A Rose By Any Other Name...

Such a beautiful Old Skool example, from Valerie Vargas

My Blue-Haired Girl!

I absolutely love the subtle use of colour in this Alex Lopez tattoo.

The Girl With The Hoot Shaped Glasses

Whoah, first ever tattooist submission! Now we're going places! These awesome owls were done by Jason Lambert of Eye Candy Tattoos, Pittsburgh.

Hoot In A Blender

A reader submission - Khamsavan sent in this ace black and grey piece, done by Marino of Tattoo Rebels in Zurich, Switzerland. Thanks!

Find It In Your Hoot

Taylor Cort

Bear Necessities!

Miami Ink's Chris Garver does Gil Elvgren.

Simplicity is Best

Classic lady by Kristen Close

Here Comes The Hootstepper!

Javier Wolf Betancourt

Hoot Stroke

Dom Holmes

Resistance is Hootile

Another reader submission - David Pinke sent this one in, done by Myles Karr

From The Bottom Of My Hoot

Louis Molloy

Tony Ciavarro-verload!

Okay, lets stop this one pic per post thing for a bit, in honour of Tony Ciavarro, a wonderful tattooist who I must admit I'd not heard of before going to TattooJam last weekend. Here are some of his wonderful pinup girls...

Hootbreakers

Some nice owl stuff from the BME blog

Bloody Hell!

Bloody amazing work by Bez

Lava Lady

Hot Stuff from Hoffa again!

Lady Muck

Not updated this in a while, have I? sorry! Anyway, today features some nice stuff by Hoffa of Ascension Tattoo.

Correction on the Dell tattoo

Okay, so a while back I posted here about really bad logo tattoos. One in particular stood out, a Dell tattoo:

To me, Dell is a kind of lame, nothing-brand-- not one that I thought anybody would be stoked about enough to get it branded on them for life. So I made fun of the dude with the Dell tattoo. He emailed me today:

"i am emailing you. about your post about tattoos, 1 special one tho, the dell tattoo, see that tattoo is actually my tattoo, see my name is Todd Dell, in my life i always got the DUDE YOUR GETTING A DELL. and stuff like that i always laughed it off, so my friend was like dude you should get the LOGO tattoo on you i was like sure, thus knowing i could get away with it, no im not a nerd, i dont even own a dell computer, im actually a mma fighter lol."

So, I take it back. Sorry, Dell guy. You have a sense of humor about your name and you got a tattoo to prove it. You are officially awesome.

Eats, Hoots & Leaves

Kristen Close

'Don't move or we'll hoot!'

Unkown DeviantArt owl

Hoot Salad

Drake Vilareal sent in his owl, done by Chris Lowe of Naked Art Tattoos. Its one of many owls we've featured related to knowledge and wisdom. Ironically, owls are actually stupid creatures. The image of the wise owl is nothing but a myth! I blame AA Milne.

Hootbeat

Another reader submission, from Sean Sultan. He writes...

"Aloha my name is Sean Sultan. This Owl tattoo is on my right calf. The Owl comes from a restaurant my grandparents owned called The Crystal Owl. My grandma collected owls her whole life along with my mom. When my mom passed away I got this memorial piece as a tribute to her and my grandmas life. The name Komiss underneath it is my moms maiden name. The artist who did it is Tommy Tingle and he did it at Chrome Lotus Tattoo in Lahaina, Maui."

Thanks!

Hoot Framed Roger Rabbit?

Jay Jay