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Dearly Departed Tattoos: An Interview with Mark Clifford

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date October 16, 2023
Categories In Animals, Black and Grey, Blackwork, Body Art, Flowers and Plants, Interviews, Skulls, Special Feature, Tattoo

Mark Clifford spent most of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1975. He held various jobs and played in a band, which led him and his bandmates to get tattoos and ignited his interest in this art form. Clifford started working as a tattooer in 2001 and co-owned a tattoo shop […]

Outer Limits: The United States’ Oldest Tattoo Shop

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date September 30, 2022
Categories In Art, Body Art, Celebrities, History, Tattoo

Kari Barba (1960–) is a distinguished, award-winning tattoo artist with more than four decades of expertise in the industry. She is a co-owner of Outer Limits Tattoo & Museum, the oldest continually functioning tattoo studio in the United States and one of the oldest in the world. This establishment was founded in 1927 by an […]

The Grim Tattoos of Alexander Grim

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date September 9, 2014
Categories In Animals, Art, Birds, Body Art, Tattoo
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If we are not thinking about the macabre aspect of a sword penetrating the body of a bird, we may actually appreciate Alexander Grim’s tattoo art. There is beauty in the way he composes an engraving-style bird upside down on an arm, or a snake swaying up a client’s stomach. There is an Asian art […]