an Indigenous diaspora, predominately in [...]

Filed under: Authenticity, Cultural Capital, Identity, Modern Tattooing, Tattoo Music Videos, Video

In the Hangover Part 2 one of the main characters Stu wakes up with a tattoo on his face resembling the one on the face of Ex Boxing Champ Mike Tyson. The American tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill claimed that the tattoo presented in the movie was so close to the one he tattooed on Tyson [...]

Filed under: Appropriation, Authenticity, Identity, Intellectual Property, Maori, Modern Tattooing

I started my journey into Nlaka’pamux tattooing when I found a little publication in a tattoo shop waiting area around 2006. It blew my mind to think that my ancestors had practiced tattooing, something that was dear to me at that time and even more dear to me now that I am completing my tattoo [...]

Filed under: Authenticity, Cultural Capital, Decolonization, Identity, Modern Tattooing, Nlaka'pamux (Thompson Indian) Tattooing, Tattoo Revival