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Sad Crime Tattoo Part 2

Tattoos are commonly used among criminals to show gang membership and record the wearer's personal history—such as his or her skills, specialties, accomplishments and convictions. They are also used as a means of personal expression. Certain designs have developed recognized coded meanings. The code systems can be quite complex and because of the nature of what they encode, the tattoo designs are not widely recognized.

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24 Apr 2013 09:49:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Varanasi: India's City of Death and Life

Varanasi is a city on the banks of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of the state capital, Lucknow. It is holiest of the seven sacred cities (Sapta Puri) in Hinduism and Jainism. Hindus believe that death at Varanasi brings salvation. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the oldest in India.

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02 May 2013 12:41:00,post received 0 comments

Wow International Sand Sculpting Artists Open Annual Exhibition

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 26: A sand sculpture entitled 'Beetlemania' carved by Brad Goll from the USA and Karen Fralich from Canada is seen at the Creepy Crawlies Sandsculpting Exhibition on the Frankston waterfront on December 26, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. International sand sculpture artists from around the world teamed up with their Australian counterparts to create the insect themed exhibition that will be open to the public until April, 2011. (Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images)

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19 Nov 2011 13:51:00,post received 0 comments

Fact 2011 Southeast Asian Games - Day 10

PALEMBANG, SUMATRA, INDONESIA - NOVEMBER 14: Fitriyani Fitriyani (L) of Indonesia and Janice Ng (R) of Singapore compete in the Sport Climbing Womens Speed Track Finals on day four of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games at Jakabaring Sports Complex on November 14, 2011 in Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)

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21 Nov 2011 12:51:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Amazing art works of Chris Parks

Artist Chris Parks has created works for clients, such as Hasbro, Iron Fist, Nike, PBR, Vans, Etnies, Globe, Red Bull, The Cartoon Network and many others. The cool thing is that many of Parks’ works can be purchased as individual prints, skateboard decks, and clothing apparel at his website.

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19 May 2012 13:56:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Dia De Los Muertos

Is it strange to party in a cemetery, do you think? Thousands, many elaborately dressed and made up, thronged the Hollywood Forever cemetery on October 30th to celebrate the Day of the Dead with music, dancing, food and artistic renditions of family altars, all among the graves of Rudolph Valentino, Marion Davies, Tyrone Power, Douglas Fairbanks and Johnny Ramone.

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24 May 2012 15:43:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Fabian Ciraolo by Illustrations

The end is near

Fabian Ciraolo‘s Illustrations are so impressive that they could be described in many of the same ways, but we like them because they’re so f’ing cool. Where else are you going to find psychedelic space backgrounds decked out with Skeletor in a suit, Captain Planet playing guitar or Dorothy in an Empire of the Sun shirt in one place?

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10 Jun 2012 10:39:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Landscape by Graham Gercken

Here you will find paintings by Award winning Australian Landscape artist Graham Gercken. The online gallery includes landscape paintings for sale, created by Graham in both Plein air and larger in Studio. The themes of these paintings include the Rugged Cliffs of the Blue Mountains Canyons , dry deserts of Central Australia & American Southwest , the drama of Autumn Colours to magnificent Coastal Beaches and Dunes.

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10 Jul 2012 10:09:00,post received 0 comments