Tattoo Blog

“We have enough tattoo parlors and I really wish they wanted to go elsewhere,” Cooper said, adding that there is little she can do to stop them.

Tattoodles.com was launched in 2001 in response to the burgeoning demand of
people looking to find quality tattoo designs on the web. With a growing
online library of 12 galleries holding over 10,000 tattoo designs created
by an international cadre of 600 tattoo artists, Tattoodles is the online
subscription-based destination for anything having to do with tattoo art,
culture and lifestyle. Tattoodles members enjoy unlimited access to print
or download all of the site’s tattoo art and photo designs.

“Tattoodles is a real opportunity for RevenueGateway affiliates,” said
Charlo Barbosa, Vice President of RevenueGateway. “Tattoodles covers one of
the most popular niches in our culture. Tattoodles is simply the top dog of
tattoo sites. It just doesn’t get much sweeter than this for RevenueGateway
affiliates.”

A National Tattoo Museum (www.mokomuseum.co.nz) has opened in the South Pacific, the birthplace of the tattoo (the word derives from the Polynesian tatau). The museum, which is the first of its kind in the region, has regular live displays of both Maori ta moko and Samoan techniques. The tattoo is an important part of Maori culture: it used to be common for Maori men to wear tattoos across their faces and body parts - a tradition that is undergoing a revival. Tattooing first became fashionable in Europe after sailors returned from New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries with tattoos and has become popular again in the past 10 years. Will tourists return with similar souvenirs?

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Indulge yourself

In Napa Valley, California, the world’s most hedonistic museum has flung open its doors. Set up by a group of epicureans, it’s called Copia, after the goddess of abundance, and is dedicated to food, wine and the arts. The inaugural exhibitions include Forks in the Road: Food, Wine and the American Table which examines America’s often self- indulgent relationship with food, and Talking Turkey, a collection of celebratory sculptures. A big exhibition due to be held from May next year is The Birth of Coffee. But Copia is more than a museum: there are cooking classes, lectures, wine tastings and more than three acres of organic gardens. For further information, visit www.copia.org.

Dead and preferably buried

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Anlong Veng may not mean much to most Britons, but to Cambodians the town will always be associated with the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader, died in the town in 1998 and Cambodian tourism authorities are considering whether to open his final refuge to the public. The house of one of Pol Pot’s senior deputies, Ta Mok, is also in Anlong Veng. Ta Mok has been imprisoned since 1999, and there are similar plans to turn his house into a museum. With improved transport links, the aim is to attract more tourists to the town, which is 200 miles north of Phnom Penh but does not feature on any major itineraries. Already, visitors to Cambodia can see the Khmer Rouge killing fields near the capital and and visit Tuol Sleng, a former torture centre. While some Cambodians believe that the country’s dark history should be commemorated, others believe that opening up Anlong Veng may be a step too far. “This is not the Cambodia we want to show to tourists,” says So Mara, secretary-general of the National Tourism Authority of Cambodia. “We want them to see a peaceful and friendly country - not this dark side that we would rather forget.”

A word of advice

While 30 percent of people between the ages of 25 and 34 have tattoos, only 12 percent of people 45 to 54 and 8 percent over 55 have them, according to a new nationwide survey.

The Ohio University survey of 1,010 people found attitudes toward tattoos vary.

When asked, “Do you think it is a good idea or a bad idea for people to get tattoos,” only 5 percent of people 65 or older approved, compared with 45 percent of young adults.

The ancients did not go in for bodypiercing, but tattooing was widely practised. Our first evidence for tattooing comes from Egypt, where mummies of the Eleventh Dynasty (c.2000 Bc) have been found tattooed with a blackish pigment. This may well have been for erotic purposes - the Egyptians getting there first, as usual. Tattooing for religious purposes was known to the Israelites, Syrians and Egyptians (among whom an escaped slave who dedicated himself to the god with a tattoo could not be reclaimed).

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Greeks and Romans knew all about this. Aetius (6th century AD) tells us how tattoos were applied - `by pricking with needles, wiping away the blood and rubbing in first juice of leek, and then the preparation’.

But this was not the sort of thing free men went in for. Tattoos were a sign of degradation, practised by barbarians such as the Thracians (they liked deer tattoos), the Mossynoeci (`entirely decorated back and front with flowers’) and Britons (all kinds of designs, including animal pictures: ‘Pict’, Latin pictus, means ‘painted’). Tattoo removal was regularly practised by doctors in imperial Rome as a service to those who wanted to hide their foreign origins.

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Nonetheless, tattooing did have a function among Greeks and Romans, mainly penal. Slaves were tattooed (comedians frequently mention it: there is a reference to a `three-needle’, i.e. three-colour, job). Some had `Stop me, I’m a runaway’ written on their foreheads. Criminals were tattooed, and in the late Roman empire soldiers and military workers were too, presumably to prevent those indentured to the state from deserting. Prisoners of war could also receive the treatment.

The Greek word for tattoo is stigma. Contrary to popular belief, stigma virtually never refers to branding, which was almost entirely confined to animals. But this surely is the best way ahead for the animal-loving royals. As the selfmutilation habit spreads among them, and the upper classes in general, they could announce their difference by branding themselves instead of indulging in those frightful lower-class tattoos and studs.