What else should we look at with the topic of tattoos. I wonder how tattoos have become so popular in our lifetime.
Itturns out that it was the electric tattoo machine, invented in 1891, a modification of Thomas Edison's electric pen. This brought tattooing into American culture. Before that, tattooing was painful. Before that it was popular amongst sailors and circus performers.
By 1936, 1 in 10 Americans had a tattoo. This seems such a high number. The 1960s and 1970s were the time that tattoos went mainstream. Janis Joplin is famous for her tattoo. It is known as a milestone.
It is claimed tat tattoos have "undergone dramatic redefinition" and shifted from a form of deviance to an acceptable form of expression. Does this make tattoos 'normal' today? I guess so if we consider 30 percentage of the US population has one.
Do they remain in the deviant/deviation space? I ask that as there are countless articles on creepiest, weirdest and strangest tattoos. An example is teeth tattoos. They are placed on crowns which are then put in the client's mouth. And there are DNA tattoos. That's a DNA extraction process that allows you to turn your relatives or pets, dead or alive, into tattoo ink. The sales lady at the wine store at Harvest Barn in St. Catharines has a tattoo dedicated to her son that contains her son's ashes. She is very talkative about this tribute and happy to show you anytime.
Is there a most famous tattoo in the world? There are no famous tattoos listed. You can find answers for things like: Which celebrity has the best tattoo? Which celebrity has a lot of tattoos? Which movie starts have tattoos? You get the trend.
What about: Who has the most tattoos?
That would be Lucky Diamon Rich (Gregory Paul McLaren) age 49, a tattoo artist/performance artist. He holds the Guinness Record.
"He began by having a full collection of colourful designs from around the world tattooed over his entire body. But not content with stopping there, Lucky next opted for a 100% covering of black ink, including eyelids, the delicate skin between the toes, down into the ears, and even his gums. He is now being tattooed with white designs on top of the black, and coloured designs on top of the white!
From the pictures, is he missing a tooth in the front or is it tattooed black? It is creepy. See him HERE.
A heart shape is such a strong image to us. The originating abstract image was soap suds in the car wash. It was Flaming pear's Flexifly that created the patterns. All seem to match with the tattoo theme of the day.
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