Tattoo a Banana

Author: Phil Hansen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399537473
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
From Phil Hansen, renowned multimedia artist whose TED Talk “Embrace the Shake” is inspiring individuals around the world to overcome their limitations and express themselves creatively, comes this entertaining and witty guide to turning everyday objects into art. Using items that include a piece of toast, a plastic bag, or even just your own fingerprints, this fun and captivating guide will inspire you to get creative. Whether you want to jumpstart, rediscover or further your creative pursuits, this book will help you build your creative muscles by experimenting with the unexpected. Once you tattoo a banana, print on marshmallows, or mold a Mona Lisa sugar cookie, you'll definitely be curious about what else is possible.

Tattoo Girl

Author: Brooke Stevens
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312269102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Warned that Emma may be in danger from whoever gave her the mysterious tattoos, Lucy goes in search of Emma's real identity, a quest that leads Lucy to a confrontation with the demons haunting her past.".

Global Ink

Author: Claudia Schwab
Publisher: Mariner Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780990965329
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Global Ink is a candid look at the art and the stories behind the art of tattoos. There are no movie stars or celebrities on these pages, just real people with stories as personal as their tattoos. In true journalist sense, every image was impromptu, taken where they were, as they were.

Lizard

Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671532766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Six short stories by a Japanese woman writer known for her unusual themes. In Blood and Water, a woman abandons the religious commune where she was raised, goes to the big city and finds another idol of worship, a charismatic lover. The story looks at the connection between spiritual and romantic fervor. By the author of Kitchen.

Tattooing in the Marquesas

Author: Willowdean Chatterson Handy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113590
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Definitive source on intricate tattoos of Polynesia's Marquesas Islands offers a rare glimpse of a vanished art. Its 38 plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete and intimate record.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307272117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!

Tattoo Time! Animal Activities

Author:
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699914
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Decorate your arms and legs with these amazing animal transfers and get your pencils ready for mazes, coloring, and much, much more in the animal activity book - complete with super animal facts! Tattoo Time! Animals Activities contains 64 temporary tattoos and an activity book. It's time to draw, it's time to color, it's time to TATTOO!

Filipino Tattoos

Author: Lane Wilcken
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764336027
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Tattooing is a very old and spiritually respected art form that has existed in many different cultures around the world. After many centuries of not being practiced in Europe, tattooing was re-introduced to the Western world through the inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean. Beginnning in the 16th century, European explorers came across many people who practiced tattooing as an integral part of their cultures. This is the first serious study of Filipino tattoos, and it considers early accounts from explorers and Spanish-speaking writers. The text presents Filipino cultural practices connected with ancestral and spiritual aspects of tattoo markings, and how they relate to the process and tools used to make the marks. In the Philippine Islands, tatoos were applied to men and women for many different reasons. It became a form of clothing. Certain designs recognized manhood and personal accomplishments as well as attractiveness, fertility, and continuity of the family or village. Facial tattoos occurred on the bravest warriors with names that denoted particular honor. Through the fascinating text and over 200 images, including color photographs and design drawings, the deep meanings and importance of these markings becomes apparent.

Tattoo Traditions of Hawai'i

Author: Tricia Allen
Publisher: Mutual Publishing
ISBN: 9781566477703
Category : Tattooing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Anthropologist and tattooist Tricia Allen has harnessed centuries of knowledge about Hawaiian tattoos and has created this fascinating, comprehensive reference book that can be enjoyed by both tattoo enthusiasts and cultural scholars. Tattoo Traditions of Hawaii describes the evolution of Hawaiian tattooing as an art and science tracing it from its early roots in ancient Polynesia; presents motif, meaning, placement, tools and techniques along with personal observations and commentary in meticulous and graphic detail; discusses contemporary Hawaiian tattooing within the context of contact with the Western world; and includes drawings of designs and patterns for ideas and consideration"--Publisher's description.

The Duke's Tattoo, a Regency Romance of Love and Revenge, Though Not in That Order

Author: Miranda Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781476335216
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
First comes revenge then comes love and marriage in The Duke's Tattoo, a historical romance set in Regency England. This is Book One of 'The Horsemen of the Apocalypse' series.Miss Prudence Haversham, Bath's first and only female apothecary, knows she'll have a significant problem if the tenth Duke of Ainsworth ever discovers she is to blame for the mocking tattoo she had tattooed on his august person in revenge. Unfortunately, the duke she tattooed is not the Duke of Ainsworth who disgraced her with his lies. Worse, he is one of four infamously implacable cavalry officers known as 'The Horsemen of the Apocalypse.'After being grievously wounded at Waterloo, Jeremy Maubrey returns to London as the tenth Duke of Ainsworth and finds his new life painful, dull and full of obligations. That is, until he wakes to find himself indelibly decorated in a mortifying manner.Though he cannot recall much of the abduction and tattooing, he does remember the waif-like villainess and her arresting eyes. Ducal duties must wait while he finds the culprit and takes his revenge.Hero and heroine meet as adversaries in Bath. Prudence Haversham overturns the duke's every expectation and intention. In turn, the duke proves himself a surprisingly forgiving man who earns her love.